Questions tagged [user]
A user is an agent, either a human agent (end-user) or software agent, who uses a computer or network service.
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Efficiently get a collection of all users following a list in SP2013 using CSOM or SSOM?
Does anyone know if there is a way to leverage the SocialFollowingManager() class or the SPList() class to efficiently get a collection of all of the users that follow a specific List?
I thought ...
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In SharePoint 2013 do 'duplicate' user entries in the UserInfo table cause automated permission loss?
We have an issue where periodically (monthly it seems) some users will lose specifically granted 'contribute' permissions to certain subsites in our SharePoint environment. I did some research and ...
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SPException User cannot be found rest api
Hoping you can help, I currently have a REST query that returns a number of items however this is currently returning 'User cannot be found'
{
"odata.error": {
"code": "-2146232832, ...
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SharePoint 2013 , the user does not exist or is not unique
I'm having the following error when trying to submit the form and assigning the task through people/group picker field
Note: The user account is not locked in AD + I tried multiple users but it ...
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Set-PnPListItem throws Access denied error
I am trying to update item in "User Information List" using "Set-PnPListItem". but i'm getting following error.
Set-PnPListItem : Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or ...
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User.Groups has no groups even though they are loaded
Hi now that we have upgraded (or in the process) of upgrading to SharePoint 2013 I though I'd try and take advantage of some of the new features that it has to offer in the CSOM API.
One is that User ...
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Add approvers to a workflow programmatically at item creation
I want to add some SPUsers as approvers in a workflow but i always get some trouble with it. What I want is that when a user creates a list item, I take the user's manager, make him as an approver/...
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How to prevent user to access the SharePoint Apps on the site collection if user dont have access to Site Collection?
I have a SharePoint Online user USER-1 and Site Collection as Site-1.
Scenario:
Now, USER-1 does not have permission to access the Site-1, but an app installed in Site-1 is accessible to the USER-1 ...
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What is the negative side of 'Remove-SPUser' in SharePoint 2010?
I may have to cleanup the inactive users, so thought of using the 'Remove-SPUser' cmdlet as below.
Remove-SPUser -Identity "demo.net\karthik" -Web http://demo.net/testA/testA1/testA1a -Confirm:$false
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What will happen if we re-add a deleted guest account, can the guest account access the sites shared with him previously
I have the following case inside our office 365 & sharepoint online:-
I have a classic team site collection which contain 40 sub-sites. the site collection allow sharing with external users (...
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User Import problems
I have a problem that I can't resolve with many searches or impossible to understand.
I am using the AD import with my SharePoint install 2013 sever.
My problem is :
The AD import is ok , I can ...
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External User not part of company directory
I am trying to share a document folder to an external user that has his own Microsoft 365 account. We are apart of two different companies, both with their own SharePoint sites. When I send him an ...
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Getting list of all users that are currently co-editing document
I have some enquires on getting all the users that currently co-editing the document, I am aware of a column in documents page called "Modified By", which I can get it by using SPList. ...
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Get recently added / updated users from Azure Active Directory
I want to fetch all the users from Azure Active Directory who are recently modified/added using Graph API SDK.
I tried to search for the lastModified, or Modified property which returns the last ...
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How to show user Full Name in the Page instead of Email ID for FBA Users
I used below code to fetch user full name but I am getting Email id instead of full name.
Kindly help .
public string UserDisplayName
{
get
{
if (Page.User.Identity....
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display current user
When use this script it’s display my user it’s OK but after share it with my colleague it is not updating to the current user it’s shows my display name
<div id="displayName"></div>
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Is it possible to undo group bulkload of users in SharePoint
I added about 175 users into the wrong group in our SharePoint site. Is it possible to "undo" the action? The bigger challenge is that I did not make a list of the existing members before adding the ...
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Updating User Profile of Another User From SPFx Webpart using REST/JSOM?
Is there any way to update user profile of another user from SPFx webpart. Current logged in user is tenant admin and/or SharePoint admin.
Access is given to Azure AD app 'SharePoint Online Client ...
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More than one DN specified for the same profile in Profile DB - User profile synchronization.
I am facing a similar error as the Link provides. Is there a relevant SQL query for PS Query provided in the link to delete those entries? I did find an other technet article but the link seems to be ...
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SP Online : flow for external user
Is there a way how to share flows to exeternal users?
Or way how to give licences to external users?
I need them to log in with microsoft account not with a organization account.
Thanks for ideas.
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Checkbox with User Stamp when changed
I am still a beginner in SharePoint and am looking for some guidance (I can do this in Excel, but can't figure out how to do it in SharePoint).
FYI - I am stuck using SharePoint online (not ...
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Adding an existing user to a group (JavaScript)
Seems simple right ?
Well, for the current user, it is, but when looking for a specific one :
https://www.google.fr/search?rlz=1C1GCEA_enFR779FR779&ei=ihWYWorCIoHxUpT0o7AO&q=sp+js+get+user+-...
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Is it possible to use Username and Password as a Plain text to get Office 365 Groups and users in c# code using Microsoft Graph API?
The question is very straight forward.
Is it possible to use Username and Password as a Plain text to get Office 365 Groups and users in c# code using Microsoft Graph API or any other API?
If yes, ...
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Send e-mail when new item is created and when is reasigned
Hello i linked an infopath form to a sharepoint library,
When a new form is created the user must select a user from a drop down list, after he saves the form i want the selected user to receive an e-...
