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File & Media webpart: Powerpoint first slide links aren't clickable
Looking to see if anyone else has this experience/any solutions: You add a File & Media webpart to a SPOnline page, link it to a PowerPoint file. The first slide has a hyperlink, but that link isn't clickable when the page first loads. If you move to another slide, links work correctly, including when you move back to the first slide. Any way to get this functionality to work correctly with the File & Media webpart? Slides work fine when you open in PPT, no amount of recreating the PowerPoint works, but switching to the "Embed" webpart solves the problem.
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileLockException
I am building a tool to upload the data to Microsoft Sharepoint excel file. There are many users who can use the file at the same time, but it is critical for me to be able to upload the data to the particular worksheet in that specific file all the time. However it seems that when the file is used by other users I cannot do the updates to the file and I am getting this error: '{"error":{"code":"-2147018894, Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileLockException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"The file XXX.xlsx is locked for shared use by email address removed for privacy reasons [membership]."}}}' Is there a way for me to force an update to the file? To remove this Lock exception?
Desperate for Help: Access Issues with Draft Site on SharePoint
Hello, community! I really need your help. I have been working hard on a site in SharePoint, using Microsoft 365 for Business, which is currently in draft mode, and to my frustration, I can no longer access it. After months of dedication and effort, I feel completely powerless in this situation. When I try to click on the site link, I am redirected to a different page, and to make matters worse, an irrelevant file starts downloading automatically. This is extremely frustrating for me, as the site was almost ready to be launched, and now it feels like all my work is at stake. Here are the details of the situation: - Site Link: Accessing the link I used previously simply doesn’t work anymore. - Redirection: When I click, I’m taken to a completely different page. - Automatic Download: A file unrelated to the site is being downloaded to my computer. - Site Status: Everything was finalized and ready for publication, but now I feel out of options. If anyone has experienced something similar or has any idea how I can resolve this issue, I would be eternally grateful. I’m desperate for a solution, and any help would be very much appreciated! Thank you so much for your attention!
Making list form anonymous
I had tried microsoft Forms, but because if the user attaches anything I get notified defeating the purpose of making any submissions anonymous. Decided to use 2 list with a power automate. first list is an intake that gets deleted, the second will have me as the creator for all submissions. Used the list form for the first time, and when in the preview i get the message "Hi nerdy, when you submit this form, the owner will see your email and name." There a way to remove that disclaimer? or set the form to not record? did not see an option to try and suppress the information. Next plan is to do a powerapp submission. thank youConfiguring PnP Search
Hi all. I have a specific requirement and can't figure out if it is possible. I have two pages. First page is a home page. I just want one clean Search Box here. Now I want the search query to feed a second Search Box web part on the second page. The second page has a Search box, Search Results and Refiner web parts. Is this possible?Sharepoint List - Filter on multi-select name column always displays no results
Hi all, When trying to filter my sharepoint list, I am experiencing issues for one specific column. The filter displays options as expected, listing all of the individuals that are present in that column, but upon selecting any single one or multiple of them, the result swaps to 'We didn't find anything to show here'. Specifically, when filtering the issue-column on the option of (Empty), it does filter successfully, so it is clearly experiencing issues with the names themselves. From what I can tell, there are no settings applied to the issue-column that would prevent it from filtering, so I'm expecting this to be a bug of some sorts. Looking for people who have had the same issue and/or have found a solution for this. Context: - It is certain that the names used to filter should return multiple results - List does not contain many entries and does not expand beyond list limits - Column in scope is a multi-select column pulling the microsoft IDs from all individuals as options - Another exact duplicate of this same column is present (for a different purpose), for which filtering works without issue - All other columns filter as expectedPromotedState does not update anymore
