Anuja Bhojani

Problem: I have created root site in SharePoint Online, weird problem I started facing is being a site administrator I was not able to customize the page/ upload the any page or master page. As in image below, for some reason I am set as Deny to "Add and Customize Pages". The problem is related to 'Scripting Capabilities' being turned off by default for the root site collection in Office 365. I found some article on community: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-scripting-capabilities-on-or-off-1f2c515f-5d7e-448a-9fd7-835da935584f?ui=en-US&=amp&rs=en-US&ad=US It mentions that turning on scripting through the Sharepoint Admin Settings and wait around 24 hours. However, this did not work for me. still the issue was there. Following lines of script did a trick. Solution: Connect-SPOService -Url https://<yoursitename>-admin.sharepoint.com -credential <admincredentials> Set-SPOsite https://<your root site ur...

Today was trying to work on the display template in SharePoint Online. As documented every where, that can go to Site Galleries->Master Page->Display Templates :     <your site url>/_catalogs/masterpage/Forms/AllItems.aspx and display templates folder, to get the existing templates. However, I was just seeing all the .js files not the HTML where I supposed to work. Finally found the cause is Publishing Feature. Solution: We must turn on SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature in the Site Collection Features. for the HTML pages to show up, from there we can edit the HTML files and create new display templates. This is not documented any where. Hope small tip will save your time!

Commit pending changes is not well known action of Nintex, However very useful when you have scenario like I faced.  I had a requirement like first to update the list item, and immediately need to take the count of updated items. I spent quite amount of time to achieve this, First tried by doing simple workflow 1. Update list item 2. Query list (query the same list which updated) Here after running this, started getting uncertain results. Sometime it works and fails. Started applying workarounds to that Tried to apply “Pause for” action in between, like below image. Result was again uncertain, it pause was getting struck, was not resuming the workflow even after specified time. I goggled and found many issues are reported for the same issue, https://community.nintex.com/thread/2979 Third workaround was to add some loop which can add some pause before query, somehow even after safe loop, result was uncertain. Finally found the impressive feature of Ni...

In Nintex 2013, requirement was to show the user's "Display name" in email. looks a very simple issue by looking at the definition. However, to achieve this in workflow have to choose proper way to implement. Two options are available to get this. 1. Using "Call web service" action 2. Using " Query user profile" To move ahead with first step, we need to use Regular expression, web service and query xml  as described here in  https://community.nintex.com/thread/1353  lots of configuration require to make this work. as well to store credentials of admin to call the web service, need to make the constant in Nintex management. So In my implementation, I choose second option, fairly simple to use. Steps to use "Query user profile" action to get display name: 1. Add "Query user Profile" from actions tab  2. Double click to configure it, and select the person field , here selecting "Created By" field of t...

This article explains how to perform the CRUD operation on a SharePoint List using Angular JavaScript and the REST API. Create an empty SharePoint 2013 solution, In that add the module of Pages, JS & CSS. In pages module add new item, Test.aspx. In JS module, add new Javascript file with name Controller.js , CommonServices.js &  SharePointListModule.js Other Javascripts needs to add: 1.  angular.min.js 2. anugular.min.js.map Project structure will look something like below: In SharePointListModule.js will create a App of angular, Paste the below code. //App creation var app = angular.module("SharePointAngApp", []) For doing a CRUD operation with SharePoint List, will create an Angular Service to make a SharePoint REST API calls, app.service('testService', ['$http', '$q', function ($http, $q) {//common services}]); This testService having dependency of $http & $q Information related to $http & $q   ...

Error:  “Response no longer required” With Nintex , requirement was to create a workflow which passes through multiple approval process. Workflow having Felxi tasks with customized task forms. After publishing everything works well in development environment. Time was to deploy the workflow at test environment, deployed workflow with manual import/export published it no error reported, its published successfully. When first approval task starts, it started giving email notification something like below: "Response no longer required" A task regarding this item no longer requires your response: ItemName Click here to view the workflow status First was not sure, from where this notification coming up from workflow steps, as I haven't set any message like this in workflow,  No error reported in workflow tasks, or in workflow history. Invested almost a whole day to find the exact cause. Finally found in flexi task configuration window under ...

Recently I have installed the Nintex Workflow Forms and configured it. I have activated the web application feature and site collection features and all, however when I try to customize a list forms using Nintex designer I started getting error message that says  "An error occurred during an ajax call." When I did IISReset, it seemed to have fixed it. hope this small piece of information will save your time!

Being a newbie with Nintex, I have installed and configured Nintex Workflow and Nintex Workflow Forms. easy to follow all the steps described on Nintex support page. After doing all the necessary configuration, tried to create very simple one step workflow to test. There I faced weird issue, I was able to save the workflow, however while publishing it was giving below error. Error was very generic, wasted couple of hours to find the exact cause as in workflow logic there was nothing. simple one step workflow it was. So pointer was going to configuration only, something in configuration is not proper which throwing this error. Solution : 1. Go to Central Admin 2. Click on Nintex Worklfow Management 3. Database setup -> Add Content Database ( I already configured it, still created new) 4. Configuration Database click Edit 5. Update the connection string with newly created database. 6. IISRESET And we are good to go. Hope this will save you...

