Questions tagged [sharepoint-designer-workflow]
Workflows on SharePoint sites created using SharePoint Designer are called SharePoint Designer Workflows.
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Update and copy column of Sharepoint list from a different department
I have two lists from different departments. I'd like to copy and update changes from list A in department A to List B in department B. I use sharepoint 2013, and workflow 2010.
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Workflows 2013 Not initiating/Starting in SharePoint server 2016
Hello There I have a SharePoint Server 2016 running Workflow 2010 Perfectly, but as i was in need of features so i managed to install Workflow Manager 1.0 for Workflows 2013. also Registered the ...
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Unable to delete 2013 Workflow
I am trying to delete a test workflow on SharePoint Designer but unable to. The cursor will spin for a minute or two, then the screen will refresh, but the workflow is still there. I was able to ...
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Approval workflow return same Approval status as Approved even list item rejected by approver
I create an approval workflow as below
which always return Approved outcome even if its rejected, Please suggest the correct way to return value Rejected if Approvar rejected the list item
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get manager SharePoint
I am new to SharePoint and could use some help as I have been thrown into the deep end without any flotation device.
I am creating a 'Leave application system' with workflows; when employee applies ...
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All SharePoint 2010 "approval process" failed on start
I have tried OOTB approval workflow, as well as a custom list workflow (using Approval process action). Both failed on start immediately. Every time the error pattern is the same:
Status immediately ...
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Workflow - designer 2013 - email reminder not working
I want to add a workflow to a task list, so it sends out an email reminder 2 and 3 months prior to due date.
this is the workflow I created, but it's not working, nothing is happening. What's wrong ...
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SharePoint Desiger 2013-Workflow with Impersonation Step Does Not Notify the Right Person if a Task is Reassigned
Workflow Details:
Impersonation step is set at the beginning of the workflow--grants
Contribute (No Delete) item permissions to Supervisor 1 which is
manually entered by the requester in a list ...
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Start 2010 workflow from 2013 and Impersonation / Permissions
I have a 2013 workflow that kicks off a start 2010 workflow. The workflow it launches has a manual start. It uses impersonation, and it changes the items permission. If I run the 2010 flow manually it ...
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How to trigger multiple workflows on a single list automatically
I have a SharePoint list Request to create a new document. This list has 3 workflows, workflow 1- send approval mail, Workflow 2 - Once approved, Create the document in the Draft library, and Workflow ...
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Deleted Designer Workflow is still showing in SharePoint
I have created a custom workflow in SharePoint Designer (Designer 2010 workflow) and added in SharePoint 2013. After testing, I have deleted it from Workflow settings.
But still I can see the same ...
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The item is currently locked for editing. Waiting for item to be checked in or for the lock to be released
I have a SP 2019 on-premise with Office Online Server (Office web app server).
Also, we have a workflow (Nintex) that runs on Item update associated with a Document Library. On co-authoring documents (...
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Add button to SharePoint List - SharePoint 2016
I am a novice in SharePoint and currently using SharePoint 2016, designer 2013 and InfoPath 2013. I want to add buttons for all rows in SharePoint list. On clicking the button, a new form will open. I ...
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Set a field to blank in Form Library
I need to set the value in some columns in my Form Library to "No" every year on January 1st. I am using Sharepoint Designer 2013. What should my workflow look like?
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How to create workflow for sending mail for incomplete tasks
I have created one task list.In that list Status,Assigned To, Task column is there.one month time period will be given for every task from created date.If the status column is not changed as completed ...
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SharePoint 2013 Calendar: How to set End Time based on Appointment Type?
I'm using SharePoint Designer 2013. I've created a Calendar with these requirements:
Appointment Type: Choice field with four different appointment types
(Type A, Type B, etc)
If Appointment Type = ...
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Update weekly reminder Workflow when notification date is updated
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I have strange requirements which are I think it is too complicated.
I need to send weekly basis reminders based on the Notification date column, I got already this solution figured out using ...
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Link to document properties/metadata in SharePoint 2013 Designer document approval workflow
My company is using SharePoint 2016 on premise. I used SharePoint Designer 2103 to build a document approval workflow. The workflow sends an email note to the members of a SharePoint group when a user ...
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How to locate workflow in SharePoint 2016
I don't really know where to begin but I have a user that received a email (notification) from 'spsadmin'. I am assuming this was an auto notification setup via workflow but for the life of me, I ...
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Send reminder email from SharePoint Designer Workflow
I've created a document library and created a document set content type along with a workflow. In my document library, I've created multiple columns. When a user uploads a document, they also have to ...
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Workflow email not sending to secondary domain users
I have two types of domain users in my sharepoint 2013 site. My problem is: Only one type of domain users get the workflow generated emails but the other type doesn't. Both domain users are configured ...
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Site workflow to send reminder email to Created By based on status of the item
I want to create site workflow to send a reminder email to created by(emails) when Item created is more than 30 days and choice field called "Status" is "open". When someone has ...
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sharepoint 2016 workflow error
below is what the URL log is telling me my error is but i cant figure it out any help would be very much appreciated
Microsoft.Workflow.Client.InternalServerException: Exception thrown from the data ...
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I am unable to create new workflows using sharepoint designer 2013 on new site collections
I am unable to create new workflows using SharePoint Designer 2013 on new site collections.
When I check for errors I am getting All tasks that need to have at least one outcome defined. And when I ...
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How to remove the approved workflow from a copy of an approved document
I am creating a new document copied from a workflow approved document, make amendments and to submit for workflow approval.
what happened is that, the copied document is already marked as approved and ...
