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SharePoint Lists – Help me paste from an email, from Notepad or from anywhere!

By Penny Walker in SharePoint Lists February 10, 2020 0 Comment

You cannot copy and paste into a note text box to update a list item:

For example, the right-click menu “Paste” does not work on https://sswcom.sharepoint.com/Lists/ProductManagers/DispForm.aspx?ID=69&e=IC1JaK

Figure: A SharePoint list should support Paste

Advise when the contacted person is busy

By William Liebenberg in Teams February 10, 2020 0 Comment

When I message someone and don’t pay attention to their status (Busy, In a call, Presenting, etc.) I want the Teams Bot/App to reply with something like:

Adam Cogan is currently in a call and may not be notified of your message. If it is urgent, please click here to send the notification now.

This will be a useful feature so that we are made aware of the recipient’s status before we start pinging them continuously.

Slack has this already implemented with its DND (Do Not Disturb) feature. Link to example: Knock, knock: Introducing Do Not Disturb

Figure: Example image from Slack blog showing their DND feature

Help me easily see the form I work on each week

By Adam Cogan in Microsoft Forms November 26, 2019 0 Comment

You know I love Microsoft Teams – I use it every week.

1. Are you going to be doing many changes to this view (I don’t enjoy using it a lot)

2. I am baffled when I see all these groups (when I have never used them)…. can you give the user the ability to remove them? (Even better dont show them if they are 0)

3. The group I use every week never shows up… I expect it to be #1 based on usage… so it kind of seems like a bug to me.

Figure: Sadly Recent Group Forms just shows me junk

Navigation – Help me know where I am

By Adam Cogan in Teams November 1, 2019 0 Comment

I click a link (sadly an unreadable link):

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/file/946926A6-F818-4208-9CFE-0D74BBC96619?tenantId=ac2f7c34-b935-48e9-abdc-11e5d4fcb2b0&fileType=xlsx&objectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fsswcom.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FBrisbaneRetreat2020%2FShared%20Documents%2FGeneral%2FBrisbane-%20Retreat-2020-Attendance.xlsx&baseUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fsswcom.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FBrisbaneRetreat2020&serviceName=teams&threadId=19:27c127ee866b495e9a42775b66be92b9@thread.skype&groupId=fb84bba4-1504-4c82-96e5-ab938868ad2b

And I go here.

Suggestions:

Where am I? Can you please add a breadcrumb that takes me to the team that this file belongs to (see red arrow)
The ‘Close’ button should be renamed to ‘Cancel’ because it takes you back to where you were eg. the last chat