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removing a list of users from all site collections in a web application
Here is the basis of my question, I am trying to remove a very large list of users from all site collections in multiple web applications. My overall goal is to remove roughly 50,000 users from almost ...
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Add user to item
I created a workflow to set the logged in user to a 'Users and Group' field on an Item. The problem is that the workflow will replace the users in the field with the current user and I want to add the ...
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How to fetch a user email and pass it to iFrame?
I need to be able to do next: When a user fulfilling a form the user email needed to pass automatically. It says logged in user email automatically fetched.
How can I do that in SharePoint Online ...
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SP2013 - User Profile Service, Corrupt?
SP2013 Two Tier Farm. A Little bit of an outage this morning which caused a few VM's to drop storage. Had to restore storage and bring servers back online.
SP came back up fine, however; ever since ...
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Accounts have "Team Site" option disappearing
I have invited all 354 stores that i manage and they all had the team site option to access the SharePoint, and now stores are losing the team site option through Office 365 is there any reason for ...
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NTAuthority\iusr in Sharepoint
After pulling out page requests reports in SharePoint 2013, we could find few entries for the username NTAuthority\iusr.
If NTAuthority\iusr refers to anonymous user , all the users in domain have ...
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Few users cant see the Top navigation bar in SPS2013
Even though the user has the permission to access the site and they can view other content on the SPS 2013 homepage. Not sure why few users cant see the TOP navigation bar.
I have logging with my ...
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How can I fix a missing user in SharePoint?
I have a SharePoint Online (O365) site that has a Document Library called 'Project Documents'. When I try to access it via REST using the following URL I get an error:
https://{Site}/_api/Web/Lists/...
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Combine JSLink of UserContextFilterWebPart and a XsltListViewWebPart
I have a WebPartPage which includes a XsltListViewWebPart and a UserContextFilterWebPart. In order to filter the results by the user office and 'connect' the two webparts, I added the parameter <...
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Read user field via Javascript/REST: Some users are NULL
I have a simple list with a simple user field. I can assign users, save the item and everything was working fine...
...until I tried to access the list via REST call within a Javascript.
Some of the ...
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How to play a video when hovering with the cursor using Promoted Links in sharepoint 2013
I am trying to create a meet the team page, where each colleague has a profile picture with their name and job title. When you click on the profile photo it brings you to their user page. I have ...
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Name change not shown in Sharepoint
Our SharePoint 2007 farm imports user info from AD daily. We have found a problem with one user (there may be more).
This user has changed her surname - it was changed on AD and imported to ...
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Event reciever wont add users to visitors group on teamsite
my code wont add nt authority users to group visitors in min team site why?
public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
{
string usersAll = "NT ...
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Remove Replicating directory changes on a user - AD - powershell
I'm having problem in my production environment with User Profile Synchronization Service that is stuck on starting. I'm not able to reach the AD but the hosting company does. I think they might have ...
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SharePoint setup where admin has no access to data
We have a customer who want's to store sensitive data on SharePoint which should only be accessed from a few members of the company. This would be no problem with SharePoint group policies, but we ...
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Status Updates related to data entry
I am new to SharePoint and was tasked with a large project. Basically we are going to have a data entry point for information. Is there a way to track what the status of the data entry is if there ...
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How do I create a Validation feature for User Profiles in MySites (SharePoint 2013)
I have a request for users to be prompted on their MySites page if one of their User Profile property has not be completed.
I came across a similar question -Displaying a User Profile Property
In ...
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Extract NewsFeed and use in a custom user control
Is it possible to use the news feed control in a custom user control page (ascx) ?
I need only the message sender part of the newsFeed, which is displayed in following picture.
So that I could send ...
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Users Activity Data
We have started tracking users activity in Sharepoint 2007, and while it doesn't matter that much, I know I am going to be asked - what does the data represent? Our highest users Value is 14.7. Is ...
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Enable access to Authenticated users only for 'layouts/user.aspx' page
I want to enable access to all Authenticated users only for page layouts/user.aspx.
They should be able to read the contents in this page.
It has to be done across thousands of sites. Can anyone ...
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Assigning the same task to multiple users with a specific completion
I am using SP Designer. I need to assign the same task to 2 people at the same time and if one of them completes the task, it must be enough in order to go to next step in workflow. How can I ...
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ldap and user profile attributes
I have an extended webapp that uses the LDAP provider so users can log in without the fun windows integrated popup. I configured the User Profile Sync Application to use my Forms/LDAP Provider and ...
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Fully delete a user from the User Information List (WSS 3.0)
I am having the same issue as this poster on MSDN, but the solution given did not work:
http://bit.ly/Akz5RD
This is also a follow-up from an earlier question of mine:
http://bit.ly/wfjd13
NOTE: ...
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User profile property values are disappeared in SharePoint 2010
We have configured a user profile multi-valued property ("Certificate") and it is used in our SharePoint 2010 environment since a year. Suddenly, the values of this property disappeared when I try ...
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SharePoint 2013 - User can't access site(s)
I have a user who left our organization couple years ago, and now has returned. during that time, her account, domain/exchange etc. was probably deleted with our procedures.
User has returned, and can ...
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Adding User to Site group fails for form based authentication using Powershell
When attempting to add a user using PowerShell to a SP2016, which has Form Base Authentication active, New-SPUser fails with user not found.
The following works for Domain users.
$web = Get-SpWeb $...
