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SharePoint Online - How to keep left navigation expandable
Hi All, I am using SharePoint Online site collection. I have created Left navigation menus with sub menus. I want this menus should be expandable in SharePoint Online site. We had used SharePoint 2013 in that Left navigation showing expandable with sub menus so just line I need this behavior on SharePoint Online. Thanks, Harish PatilSharePoint List - How to open Edit Current View option in same Tab
Hi All, Currently I am using SharePoint Online site collection. In that list if I click on Edit current view option from any view then it open in new Tab to edit view settings. How to open that in the same Tab? As in SharePoint 2013 if you modify list view then it opens in same Tab so this same behavior want in SharePoint Online. Is there any way to open in same Tab on SharePoint Online List. Thanks, Harish Patil
Global Reader role - Not working to access Sharepoint Admin Portal
Needed to grant a access for reading/viewing policies on Sharepoint(SPO) admin portal and tried to have that in place with the Global Reader role but unfortunately that does not seem to be working and I don't want to provide excessive permissions by giving Sharepoint admin role to the user. When checked on the Global Reader role and its permissions in this link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/role-based-access-control/permissions-reference#global-reader Microsoft Learn, seems like the role can access the SPO admin center but still it doesn't seem to be working so not sure if am missing on something. Thanks
Licensing Requirements for SharePoint Advanced Management
Please confirm Licensing Requirements for SharePoint Advanced Management? I ask because I believe there is a scenario where if I have one user account in my M365 Tenant (say this one user account was treated like a service/admin account) and this same user account was subscribed to the Monthly Copilot subscription; it could also therefore subscribe to the SharePoint Advanced Management subscription too? Afterwards, then this user account could do the SharePoint Advanced Management tasks. Sincerely, Joe BotelhoFunction of "GET IT" button in sharepoint app?
Hello, I have some questions related to deployment in sharepoint. Context: I have two sharepoint sites. Each have same application that run a webpart. Both have different version but still run the lastest webpart. Questions: What is the function of the "GET IT" button in sharepoint if both sites have lastest deloyed webpart. How can I deploy two different version of a webpart to two sites. Example a devlop site and a production site? Thank in advance.
SharePoint Online Threshold Limits – Critical Impact and Architectural Guidance Request
Dear Microsoft Support Team, We are the central IT service provider managing a productive SharePoint Online environment for one of our enterprise customers. As part of a migration project (merger), we encountered a significant issue related to the exceeding of Microsoft-recommended thresholds in SharePoint Online. The resulting impact disrupted critical business operations. We kindly request confirmation, technical explanation, and the most up-to-date Microsoft recommendations (including sources) regarding the following topics: Threshold Clarification What are the current Microsoft-recommended maximum limits for: Total number of files/folders in a document library Total number of files/folders within a single folder or path Maximum number of items to maintain functional permission management Maximum number of items that allow stable OneDrive synchronization Technical Impact Questions What are the consequences when the 100,000-item threshold is exceeded within a folder path, especially when changing access paths (e.g., department name changes)? What are the technical causes of the extended "re-synchronization" process triggered by path changes? Architectural Guidance How should a Site Collection or library be structured to ensure: Scalability for enterprise use Effective permission control even with over 1 million files Smooth OneDrive sync functionality Future-proofing against disruptive changes (e.g., metadata updates, path modifications) Known Thresholds / Internal Guidelines: Maximum per library: 30 million items (Source: Microsoft Docs) Permission management limit: 100,000 items (breaking inheritance not possible beyond this) OneDrive sync limit: 300,000 items (Source: Microsoft Docs) Help is needed: Recommendations on how to architect large-scale document libraries Best practices to avoid the aforementioned issues Clear indication of the thresholds that must not be exceeded in an enterprise-grade SPO environmentReact and MSAL No active account found for Graph API after login Ensuring Account Readiness
