PowerApps and Flow are becoming a more integral part of SharePoint Online with the imminent release of Custom Forms with PowerApps and the Flow Launch Panel. Starting in November, these features will no longer be considered as preview features.

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@Kerem Yuceturk Without Flow Plan 2, is there _any_ Enterprise control over what type of data sources one can connect to? Or can I get away with a single Plan 2 license t...
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Hi , I would like to know if we set the list /library experience to classic in the list or library settings would I still be able to see the Flow and PowerApps button in ...
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Hello, Has the "Create Flow on Selected Item" trigger been completed in Flow? That was one that seemed to be a work in progress several weeks ago. thanks
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To add further to my points raised above, a generic end user with a free licence also has access to the 'Admin Centre' option within the Flow/PowerApps browsers, so can n ...
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"So having these features off is not something we want to encourage to keep the product consistent for our users" This is all well & good, but things shouldn't be release ...
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I'd like to find a video (or two) that shows all of the features of a document library - JUST a document library. The video for "Create and share files in a library" has ...
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Very helpful videos for the business users who doesn't understand the technical part of SharePoint... Great Stuff!!
Great videos...thank you for sharing and helping to increase user adoption of SharePoint online! I saw that the OneDrive team just released a bunch of short videos, too. ...
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I need to create a calendar in SP2013, no server side code can be deployed.
So have to achieve by OOTB and Client side code
Requirement is : Only predefined slots will be available in calendar, like Mon to Friday only 9 to 5 PM. Other slots/days will be ...
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I think you requirements can be 100 % achieved with a development on the client side, but without re-using standard views available in calendar lists.
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What's the trick for changing the display title of SPO site that is connected to a Group? the Site Settings page no longer has the option to do this?
The group name is tied to the SharePoint site name, rename the group will rename the SharePoint site after some time (Some kind of job runs to update).
We have the same problem and the Site Information option is not working.
Any change we make there result in a red message stating:
"Classification options for your group ...
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Have you tried the Site Information option in the settings menu?
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Blockchain is now available for everyday documents and transactions. Since the introduction of blockchain technology in SharePoint by Sphereon this week, the technology is now available for large-scale and daily use. The blockchain technology is used to g ...
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Recently one of my colleagues brought it to my attention they are having a hard time locating where a document resides. How hard can it be, the full path is in link? Or so I thought.....This does not seem to be the case for all of our sites but we have se ...
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There've been a couple posts about this in the last week or so--basically, Microsoft is trying to shorten their links. I don't know that there was any kind of official co ...
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In older versions of SharePoint we could redirect calls to a site to use HTTPS by using Alternate Access Maps. In the new version SP2016 this is no longer working.
I have tried installing a rewrite module in IIS but, it is not working either.
I am using ADF ...
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Why not just send all users through WAP instead? That way the experience is consistent. It's what I typically do.
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While trying to install Hybrid Auditing, we get "Failed to stop a service (Microsoft Sharepoint Insights service) that is needed for Hybrid Auditing". The services is running on both of the servers in our farm (FE with Dist cache) and (apps with Search) r ...
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Is the account running SharePoint Insights (Farm Admin) a Local Admin as well?
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I have a list with these 2 columns - Manager and Due Date. Does SharePoint provide OOB feature to send email to Manager when Due Date is the current date ? Thanks for any help...
Any thoughts on leveraging tasks which can provide initial notifications and reminder e-mails? Saves you from writing code.
As the due date will only need to trigger an email once you could also condifer running PowerShell as a scheduled task. Simply schedule the PowerShell to scan through the ...
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As mentioned by @Chris Gullicksen you need to use SharePoint designer workflow and condtion to wait until the due date and send email. You can also do the same using "Flo ...
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Hello, You would need to use SharePoint designer to make this work. The concepts is similar to how you explained it. Wait until Due Date then email the Manager. Just be su...
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I'm sure I should know this, but I thought the community might help. I'm trying to create a calculated list column that returns a "Yes," based on another column's data. The data column will have a (textual) billing code entered in the format, e.g., "7254. ...
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Best to find things not equal to 9. I think this should work, you might have =IF(LEFT(Column1) = 9, "No", "Yes") , might have to plug an ISNUMBER() around it if that doen...
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Creating a dedicated post to track this. Lots of discussion on this from Yammer, and havent really seen this anywhere here yet.. What is the status of new "Modern" capabilities to support structured navigation? What structured navigation gives us today: ...
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Morning everyone - the related fixes we were waiting on have rolled out so we're able to resume release of this fix. It should be fully deployed to production by end of t ...
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It seems that whilst latest fix has resolved a number of issues with the global navigation, including the "Page not found" link showing, it appears we are now seeing a 0 ...
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@Brent Ellis (and others) - good news! We're finally pushing out a fix to support structured and managed navigation on modern pages/apps in classic sites.
With this upd ...
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Best Response confirmed by Brent Ellis (Valued Contributor)
Thank you,+1 here! Currently the only issue completely stopping us from moving the majority of libraries to modern. Would be nice to see this in the pipeline. I guess the ...
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Thanks for posting this. We have turned off modern sites until the navigation is working more consistently. I think the Modern UI should give more tools for building navi ...
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Hello,
we have some employees that are available 24/7; one people do 24/7 for six days (they are at work 8 hours and then are available via mobile if we have a problem with our systems installed at client location); now, when finished his rotation, the ...
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In SharePoint 2013 online, i noticed inconsistent behavior of the folder option in views. We migrated some 2007 views also to SharePoint 2013 online. Not sure about the relation to it. Still, as you can see in the screen shots,
1) doesn't show the Folder ...
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Depends how they were migrated but some libraries are probably using an old legacy library template. To change that you’ll have to migrate content instead of the entire l...
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I'd like to find a video (or two) that shows all of the features of a document library - JUST a document library. The video for "Create and share files in a library" has ...
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Very helpful videos for the business users who doesn't understand the technical part of SharePoint... Great Stuff!!
Great videos...thank you for sharing and helping to increase user adoption of SharePoint online! I saw that the OneDrive team just released a bunch of short videos, too. ...
Read More
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PowerApps and Flow are becoming a more integral part of SharePoint Online with the imminent release of Custom Forms with PowerApps and the Flow Launch Panel. Starting in November, these features will no longer be considered as preview features.

