If you and your team are using the Check-out feature in SharePoint, then you will definitely benefit from this tip I am about to share in this article. In this post, I would like to explain how you can display the last check-in comment in a document library.
Check In/Check Out feature
While I am all for real-time collaboration and co-authoring, Check out feature still has its place. It allows the user to lock the document for editing. If you want to learn more about the check-out feature, read this post.
Check-in Comment
One of the “bonus” advantages of the check-in feature is that you can leave an optional comment when checking in the document. This can be a great business practice to let others know what exactly you did to the document.
Accessing Check-in Comment
The primary way to access the Check-in Comments would be via the Version History. This allows the user to see check-in comments for all the versions that exist.
Display the last check-in comment in a document library
Here is another cool trick you can take advantage of. Instead of navigating to the Version History all the time, you can display that last check-in comment in a library as a column. Here is how.
- Within the library, click +Add Column, then choose Show/Hide columns
- Check the box next to Check In Comment and click Apply
- The column will now be displayed at the library view
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to disable comments on a SharePoint modern page using Power Automate. This is extremely handy when you are creating pages based on a template using a flow. Even if you have already disabled comments on the template page, it will not stay disabled on the copied page.
| Time to read: About 5 minutes | |
| Intended for: SharePoint developers who use Power Automate | |
| Key takeaway: In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to disable comments on a modern SharePoint page. |
For this tutorial, we will be using Office 365 SharePoint Online and Power Automate.
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Step 1 – Create a new flowIn Power Automate, select “My Flows”, click on the “New” drop down, and then click on “Instant-from blank”:
Step 2 – Add actionsClick on the “+ New step” button, search for the “Get file metadata” action, and add it:
Copy the following URI and put it in the “Uri: field:
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Out of curiosity, and because I think listing outstanding comments might be a product feature in Flow Studio, I did some research, experimenting with REST query and general exploring on a late Friday night. This was done on Twitter, a bunch of people chipped in but also we ended up with pictures all over the place. This blog post is to collect everything in one place as a reference.
The record is stored as a top level Container [with an artifactid]
Then top level records [kind=Threads] with Container[commentid = containerid]
Then records [kind=Reply]
We can query Dataverse to get the rows back. Here’s how to do it in one request.
We can query Dataverse comments from WITHIN the flow about the current flow [via workflow[].name expression]
I think this fulfills some sort of inception criteria
This also qualifies this research to be #FlowNinja hack 125
Here is a Reply record.
Comments are tied to an Anchor - which is an action within the Flow.
The corresponding Flow has metadata.operationMetadataId created as a reference when this happens.
Comments can be resolved [state =1, Resolved] or deleted [statuscode = 2, Inactive].
I expect the same data structure design will be suitable for other Power Platform products, so I’m keen to see it.