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Microsoft Lists: The Evolution of SharePoint Lists

SharePoint Lists has played a pivotal role in building customised solutions on top of SharePoint making SharePoint not just a CRM or DMs but a development platform for developing solutions delivering a wide range of business scenarios. Every SharePoint developer/end-user have used lists in one way or another whether it’s just for creating announcements/tasks or storing complex relational data for an application. But when it comes to list-based scenarios that include share, track and view […]
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28 Jun 2020 | Share: Twitter icon LinkedIn icon

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Power BI Master/Detail Report from live SharePoint data

In the real-world, reporting often includes master/detail scenario in which a master list item is selected in order to get more details about the entity. In SharePoint, master data will be stored in a list that contains a lookup column of detail list/s, and getting data from multiple lists would require multiple data sources and then modelling their relationships in Power BI. In this blog, I will show you how easy it is to achieve a master-detail scenario on live data coming from SharePoint […]
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25 May 2020 | Share: Twitter icon LinkedIn icon

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New version of SQList released (6.2.0.0)

A new version of SQList: version 6.2.0.0 is out today! We haven’t blogged about new releases for years, why we don’t know. We’ve been notifying all our users of SQList, been publishing support articles, but not a mention on our website. Silly strategy you may think…and so do we! But it has not been a strategy as much as a negligence on our part, and today we’re putting an end to it! AxioWorks SQList continuously export SharePoint lists and libraries as normalised […]
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30 Apr 2020 | Share: Twitter icon LinkedIn icon

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Use Google Data Studio with SharePoint data

In this blog, we will go through essential steps on how to generate a report and chart in Google Data Studio using data coming from SharePoint lists. We will start off by looking at the lists which we are going to use for this demo and followed by how we can use SQList to replicate data from SharePoint Lists to SQL Server database which will later be used in Google Data Studio to generate a chart and to finish things off, we will look at how to display the report in SharePoint. Scenario Create […]
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22 Mar 2020 | Share: Twitter icon LinkedIn icon

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Access live SharePoint data from SQL Server

In this blog, We will take an in-depth look into how SQList transforms SharePoint lists into SQL tables and how it stores data into each column. We will also look at how all changes made in SharePoint are continuously synchronized into their corresponding SQL Server tables. Scenario Replication of SharePoint lists data into SQL Server database and analysis of the columns created in SQL table for the respective SharePoint list columns of various types, including choice, currency, single-lookup, […]
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29 Feb 2020 | Share: Twitter icon LinkedIn icon

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Generate Excel Charts and Reports from live SharePoint list data

In this blog, I will show you the best way of creating a chart in Ms Excel on live data coming from SharePoint lists. We will start off by looking at the lists which we are going to use for this demo and followed by how we can use SQList to synchronize data between SharePoint Lists and SQL Server database and to finish things off, we will look at how to generate our reports and charts much faster. Scenario Create a bar chart in Ms Excel which shows the total price and total current stock of […]
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28 Jan 2020 | Share: Twitter icon LinkedIn icon

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Generate SSRS Charts and Reports from live SharePoint list data

In this blog, I will show you the best way of creating a chart in SSRS Report Builder on live data coming from SharePoint lists. We will start off by looking at the lists which we are going to use for this demo and followed by how we can use SQList to synchronize data between SharePoint Lists and SQL Server database and to finish things off, we will look at how to generate our reports and charts much faster. Scenario Create a column chart in SSRS Report Builder which shows the total price and […]
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06 Jan 2020 | Share: Twitter icon LinkedIn icon

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Generate Power BI Charts and Reports from live SharePoint list data

In this blog, I will show you the best way of creating a Power BI chart on live data coming from SharePoint lists. We will start off by looking at the lists which we are going to use for this demo and followed by how we can use SQList to synchronize data between SharePoint Lists and SQL Server database and to finish things off, we will look at how to generate our reports and charts much faster. Scenario Create a bar chart in Power BI showing the total price and total current stock of products […]
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18 Dec 2019 | Share: Twitter icon LinkedIn icon

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