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Requirement: Disable new SharePoint Designer workflows creation in SharePoint Online to promote Microsoft Power Automate adoption. How to Disable SharePoint Designer Workflows Creation in SharePoint Online? Although SharePoint 2010 workflow and SharePoint 2013 workflows are supported until 2026 in on-premises versions, SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019, it’s a good idea to move…
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Problem: When trying to open a SharePoint Online site through SharePoint Designer, I got this error message, “We can’t sign you into your company portal because something on the server isn’t configured correctly.” Solution: Login to the site through Internet Explorer once so that your authentication cookie gets generated!
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Problem: “App Step” is grayed out in SharePoint Designer Workflow! What is App Step in SharePoint?SharePoint Designer workflows get executed from the context of the user who initiated the trigger – started the workflow. E.g., If a workflow gets triggered on new item creation, it gets executed from the context of the…
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Requirement: Call REST API in SharePoint designer workflow. Using REST API in SharePoint Designer Workflow SharePoint Designer workflow actions are very limited, and we can utilize REST API calls to extend them. Here is how to call a REST API method from SharePoint Designer workflow action: Call HTTP Web Service. In this…
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Requirement: Implement a custom page not found error page in SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online: How to Add custom 404 page not found error page SharePoint Online comes with a default “Page not found” basic error page in the “Pages” library in publishing Sites (https://crescent.sharepoint.com/Pages/PageNotFoundError.aspx), which is shown automatically when a user tries…
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Business Requirement: In “Project Documents” SharePoint Online document library, Project related documents are getting uploaded by the project team. This library has “Permissions” drop-down column (metadata) with values “Restricted” and “Non-Restricted”. If the Permission is restricted, we need to break the permissions of the document, remove all users and groups from it…
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SharePoint Designer 2013 is a great free tool from Microsoft to customize SharePoint sites and create workflows. Why should we disable SharePoint designer? Well, In some cases, site owners and designers may damage SharePoint with this Powerful utility, and I’ve seen SharePoint designers become SharePoint destroyers! So, to prevent irreversible damage to…
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Business Data Connectivity Services enables SharePoint 2013/2016 and Office 2013/2016 clients to interact with data that doesn’t live in SharePoint. BCS allows you to integrate external data into SharePoint. The external list provides a familiar list-like user experience. Let’s see how to create an External List in SharePoint that grabs the data…
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Requirement: You have customized a SharePoint list form heavily. Now you got a new requirement to add a new field to the List, of course on the List form as well. Unfortunately, when you add a new column to the SharePoint list, custom forms have no effect – meaning a new column…
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