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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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I have an approval workflow on Power Automate cloud (the files are on SharePoint). Several flows are halting at the 'Start and wait for an approval' step and then cancelling. The workflows appear to ...
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I have a document library with a 2010 approval workflow attached to it. A user created an item with a URL length exceeding 260. This is working fine in SharePoint 2019. But when the approval workflow ...
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The outbound certificate of our SB Farm expired. I tried setting the clock back to the day before the expiration date and start the farm but the workflowserverfront refuses to start therefore I ...
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I am using SharePoint 2010 SPD workflows on SharePoint 2016. Today I noticed that any new workflows are failing to start. Existing workflows are running. Is there a known bug/issue from Microsoft ...
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I have a Power Automate flow that sends an Approval notification based on a dropdown selection in a PowerApps form. The user clicks a button in the App, and a window displays, giving them a Rich Text ...
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I am attempting to create SharePoint 2013 workflows for a new on premise SharePoint solution. There are business requirements to stay on premise. I have a development server with SharePoint ...
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Sharepoint 2013 i have one Project List and a Task List. at the moment i have a Workflow that starts if someone chooses "New Task" (in a Choice Field) within the Project List Item then a ...
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After November, 15, 2024 SPD workflows 2010 in OnPrem Sharepoint 2016 stopped resuming after a Pause for duration action. They display a message ' failed to run in the workflow history and event 10 (...
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We have a single-server SharePoint Farm with SPWFM also installed on the same server. Our self-signed certificates used for SPWFM expired, and when we tried to renew them ourselves we're getting the ...
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We have a SharePoint 2019 server with the (newer) SharePoint Workflow Manager, and ServiceBus 1.1 installed. All services are running on the same server (customer is a small company). We are trying to ...
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I have a flow that I'm trying to set a trigger condition on. I'm trying to trigger this flow if an item is modified, and if any of three Choice fields = "Request Approval". This is what I'...
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I created a Visual Studio workflow for the first time. It is just logging to history "workflow started". When workflow starts it is showing following error: HTTP to: https://myspserver/...
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We recently did a Migration from On-Prem to Online, and this includes 6 Currency columns. 5 manually entered Actuals, and 1 Total Actuals column. The Values for the Total Actuals column did not ...
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Our security team has suggested there is Microsoft Workflow Manager V1.0 installed around 5000 machines/servers. In our environment, we do not have SharePoint On-premises at all as everything is O365. ...
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As of current, I have a SharePoint Classic list (through work we can only use Classic) which is used to track many things, of which status changes is one of them. There are around 6 statuses a job can ...
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I made it like this is it correct? I hope someone helps me Thanks
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How to upload all folders, subfolders and files from file explorer to SharePoint library using PowerAutomate? How i can upload all folders, subfolders and files from file explorer to SharePoint ...
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I face an unexplainable issue today where the user side approval received an error as below: Request to the Bot framework failed with error: '{"error":{"code":"...
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I made a simple SharePoint 2013 workflow using SPD in SharePoint 2016. When an item is created, task is assigned to Group2 for approval. There are two security groups. Group1 - this group can create ...
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I have a requirement for a Power Automate flow (SharePoint Library) in which the Start and Wait for an Approval action - "Approve/Reject - Everyone Must Approve" meets all of my requirements,...
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I have a flow that creates an Approval for whoever is identified in an Approver people-picker (multi-select). The requirement is to send parallel requests to the Approvers, which it does. BUT, the ...
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I have a pretty basic flow that successfully creates a Calendar entry in a SharePoint online calendar. I had to write an expression for the Start and End dates because it was being created a day ...
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Can you explain to me this error am getting on my workflow: 'ActionBranchingConditionNotSatisfied. The execution of template action 'Send_an_email_(V2)' skipped: the branching condition for this ...
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I have a strange request that I'm trying to work out, but keep getting stuck on one aspect. So I have a SP Online list with 20 entries - One row per staff member. Each row contains a People column (...
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I had a list that had over 12000 items with worflows that were runnning. I have delete the list items but the workflows still appear in the workflow settings which is preventing other workflows from ...
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The situation is that where we are replacing SharePoint custom pages and workflow, before support is discontinued. The important part, for the sake of this question, is that there are people who will ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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