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Haniel Croitoru
Mar 24, 2018Learn Expert
Celebrating milestones with SharePoint, Flow, and Delve
Recently, I’ve been asked if there was a simple way to provide birthday reminders on a SharePoint intranet without any customizations. Well, after looking at some of the options available in SharePo...
Aim Zaab
Mar 26, 2018Brass Contributor
Maybe that would deserve a proper blog article... anyway thanks for sharing. I tried already to use this web part before but I found out that it was not ideal.
So far my not much code solution was to use search web part with some custom query and template, but that's for classic SharePoint.
Maybe at some point I will code the SPFx web part, as I think I already have the search API query somewhere to retrieve the users with upcoming birthday. However using Flow to put the result in a list once a day might be better in term of performance, instead of having the search query against all users happening every time a user goes to the intranet page.
Haniel Croitoru
Mar 29, 2018Learn Expert
Thanks for the feedback, Aim Zaab. Where would you like to see a full blog article posted on this topic? Happy to add it.
- Aim ZaabMar 30, 2018Brass ContributorMaybe on medium.com, just thinking that it could be valuable info and I think it might just get lost here.
- Andreas BirkelandApr 12, 2018Copper Contributor
I agree, a more extensive walkthrough would be greatly appreciated! :)