I wish to update the promoted status to 0 (page), 1 (unpublished news) or 3 (published news). I was always doing this via SharePoints column formatting. See .json column formatting below. This worked perfectly fine until about this week. Now it doesn't seem to work anymore. Now I tried updating the PromotedState also via PowerAutomate. This also doesn't seem to work... How should I now change the PromotedState. Does someone have any clue how I can update the PromotedState or why the column formatting way of wokring, suddently doesn't work anymore? The json code for column formatting. { "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json", "elmType": "div", "style": { "flex-wrap": "nowrap", "display": "flex", "flex-direction": "row" }, "children": [ { "elmType": "div", "txtContent": "=if(@currentField == 0 ,'0 : Page' , if(@currentField == 1, '1 : News (Unpublished)' , if(@currentField == 2 , '2 : News','') ) )", "style": { "box-sizing": "border-box", "padding": "4px 8px 5px 8px", "display": "flex", "border-radius": "16px", "align-items": "center", "overflow": "hidden", "margin": "4px 4px 4px 4px", "border": "1px solid" }, "attributes": { "class": "=if(@currentField == 0 ,'ms-fontColor-themePrimary ms-borderColor-themePrimary ms-bgColor-white' , if(@currentField == 1, 'ms-fontColor-themePrimary ms-borderColor-themePrimary ms-bgColor-themeLighter' , if(@currentField == 2 , 'ms-fontColor-white ms-borderColor-themePrimary ms-bgColor-themePrimary','') ) )" } }, { "elmType": "div", "style": { "font-size": "18px", "cursor": "pointer", "padding": "10px", "border-radius": "50%" }, "attributes": { "iconName": "MoreVertical", "class": "ms-fontColor-themePrimary ms-bgColor-themeLighter--hover" }, "customCardProps": { "openOnEvent": "click", "directionalHint": "rightCenter", "isBeakVisible": true, "formatter": { "elmType": "div", "style": { "display": "flex", "flex-direction": "column", "align-items": "flex-start" }, "children": [ { "elmType": "div", "txtContent": "Change to Page (0)", "style": { "padding": "10px 20px 10px 20px", "cursor": "pointer", "width": "200px" }, "attributes": { "class": "ms-bgColor-themeLighter--hover" }, "customRowAction": { "action": "setValue", "actionInput": { "PromotedState": "0" } } }, { "elmType": "div", "txtContent": "Change to unpublished news (1)", "style": { "padding": "10px 20px 10px 20px", "cursor": "pointer", "width": "200px" }, "attributes": { "class": "ms-bgColor-themeLighter--hover" }, "customRowAction": { "action": "setValue", "actionInput": { "PromotedState": "1" } } }, { "elmType": "div", "txtContent": "Change to published news (2)", "style": { "padding": "10px 20px 10px 20px", "cursor": "pointer", "width": "200px" }, "attributes": { "class": "ms-bgColor-themeLighter--hover" }, "customRowAction": { "action": "setValue", "actionInput": { "PromotedState": "2" } } } ] } } } ] } The HTTP SharePoint call to update the PromotedStatus.How to get a custom Site Page content type to show in the Site Pages Library New dropdown?
I have created a new Site Pages content type from the SharePoint Admin Center Content Type hub. The parent content type is Site Pages. When I add the content type to the Site Pages library on a site, the new content type does not appear in the New dropdown. I have verified the new Content Type shows in the Site Pages Library Settings: I have also confirmed the new button order: How do I get the new Site Pages Content Type to show in the New dropdown of Site Pages Library?Intermittent failures when creating new libraries in modern SharePoint
Hi everyone, I’m seeing an issue in our modern SharePoint Online site collection where creating new document libraries has started failing. This site has worked normally for years, but over the past week, most library creation attempts haven't worked. 1) The page briefly flashes or glitches during the creation process. and 2) A non‑ending spinning wheel when I hit "create" or 3) Creation attempts return “Something's not right.” error page. The failures happen across all subsites, in multiple browsers, and I’m a Site Collection Administrator. No permission changes were made recently. Has anyone seen similar intermittent library creation failures in a modern site collection, or know what might cause this kind of inconsistent behavior? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks! Meagan
Document libraries added programmatically as tabs to Shared Channels are not visible
With the recent Teams UX updates, any document libraries added programmatically to Shared Channels no longer appear in the Teams interface even though they do show up when queried through PowerShell. Following the guidance in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/teams-configuring-builtin-tabs%22https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/teams-configuring-builtin-tabs%22https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/teams-configuring-builtin-tabs%22https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/teams-configuring-builtin-tabs%22as well as the approaches I outlined in my blog post https://reshmeeauckloo.com/posts/powershell-teams-add-documentlibrary-as-tab/%22https://reshmeeauckloo.com/posts/powershell-teams-add-documentlibrary-as-tab/%22 using Microsoft Graph or PnP PowerShell, the tabs still fail to surface in the new Teams experience. The behaviour is inconsistent: The same tab‑creation methods work perfectly in standard channels. They also work for users who haven’t yet received the new Teams UX. And if the document libraries are added manually, they appear as expected in shared channels. At the moment, I’m trying to determine whether there is a supported way to add document library tabs to shared channels programmatically so that they remain visible in the new Teams interface. Any insights or confirmed workarounds would be appreciated.
