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Send Emails via SharePoint CSOM

There are several alternative approaches available to send Emails. General Email Sending method SharePoint Client Object Model (CSOM) SharePoint JavaScript Model (JSOM) Using general Email Sending ...
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REST API - Retrieve Group Members

If you want to get all the users in your SharePoint site you can use : /_api/web/siteusers? Update: Try using below endpoint to get the Site Members from Members group: _api/Web/SiteGroups/...
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can i add a pre-set subject line in email links

Add ?subject= at the end of the mailto link and then add the subject line, replacing spaces with %20. So if you want an email link to go to [email protected] with a subject line that says "this is ...
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How to create looping email notifications with conditions

Can u try to add a pause for 14 days before the loop 1 and add a pause for 14 days in the if condition block, under the email statement. The last pause which is already given in the workflow should be ...
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Get URL of list item attachment from Sharepoint Designer 2010

I got round this issue by using Infopath Designer to inject the filename into a "single line of text" field that my workflow could target. The steps were as follows. create a "single line of text" ...
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how to send a link to the edit view of a list item from a workflow

I have just found a rather simple, yet brilliant, solution here Basically, in the hyperlink editor add the following: [%Current Item:Encoded Absolute URL%]/../EditForm.aspx?ID=[%Current Item:ID%]
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Is there a way to make a workflow run every Monday?

I wouldn't do this with workflow, I would do this in a PowerShell script that runs on the server, set it up in a Task Scheduler, and let it run every Monday. The script would kick off the workflow ...
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How to change workflow email sender name

You can't, at least using an SPD workflow. You could always as VS workflow, or write a custom workflow action in VS. See more here. Update (2 June 2016) : Although i was agree till yesterday that ...
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Announcement strips domain name from link

Here's an example of using a 2013 workflow step to read the Announcment body into a variable called Body, use a "Replace Substring In String" action to replace the text 'href="/' with 'href="http://...
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Workflow doen's send email to person field

Just resolved my problem. If you want to send an email to user in person field, the recipient configuration should look like this:
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Find email source of all generated email by SharePoint

Alerts - OOTB method To view alerts for other people, you must be a site owner. Click the Site Actions menu and then click Site Settings. On the Site Settings page, under Site Administration, click ...
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SharePoint Email Functionlity -Javascript

Just add to your properties. 'CC': { 'results': [CC] }, I hope it helps. MSDN Reference
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Environment not sending mail

Make sure that your SharePoint server are registered for smtp rely to send the emails. Also check if there is any firewall blocking issue between SharePoint and new smtp servers. Try to send the ...
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How to send email at specific time everyday in Sharepoint workflow?

There is way of doing it but it will pause your workflow for 24 hours everyday. In my workflow, I have taken three stages. We check the condition for entering into the workflow and pause for the ...
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Sent too many emails to myself through workflows, Flagged by MS.

We faced a similar issue today, all the O365 workflows (sending emails and tasks creation) suddenly stopped working showing the below mentioned error message (Error: SmtpException while sending email:...
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sp.utilities.utility.sendemail + how to send email to multiple users

The format of your "To" variable must be an Array witch contains emails (or domain\login). Here, you pass a string witch contains email separated by comma. Try somthing like : var recipients = ["a@...
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Displaying the value of a list column in a workflow email?

There is a space between Item: and Title%! You should use it without space like this [%Current Item:Title%] Below is the correct way to get instead of adding it manually At subject, Click on eclipse ....
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SharePoint add "Everyone" or "Everyone except external users" where does this email go?

Actually, SharePoint does not email the Everyone or the Everyone except external users. This is by design and has nothing to do with the user info list. More information can be found here: https://...
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Approver comments in workflow emails

As u said ur using an sp2013 custom wf. So, lets follow some steps to get the easy solution. Create a column as named 'parentId' in task list. When ur emailing with the approver msg, get the ...
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SP.Utilities.Utility.SendEmail "To" must be different format for some users

Searching users in powershell would return two users for some people. Using the cmdlet: Get-SPUser -web http://somesite.com | ?{$_.DisplayName -eq "john doe"} Results: UserLogin ...
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Use exchange server for sharepoint

If you have exchange server in place then it is very much easy to configure the SharePoint outgoing's email. You dont need to enter the credential to configure the outgoing email. For sharepoint 2013:...
Waqas Sarwar MVP's user avatar
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_api/SP.Utilities.Utility.SendEmail does not work with users without authorization on the current site

It is limitation of SharePoint Utility send email function. It will send mail only to those user who are known to site collection. It means those users who are in User Infoation List which is at site ...
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Sending email in Sharepoint 2016 online without using workflow

It really depends on what you're trying to send. But as default - when outgoing e-mail setting is configured, users can subscribe to a list or library. When they do, and the criteria is met, an e-mail ...
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When a list is saved, i want to send an email to a person entered on the list

First, hide fields that filled by their supervisors from users. And make one field which is called Status(Approve,rejected). And do approval list workflow. Like this If current item:is request sent? ...
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How to send email at specific time everyday in Sharepoint workflow?

if you are using On Premise version of SharePoint, Please follow the below steps Create a powershell script file to run the workflow against all items. please find the sample below $web = Get-...
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What are the approaches we can follow to define a timer-job-liked which checks our sharepoint online lists

You should run your job in any cloud-based service, which supports scheduled runs. It might be AWS (Amazon Web Services) or Azure. Azure is a better choice because it's .net based, Microsoft backed, ...
Sergei Sergeev's user avatar
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Why are outgoing e-mail alerts not sending?

I finally fix this after following steps in my case initial confirmation emails was sending but future change alerts were not allowing all sharepoint servers in the farm to relay email in Exchange ...
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Send invitations to Outlook with ICS format from a SharePoint Calendar List

Maybe not a direct answer to your question, but maybe this will help you anyway and it might suffice in your scenario. If you have an event in a calendar list, you can simply call this URL (example ...
Anonymous's user avatar
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How to change workflow email sender name

Actually, the easiest solution is to just rename the TITLE of whatever subsite the List lives in that your workflow is sending from to whatever you wanna show up in the email sender field! It (...
Al Fresco's user avatar
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Send Email from CSOM

This is not a direct answer to the question, I am describing how we have solved this issue. Change your app to provider hosted so that you can handle remove event receivers (RERs) (other parts remain ...
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