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SharePoint List Web Part - major caching issues
Hi All, I've spent a lot of time building a List based company calendar in our SharePoint Intranet Portal, and the calendar itself is working great, however I'm having no end of headaches with the List Web Part. (not just for this calendar, but all list web parts for that matter) The calendar has a Start and End field - both are Date and Time fields. A custom view is created for use with the List Web Part to embed an "upcoming week" view, this is based on a filter which checks both Start and End dates to see whether an event exists within or spans the date range from today to 7 days in the future, so it is a rolling 7 day window. This is based on a number of filter criteria which include [Today] and [Today]+6. The view also has a sort criteria to sort based on the Start (Date/Time) field. This all works fine when previewing the view within the list itself - at midnight the results update to include events from the day that is now 7 days in the future which were previously excluded. So the view itself is working fine. However the same view in a List Web part on another page suffers from a ridiculous amount of browser side (?) caching, to the point that it is basically broken and unusable. When I open the page the next day in a browser (even if the browser was closed) one of three things happens, somewhat at random: The events 7 days in the future (which just came into filter scope today) just don't appear until a forced page reload is done. The events 7 days in the future do appear but they are sorted incorrectly, appearing at the TOP when the date sort order should show them at the BOTTOM. Sometimes 2 happens but the event is shown with the Start and End Date/Time fields empty - so not only is it at the wrong end of the list it doesn't even show a date at all until the page is refreshed. Here is a picture showing the sort order being incorrect as in case 2: When these various problems happen a full CTRL-F5 browser refresh always updates the list to be complete, up to date and sorted correctly, however, if after that you click away from the page and follow a link to return to it OR press a regular F5 refresh it goes back to being incorrect! It takes many page reloads or a lot of time to pass (hours) before it finally settles down and gives the correct results every time. Then the next day the same caching problems happen again. If you go to a new browser or PC the same problems happen again, suggesting this is browser side caching not something at the servers. While the actual content of the list items update in real-time if you edit the list content in another page (which is pretty cool) the "result set" of list items (which items should or should not be seen) is heavily cached, and the sorting is unreliable. Has anyone else found a solution to this ? I have already done things like disabling offline mode for the list, (this only seems to affect caching of the actual data in the list items, not caching of filter results) etc and I cannot find a solution. The only thing I know which would probably work, as I have had to use this approach on another list is to extend the date range of the filter criteria for the view further into the future, then filter out the extra days using json code in "format view - however AFAIK you can only selectively hide rows like this if you use a custom rowFormatter, which means you have to fully re-implement the standard view including hard coding all the columns you want and it still won't look quite the same. This is a lot of work and maintenance overhead in the future to work around a caching problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. Any thoughts appreciated as a lot of time and effort has gone into building an entire calendar system around a SharePoint List, only to find that the list web part just doesn't work properly.
PromotedState does not update anymore
I wish to update the promoted status to 0 (page), 1 (unpublished news) or 3 (published news). I was always doing this via SharePoints column formatting. See .json column formatting below. This worked perfectly fine until about this week. Now it doesn't seem to work anymore. Now I tried updating the PromotedState also via PowerAutomate. This also doesn't seem to work... How should I now change the PromotedState. Does someone have any clue how I can update the PromotedState or why the column formatting way of wokring, suddently doesn't work anymore? The json code for column formatting. { "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json", "elmType": "div", "style": { "flex-wrap": "nowrap", "display": "flex", "flex-direction": "row" }, "children": [ { "elmType": "div", "txtContent": "=if(@currentField == 0 ,'0 : Page' , if(@currentField == 1, '1 : News (Unpublished)' , if(@currentField == 2 , '2 : News','') ) )", "style": { "box-sizing": "border-box", "padding": "4px 8px 5px 8px", "display": "flex", "border-radius": "16px", "align-items": "center", "overflow": "hidden", "margin": "4px 4px 4px 4px", "border": "1px solid" }, "attributes": { "class": "=if(@currentField == 0 ,'ms-fontColor-themePrimary ms-borderColor-themePrimary ms-bgColor-white' , if(@currentField == 1, 'ms-fontColor-themePrimary ms-borderColor-themePrimary ms-bgColor-themeLighter' , if(@currentField == 2 , 'ms-fontColor-white ms-borderColor-themePrimary ms-bgColor-themePrimary','') ) )" } }, { "elmType": "div", "style": { "font-size": "18px", "cursor": "pointer", "padding": "10px", "border-radius": "50%" }, "attributes": { "iconName": "MoreVertical", "class": "ms-fontColor-themePrimary ms-bgColor-themeLighter--hover" }, "customCardProps": { "openOnEvent": "click", "directionalHint": "rightCenter", "isBeakVisible": true, "formatter": { "elmType": "div", "style": { "display": "flex", "flex-direction": "column", "align-items": "flex-start" }, "children": [ { "elmType": "div", "txtContent": "Change to Page (0)", "style": { "padding": "10px 20px 10px 20px", "cursor": "pointer", "width": "200px" }, "attributes": { "class": "ms-bgColor-themeLighter--hover" }, "customRowAction": { "action": "setValue", "actionInput": { "PromotedState": "0" } } }, { "elmType": "div", "txtContent": "Change to unpublished news (1)", "style": { "padding": "10px 20px 10px 20px", "cursor": "pointer", "width": "200px" }, "attributes": { "class": "ms-bgColor-themeLighter--hover" }, "customRowAction": { "action": "setValue", "actionInput": { "PromotedState": "1" } } }, { "elmType": "div", "txtContent": "Change to published news (2)", "style": { "padding": "10px 20px 10px 20px", "cursor": "pointer", "width": "200px" }, "attributes": { "class": "ms-bgColor-themeLighter--hover" }, "customRowAction": { "action": "setValue", "actionInput": { "PromotedState": "2" } } } ] } } } ] } The HTTP SharePoint call to update the PromotedStatus.
