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Eddoria
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Jan 30, 2022
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SPO document library is missing Automate menu option

This seems to have started a couple of days ago.   In one particular document library we have a flow which is run by selecting the file and clicking on Automate and then the relevant flow. This has...
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    JanVanN
    Jan 31, 2022

    DhirenMehtaMSFT it would be useful to know what the root cause was of this incident please. Automate is now available again and we have tested our flows and all is good - But, we do want to know what happened, especially if it was an update or release of some kind from Microsoft. Thanks.

     

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Eddoria
Brass Contributor
Jan 30, 2022
It actually is affecting all document libraries in the site. Even this morning another document library had the option but now when I refresh the option has gone. With no files selected the Integrate menu options is there. But when I select a file there is no Automate/Power App option.
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    Eddoria
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 30, 2022
    Who would have disabled the flows?

    I have tried the powershell but get the following message (I have deleted company and site name):

    Set-SPOSite : https://....sharepoint.com/sites/... is a Groups site collection. The valid parameters for this type of site collection are '-Identity', '-AllowSelfServiceUpgrade', '-DefaultLinkPermission', '-DefaultSharingLinkType', '-DenyAddAndCustomizePages',
    '-DisableCompanyWideSharingLinks', '-DisableSharingForNonOwners', '-LockState', '-Owner', '-ResourceQuota', '-ResourceQuotaWarningLevel', '-SandboxedCodeActivationCapability', '-SharingCapability', '-ShowPeoplePickerSuggestionsForGuestUsers',
    '-SocialBarOnSitePagesDisabled', '-StorageQuota', '-StorageQuotaReset', and '-StorageQuotaWarningLevel'.
    At line:1 char:1
    + Set-SPOSite -Identity 'https://....sharepoint.com/sites/ ...
    + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-SPOSite], ServerException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerException,Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell.SetSite
    • DhirenMehtaMSFT's avatar
      DhirenMehtaMSFT
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      Jan 30, 2022

      Eddoria  I can't say who would have disabled the flows, but before that, let's verify if the flows are disabled or not. Can you try to hit the URL https://yoursiteurl/_api/site and see the output value for DisableFlows property?

       

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        JanVanN
        Copper Contributor
        Jan 31, 2022

        DhirenMehtaMSFT it would be useful to know what the root cause was of this incident please. Automate is now available again and we have tested our flows and all is good - But, we do want to know what happened, especially if it was an update or release of some kind from Microsoft. Thanks.

         

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