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Template References to offline SharePoint On-Prem Server
Hi All, We have encountered an issue after migrating from SP 2016 into SP Online and taking the old on-prem server offline. Some templates that we have used in the past (.dotx, etc.) have references to the old SP2016 environment embedded in them. Since we have shut down our old 2016 Server, documents created with these templates take minutes to load as it appears the template reference 404's attempting to access the old server to check if the template exists. The file is loads completely fine after the check fails, as expected, because it is now a file and not the template. I have 2 Questions: Does anyone encountered this or something similar and know of a way to resolve this issue? Are there ways to tell which files have been affected by this issue? We have files both locally and in SP Online that exhibit this behavior, which could mean that there are different ways to resolve this. Thank you,
Automatically email supplier when their certificate expires
Good afternoon. I have set myself a challenge and really could do with some help. I have a list of suppliers like below. I have expiry dates set up, with a colour formatting to show any date past the current date. On the end of the row, there is an email address of the company contact. I want SharePoint to automatically email that person as soon as it turns red/expires. What is the simplest way of doing this? I have looked at Flows etc, and online on video tutorials, but some of the guides are old and out of date or very complex and I am a novice. Is anyone kindly, can give me a step-by-step guide on how to do this, as this would be just awesome and finally bring my company into the 21st century! Thanks in advance.
PowerApp forms get stuck on "Getting your data..."
Some, but not all of my SharePoint Forms that are built using PowerApps are getting stuck saying (Getting your data...". The strange thing is that sometimes the data will load then this will happen, or I can click out of the form and reopen it and then it will work. Anyone experiencing a similar issue?
Not able to edit items in list due to too many versions.
I have a sharepoint list and some of the items cannot be edited because of the number of versions. I have the versioning set at 50, but some of these uneditable items somehow got up to over 10,000. Any ideas on how to resolve or how they got so high? Thanks
SharePoint Online Subsite Feature - Is it going to deprecate
Hi Team, When will MS deprecate subsite feature from SPO? and what will happen to the existing subsites if deprecated? Also, could you please share SPO roadmap for subsite. Note that we are aware of flat structure and its recommendation from MS. Thanks & Regards, Shanthi.
SharePoint Search by Date
We have several business-critical Date columns that users need to filter by in search. Created and Modified provided by KQL are not enough. We’re limited to a tiny pool of RefinableDate properties, and there’s no UI to create new Date managed properties. This forces us into app-side filtering instead of leveraging the search index. Is there any workaround for this? Does Microsoft have any plans to modernize managed property creation for dates? It's completely unacceptable to have only 12 Refinable Dates for the entire tenant!MRT Layout Custom - how to become crazy 😭
Hi community, I'm currently trying to customize the search result layout in SharePoint. The JSON layout I created works correctly for SharePoint pages, but I would like to use the exact same layout for files, especially for: all files tagged as “procédures”, or files coming from a specific document library. Here are my current settings: The issue is not related to mapped properties. The refinable properties are working, and my verticals return the correct results when using this query. The problem is only with the layout, which does not apply to file results. Has anyone already faced this limitation or knows what might block the layout from rendering on file results? Thanks for your help!Not able to recreate Teams Sharepoint site after perm deleting.
I'm trying to rename a Sharepoint site to a site that I permananetly deleted but I keep getting Write-Locked. {"odata.error":{"code":"-105","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"This site address can't be changed.\r\nThis | site is write | locked.\r\n"},"MultiGeoService.ExceptionType":"MultiGeoServiceException","MultiGeoService.ExceptionContext":"{\"Errors\":[{\"ErrorCode\":-105,\"ErrorMessage\":\"This site is write locked.\"}],\"Warnings\":[]}"}} I'm using this command to rename the site Rename-PnPTenantSite -Identity $teamsURL -NewSiteUrl $updatedteamsUrl -Wait
Documents uploading to Sharepoint althoughI didn't set it up
Yesterday I began receiving email updates telling me that the Word documents I was working on have been uploaded to Sharepoint. This happens every time I insert a comment into the file. This only began to happen yesterday. I have never used Sharepoint, and only learned about the "Share" option when I searched Help to find ways to turn it off. I didn't turn it on deliberately. So I googled for instructions on how to stop this, and none of the instructions I found matched what I saw when I tried to turn it off in either the document or FIle Explorer. I just went into Word and clicked Help to identify the version I'm using, but they removed "About Word" from the Help menu, so the version isn't where it belongs anymore. I don't know where they put it, and it might not matter anyway. It's probably the latest version, in fact, this might have happened with a recent upgrade, I don't know. If my documents upload to Sharepoint, they're private, right? I'm a writer and I don't want my stuff going out there without me controlling things. Where does Sharepoint keep my files? I no longer have access to OneDrive because I was shut out one day when when my internet carrier switched my signal to another city, and I clicked "No" when Microsoft asked me if I was the one signing in from that city. They immediately locked me out of everything. I can't even get codes by text anymore. I got Outlook and microsoft.com back by signing in with my thumbprint on my phone, but it didn't help me with OneDrive, and I couldn't get support, so I've been unable to access it for months. If Sharepoint is happening on OneDrive, I might be in trouble. How do I stop uploading files to Sharepoint, and stop these annoying emails whenever I add a comment to a file? Thanks!Nested formula not working
