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Sharepoint websites on IIS stopped
Hello, Last Monday, I noticed that SharePoint and SharePoint Central Administration v4 sites were stopped in IIS on our SharePoint application server. (We host each SharePoint component on dedicated servers, the application, search, and database servers are all separate.) SharePoint has continued to work fine since then, no users have reported any issues, and I personally tested it throughout the week without finding any problems. I’m not sure if it’s normal for these two IIS sites to be stopped, and I’d like to know whether it’s safe to start them again or if they should remain stopped. Thank you.
How to set a field column of type person for a folder in Sharepoint via the REST API
On Sharepoint I create a column of type person/group (lets say "projectlead"). Now I want to create folders and after the creation I want to set this column via the graph api. I already tested this with a column of type text (single line) successfully via: POST https://{{tenant_url}}/sites/{{site}}/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('Dokumente')/items({{ItemId}})/ValidateUpdateListItem() header: Accept: application/json;odata=verbose Content-Type: application/json;odata=verbose body: { "formValues": [ { "FieldName": "projectlead", "FieldValue": "someUserIdOrName" } ], "bNewDocumentUpdate": false } I heard that it is not possible for folders, but couldn't finde anything specific about it. Is it possible and if, how? I tried several things, but nothing worked for me.
Create new site through App Reg auth and associate it with a hub site
Hi all, I have created a Logic App in Azure and I am using this Logic App to create new team sites (no Microsoft 365 group) in SharePoint Online. For the authentication I have created an app registration (Sites.FullControl.All) and created a self-signed certificate for the authentication. For the audience I am using the https://tenantname-admin.sharepoint.com I am using the following request URL: https://tenantname-admin.sharepoint.com/_api/SPSiteManager/create I am using the following request headers: Accept = application/json;odata.metadata=none odata-version = 4.0 I use the following request body: { "request": { "Title": "Site name", "Url": "<project number variable>", "Lcid": 1043, "Description": "Just some text", "WebTemplate": "STS#3", "Owner": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "SensitivityLabel": "Sensitivity label GUID", "HubSiteId": "Hub site ID" } } Somehow, I get an unauthorized error. When I omit the HubSiteId parameter, it works fine. In the SharePoint admin center I have not configured users that are authorized to associate sites with the hub sites. I also tried to assign the app registration through PowerShell, but it doesn't work. My question is, how can I authorize the app registration to associate the site with the hub site specified upon creating the new site? Thanks for all help provided!Why Is SharePoint’s Priority Column Free Text and Not a Choice Field?
While https://bluesite.consulting/en-us/articles/sharepoint-site-template-projecthome-review.html, I noticed something unusual in the work action tracker list—a column setting that seemed out of place. Specifically, the Priority column isn't set up as a typical choice column with selectable options. Instead, the available choices are entered as free text in a single text field (left image) I saw this years ago in the old SharePoint. where options for a choice column are defined within a text field rather than as a standard list of choices (right image). Does anyone know why this might be happening or what could be causing this behavior?SharePoint List Mobile Simple View not Using Selected Field
Hello, The SharePoint list my flow feeds into needs to be mobile-friendly, however whenever I configure mobile simple view for a view of the list, it will not display the field I selected, it only displays the Title field. Does anyone know why this might be? Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!
Edit' rights tries editing a document from a different device or browser it is grayed out
Hello Please i need your help on this issue. When a user with confirmed 'Edit' rights tries editing a document from a different device or browser it is grayed out using Edge browser as usually use Chrome. They are logged in to their Microsoft account and accessing the file to be edited in SharePoint. They are trying to edit the file in the browser as they only have an E1 license. The users are in the Customer Success SharePoint group and they are Members with Edit rights. I dont think the document library have the unique permissions that override site-level permissions? Here is the screenshot of the item-level permissions on individual documents or folders? I believe the group assigned at the site level or only at the document library level? The affected user can create or edit a new document in the same library.
Cannot change a content type template's url anymore
Hello, I created a new content type for my site, everything works well, however I'm unable to change it's template url (Advanced settings -> use existing model). This is the error that appears once I hit the save button: This roughly translates to: "Unable to update advanced settings. A Web-type file cannot be attached as a template." Now this is strange because in the past I could do this without any issue. Has something changed in the template system, or could it possibly be a bug? Thanks in advance
News/page publishing process changes
We've had a workflow in place so that when people create news articles, it runs through a powerautomate workflow first. The process would be : Create news item, populate content Click "Submit for approval" in the top right. Side panel opens to tick some boxes (to create tags) User clicks "Publish", the workflow is processed A few minutes later it appears on some other pages which have a webpart configured to display this news. However in recent months, Microsoft seemed to have required all news/pages to have the "Save and close" button in the top left to be clicked first. I'm guessing this is related to the default check in/out workflow that sharepoint uses. What this has resulted in is much confusion, as the two processes work totally independently, and users dont know that they have to click "Save and close" first before then clicking the "Submit for approval" button to kick off the workflow. Has anyone else seen this? Can the "save and close" function be incorporated into the flow itself? The workflow is used to create managed metadata for the article, so that different categories of news can be displayed on different pages. This is not particularly relevant though to this issue i dont think.
