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Fixxser2
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May 26, 2020
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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...
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    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. 

     

     

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CindyZ
Iron Contributor
Jul 17, 2020
When we were trying to troubleshoot this some time back, we did not find column types to be an issue. We tested them all and there was no path leading us to an answer -- the behavior was consistently inconsistent except for the few lists it would not let me copy -- ever.
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Steven Andrews
Iron Contributor
Jul 17, 2020

CindyZ 

 

There is, I believe a backdoor route to do this.  Older SharePoint site templates (pre-Teams) had a Lists Gallery that you could upload a template of a previous list into and then use that to generate copies of it.  For the modern sites, such as Communication sites this is disabled by default. I have managed to activate this via PowerShell and duplicate my lists in this fashion.

 

I've not tried via Teams created sites but I suspect that it would be possible to do so, if the current inexplicable error continues to occur.

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