Tagged Questions
For questions completely specific to all editions of SharePoint 2013 and **not past or future versions**
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External FBA users cannot open OneNote notebook on Sharepoint 2013 site (on-premise)
We have an on-premise Sharepoint 2013 site, which external users have access to through FBA (Forms Based Authentication).
A OneNote notebook that is stored in a document library which they have edit ...
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SharePoint Timer Service OWSTIMER.Exe taking more memory in sharepoint 2016 development server
Hi I have a SharePoint 2016 development server and below process is taking more memory in win 2016 server
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\BIN\OWSTIMER.EXE
How ...
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User profile sync service not start - SharePoint 2013
How can start user profile sync service with status disabled in SharePoint 2013 in PowerShell
I am using the farm account
the farm account in the local admin
the FIM services are started
I checked ...
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How to Save related data in custom lists
I suppose to create 3 custom lists and each one has parent and child relationship, the first list has some columns example:
departmentID,departmentName;
Second list has: employeeID,employeeName,...
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App Management Service Application Stopped
I've just provisioned the App Management Service Application in my SP 2013 on-prem dev farm. However, the status says "Stopped" when I view the list of Service Applications.
The service instance is ...
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SP2013 Document Library: multiple value lookup and group by based on the values selected
SP2013 environment here.
I have a document library that will need to have Manufacture Column (A,B,C .. etc) and a Model Column (Based on Manufacture Column), (like A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, etc)
The ...
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How to show last comment in SharePoint 2013 Workflow
I have a SharePoint 2013 workflow created to send an email on Issue record create/update. The "Comment Log" column is a multi line text with Append Changes to Existing Text option checked. In workflow,...
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Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=16.0.0.0
I was installing a custom look in SharePoint 2013 on-premise and after applying the custom look, my home page doesn't load and showing me the following error. Please help me to fix it,
Could not ...
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SharePoint hierarchical workflow
I have a SharePoint list. If a new item is inserted, then I need a hierarchical workflow to approve it.
I mean, each employee's manager will be different. If an employee inserted an item to this list ...
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CQWP / CAML - Query returned a greater number of results than the web application's query throttling limit
The Issue
I have a CQWP which appears to be configured to run with a CAML query (I'm a complete novice with CAML - I've inherited this set-up). It has been used successfully, until recently, to run ...
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System.Web.HttpException: Request timed out when upload documents
I have one document center site collection in SharePoint 2010, when users upload documents I got below errors and SQL Server CPU grows to 90%, this issue happens when the number of concurrent users ...
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Change Text filter webpart to not search exact match
So I've got a list of publications in SharePoint 2013 that I want to give the users options to search by specific fields.
I've set up the filter web parts and for the most part they work fine, but ...
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sharepoint dropdown change event based on TD ID
in My custom form i have my HTMl like this
<td width="400px" valign="top" class="ms-formbody" id="Type_x0020_of_x0020_Request"><span dir="none"><select name="ctl00$ctl33$...
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microsoft.workflow.deployment.config wizard has stopped working
microsoft.workflow.deployment.config wizard has stopped working
When I am trying to uninstall the Workflow manager it's showing this error and I could not do anything
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Extract Wsp solutions
Our dev team has developed SharePoint solutions, suddenly the source control is damaged and we don't have back up from the source code - Only the deployed wsp solutions.
Is it possible to reflect the ...
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Get all users that have particular level of permission on list item
All list items have unique permissions and I want to get all users that have exp. View permission on certain item.
Exp. on list item there are 3 users with full permissions, 10 with Contribute, 1 ...
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SharePoint 2013 Search problems with documents in specific languages
I'm an intern and new to SharePoint.
Due to reasons I became responsible for one of our SharePoint sites where we are managing lots of documents in different languages. These documents all have ...
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Document Library View threshold
I have a document library (SharePoint Server 2013) wherein, every day roughly around 100-200 files are added.
Now, the items in the library have crossed 35k, and I have kept the list view threshold as ...
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Is there a way to add the Content Type title inside our custom list validation settings' Formual
I have a cusotm list inside our sharepoint team site, and inside the list Validation setting i define the following formula:-
=IF(Status="Invoiced",IF([Invoiced Date]<>"",TRUE,FALSE),TRUE)=IF(...
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Populate people picker during PreSaveAction
I'm in a SharePoint 2013 on-prem farm. I have a people picker field called Managers that I want to populate based on users in another people picker field. Once the user clicks Save on the New Form, it ...
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UserProfileApplication Error after giving permissions
A customer has migrated from 2007 to 2013, one of their employees did not get their permissions migrated properly, so she could not modify files in a shared library. I gave her contribute permissions ...
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Users names not resolving on one server but do on another
I have a 4 server Farm, 1DB, 1 App and 2 WFE's
I've noticed that if I am on WFE1 and I go onto a site and try to add someone to a Permissions Group all is fine. As soon as you start typing the users ...
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Display on another SharePoint-Site Content from a DIV located on any SharePoint Wiki Page [SharePoint 2013]
On any Wiki-Page I have created a DIV:
<div id="content">This is the content which should be displayed on another site<br/></div>
Now, I would like to display this DIV on the Wiki ...
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Connect to Outlook Capture More Columns
I created a task list and have connected the list to Outlook. All works well, but is there a way that I can capture more column types from SharePoint into Outlook? By default the title is entered ...