I have been using the below formula in a SharePoint Column, to find the most recent year column that 'comprehensive' is mentioned and have that year value returned to the calculated column - it is suddenly not working - or if I reset it, it works for less than a minute and then converts to only one year '2024'. If I reduce the number of years/columns in the formula to only two it works properly and the results stay. Any ideas what the problem is? =IF(NOT(ISERROR(FIND("comprehensive",[2024]))),"2024",IF(NOT(ISERROR(FIND("comprehensive",[2023]))),"2023",IF(NOT(ISERROR(FIND("comprehensive",[2022]))),"2022",IF(NOT(ISERROR(FIND("comprehensive",[2021]))),"2021","No Review")))) Thanks in advance and I am not an expert in anything IT but I am trying to use this to track work in my team. Cheers KarenHow to create a glossary page in Microsoft Lists [SharePoint]
The new Glossary View in Microsoft Lists comes directly from the community, and Federico Sapia is its author (Thanks for sharing). This view is absolutely easy to implement requires a list with 4 starting columns. In a few clicks you can have a view that allows you to explore and navigate the elements of a list by taking advantage of the letters of the alphabet in the header making it even easier to filter and group. #Teams #SharePoint #Microsoft365 #MPVbuzz #MicrosoftLists #Lists
Making Home Page a Template to Be Used Across Sites
Our team is looking for help with reusing a customized SharePoint page. I created a home page on a SharePoint Teams site (not a Communication site) and would like to save it as a template so we can apply it to other sites across the tenant. The page includes layout sections and various web parts, and ideally we want to replicate the same setup on other SharePoint sites. What’s the best and supported way to export or save this page as a reusable template and apply it to other modern SharePoint sites? We are open to using PnP PowerShell or other supported tools, but we’ve run into authentication issues when trying to connect via app registration. Would appreciate step-by-step guidance or a recommended approach. Thank you!Property Demotion leads to infinite import cycles when integrating with SharePoint
Hi, we have built an integration with SharePoint that imports watches and imports files from connected SharePoint sites into our product for further processing. After that process is complete, we push some of the processing results back to a SharePoint list as metadata. In order to keep the extracted data up to date, even when file content changes after the initial upload/import, we subscribe to changes in the SharePoint site and re-import the file if its hash has changed since the last import. This process worked really well until we started processing some of the Microsoft file types (e.g. .docx, .msg, etc.). Apparently SharePoint Online will include metadata from list columns into these files in a process called "Property Demotion". Since this changes the file content, it triggers a re-import of the file. Due to the non-deterministic (AI-generated) nature of some of the metadata we extract, this re-import will likely result in different metadata values that are exported back to SharePoint - which of course triggers property demotion again, leading to an infinite cycle. What we have tried so far: Disable property demotion -> Not possible in SharePoint online as far as we know. Only export metadata if anything actually changed -> Only solves the issue if metadata is stable w.r.t. document content, which does not hold for our use-case. Skip re-imports occurring X minutes after the last metadata export -> While this works most of the time, it is fragile (what if the property demotion is delayed?) and worsens user-experience (what if a user edits the file within the X minute window?) Has anyone encountered the same issue before? How did you end up handling it? Thanks, Johannes
Sharepoint Online Templates / Provisioning.
Hello everyone, I have a SharePoint online site that is as close as possible to being a template for my tenant. I'd like to save this site and make it available to me when I need to create a standard site for my tenant. Do you know if there is a possibility to save it and then pick it in the SharePoint list of templates in the creation phase in SharePoint? I know there is a PnP solution; however, after trying it I've had some bad results when trying to use a script with Get-PnPSiteTemplate many times it doesn't replicate the site correctly. I essentially need to take one SharePoint site, and just replicate the structure, DLs, Lists, Views, pages, designs, colours and thumbnails, no files needed. Possibly saving it as a template, but if not possible, just provision it via PnP PowerShell would be enough. Do you have any suggestions or scripts to recommend, or can you point me to any resources?
how to prevent sharepoint from decoding a URL with %2F embedded
I add a link like this: https://example.com/Saba/app/shared;spf-url=common%2Fledetail%2Fcours000000000054432 I publish it, and click it, works fine. (once) THEN I reload the page and the URL has been changed to: https://example.com/Saba/app/shared%3bspf-url=common/ledetail/cours000000000054432 which will not work on the SABA site. webparts used: text, button, highlighted content, quick links...
Microsoft Lists
Just been looking into Lists in SharePoint and find its great how you can make it look and function great, very pleasing to use. I like how you can have version history on items too and also if someone did delete the list you can restore it. But what if you want to restore if from backup, what if someone deletes a column. I use AvePoint backup and it doesn't show the list as a list when i restore. It just shows a spreadsheet. I cannot then paste the spreadsheet into an empty list because some fields like People and multiple choice do not format correctly from the spreadsheet back into a list. Is it just AvePoint or are there solutions to backup Microsoft Lists and restore them as a list. I cannot see going forward with lists if you cannot restore from backup. Thanks
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