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SharePoint Site 404 error on Home
We have created a modest SharePoint site that has been working for some time. All of a sudden when you go into SharePoint directly to your home screen and click on the link to go to the site in question, you get a 404 error. I went back in through MS Teams to get to the site so that I could get to the files. I reconnected the navigation link to the link for the home once I found it in site contents and it worked for a little while. It seems to work if I access SharePoint through Teams, but not SharePoint directly. If I go directly to SharePoint, I get the 404 error again. We don't seem to have anyone that can figure this out. I got this far on my own. Is there anyway that as a user I can fix this or is this something that has to be fixed on the back end? Starting over is not an option. Too many files within the site. Any help would be appreciated!
How to enable external sharing
Hi all, I need to activate external sharing option (Share to anyone with the link) for my organization. I've activated the External Sharing in SharePoint admin center > Policies > Sharing and also change the External file sharing for the SP sites to Anyone, but it still doesn't work. Is my configuration correct? Did I miss anything? Appreciate your help.
Change of notification language
Hi everybody, our tenant was created in Germany. Recently, we migrated another tenant from the US in our tenant. Unfortunately, all American users now receive notifications from Sharepoint Online in German. I have checked the SP page in question and found out that its default language is German. According to my research notifications are always sent in the default language and that it's not possible to change the default language. Is there any chance or possibility to change the language of the notifications for this site? If there is only an option to change them globally to English, this would also be fine. Thanks for your help.
SharePoint List Overwriting Items on 'New'
I have a SharePoint list that seems to be overwriting items when users click 'New' instead of making a new item. It only happens to certain items though, not to all of them--most new items are created correctly but some specific item IDs are getting overwritten repeatedly. No idea how or why... Anybody seen this issue before? I'm using this list as a Error Ticketing System, so users create items for themselves or their employees to report the app they're having trouble with--the list collects some basic demographics (lastname/ID/email) and info on the error, almost all single line of text fields, some choice fields. Thanks in advance!
Column Headers Not Displaying on SharePoint List in Site Page
We are encountering an issue with a SharePoint page (URL ending in /SitePages/Home.aspx). When we add a list to the page, the column headers for the list fail to appear. Despite checking all settings and even creating a new list, the issue persists. Notably, this problem seems isolated to this specific site; other sites do not exhibit the same behavior. Has anyone experienced this or have guidance on resolving the issue? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!Adding the SharePoint Online URL to the trusted site zones in IE
Hi , I would like to know what's the right approach in adding the SharePoint Online URL to the trusted site zone in Internet Explorer . I'm thinking of addinghttps://*.sharepoint.comto the trusted site zone in IE .However , we have a different opinion where-in we just want to addhttps://companyname.sharepoint.comandhttps://companyname-my.sharepoint.comto the trusted site zone .So which one would be the right approach here and what are the benefits in adding a wild-card URL ?
Adding a clickable button to A sharepoint list to update a Yes/No Field
I am currently creating a list which users are assigned policies to read. I am struggling to find any way to make the list friendly for the users to mark as reading a policy. When a policy is assigned to them, a list item is created with a Yes/No column set to No. I am looking for a way which they can click a button, and the button will change the value of that specific column in that specific row to Yes. I've seen some mentions to JSON actions, but I have never used JSON, so I am in the dark of any possible way to resolve this issue. Ideally I don't want to use a flow, but if a button can click a flow and dynamically pull the Row and Column information, I am open to building that. Any help will be appreciated.Prevent Automatically Opening the File Explorer on the Upload Tab (filepicker)
I am working on an application customizer that will inject custom UI into the File Picker's Upload tab. Because of this, I want to prevent the file explorer from automatically opening when the user clicks on the Upload tab. I’ve tried several methods to achieve this by manipulating the DOM through my custom code in the application customizer. I even tried removing the "file" input element from my custom code. However, the file explorer still opens automatically when the user clicks on the Upload tab. Is there any way to prevent this?Site settings menu different between sites
Hi all, new here hoping to get some help! I've searched the forum but it's really hard to articulate my query. The issue is with the "settings cog menu" specifically the site permissions section. My question is, where do I set that menu / what appears there. We use a template of a sharepoint site that we deploy when we need a new site adding - all sites should be the same, but with different permissions. On some sites under the settings cog > site permissions I see this: ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------- And on other sites, I see this: ---------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- I've checked this against multiple different sites that have been up for a while and it's consistently different through out.
New Co-Authoring Feature REMOVES Discard Changes
This post is more of an information for SharePoint users since Microsoft haven't announced the removal of Discard changes for pages / news posts as part of their co-authoring feature. This is a major regression and will cause a lot of pain to most of Microsoft's customers. Microsoft have said that they are replacing Discard changes (as it's no longer required anymore - REALLY) with Undo and version history. The Undo button doesn't discard changes to a page. You can undo your changes, but the page will still be saved as a new version regardless. I've testing in my test tenant where the new co-authoring feature has been rolled out and I can NOT discard changes anymore. Scenario (and an extremely common one) We have flows (reviews, approvals, etc.) that run when a Page (Standard Page or News Article) is published. Now, if I go into a published page to check on some of the page layout and make some temporary changes (VERY frequent that this happens across all of our authors), it will save a version with my changes, and I am now forced to restore the previous version to remove my changes, which will inadvertently move the page back into Draft mode and need to be republished.Republishing it again will kick off another flow, and the page will now be published by the user that temporarily updated the page, and on the current date/time. We absolutely need our pages and news articles tokeep the actual date they were publishedand displaywho originally published them(these are displayed on the page) and not kick off additional review/approval flows. It will also affect our version history which we rely on for auditing purposes. Before, I could go in and help someone with their page and discard my changes, or our authors could just play around with the design of the page and not have any intention of keeping their changes. Now, those users will end up in the version history when they didn't actually have any intent on keeping their temporarily changes. Love to get your thoughts on this regression. Especially since Microsoft seem to think it's not important, and have not posted any communications (general, M365 service announcements, etc.) about the removal of Discard changes.
