Questions tagged [workflow]
SharePoint workflow refers to the automation of a business process by step by step execution of steps. In many cases the workflow instances have indeterminate delays and overall duration due to the necessity to interact with human users. This differentiates workflow from other means of automation such as Event Receivers. There are two types of workflows - Sequential Workflows - State Machine Workflow
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Sharepoint 2019 custom workflow not creating user tasks after first installation
I am currently working on SharePoint 2019 provider hosted addin app which uses custom workflow.
Development is done with Visual Studio 2022.
One of workflow requirements is to create a task for the ...
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Power Automate - Document Generation
I have a requirement to rebuild a Nintex workflow in Power Automate. This flow is about Document Generation. It’s fairly straight forward in Nintex, but not so much in Power Automate without a ...
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SharePoint loop to next item
I have several items in a custom list. I have a Site Workflow that will check each item for criteria before moving that item to another list.
Currently, in order for the workflow to move to the next ...
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Workflow 2013 what does "Add to variable" means
I am redesigning a Workflow 2013 to Power Automate and I have this action inside Workflow 2013:
So what this action do exactly? Thanks
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SharePoint 2013 create custom approval workflow with comments
I am having a relatively direct Task to deal with and need some help.
I need to build a Workflow (2013 or 2010 or a mix of both is fine) That does roughly the following:
Be started when a document is ...
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SharePoint Workflow when trigger is set to run when updated, completes but then restarts
I have multiple workflows (SharePoint Designer 2013) that get triggered when the form is updated (approved or denied).
The workflow gets triggered and completes, but then the flow restarts and ...
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Sending Emails based on a Multiple Choice Checkbox Column Selection
I am fairly new to SharePoint and was task to create a document approval library for one or more leadership team to review and approve documents.
It should have the ability to have users to select ...
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Receiving flood of Emails in my Inbox from the SharePoint Workflows I created for my Infopath form
While creating a workflow, I am tick marking both the fields that says "start workflow automatically when item is created" and "start workflow automatically when item is changed" ...
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How to create an approval workflow for Wiki Page edits?
I need to create an approval workflow for a Wiki Page in my SharePoint site, so that when a user wants to publish page edits they need to be approved by selected users. This sounds straight-forward as ...
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How to add information to approved file in Sharepoint?
I'm looking a solution for the situation with the invoices approval in SharePoint. We created an automated workflow that automates the approval process for the invoices (the trigger that fires the ...
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Workflow error notification
What is the best practice for handling if a workflow fails? I can see the error that appears in the column but is there an easy way to set up a notification that will immediately email specific people ...
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SharePoint has a retention policy set in place that will delete items that are complete after 60days which I believe also includes the task list
SharePoint has a retention policy set in place that will delete items that are complete after 60 or 93 days which I believe also includes the task list. how I change this settings it was not on the ...
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Cancel reminder workflow for uploaded documents
I have a document set with 2010 workflow to remind the owners of documents that their files are approaching an expiry date, using Pause for Duration. I have a Content Type for each type of document in ...
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Approval workflow on list - older items 'fall off' the list. How do I keep them?
Please hang in there with me, I'm not a SharePoint guru - I have enough knowledge to be dangerous...
I am in a SP2013 environment. Someone in my organization has a list ('Invoice Approvals'). The ...
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Send documents on upload to other app
I am wondering if it is possible to to send documents when they are uploaded to sharepoint to another app.
I am new to sharepoint and have tried digging around the SPFx library and the CSOM API but ...
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SharePoint Power Automate workflow to update workflows on service accounts password so they never fail
was wondering if it was possible to create a workflow to update the password associated with all workflows built on a particular service account. Thought process is we will have one service account ...
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How to locate workflows on a tenant
How do you find other workflows on your tenant if the end users that are creating them do not share them with you?
Is this found in the Power Platform admin center?
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Get response of adaptive card in power automate
In my first workflow I post an adaptive Card through "post adaptive card in a chat or channel" which is working. (The adaptive card contains dyanmic content.) in my second workflow I used &...
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SharePoint 2013 Workflow Erroring with 0x80004005 Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException/System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
I am having a weird issue with one specific list.
I've just created a new Workflow for that list, a very basic one that just logs to the History List and then ends.
This workflow throws the following ...
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Power Automate - Ticks function & flows
Power Automate - Ticks function & flows
Workflow Intention:
The workflow should auto-populate a morning report list (list to know if you are working remote or in the office) based on 2 conditions (...
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Sharepoint 2013 workflow with anonymous survey not firing
I have a survey list type with the "show user names in survey results" set to No.
I then created a custom 2013 workflow in designer to send a simple email to a specified user. The workflow ...
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Restricting editing
I want to allow users to use live collaboration to add comments to a Word document hosted on OneDrive. I don't want them to be able to make any other changes. Is this possible?
You can restrict ...
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Conditional Formatting IF/THEN in SharePoint Online
I need to set a field from another field.
If ""Response" is not blank then set "Has Response" to Yes"
Response is a rich text box. Has Response is a yes/no.
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SPWeb.WorkflowTemplates.GetTemplateByName is empty, but WorkflowTemplate is assignable in UI
Here are the Steps I've taken:
Create a Workflow (Reusable 2010, Content-Type linked) on any Web, Export it as a .WSP and Deploy it to the Site Collection in question (the Feature is Web Scoped).
Due ...
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Can someone catch the error with this function?
