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Getting Storage Metrics for a SharePoint site
Gaining an overview of what takes up space in a SharePoint site is crucial for monitoring large files or a significant number of versions.
Unfortunately, the storage metrics link, <siteurl>/_layouts/15/storman.aspx, won’t work for libraries with more than 5,000 files without nested folders. While this might go against information architecture principles, creating folders is an option to avoid the list view threshold error.
Here’s a PowerShell script to help you get storage metrics for your SharePoint site:
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SharePoint Highlighted Content Web Part versus News Web Part: Author versus Editor
The Highlighted Content Web Part and the News Web Part in SharePoint can be used to display news on a page. Both webparts serve different purposes and have distinct features. One particular difference is the display of author in News Webpart and display of editor in the Highlighted Content Web Part.
The Highlighted Content Web Part displays editing details like editor and last updated date with the news information. Unfortunately there is no option to change it to the author name.
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JSON Data Handling in Power Automate: Double Quotes
When using Power Automate action Send an Http request to SharePoint specially to send data in the body to a REST API call, for instance to create a news link from a SharePoint List Item, you might encounter issues if the body contains double quotes in the title or description. This blog post will walk you through the problem and provide solutions to handle double quotes in JSON strings.
Problem Overview Using the Send an Http request to SharePoint action to create a news link can fail if the JSON body contains double quotes.