Search results, document link goes to Page Not Found
When searching the site for a document (which is there), the link under the file goes to a Page Not Found. If I go to that URL, I see the file, but the link in the search results seems to be broken. A couple of things I am thinking could be the issue, so wanting to verify or if it is something else: Document library has 50,313 items File name could be too long (which includes the folder paths). I've re-indexed the library and will check if that helps.Best practices to work on files between Teams
Hi, I am working on the migration of my on-premises data to SharePoint online. My teams are set up, each team corresponds to a M365 group: HR, Accounting, Management, Employment Service, etc. Each employee will be part of one or more teams. Each team has a document library, and only team members will have access to the document library. The question is as follows: what is the best practice for working on files betwwen Teams? Example: the HR team has a folder in its document library named Recruitment. The assistant managers are not part of the HR team but need access to a subfolder of this Recruitment folder. I see 3 options: i break the inheritance in the document library and set specific rights for the assistant managers. I share the subfolder using a direct link, SharePoint sharing function. I create a second document library for the human resources team where all the files that will be shared with the other teams will be located For options 1 and 2, the "business logic" for the HR team is respected, meaning that all files in the Recruitment folder are located in the same place. However, I have no visibility on shared folders. At a minimum, we can play with folder colors to quickly identify shared folders, but at the scale of the organization, this seems risky to me. For option 3, the visibility of shared folders with the other Teams is quick and easy, but the files in the Recruitment folder are then found in 2 document libraries, which is not intuitive for the HR team. Could you please tell me what the good practices are? Are there any other options?Accessing Teams Private Channels Files in SharePoint
Is there an issue currently with accessing Teams Private Channel files in SharePoint? I have looked but cannot find anything. Recently our users that used to access Teams Private channel files within SharePoint (by going to the sharepoint site and Documents and then In Channels) have noticed that when they click a folder it doesn't take them into a file list, it just does nothing. If they then press F5 to refresh it will usually take them into the list of files. Accessing the files with Teams is fine still, only an issue if you use SharePoint. I've tried this on a few other sites within our Tennant and it happens on our other sites too.SharePoint Online List: Filtered List View Not Refreshing After Change
Before recently, any time a change was made to a list row column that a view filter was based on, the items in view would automatically refresh to show the changes. Now the list view doesn't update unless the user refreshes the page in their browser. This is a consistent issue across all lists in the tenant. Our organization has SharePoint lists with a 'Status' column that impacts what items are shown in a view and its hurting productivity when these views aren't updating with new items unless the page is manually refreshed. Is there a new setting that is impacting the ability for filtered views to auto-refresh?RefinableStrings managed properties are assigned to crawl properties only at the site level
I accessed the managed properties at a site level scope inside SharePoint online, and I found some refinable strings assign to crawl properties, but when I accessed the same refinable strings at the tenant level i found that those managed properties do not have crawl properties assign to them, here is a example for RefinableString06:- Site level Tenant Level Also the confusing issue is that inside the UI the ability to assign crawl properties to those managed properties are disabled on the site level, so how those got assigned?Sharepoint no sync for userdata
Hallo together, I tried to do a Employee page with SP Modern Search. So far so good and everything is working. Now the AD Userdate got corrected and Emails like Max.Mustermann... got changed into max.mustermann... Deltasync had done everything and AAD are synced but the Sharepoint Search are not interested in and still shows Max.Mustermann... And i cant find a way to start that syncjob. Anyone hint me in the right direction ?SharePoint Framework
Let me explain you my scenario and use-case about what I am trying to build with SPFx. As i have tried all the possible Form customizations using PowerApps, SharePoint Forms, etc.. and not able to get the expected results. I am creating a primary list named Sales Leads List wherein i am tracking each leads getting in from our sales team. And i am creating related list named Lead Interactions to track the interactions associated with specific Lead of Sales Lead List. What i want to achieve is: I am creating a Add Interaction column/button on each lead of Sales Lead List. When user clicks this button, a Lead Interactions form should open with certain fields gets pre-populated from this Leads entry. Is it possible to achieve this use-case with SPFx and how?Cannot find Sharepoint Online API endpoints
Hi Team, My team is working on SharePoint Online, and are not able to find APIs related to the following entities: 1. All List APIs 2. All files and folders APIs 3. All Link APIs 4. All Event APIs 5. All Page APIs. When we say 'all', we mean endpoints to create, update, get, delete and perform other operations on the above listed entities. We found a few APIs related to files and folders here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/working-with-folders-and-files-with-rest It would be very helpful if you could share rest of the endpoints with us. Thank you.Creating SharePoint Intranet from scratch - What would you do?
Hello, I've just started at a new company and they desperately need an intranet created for the purpose of communication (announcements, etc.) and document management. The company I came from had already begun their design and development journey with a particular vendor prior to me being onboarded there. They mostly used out-of-the-box functionality with a bit of custom development for some things. It was a Classic site. This vendor did fine work but I am overall curious which direction you'd go given the opportunity to do it from scratch; either using any vendor you want and/or developing it yourself and the resources you'd use to accomplish that. I've of course Googled this myself but any direction or insight is greatly appreciated! Thank you, Morghan
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