This post will show how to read the Taxonomy Term Store with JSOM. Taxonomy Term store can be accessed in a SharePoint App, with permission scope of Taxonomy. To be able to use the JSOM API for Taxonomy you need to reference SP.Taxonomy.js found in _layouts/15/ the best way to reference this would be in the document ready. $(document).ready(function () { var scripRef = _spPageContextInfo.webServerRelativeUrl + "/_layouts/15/"; $.getScript(scripRef+ "SP.Runtime.js", function () { $.getScript(scripRef+ "SP.js", function () { $.getScript(scripRef+ "SP.Taxonomy.js", function () { context = SP.ClientContext.get_current(); //Call your code here. getTermStores(); });});});}) Read from Taxonomy function getTermStores() { session = SP.Taxonomy.TaxonomySession.getTaxonomySession(context); termStores = session.get_termStores(); context.load(session); context.load(termStores); context.execute...

Already, there are so many articles published about the new features and changes in SharePoint Designer 2013 that it’s a little late to write about this. But I think this would be useful. There are many new functionalities and enhancements added into SharePoint designer 2013. Added features allow designers to do more with workflows without requiring a developer to write custom code. If you select SharePoint 2013 option while creating workflow, you will get the following list of new features 1. Stages With 2013, concept of stage is introduced. It acts as containers in workflow, which allows one to structure the workflow from one stage to the other. Stages can be added to a workflow by clicking on Stage icon. Key points for Stages: All actions in the workflow must be contained in a stage A stage can hold one or more workflow actions, and will also have only one  Transition to stage  area.  The  Transition to st...

Workflow is getting cancel with the HTTP 500 error.  Problem: RequestorId: 9dea9a29-bb82-214a-0000-000000000000. Details: RequestorId: 9dea9a29-bb82-214a-0000-000000000000. Details: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the workflow instance. Exception details: System.ApplicationException: HTTP 500 {"Transfer-Encoding":["chunked"],"X-SharePointHealthScore":["0"],"SPClientServiceRequestDuration":["30"],"SPRequestGuid":["9dea9a29-bb82-214a-92f0-943af4411ac2"],"request-id":["9dea9a29-bb82-214a-92f0-943af4411ac2"],"X-FRAME-OPTIONS":["SAMEORIGIN"],"MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices":["15.0.0.4420"],"X-Content-Type-Options":["nosniff"],"X-MS-InvokeApp":["1; RequireReadOnly"],"Cache-Control":["max-age=0, private"],"Date":["Fri, 31 Jan 2014 20:19:03 GMT"...

During my POC, I was trying to add custom action to a callout same like, Share and follow. found easy way to do it with following script. SP.SOD.executeFunc("callout.js", "Callout", function () { var itemCtx = {}; itemCtx.Templates = {}; itemCtx.BaseViewID = 'Callout'; // Define the list template type itemCtx.ListTemplateType = 101; itemCtx.Templates.Footer = function (itemCtx) { return CalloutRenderFooterTemplate(itemCtx, AddCustomAction, true); }; SPClientTemplates.TemplateManager.RegisterTemplateOverrides(itemCtx); }); function AddCustomAction (renderCtx, calloutActionMenu) { // Add custom action calloutActionMenu.addAction (new CalloutAction ({ text: "Custom Action", tooltip: 'This is your custom action', onClickCallback: function() { console.log('Alert from custom action'); } })); } We are good to go!!

I was struck with requirement were having big list and workflow attached to it, need to cancel all running workflows.  It could be either manually traverse all the way and stop it, was next to impossible. Following script helped me to save my time! $web = Get-SPWeb "http://mysharepointserver.com/subsite"; $web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = $true; $list = $web.Lists["CustomListName"]; $count = 0 foreach ($listItem in $list.Items) { foreach ($workflow in $listItem.Workflows) { if(($listItem.Workflows | where {$_.InternalState -ne "Completed"}) -ne $null) { #Cancel Workflows [Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowManager]:: CancelWorkflow($workflow); write-output "Workflow cancelled for : " $listItem.Title; } } } $web.Dispose(); Hope this will save your time!

I came across weird issue, I created a task list with the system account. This list is not able to view by any other users. Spent enough time on finding a cause. It was all due to IE, it was working fine with Chrome and other browsers. To make it work with IE: 1.  Active x and JS permissions has to be enabled. 2.  The site has to be in the trusted pool of you internet explorer.   3. D isable any extra add-o ns. Hope this small piece of information will save time

I came across to the requirement to create a custom view based on workflow status. Requirement was to show all the approved items. I found a interesting stuff, Filter will not work if we use words like below image: we would need use the number rather than the words (e.g. 2 instead of In Progress, 4 instead of Cancelled etc) Following list might help for this kind of requirement: Status Value Not Started 0 Failed on Start 1 In Progress 2 Error Occurred 3 Canceled 4 Completed 5 Failed on Start (retrying) 6 Error Occurred (retrying) 7 Canceled 15 Approved 16 Rejected 17 Hope this will save your time!