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Annamsoft
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May 01, 2020

SharePoint Designer - Could not Save List changes to server

Hi All,

     I was working with this issue for past two days. Please help me.

I am Working in SharePoint Online & SharePoint Designer 2013. Designer was working fine, but suddenly when i try to create new form it shows me error "Could Not save List changes to server". or eve when i click save in existing form it is not saving.

 

I tried the answers from google, but didnt work!!!!

Cleared cache in C:

Tried Refresh icon in SharePoint designer

Created a sample sample site and few columns in the List (no look ups)

Reinstalled SharePoint Designer 2013 and tried

 

Is there is any update running on MS Side?

 

 

 

Thanks

Annamsoft

 

  • jinthakur2025's avatar
    jinthakur2025
    Copper Contributor

    Annamsoft  There are various reasons why you cannot save list. Try to create a new list with just one column and you should be able to save it. So there is something wrong in existing list.

    Check look up columns calculated columns. 
    I had same issue which happened due to change of  look up column

  • Tony_Mesias's avatar
    Tony_Mesias
    Copper Contributor

    Annamsoft So I solved this by updating the alternate access mappings. I included {protocol}://{servername}.{domain}.{tl} and {protocol}://{servername}

  • joshuasharkey's avatar
    joshuasharkey
    Copper Contributor

    Annamsoft 

    I also am having an issue due to this. I'm unable to delete read only columns, particularly the columns that were generated from a sharepoint workflow being created. This function to delete columns from a list is not available in power apps or power automate and the sharepoint UI does not show the column I am seeking to delete.

    Please advice how I can delete these columns without using SPD 

  • Annamsoft In the left hand navigation, click on Lists and Libraries, then your list... next do a ctrl-c and ctrl-v on the NewForm.aspx file.  Rename it to what you want, then, go create a new Form the normal way you would.  Name it the same thing, click save, and you'll get the error again but the file shows up now.

    • taier's avatar
      taier
      Copper Contributor

      MetroShare Solutions   The issue with the copy/paste method is that it provides the default new form code, not the HTML that a custom form would provide. This makes it VERY difficult to customize the fields.

    • Ian_C_FCcom's avatar
      Ian_C_FCcom
      Copper Contributor

      MetroShare Solutions  Thanks but this Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V doesn't work when in the online environment as it tries to paste the full path name and "/" are not allowed

       

    • Annamsoft's avatar
      Annamsoft
      Copper Contributor

      Alireza Rahimifarid 

      Thanks for your Response. Can u please help me in how to customize forms hereafter.

      Any other alternative to SharePoint Designer? For Work Flows also we were using SharePoint Designer only. Powerapps does not meet those requirements right? What IDE to use for SharePoint Online Forms?

       

      Thanks in Advance

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      Annamsoft

      • RobElliott's avatar
        RobElliott
        Silver Contributor

        Annamsoft are you now using SharePoint Online in Office 365? If so, then SharePoint designer won't work. For Forms we now have Microsoft Forms for internal or external forms submission. For a SharePoint form you can use a customised Power Apps form instead of the standard SharePoint Form. For workflow we now have Power Automate which links them all up together really well.

         

        Rob
        Los Gallardos
        Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User

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