So another new productivity release at Microsoft build 2020 this year was
Microsoft lists now to be fair
You can't get come this confused with Microsoft to do this is actually a different type of application
it's almost air table-like and it is a new addition to
Microsoft 365
So what is Microsoft lists now? Mikaela Barrett the program manager for onedrive and Microsoft SharePoint?
Actually dives into this very well in her first look video
Microsoft list is a new app for businesses or teams
They're looking to track issues manage inventories even itineraries
asset track project planning and much more and they actually have a pretty good set of templates to get you started for a variety of
scenarios
now the magic is when you can add some conditional formatting and a few rules or
Automations to create these mini workflows inside a Microsoft lists now in its nature and its action
Microsoft lists is actually super similar to air table in both its look and its functionality
Now before we move on to how this works a little bit more this is currently going to be available
via web in a new mobile application and/or
Within Microsoft teams, which is set to have a very good integration with it
So a little bit more of how it works
You can actually share your list with colleagues and give them access to editing commenting and reading you can use conditional formatting
to help you highlight specific
Tasks and you can even comment and chat with teammates and even add more detail in each card
We're seeing a lot of different use cases and Micheala in her video actually demonstrates how they are using it to
plan out an itinerary for an upcoming business trip
Associating tasks and items to certain people but building a list that will help people navigate it in the future, too
Now there are three types of views that can express your data within lists
the first is a grid view which is a almost like gallery view inside of air table a
Calendar view which helps you to express a dates and times of all of the information
A simple list view as well
Which looks very similar to excel you can actually export to excel to and over the top of all of these different
Views you can use filtering and sorting to get access to certain pieces of information
Now just a note on the views if you take the gallery view or what they call the grid view inside of this new
Microsoft lists it looks incredibly similar to christen sees air table Lao especially when they demonstrate the asset
our resource management
So the automation is built into allowing you to create a very simple triggers out of activities
It's like for example, if somebody answers send an entry you could create a rule to notify a certain person now
This is actually something not completely new. They've got SharePoint lists that fairly similar to this
Although this takes it a step further and there are some integrations that come into hand here now according to Microsoft. This will be
Available later this summer and it does seem like a lot is happening here for the end-user there seems to be a lot of tools
Trying to do the same sort of thing
But then again if you're inside of Microsoft and you have been looking for a air table-like
Application that does a similar job to air table then. This could be the bet that you go with so folks
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