Issue with Moving Data Between SharePoint Sites Using Synced Document Libraries
Hi everyone, I work at an MSP IT company, and over the past 14 days, I’ve encountered the same issue with two different users from separate customers. Both users have synchronized document libraries on their local machines. Here’s what happens: When they cut a large set of files from one SharePoint site to another, the data doesn’t seem to move correctly. On the user’s computer, everything looks fine, but when I check online, the files are still in the original location. If I then cut the data from the new location to a temporary folder (e.g., C:\#temp), the files disappear from the old location both locally and online. After that, if I move the data back into the new location, it synchronizes perfectly. Has anyone experienced this behavior before or can explain if the users are doing something wrong? Any insights would be greatly appreciated! :) Best regards, Michael Boye
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!
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
Get FileName from ServerRedirectedEmbedUrl in Excel
Greetings - I have a client requirement where we are using SharePoint as a datasource to excel - connecting to a library. Is there any way to get the filename in the output? Looks like I get a UniqueID - can I trace that back to the filename? Spreadsheet has 52,000 rows .... Thanks in advance!
Restrict a library view for document uploader
Want to create a SP library where people will be uploading documents from different departments. Is there a way that i can lockdown a view where anybody coming in can only see their own uploads? Maybe use the last modified column or create a person column? The owner and small group does need the ability to see them all. ty
Export list of users with unique permissions
Hello community, The context: We have a document library with 30 000 items. We broke inheritance and set up special permissions for some of them. Now we have about 30 items with special permissions that can be listed in Sharepoint Online. See the picture below. What we want: We want to get list of user on each item now. How can we do that? The output should look like this item1 - user 1 item1 - user 2 item1 - user 3 item1 - group 1 item1 - group 2 item 2 - user 1 item 2 - user 5 ... The idea We will write powershell script But can we identify items with special permissions the same way Sharepoint does it in the picture? How? How to use the API correctly because we cannot list each item (30k) in Sharepoint for performace reasons right? Related topics maybe? List of Unique Permissions from Site Settings | Microsoft Community Hub mentioning StephenRice
Change in SharePoint File Selection Behaviour
Has anyone noticed this in the last week/s? Basically before, you used to be able to SELECT files without opening them. Now, 5-6 times out of ten, if I try to select a document or folder it opens instead. Like, even when i am clearly clicking the checkmark to the left of the file/folder, it will STILL OPEN in the browser, rather than just selecting. It's like the file open behaviour has gotten more sensitive or something? It's really frustrating because my users need to add metadata to documents by selecting them, and now they have to fight with SharePoint nearly every time.Indexing Ideas Needed - Parts I.D. Order in Libraries : Ex.) Parts R1 thru R10, R2...
GOAL: To resolve the subject line issue that is intensive and eliminates the following workaround. WORKAROUND A sequential number in a separate index number is formatted as a "Number". Many times I must export the library and add the number in MS Excel and paste these back into the library's index number column. IDEAS ON RESOLUTION Your thoughts on how to properly index the part I.D.s without a separate index number column are welcome including: Alternative formatting to apply to the alphanumeric Part I.D. description in the Part I.D. column to promote correct indexing Any programmed solutions Best regards, Clint Hill
