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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Create Unique ID in MS Lists using Power Automate - Error
I'm trying to create a unique id in my lists, which is exported from a MS form. But I keep getting errors.
So my logic is very simple:
Step 1: once a form is submitted, the responses will be ...
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SharePoint Designer 2013 - Looping and Looping emails
I am trying to automate a process within my business and would like to see if this would even be possible in the way that I have envisioned.
One of the things my team handles. Is our businesses domain ...
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Creating a List Approval Workflow that checks for conflicting dates
Apologies if this is not the best forum, but I am new to SharePoint and was looking for advice/solutions for an 'equipment checkout' list with the following columns:
"ID" - Number
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Power Automate Approval Flow - Response provided in app - How to end Approval
I have an Approval workflow (Power Automate) that gets sent to a Project Manager when a user submits a new item. If the Approver provides a response in either Teams, or the Email notification, the ...
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What to use for Workflows after retirement?
SharePoint 2013 workflow will be turned off for new tenants as of April 2, 2024. It will be removed from existing tenants and will be fully retired as of April 2, 2026
So we are a big company with ...
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SharePoint Designer workflow that updates a field to a value after a submission or edit with an attachment
Is there a way to update a field within SharePoint Designer workflow whenever an attachment is added to a submission or edit?
So someone submits a new form or an edit. They add an attachment. They ...
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How do I create a power automate workflow for Sharepoint Paige approvals?
I’m quite new to power automate, and the following requirements is what I need to achieve, and it’s all quite tricky to understand at my early stage.
Has anyone got any ideas on how to construct a ...
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How to create a sub folder within an exisiting folder in a document library with power automate
I am trying to create a sub folder when a new request is added to my jobs list using power automate. At the root level of the document library, I have a root main folder, example; named Photo-Request-...
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How to start Power Automate workflow from code/SPFX solution web part?
Is it possible to trigger start of Power Automate workflow and pass parameters to workflow through spfx solution/webpart on sharepoint (with React)?
Without premium connector.
I only found one way but ...
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Power Automate Starting Multiple Flows and sending multiple emails
I am attempting to build a flow that
When an item is created or Modified
It gathers email addresses using an HTTP request
Does a select and join action to parse out an email address from a SP group
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Power Automate Send As - Co Owner's permissions
I have a Power Automate flow that sends an email after a form submission. My client wants those emails to come from a specific mailbox (PMOAdmin). I don't have Send As permissions for that mailbox, ...
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Power Automate - How to Update SharePoint list with Approval Response
I have a Power Automate flow that triggers on a New Item, then Creates an Approval (2 custom responses - Approved/Rejected). I've got it all set up so far. the notification gets sent when an item is ...
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What are the needed permissions of the initiator of a Nintex workflow
I have 2 Sharepoint-lists list_local and list_Global.. The users, who are working on list_local are not allowed to see the list_Global, but at the same time the list_Global should include all items ...
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Attaching a Workflow to an approved Document puts it into Draft
I have an issue where a Worklof (Basically just a request/confirmation Workflow to read the approved document) puts the document into draft status.
I was tasked to fix this behaviour, the file should ...
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Relationship between workflow and capacity or shrinking log files?
This is on a newly configured Sharepoint 2019 on-premise site.
We started to experience an issue with both the SharePoint_config_log and the WSS_Content_log (content database) log files being full. To ...
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How do I create a workflow that lets me know when someone has completed my Survey in SharePoint 2016?
I'm fairly new to SharePoint. I created a Survey in SharePoint 2016 and my boss wants to be notified when someone completes the survey. I have been looking for answers with no luck. I did learn that (...
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Nintex Workflow how to link Task table with History table?
I have a list which trigger a workflow when a new element is added.
I have 3 tables:
The table which contains all the element.
The Tasks are stored in the table Task.
The history is stored in the ...
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How to fix Workflow Task Mails using the wrong URL in Mails in On-Premises?
A simplified Version of the issue:
Server DNS Name is server-001
SharePoint is accessed using intranet.company.com
I have a List, that list has an EventReceiver, that EventReceiver creates SubWebs ...
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SharePoint Custom Action on document set in docsethomepage.aspx
I would like to create a custom action inside Manage ribbon group that would start a workflow on a document set not a file within.
I have spent some time trying to enable the custom action created in ...
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Replace Docx header/footer
I have looked around and can't seem to find any recent answers. We need to update the header & footer on our documents in SharePoint. What I want to do is create a template header & footer, ...
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Workflow 2013 with one server topology socket connection error
Getting this error when using workflow 2013
Retrying last request. Next attempt scheduled after 6/1/2023 4:07 AM. Details of last request: HTTP to https://intranet.com/sandbox/_api/web/lists(guid'...
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I need to change the "Title" from the workflow running Tasks
I want to change the title field (instead of title field I need document name) to document name in workflow link.
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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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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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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.
The "...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...