Classic SharePoint features appearing on a Modern Site
I have a modern SharePoint site, with a modern list that has never been associated with classic SharePoint features. But today, two users have experienced intermittent instances of the list appearing in the classic interface. They have not accessed this site before now so I do not believe there should be a cache issue. Does anyone know why this is happening and how it's possible when this site has no association with Classic features? They are using the same browser, same permissions across the site but sometimes the list opens in Classic mode, sometimes it opens in Modern. It also is happening in incognito mode. They are unable to use the site while in Classic Interface at all - the people pickers deny them access ("Error: Sorry, you do not have permission to query for users" and they cannot edit anything because of this error.SharePoint Rule Send an Email created by Former EE fail
SP Rules created by a former employee are no longer sent. The Rule was created to email other current users when a field was modified. The Rule was not set to email the former ee, but other users. The only thing that changed is the person who created the rule is no longer with our company. Once the Rule was duplicated by a current user it started working again. Rules are sent via <email address removed for privacy reasons> so why should it matter who created the rule? I see this becoming a large problem as SharePoint Alerts retire and users are now using Rules. For business critical Rules, we've used a Service Account to create the rules to prevent failure in the future. I can certainly understand rules that are created to go to former ee to no longer work since their account is no longer active, but if it's set up to go to other users that are still active, it should remain active and not fail regardless of the status of the created by.
SharePoint Template Gallery
Hey everyone, I'm running into an issue with the new SharePoint site page template gallery. Some of my templates are showing up consistently, while others appear intermittently — even though all the metadata is identical across them. I've been troubleshooting but can't pinpoint what's causing the inconsistency. For context: I have over 100 templates in the gallery. A template I just created is displaying fine, but one I made last week isn't showing up at all, so I don't think it's a template count issue. Any insights would be really appreciated!Set Default Page Template SharePoint Online?
Hello, I have been running into difficulty setting my page template as the default page template. In tutorial videos I watch, there seems to be an option to do this: However, on my site, there is no option like this. Has this feature been removed, or how might I access this? Thanks! (See below, no 3 dots for options, on the following page, only drop down option is to create a private draft). I am a site owner, if that helps with troubleshooting.Intermittent failures when creating new libraries in modern SharePoint
Hi everyone, I’m seeing an issue in our modern SharePoint Online site collection where creating new document libraries has started failing. This site has worked normally for years, but over the past week, most library creation attempts haven't worked. 1) The page briefly flashes or glitches during the creation process. and 2) A non‑ending spinning wheel when I hit "create" or 3) Creation attempts return “Something's not right.” error page. The failures happen across all subsites, in multiple browsers, and I’m a Site Collection Administrator. No permission changes were made recently. Has anyone seen similar intermittent library creation failures in a modern site collection, or know what might cause this kind of inconsistent behavior? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks! MeaganMultiple Page Libraries on site
Hi everyone I have a strange issue that I haven't come across before. A customer has got an old subsite on SharePoint Online that was created with the STS#0 template (classic Team Site with no group) and they want to modernise their old wiki pages. This should have been straightforward as I was planning on using the https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/transform/modernize-userinterface-site-pages-powershell. However, on this site they have two page libraries - the standard Site Pages library and then what looks like a custom page library (I've blanked out the name of the custom library as it contains the company name): All of the pages they want to modernize are in the custom library but the issue with this is that the only content type available is Wiki Page: This means that although the PnP PowerShell runs successfully against pages in this library, the new versions don't actually appear in the library. I assume this is because the modern Site Page content type isn't available in the library. I was under the impression that a site could only have one page library so I'm not sure how this site has the two. On a more urgent note I need to work out the best way of modernizing these pages. Currently the only way I can see is using Power Automate to copy the pages to the Site Pages library and then convert them there. The only issue with that is that there are links within the pages to other pages so I'd need to go through them and fix these once they've been moved. here are over 300 pages so I don't really want to do this. Does anyone have any ideas on the best way forward with this. Also, if you know how there are multiple page libraries I'd be keen to hear it as I haven't come across this before. Thanks in advance for your help.
SharePoint Visitor Permissions Group - Teams Phones License
Hi, The Visitor permissions group used in SharePoint 'Everyone except external users' looks like it includes all accounts from Azure including non-personal accounts such as Service Accounts, Meeting Rooms and CAP's. All the accounts included seem to be to requiring Teams Phones MS licenses. Which many of the accounts, mentioned will not require. As anyone come across this and how did you manage it? We are looking at creating a new group which excludes the above mentioned accounts. Is this the best and only solution??
