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Fixxser2
Brass Contributor
May 26, 2020

Create A list from another list gives error

We created two SharePoint sites from a Teams creation, two teams (A&B).

I created a list successfully under General in SharePoint.  Now I go to the other teams site and I want to create another list (B) under General of that group and use the first one(A) as a template. "Create a list - from an existing list" and I navigate to the (A) list and select it.  The error comes up "Something went wrong. Please try again later"

 

What could be doing this?  What can I check for?

  • CindyZ's avatar
    CindyZ
    May 29, 2020

    beshr1993I had, and still have, the same issue on "some" lists on the same site. I've not yet needed to use this on other sites.  I could not find any consistency at all in any way as to why it behaved as it did.  

     

    After hours and hours and weeks and weeks with an open Microsoft ticket, this was the final reply...

    "

    Hi Cindy,

    Good day to you! How are you doing? Thanks for your response. To answer your question, there seems to be a code fix required to comprehensively fix the issue so that this functionality becomes more resilient to handle this kind of scenario instead of not progressing and getting stuck. That will take much time and there is no ETA for that at the moment. Since workaround is already available, please continue to use that. For this reason, we will need to archive this ticket for now. However I will review the status in a month or something and will share an update to you from my end."  

    That was in March and I've heard no more.  The workaround is to go to Classic and create a template. 

     

     

  • vicenteruiz's avatar
    vicenteruiz
    Copper Contributor

    Fixxser2 

    Hello:

    In the last days I'm dealing with the transition to a new site and I had this problem too. My finding was that a list that has spaces in the name seems to cause problems when trying to create a new list using the original as base. Example:

     

    Original List name: Change request Log

    Modified list name that solved the problem: ChangeRequestLog

     

    Hopefully this still works for someone with the same problem.

     

    Greetings.

  • beshr1993's avatar
    beshr1993
    Copper Contributor

    Fixxser2 

    I have the same problem too!! I have many events in my site and I want to create a [sign up] list for each of these events. I created the list template and it's perfect, and I found the option to create new lists from existing lists. But whenever I try, I get this same error. I tried on IE and Edge and it does not work either.

     

    Any clues?

    • fixxser's avatar
      fixxser
      Copper Contributor
      No, u tried this on another tenant and it works. Some others have tried it and it works. The only thing I can think of is to delete the original list and recreate it with a different name. It is possible the original list site is broken. And deleting it will take 30days unless PS commands are used to delete.
      • beshr1993's avatar
        beshr1993
        Copper Contributor

        fixxser Yep, I trying creating from different lists, including old ones and just-made ones and neither worked. I will ask some colleagues of mine to try doing it themselves to see if the problem is from my account only, but I doubt that is the case.

        Could it be simply because my company does not have a full roll out of Office 365 yet and this is like a missing feature?

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