I'm trying to use the ticks expression to calculate remaining days from two dates values that comes from two SharePoint columns but for some reason the power automate flow is giving me an error when ...
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Any way to change "From" Text in Power Automate?
Good morning all,
I have a requirement which needed me to build a form and an email notifcations workflow based on certain parameters. The team wants the emails' sender to read "CASE System ...
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How to Dynamically Link a Reusable 2013 Workflow to a List
Situation is pretty specific. Here is how it is done currently, please point out any issues you notice.
We have a SP 2013 workflow that we export as a .wsp via SharePoint Designer to then deploy at ...
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SharePoint 2013 WF calling SharePoint 2010 WF via Interop - no Output
I'm trying to use a variable from a reusable 2010 WF in a reusable 2013 WF that calls it.
However, there's just basically nothing I can find in the Output of that 2010 WF.
Can anyone point me in the ...
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Power Automate Flow that retrieves the name of a column in a sharepoint list
I'm creating a flow that alerts users whenever they have an expired certification inside a SharePoint list. When it comes to the part where I need to send the email to let the user know I can't find ...
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Collect specific User Data (File, Files or Folder) in a 2013 Workflow
Here are my contraints:
I need to use a SP 2013 Workflow
I need to ask the user to attach a single File, multiple Files or a Folder to said Workflow
I already notice the CDFU Action is gone in SP 2013....
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How to exclude holidays from calculated column
Hey I am trying to calculated the difference between two dates excluding weekends and holidays but so fat I was only able to come across this formula
IF(ISERROR(DATEDIF([Start Date], [End Date],"...
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SharePoint Online Workflows
Can a SharePoint online List have more than one workflow associated with it, or is it limited to just one?
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SharePoint Reusable Workflow Task Content Type - Due Date
I created a reusable workflow (SharePoint Designer 2013 and 2010 Platform Type) for the Task content type. I am attempting to set variable dates into the Start Date and the Due Date fields using Add ...
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Power Automate Date condition problems
I have been working in a flow that alert a user once a certain certification expires, to achieve this I'm using a SharePoint list that contains the dates data.
The idea was to create a counter column ...
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Power Automate Flow
Currently working on a workflow to alert a user when certain expiration dates in a SharePoint list inside 6 different columns reach an expiration point.I created a SharePoint column to be used as a ...
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Coercion Failed Workflow
Having issues getting my workflow to work with blank fields. I have a custom list with several lookup fields tied to department names and the associated group email address for each department. None ...
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How to get a list of errored workflows
Is there a CSOM (SP 2013) way to find out all the errored workflows from a given site?
I have the following but it's server side code.
$subdomain = read-host "Enter the Client subdomain only"...
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SharePoint Designer 2010: Impersonation step takes wrong user
I use Impersonation Step in SharePoint Designer 2010. I use the action Replace Item Permission and assign Full Control to user using his/her name. However, in the user profiles I have two type of ...
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SharePoint Designer check if all elements have today's timestamp
I hope you can help me.
I am currently trying to create a SharePoint workflow using SharePoint designer.
This is to check if all items within a folder in a list have the current date at most 1 day ...
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Save Email Attachment Based on Received Date/Time Field in Outlook
I have emails that are routed to a Folder in my outlook. I get them multiple times a day as a status for the system. The email's contain an attachment which is the report.
I am trying to see about a ...
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Import data from multiple excel file to SharePoint list using power automate
I have more than 150 excel files which all have same information table to update their production from different location. my question is can I use Power Automate to import and consolidate all data in ...
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i want to update to completed a SharePoint item when another SharePoint has been modified to completed with Power Automate
I have tried to do this for over a month now but just cant seem to get it right.
I send over information to a SharePoint that someone else works and once it is completed they change the status of it ...
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Is it possible to run CSOM code to cancel workflows? (SP 2013 )
I have the following code from previous job and it worked perfectly b/c I was the SP admin and had SP Server access. Now I dont have SP server access.
$web = Get-SPWeb "https://inside.nov.com&...
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Can i get the members of a Mail-Enabled security group inside my automated workflow
We have the following Mail-Enabled Security group:
So my question is, can I get the members of a Mail-Enabled security group inside my automated workflow?
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SPO: get a list Remote Event Receivers subscribed to some List
I've searched a lot about it but didn't find anything about it.
Is there any way to get the list of Remote Event receivers subscribed to a List and its remote endpoint?
I'm currently managing an ...
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How to automate a subfolder creation for existing folders
I was asked to create 2022 folders in each property folder that we have on our SharePoint site. We have the folders setup: Location > Properties > 2021.
I am trying to figure out a way to ...
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power automate from shared mailbox to sharepoint library
I need to know best practices for a power uatomate flow that will copy incoming emails to a SP library.
To avoid having the WF associated with a person's account (that might leave etc), is it still ...
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Is there a wildcard operator/character in SharePoint Designer that can map one list item in one list to All items in a separate list?
I have created a list where I need a one-to-many workflow interaction with another list. The workflow is manual start, within list one, and on item select it would copy that item over to list 2. ...
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I get an error like "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.WorkflowServices.dll' because it does not exist."
After editing the SharePoint workflow, I am writing a code in the SharePoint online management shell to trigger the list manually.
I want to trigger the list with this code, but I keep getting an ...
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Current Item:Version has wrong version number in SP 2010 workflow
I have a workflow on a library. It first checks if the Current Item:Version ends in ".0" (to see if it's a major version). I have a Log statement at the beginning of the workflow to record ...
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