Audience Targeting for News not working at Hub Site level
We have a Hub site and are pulling in news from sites associated with the Hub. I have set targeted audiences on those news articles and have tested the functionality on the sites themselves - the audience targeting seems to work fine. However, at the hub site level, pulling the news from those sites into a news web part, when I enable the audience targeting feature, no action is taken. It doesn't appear the audience targeting functionality is working in this scenario. Is this expected behavior?File Type Version Limits
Hi all, In trying to solve an old issue I stumbled across this new feature currently in preview and am wondering if the file type arrays will be editable or if new arrays could be or will be added? I have a handful of file types which do not need 100 versions, let alone a version every 2-5 minutes, requiring frequent culling... Ling. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/file-type-version-limitsHow get a report where "everyone except external users" group is used in my site collections
Hi all, I'm searching a way to get a report, via powershell, to all sites collections that “Everyone except external users” group is existing Someone could help me to build an efficient script? every suggestion is appreciated MassimoRenaming a folder with too many files
One of our teams has a Team/SharePoint site with an archive folder. Everything in there is old files, and they'd like to rename the folder. However, we get the error that it exceeds the list view threshold. I've spent the afternoon trying to find out how to get this folder renamed and so far nothing has worked. The general consensus is to create a filtered view, but I'm not sure what to filter it based on, as all of the files have been there and untouched for some time, causing most of the columns I could index be fairly similar (they were moved to SharePoint 3 years ago from an on-prem fileshare). One of the options I'd seen was to sync it using OneDrive and rename it locally but that still gave me the same error. I also tried renaming the folder from within Teams without success. If someone could provide some guidance for how to get this done, I'd appreciate it. Right now, I'm thinking I'll just have to move a bunch of stuff out of some of the folders to temporary locations, but even that is challenging as I'm not aware of a good way to get a count of items in folders and subfolders in SharePoint to know which are the best ones to move out.Trimming SharePoint Version History - Minor Versions
Hello, I am a SharePoint Admin at my organization and I have been asked to reduce our total storage usage by reducing the number of versions and minor versions in our environment on all SharePoint sites. I have written a simple PowerShell script that loops through a csv file with site addresses, and runs this command per site -> New-SPOSiteFileVersionBatchDeleteJob -Identity $site.siteURL -MajorVersionLimit 100 -MajorWithMinorVersionsLimit 5 It was my understanding that for all sites in the csv file, for all document libraries on the site, and for all files in the libraries this command will reduce the file to the last 100 Major versions, and the last 5 minor versions of each major version. Unfortunately, this command is not actually reducing the minor versions. It is working with the Major versions just fine, but all minor versions are being retained for each major version retained. Is my understanding of this command wrong, or is it not working? Are there other factors to consider? Does anyone know of an alternative that can fit my needs? The overall plan is to trim the current version history, then apply the automatic version setting to each library in our tenant. Here is the MS guide I referenced, maybe I missed something -> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/tutorial-queue-a-trim-job Any help is greatly appreciated, Cam
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