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How to return field from specific workflow task as Data source in Lookup tool?
to anyone who finds this in the future here is how i got around it.
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How To: Every Document Set Has Its Own Tasks List
I don't know how many projects will be created throughout the span of your application or the background of your requirement , but i would suggest an alternative plan of considering to make your ...
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Assign a task to a group - task not created, email not sent
Considering that you are using a SharePoint group and presuming that the Assign a task step is not running inside an App Step, then make sure that everyone can view the membership of the group.
Go ...
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Workflow Updating "% Compelte" to 100 for a Task List changes the value to 10,000% automatically
Internally, percent complete is stored as a value from 0.00 to 1.00 so 100% would be 1.
Change the Value you set in the workflow to 1 and the problem should be resolved.
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Calculated column in Task List is not updating when Task is changed
The ID field you are trying to use in your Calculated Column is not known until the Item is saved . Hence using it in your calculated column may not give you the required output.You can use an event ...
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Naming convention and %20
It isn't really an issue either way, but the preferred approach is to create a list or library like "ChangeRequests' then after it is created, rename it to "Change Requests". Emailing a link shouldn't ...
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Hide completed tasks in task list
You have to edit the view and filter completed tasks. It can be confusing because there isn't an intuitive value to filter for the Completed column.
Open the view menu and click Modify this view.
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Get completion date on tasks without custom coding
1. Recording completion date of task when it is marked as completed. ( In your case a check box so below formula may change or you)
You can create a calculated column Completion Date
=IF([Status]=="...
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Retrieve Office 365 Planner Tasks using CSOM C# or powershell
As it stands now, you can't use CSOM to access Planner, but you can use the Graph API: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/
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Retrieve Office 365 Planner Tasks using CSOM C# or powershell
This functionality is currently in beta in the Office Graph. See this page for documentation on retrieving tasks. For other capabilities, see the left nav on that page, scroll down to the beta section,...
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How do I get the top item of a task list?
Use CSOM / JSOM with CAML to get all tasks where ParentID is NULL, i.e. all top level tasks.
// Create Context etc first
List list = context.Web.Lists.GetByTitle(listTitle);
CamlQuery query = new ...
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Update Status of an associated Task in a SharePoint list Column (Field)
Because this plagued me for almost a week and it seems so many people have had questions about it I have decided to share what I learned in this process. After reading almost everything online and ...
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Activity 'DynamicActivity' has 51 arguments
Also you can increase the limit through powershell, run from an elevated prompt on the workflow manager server:
Set-WFServiceConfiguration -ServiceUri https://wfserver.example.com:12290 -Name ...
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Reassigning multiple tasks to a new user
Go to the list with tasks, click on List>Quick Edit:
The list will open in spreadsheet mode. You can sort the tasks to choose the ones that are due shortly:
You can assign a new person to ...
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Is there a way to add comments to tasks or the task list?
The default columns at Tasks content type do not have a comments column, meanwhile, it has a Description column that can be used as comments column to add more details about your task , and to show it ...
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Run task (file.js) schedule
It sounds like a very weird case, but you can still do it.
Very roughly, this is what it takes:
Create a separate SharePoint page with a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP)
Optional. Make sure this page ...
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Run task (file.js) schedule
I like the powershell approach mentioned by Denis, but I'd go further and code the powershell to just do the task that is done by the js. Having a visible IE window run by a process that should be ...
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Create a Gantt chart that only shows Main tasks
First, your script just show Top-Level Main Tasks (Summary Task) not the Sub-Level Main Tasks.
For Example: If you have subtask (Task2 and Task 4) that is the Main Task for another child subtask (...
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Adding associated tasks to a meeting
Create a lookup column to tie items from the separate lists together. How you setup the viewing connection in the Tasks list and Calendar list varies.
On the Tasks list side
These steps will ...
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Adding a Hold option to task outcome, not available in SPD
Make sure you set Yes under "Update all content types inheriting from this type" for the Task Outcome field. After that, create a 2013 workflow again, it should have this outcome option.
If this ...
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Set due date 1 day after each multiple tasks are created
I solved this by creating a calculated column in the main list, not the task list, with formula =NOW()+1. This will get the current date and time. Today() will not work as it will get the current date ...
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Read Comments in Tasks via JavaScript
you can use the below code to get the version history of Comments field,
function getFieldHistory (itemId, fieldName) { //Get each item version history with comment using SPServices
var HTML='';
var ...
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Task Approve/Reject Permission
This is only applies to 2010 workflow types. If you have a SharePoint 2013 type WF this setting is completely missing!
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Get completion date on tasks without custom coding
Would simple adding a column with 'End date' to the task list suffice? You can fill out your own completion date.
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How to return field from specific workflow task as Data source in Lookup tool?
I had a similar situation using SharePoint 2013 and a 2013 workflow, and the following worked for me (when other suggested steps didn't):
Situation: I had a list of items and an approval task being ...
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Copying tasks between lists
You can copy Task list items in several ways
Copy SharePoint list items from one site to another programmatically
Copy item from one list to another, using SharePoint designer workflow
Also, you ...
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Aggregating User's Tasks in SharePoint 2013
This is what the Work Management Service is for. On the User Profile Tasks page it accumulates the tasks from SharePoint, Project Server Sites and Exchange 2013 (if you have that and it's connected).
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create a dynamic task list
What I understand is you want to rearrange your tasks in the Task List priority wise. So I am giving answer on my assumption. According to my assumption you did not need to create Task list ...
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Using Workflow to set Task Outcome column value
I'm now told over at MSDN that this is not possible OOTB.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/511f5495-07af-457c-aa8b-bc45910cdcf1/using-spd-workflow-to-set-approval-workflow-...
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Why is Notes column in Project Tasks is grayed out?
Multiple line of text field which has Rich Contents enabled is not editable in DataSheet View.
I think this is locked because the HTML content can mess up with DataSheet view.
Workaround is to ...
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