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Andrew Jones
Copper Contributor
May 25, 2017

Reusable Workflows and modern sites

Hi   I was wondering if anyone can help clarify workflow options with modern sites. We are wanting to implement re-usable workflows (for approvals) ideally with modern sites. The sites will be prov...
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Andrew Jones's avatar
Andrew Jones
Copper Contributor
May 26, 2017

I meant I WAS able to connect to a modern team site with SPD and use workflow but i've seen it in mentioned in a few places that it isn't supported anymore. 

 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/pnp_articles/modern-experience-customizations-customize-sites

 

Trying to confirm that this is the case and see what the alternatives are. We don't want to invest in a solution for it later to stop working or the workflows to not be editable.

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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Nov 18, 2017
To be clear, SPD is not a tool to customize (Look & Feel) modern SPO Sites (what means Communication Sites and Modern SPO Team Sites)...but SPD is still supported for things such as workflows while it's true Microsoft is clearly pushing everybody to use Flow instead of SPD Workflows
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    Sai Kiran
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 20, 2018

    i have tried to create a workflow in SPD. just a simple send an email action. when publishing its giving me an access denied error. i and sharepoint admin and have full control for the site.

     

    Regards

    Sai Kiran 

    jcgonzalezmartin wrote:
    To be clear, SPD is not a tool to customize (Look & Feel) modern SPO Sites (what means Communication Sites and Modern SPO Team Sites)...but SPD is still supported for things such as workflows while it's true Microsoft is clearly pushing everybody to use Flow instead of SPD Workflows

     

    • CarryCGK's avatar
      CarryCGK
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 18, 2019
      That access denied is most likely because you lost these possibilities listed in this blog post https://sharepoint.handsontek.net/2018/10/28/enable-custom-script-on-modern-sharepoint-sites-using-powershell/
      • Robin Nilsson's avatar
        Robin Nilsson
        Bronze Contributor
        Feb 18, 2019

        And even though this is a very old thread, thought I'd throw this in - to use 2010 workflows in SPO site you need to also set security via Powershell for each site. You'll need this if you look at your security in SPO and see a deny there.

         

        # set security so can use 2010 workflows
        # have to do this to every site we want to use 2010 workflows on.
        Set-SPOSite -Identity https://<TenantName>/sites/<SiteName>  -DenyAddAndCustomizePages $false

         

    • Nicholas Pettijohn's avatar
      Nicholas Pettijohn
      Brass Contributor
      Oct 29, 2018

      You may need to use an impersonation step, only available in SP 2010 workflows, so the workflow author's permissions are used for the E-mail step.  This is one reason 2010 workflows are still supported.

       

      Nick

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