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“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” It is possible to create a hyperlink column in SharePoint list but is it possible to create a hyperlink column as a calculated column? The Answer is "Yesssssssssssssssssss". Following are the steps to accomplish the same. 1. Create a Calculated Column say URL with the formula to link the list column id to a page.  For example: ="http://sharepoint.com/sites/Test/Page.aspx?ID="&ItemID . 2.Create another calculated column say Info and refer the previously created calculated column here in anchor tag. For example:  =IF(ISBLANK(URL),"No URL",("<a href="&URL&" target='_blank'></a>"))  Make sure the data type returned in both the calculated columns are Numbers. Now its time to render the Calculated column as a HTML markup in SPO. 1. Ensure that the list is in the modern experience. 2. Click on the URL column-> Column settings-...

“If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough  business and career chances .” After creating a custom "Export to Excel" button on the SharePoint page as in my previous post:   https://nethrasb.blogspot.com/2020/05/export-to-spreadsheet-option-in.html we encountered an issue, where one of the user received "An unexpected error has occurred. Changes to your data cannot be saved" in the excel sheet to which the data has been exported. But I was able to export the data using "System Account" without any issue!  The user has full control over the site and there should not be any permissions related issues.  What could be the issue then?  It might seem silly but this is what happened. Humans make mistakes :) My fellow team mate who had been asked to create the view, created a "Personal" view instead of creating a "Public" view !  "Personal" view is i...

Recently we received an issue from one of the user that a folder is not available in SharePoint site contents page but could be found in the Windows Explorer. It's a well known fact that we have an option to open the SharePoint Document Library in Windows Explorer and the site can be mapped to a network drive to view the contents. But what could be the cause of folders missing in the site contents page but can be accessed through Windows Explorer? The cause might seem unusual :) but this is what it is, the folders were created in the Windows Explorer. The SharePoint Document library can be opened in the Windows Explorer and the sub folders can be created in the Explorer which would reflect in the site. But creating a folder in the Windows Explorer does not create a Document Library in the SharePoint site. Seems very simple but would definitely help! Happy SharePointing!!! 

We all knew that the SharePoint list can be embedded in a web part page using the list web part. The list web part provides us with various properties which can be customized as per the requirement. One such property is the "Toolbar" . If "Show Toolbar" option is set, we would be provided with 3 tabs namely "New", "Actions" and "Settings".  The list data can be exported to an excel using the "Export to Spreadsheet"  option found under the "Actions" tabs.  Now here is the issue, suppose we have 10 columns in the list and we would like to show only 5 columns in the page, we would create a view in such a way that the page shows only the 5 columns.  If the data is exported from this page using the "Export to Spreadsheet" option, all the columns would definitely get exported, but the values would be exported only for those 5 columns which are shown on the page. This is because, the "Export to Spread...