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Best field type to store videos & Audios duration
I am working on a custom list inside our sharepoint on-premises 2013. and the custom list will store information about videos and audios (i am not doing to upload the actual audios and videos). and I ...
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SharePoint 2013 PWA Access Denied Lockout
I made a silly mistake on my PWA site collection - I went into the PWA Settings section and removed myself from the admin group and now when I go to the PWA Settings /_layouts/15/pwa/Admin/Admin.aspx ...
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How to optimize People Search crawling
In our SharePoint 2013 search application, we have a content source that consists of a single address:
sps3://site.company.com
This content source is used as the scope for our company directory, ...
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Sp 2013 Records Management Trigger Error
After September 2018 Patch i have been receiving error in records management feature of sharepoint 2013. Below is the error, i looked everything couldn't find anything. Have you guys came across such ...
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Recovering “About Me” info from UPSA Profile DB backup
When trying to recover the "About Me" info from the UPSA Profile DB - I'm getting a "There is a compatibility range mismatch between the web server..." error.
Is there an alternative way of going ...
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Get current user group name
I am trying to get current user group name when the member is added via Active Directory in SharePoint 2013 using Rest/jQuery. Any help is appreciated.
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Adding an Index column on my list for the “Modified” column, did not allow me to show more than 5,000 items on the list view
I am working on a SharePoint 2013 on-premises farm, and i have a document library which have 5651 documents, and i got this message that the library exceeds the threshold:-
and when non-admin users ...
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Added to portal owners group but less permissions than others in same group
I was added to the portal owners group for full control, however I still lack permissions that other members of this group have. For example I cannot add anyone to a group while they can, also under ...
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Add users to Group with REST calls
We are using REST (with jQuery ajax) to create groups and add members to the groups. We are using the code below (cleaned up a little for legibility).
function createGroup(title,user){
var ...
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Missing Start Date field on reoccurring calendar item form
I have recently come across an issue I have never seen before. I have been unable to find anything online about it
The environment is SharePoint 2013, on prem.
On the new calendar item form, when ...
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Multiple Append Changes to Existing Text in SharePoint 2013 list-Workflow Help!
In my current SharePoint list I have 4 Multiple lines of text fields with Append Changes to Existing Text. I need to create a workflow that will gather those notes from each of those fields and drop ...
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No Masterpage/CSS Access. Need to programatically set up drop down menu on TOP Nav bar for Team Site w/o Publishing
First off, my limitations. I do not have access to the master page(s) or global css (either using SPD or not...). Nor do I have the ability to use managed or global navigation. This is a Team Site and ...
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Workflow to aggregate Historical data from an Append text field
I am working in SharePoint 2013 but SharePoint Designer 2013 is only configured to build workflows on the 2010 platform.
I have created a workflow that allows me to transfer data from an append text ...
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The number of items in this list is approaching the list view threshold, which is 5000 items.
I am working on sharepoint document library inside sharepoint on-premises 2013. the document library contain around 3800 files and folders. so when i went to the library setting, i got this warning ...
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Authenticated users to site collection unable to open some site settings pages and modify settings
HI after recent SharePoint 2013 Cumulative updates installed in production farm authenticated users those users are owner permissions in the site collection and site collection administrators not able ...
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Workflow List Permissions in copying data
I have a list set up called FE1, the user adds a new item, saves it and the data goes via a workflow into another list FE2.
The workflow follows
IF Current Item:FE1 is not empty Copy Item in ...
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Restore SharePoint Profile Picture from Content DB backup?
I have a backup of the MySites Content DB. Is it possible to restore a shp profile picture from it? As well as the "About Me" information by chance?
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Remove Sharepoint Theme from Custom Master Page
I have created a custom master page in which I want zero SharePoint styles to be applied. I have tried adding visible="false" to the <SharePoint:CssLink> but that prevents my custom stylesheet ...
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Emailing names in a contacts list using Designer
I have a SharePoint list with accounts, names, and email addresses.
This list is updated regularly by various people.
What I want to do is set up a workflow that will send an email to all the email ...
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OOTB Workflow (Collect Feedback) Won't Complete
We've got a Collect Feedback workflow on some permits. We've had the workflow going for a year or two now with no issues. Recently there's been a few instances where the workflow just will not ...
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Search not working for one site collection, It's working for other site collections
I am using SharePoint 2013.
The search service for one of the site collections (Blog Site) is suddenly no longer working. I have performed a full Crawl but it still is not working.
Can anyone ...
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Log message to history list
I have a SharePoint 2013 workflow to assign tasks to the project team after that send log a message to the history list!
I checked the site content to find the history list but it's not displayed !! ...
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Change the background colour of a cell - not highlighting text
I'm using the script editor to format my list. When I use this block of code:
function boldTemplate(ctx){
var value = ctx.CurrentItem[ctx.CurrentFieldSchema.Name];
switch(value){
case ...
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CQWP Group by Content Type
Is there a way to group by content type in Content Query Web Parts (CQWP)? I have created a list with 4 content types. We need to display the items in a CQWP but grouped by content type. I have tried ...
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Error uploading documents
When i try to upload a document in a document library or document attachment in a list i got the following error.
The URL 'Proyectos/Libro1.xlsx' is invalid.
It may refer to a nonexistent file or ...
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Characters in RichText field being replaced by char codes
When I use a URL in an anchor tag, characters in the href value such as ; , etc get changed to char code values. How do I stop this? Is this what I should be addressing?
<html dir="ltr" lang="en-...