Hi everyone, My React app uses Microsoft's MSAL library for user login. After login, it needs to show SharePoint images (like thumbnails in a table) using the Microsoft Graph API. The Problem: Often, right after a user logs into my app (using the Microsoft login popup), when my app tries to get these SharePoint images, I get a "No active account found" error. It seems like MSAL doesn't have an active user account ready for the Graph API call at that exact moment, even though MSAL itself says the user is logged in and that it isn't busy with other login tasks. This usually happens when the page first tries to show these images immediately after the login finishes. An Important Clue: I found something interesting: if the user first opens any SharePoint site in their browser (like in another tab) and then uses or refreshes my React app, the images load perfectly without any error. This makes me think it's a timing problem – my app might be trying to get the images too quickly after login, before the browser's connection to SharePoint is fully ready for my app to make requests via the Graph API. I am trying to make my app wait for MSAL to completely finish its setup, and I also double-check that MSAL has an active user account before I ask for the images. But, the error can still happen if the user hasn't done that manual SharePoint visit first. My Question: What's the best way in a React app (using MSAL) to reliably make sure that everything is truly ready – both the MSAL login being complete AND my app being able to successfully use the Graph API for SharePoint resources – immediately after a user logs in? I want users to see the images straight away without needing to manually open SharePoint first for the images in my app to work. Any tips or advice on how to best handle this "not quite ready yet" timing with MSAL and SharePoint would be a huge help! Thanks!
JSON formatting within SharePoint not functioning?
Hello! Has anyone noticed a sudden degradation with JSON formatting across SharePoint? I have code on a SharePoint list that has suddenly stopped working properly when I use it on another view. I cannot see to even be able to modify simple, out of the box things, like the width or height of the tile. Anyone know if there is a bug with JSON formatting at the moment?Table widget width greater than screen width bug
Tested in both Chrome and Edge the table width is greater than the viewing area when viewed on a large screen when the default should be 1200px wide. I have 6 cells and when I convert to 3 cells the problem still persists. The problem disappears when I: republish the page inject css into the table with table-layout turning off injected css table-layout the problem remains disappeared The problem persists when I: refresh the page inject css explicit width for the table ie. width:1200px!important - width is still greater than 1200px at 1345px wide. Affected too is the padding of the cells which changes between the two states.How to add managed properties to a SharePoint sites ?
Hi, I would like to be able to search SharePoint sites with the PNP Search Results Web Part using managed properties. So is it possible to add searchable /queriable/refinable/sortable managed properties to a SharePoint site ? If this isn't possible, how can I search for sites based on criteria? ThanksGetting error "The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service" In SharePoint 2016
Hi, I am getting error on SharePoint site on search page as " The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service. " When I tried to restart SharePoint Search Service in Central Administration, I am getting error as "Invalid search service unprovisioning: application 'Search Service Application' still has a ready component 'in search service instance' on server " Please advice the solution Thanks,Assign permissions multiple files in library with no folders
Hello I have a library using metadata only - no folders. I want to assign permissions on a number of files simultaneously. We would normally use folders and put docs in there but we don't want to do that. We don't want to use power automate or scripting. How to do this?