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How to come out of "Start a task process" action in Sharepoint Designer if no action has been taken
As per my requirement, after 7 days of Task creation if the action has not been taken, then task automatically approved.
My problem is with in "start a task process" action how it understand ...
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Workflow reports
I am exploring SharePoint Online (Power Automate) for the workflow development. There is a requirement to show historical workflow information as a report so that previous interactions with the users ...
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SharePoint Designer Workflow 2013 executes "call http request" action and is retrying 4 times
I have a SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow. In this workflow I have a "call http request" action. In this action I try to execute a PowerAutomate like in this tutorial. It looks like this &...
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How to update a multiple lookup field in SharePoint Designer 2013 (REST API)
I would like to update a multiple lookup field in SharePoint Designer 2013. OOTB this is not possible. In SharePoint Designer 2010 it was possible. Now I would like to do this with for example a REST ...
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SharePoint workflow - Daily Summary of All Changes
I am looking to create a daily summary of all changes (new items, modified items, deleted items) with a SharePoint workflow.
SharePoint's out of the box Alerts ALMOST provided all of the functionality ...
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Triggering workflow while form is being worked on
I have a workflow and processes within a list to create a unique identifier for each list entry. This works but doesn't always fire correctly (at item creation).
Sequence1 (calculated column) =Text(...
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sharepoint online workflow content approval doesn't send email for some reason
I have a list and i have set it to use the require content approval.
I created a workflow SP 2013 to send an email when
If Approval Status = "Pending"
- Send Email
When i run the workflow ...
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How to fix SharePoint designer workflow publishing issue?
I have created the list workflow and just printing the history log to print a test message. I am trying to publish the workflow using my account but it always returning me below warning error message.
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Sharepoint workflow 2013 is not triggering automatically
I created a work flow in sharepoint 2013 after installing the sharepoint sp1 update. But the work flow is not automatically triggered when an item is created. I've enabled the start automatically.........
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How can we assign task to dynamic approvers in Sharepoint Workflow using Sharepoint Designer
I am trying to design a workflow based on grading system ....For example, each user have a grade defined in a master list , accordingly will loop in to assign task to dynamic approvers...i.e. for L3 ...
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Problem while trying to edit SharePoint workflows in SharePoint Designer 2013
While trying to edit workflows in SharePoint designer 2013, I get this error:
insert a stage by using the stage button on the ribbon
Is there any solution to resolve this error? I tried reinstalling ...
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Sharepoint 2013 designer workflow publish error
I am trying to publish SharePoint 2013 designer workflow to SharePoint online site.
This is a existing workflow and couple of changes made and there are no any errors in the workflow.
But When I am ...
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Workflow: Send email when document is modified the first time
I currently have a 2010 workflow set up in SharePoint Designer where an email is triggered when a certain field is changed. For example, if the user changes the status that equals "reviewed w/ ...
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Workflows bridging across subsites possible?
SharePoint 2013 - SP Online is firewalled
I have the process to automate with workflows:
Flow process: subsite A fill a form --> Subsite A boss review & sign --> Subsite B admin review form --> ...
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SharePoint 2013 workflow bug with pulling date/time field into workflow variable?
The company I work for has an employee termination list and a workflow for processing these terminations.
The workflow essentially has two phases: an initial batch of emails sent as the first phase ...
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Workflow: If [Item] equals Yes -> Send E-Mail | Doesn't work
I created a very simple Workflow that has the following task:
If the field "Worldwide?" equals Yes ("Ja" in German) it should send a Mail.
But it doesn't work and I have no idea why.
I tried the Mail-...
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SP2010 Workflow Error - Task is currently locked by a running workflow and cannot be edited
We have a Infopath library in SharePoint 2010 with multiple approval workflows running on the library.
Recently, most of the approvers are getting the below error while trying to approve their tasks.
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Sharepoint Designer 2013/2010 Workflow Platform: How to compare current item to other calendar events
I was in here before about double booking but I got no solutions. I have continued to try solutions for the issue but it all circled back to one KEY thing I could not seem to do:
Compare the current ...
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SharePoint 2010 workflow failed to run after a pause on SharePoint online list
There is a problem with SharePoint 2010 workflows, these workflows are there on SharePoint online list. And these sharepoint designer 2010 workflows are giving message as "Workflow failed to run" ...
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How to update an item in calendar with SharePoint Designer 2013?
To give you a little bit of context what I am trying to achieve is a workflow that can check if an event is created or not. If it's not created than create it and store the ID in a column from the ...
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Error when publishing sharepoint workflow 2013 : Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel
I'm using Sharepoint designer 2013, and apprently I can't publish sharepoint workflow 2013.
System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Could
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Getting count of files in folder via REST call
I have a SharePoint list that has tasks, and a document library where the associated files for those tasks are stored. When a task is ready to archive, I want to kick off a workflow that will ...
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Declaring a Record with a Sharepoint Designer 2010 Workflow
I'm trying to use the SharePoint Records Management tools to handle archiving of records. I'm on SharePoint Online on a site that was migrated from 2010. I have a 2010 workflow that when a column in ...
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Sharepoint Designer 2013 Email - Hyperlink Title
I currently have a Workflow set up in SharePoint Designer 2013 that sends an email when an item is created. I wanted to include a link to the specific newly created item in the body of the message. ...
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Duplicate values in SharePoint Designer workflow while updating in column of 'External Data' type
While trying to update list item in SharePoint Designer Workflow by getting value from an External Data, we see duplicates. How to remove them?
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