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Unable to published workflows to SharePoint 2013

In case, you are facing this issue for all workflow, the issue may be related to a new .Net security update installed and you would need to explicitly reregister the necessary types to all web ...
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Unable to publish workflow from SharePoint Designer 2013

In general, the 503 Service Unavailable means the Application Pool was stopped! So you have first to check the status of the App pool "WorkflowMgmtPool" for Workflow Management Site. If it ...
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SharePoint Designer workflow question

You can trigger your workflow on When an item is created trigger. Then you need to use Pause Until Date action in SharePoint designer 2013 workflow which: Causes a workflow to pause executing ...
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String Calculation SharePoint 2010

You can create new calculated column with "Single line text" or "number" type. Add the below given formula to extract the value after last comma. Formula for calculated column is: =IF(ISERROR(RIGHT(...
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Is it possible to attach documents in the sharepoint designer email?

You could add a link in the email workflow. When you receive the email, click the URL in the email message could open the file.
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Can I use a list workflow to make changes in two different lists in SPD 2013

As a short answer, Yes, you can use List Workflow to update list item in another list based on condition in the first list By using Update List Item Action below List Actions You can specify Which ...
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SharePoint Designer Worflow

Whenever you create a new document, add additional metadata in the library. I have given the steps below. Example: Add Yes/No data type field in the library and named it Send an Email(Default value ...
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SharePoint 2010 workflows will be retired in 2020

It has no impact on SharePoint on-premise. It means you cannot run the workflow Starting November 1st. Starting August 1st, 2020, SharePoint 2010 workflows will be turned off for newly created tenants....
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Unable to publish workflow from SharePoint Designer 2013

Found and fixed the issue. The account under which AppManagementServicePool was running (in IIS application pools) didn't have proper permission. I changed it to a different account and now I am able ...
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SPD approval workflow one IF condition is not available

According to your description, it seems that you are placing the if condition in a sequence. So the workflow will simply go through all the if condition on by one. That is why after Process A is ...
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Can Site Workflow be migrated into Power Automate

Site and Reusable workflows are not available in Power Automate at this point of time. Please refer the Microsoft guidance documentation for SharePoint designer workflows migration to Power Automate: ...
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Verify running workflows in SharePoint 2016

1.PowerShell to terminate 2010 workflow. $web = Get-SPWeb "site collection URL" $list = $web.Lists["list name"] $WorkFlowToCancel = "the workflow name" foreach ($item ...
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SharePoint 2013 workflow sending two emails when task is assigned

Go to the Workflow Tasks list and go to List Settings -> Advanced Settings, set Send e-mail when ownership is assigned? to No
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Users who do not have Contribute on the root site are not able to run workflow 2013 . Error "Access denied ..."

Cause Workflow is throwing this error because your end user is not having permission on a list whose GUID is 95f1cccb-8f6f-46f6-89c8-91046a3436cd. Probably this list is the workflow history or ...
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How Do I Use The Value of a Lookup Column in a 2013 Workflow?

If I understood you right, I think you just need to add If condition to compare the value of Column A with the value of column B (Lookup field) in the current list items. Simply, Add IF condition. ...
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SharePoint Designer Define workflow lookup question

This window basically is asking for more information to get filed value from a SharePoint List. Data source: The list/library you are trying to access and get information. Field from source: The ...
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SharePoint workflow on update Calendar item category change

If I understood correctly You need to configure workflow to change category of existing calendar item after changing of current item. To do this you can: Create additional column in calendar list(it ...
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How to update the calendar when an item is updated in the list using SharePoint Designer 2013

Create a another sample workflow to update the calendar item based on changes in the custom list column, before updating check if the current value of your custom list not equal to value in the ...
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SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow pause until action not working well if any of the two field is empty

If I am understanding you correctly, you just need to put you Pause action in the condition, but everything else outside it. Since "empty" date fields end up looking in SharePoint Designer workflows ...
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Checker Notification

Create a new column, similar to checker and name it as old checker Kindly have the below 2 if conditions in your SPD workflow. the below is not the exact coding format of SPD designer, kindly use ...
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If ELSE / ELSE statement is not showing up

Follow below steps: Click anywhere in the IF block. Then you can see the Else block in ribbon or workflow actions. Also check this blog: Else Branch is disabled In SharePoint Designer.
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Query a list on site A from subsite B via SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow

Thanks all for pointing me in the right direction. The actual solution is that I had to add the app permissions from Subsite A to Site B's app permissions, not just enable app permissions on each site....
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User's Display Name in SharePoint designer Workflow

First of all try fetching the display name of Person or Group field like given in below image: If this is not working for you then you need to extract the First Name and Last Name from the string you ...
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String Calculation SharePoint 2010

Dikesh has the right answer to the OP's precise question. But it only works with the supplied example. Two problems: It returns blank if there is only one numeric value, or Title is blank. It ...
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SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow: Reading Check In comment, programmatic elevation of permissions, alternatives?

You can deploy workflows globally throughout the farm by attaching a globally available reusable workflow to a Content Type, and using a Content Type Hub to deploy the content type (and workflow - ...
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SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow: Reading Check In comment, programmatic elevation of permissions, alternatives?

Sorry, I am not really sure about how to handle APP situation. I can think of below messy alternative. This can only work on Classic sharepoint page and involves using JSOM/REST . (not on Modern page) ...
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How long will workflow action "wait for..." actually wait?

If you have this kind of changes, I recommend you to do edit actual workflow to: end it after going to phase "waiting for..." create new workflow which will be started when the item is edited, you ...
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Disable Automatic Emails sent to the requestor

As per my test, I don’t have notification email after the status changed. You can check if you set alert for the list which send alerts to users when existing items are modified via List ribbon->...
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