SharePoint/Power Automate Issue
I am the IT Manager for a small business. I was told that SharePoint can be used as a ticketing system, if set up properly. I have actually gotten it to work, but here is the issue. We have 2 email domains, one is MSI and the other is @asc*. When I send an email to the latter, it works but if I send it from an msi email, it does not work at all. Is there a setting or something someone can point me to or do I somehow have to make 2 different flows in order to get this to work. Any help is appreciated Don MurraySharepoint/Power Automate Issue
Hey guys, I am really drawing a blank here and I am hoping one of you fine people can help me out. I am an IT Manager at a small business, around 60 to 70 people. Everyone is remote and scattered about, so there is not much face-to-face interactions. Due to this, keeping track of all the incoming requests and incidents gets a little tedious because I am the only one that monitors anything. My idea was to try use sharepoint as a ticketing system of some kind to monitor requests and incidents that come in. I setup a Power Automate Flow to Create a Sharepoint Event when the IT inbox receives an email. Funny thing is, we have 2 emails 1 is MSI and the other is @asc****. The issue is that the IT Inbox receives email from @asc just fine and creates the event in Sharepoint, but it will not receive emails from MSI at all. Now, do I need to create 2 different workflows for this or is there a way to make this work without too much headache? Any info would be much appreciated. Don Murray
SharePoint Pnp Search v4 People seach verticals issue with Location
I am trying to resolve an issue with SharePoint (online) PnP search v4 for an employee search page. I have a search box web part and filter web part for department and job title. In my search results i can successfully retrieve results by typing the full or partial name of the employee into the search box. I can also filter the results by department or job title successfully using the PnP Search Filters webpart. The text in the PnP Search Results is "{?Title:{inputQueryText}*} Department:*". (I am also filtering out any users with the Department filed blank successfully) I would like to use a search vertical web part to filter by location. I have set up the verticals web part with the default "all" tab with a value of "*" and other tabs with locations that match what has been entered into the Microsoft 365 user profile for the users. I was getting 0 results when selecting the search vertical tabs. I have checked the mapping of the "baseOfficeLocation" managed property and it was mapped to People:SPS-Location and when that didn't work, based on some research, i changed the mapping to People:Office. That didn't make a difference. I also mapped a spare refinableString managed property to People:Office. I checked to make sure the "People:Office" property in SharePoint user profiles was the correct property with values. If i used the text "{?|(RefinableString01:{UserInput}" in the query template, in the search results web part, I was able to get successful filtering by location based on this new mapping, by typing into the search box the location name to get only users from that location, or "*" to get all users with a location entered. This tells me that there are results getting retrieved. I have tried "RefinableString01:{vertical.value}" in the query template but that retrieves no results.
Azure ACS Retirement Phased Approach
Microsoft has announced the retirement of Azure ACS, and will officially turn it off in April of 2026. We are running a project to convert from ACS to Entra App. All is going well. What we are wanting to do is selectively disable the ACS apps on targetted SharePoint sites OR selectively turn it back on on targetted sites. Microsoft gives us a tenant level switch to shut it off completely, but that is to impactful. We have done a lot of research but targetted enable/disabling of the ACS apps does not seem possible? Anyone else going through a similar migration? Any ideas or lessons learned anyone would like to share? If this is the wrong location to make this post, I apologize. I wasn't sure if this was more SharePoint related to Development.Creating/Copying SharePoint Folders with permissions
Dear Experts, I need your help with the following: I have a folder (let's call it "A") in a SharePoint document library that contains several subfolders. When I use the "Copy To" option to duplicate the folder, it successfully copies the structure but not the permissions (unique security settings) applied to the original folder and its subfolders. Is there a way to copy or automate this process so that both the folder structure and the permissions are replicated? Any suggestions, scripts, or tools to achieve this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
Enable Data Retention at list level Sharepoint online
Our company retention policies is set for 5 years for all site, however i want to add individual retention policies for each list in my site content via Information management policy setting in List settings. as shown below. Checked after 1 week of applying this retention policy all the data is still there. Questions Does the Company retention policies overrides my retention policy? Is there any other way to add retention policy on the list level? Can I archive the data if retention is not possible?Mapping File Share On Premise to SharePoint
I have a file server on On Premise (not published internet), currently the file server is mapped on the user's laptop file explorer so that users can access data when inside the office network. Users need to use VPN to access data on the file server when outside the office network. My question is, can the file server data be mapped into SharePoint? Please advice, thank you.Display Upcoming Event All Room to SharePoint Page
I want to display upcoming events from all resource rooms in the organization to a page created in SharePoint. The goal is that the page will later appear on the Screen in the Lobby room, so that all guest users can see the events and rooms they are going to. Is this possible, please advise. Thank you
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