If yo ...
Read More
@Kerem Yuceturk Without Flow Plan 2, is there _any_ Enterprise control over what type of data sources one can connect to? Or can I get away with a single Plan 2 license t...
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Hi , I would like to know if we set the list /library experience to classic in the list or library settings would I still be able to see the Flow and PowerApps button in ...
Read More
Hello, Has the "Create Flow on Selected Item" trigger been completed in Flow? That was one that seemed to be a work in progress several weeks ago. thanks
Read More
To add further to my points raised above, a generic end user with a free licence also has access to the 'Admin Centre' option within the Flow/PowerApps browsers, so can n ...
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"So having these features off is not something we want to encourage to keep the product consistent for our users" This is all well & good, but things shouldn't be release ...
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Hi everyone! Thank you for the feedback around wanting to move to the “modern” team site experiences, and needing support for structured/managed navigation. We’re pleased to announce that we have addressed this issue and will be rolling out the fix to the ...
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@Sean Squires Really like the push for the modern and especially a Responsive experience, as that is absolutely essential in pushing SharePoint to a client now adays, the ...
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Hello! A little late to the party here, but trying to solve for navigation on a new Modern site. In the Classic sites it was very easy and straight-forward to create a ho ...
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@Sean Squires This is still not working. When there is a third level, the second level stops working. This is the only thing stopping us from moving to the new library ...
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What on earth is going on? Our navigation is still all messed up. When there is a third level flyout, it stops the second level fly-out from working. We urgently need t ...
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We still are not seeing all our navigation rendered correctly when we move to the new UI. We are using Managed Navigation. We have the main level of sites listed, then ...
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Hello,
I am working with a company who navigates SharePoint mainly by using searches and they would like to start using the modern view as there is better features. In the Classic view the global search bar is always at the top right, even when you are ...
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As Microsoft is still working on a modern page solution, I have delved into creating a modern page web part that redirect the user to an enterprise search page to leverag ...
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Unfortunately, not yet. There does not seem to be any ability to customize the modern search stuff like we previously could. I have not seen any presentations from Ignite ...
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Hello,
Is it possible to only allow users to create team sites using the "Create site" button?

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So depends, if you want them to just create an old school SharePoint site, not the new Group connected SharePoint site and comm site (these are together or not at all rig ...
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We are heading towards the end of a big push to get all files in OneDrive or SharePoint. The Finance department (VIPs) are getting very frustrated with deleted files/folders reappearing as they are synced back online from other user's sycned client OneDr ...
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Are you sure that those files were not opened on other users machines when they were deleted?
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Hello! Using SPD 2013, I created a Custom Action (List item menu) for a SharePoint 2016 library that has the document set content type linked to it. The problem that I have is the custom action is not shown as part of the contextual menu of a document set ...
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Hello,
Were you able to resolve this issue.
If so, please let me know the resolution steps.
Thanks in advance,
Same issue here! I'm trying to register custom actions using CSOM on folders and document sets and it does not work in SharePoint 2016. We are on FP1 so there is no chang ...
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I have many PDF files in an SPO site. They have been tagged with keywords, and I’d like them to be indexed by those keywords. In the SPO Search Center I can find and filter PDF files by author and title, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to query by ...
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SharePoint can query the properties (i.e. metadata) of a document only if there is a document parser that "promotes" such properties when uploading the document. Unfortuna ...
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Best Response confirmed by stesdsuk (Occasional Contributor)
I am not sure if the pdf properties will be picked up. You should really add those properties to the pdf document at the SharePoint level. So use termsets, and document p...
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I would like to copy a list structure (the list without the contents) from one O365 SharePoint Site to another. I've read a few postings that suggest saving the list as a template. However, I do not have the "save as a template" option on my list settings ...
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So it's been asked many times in the old network and never answered, so want to ask it here in the hopes that people are actually thinking about this. What is the plan for "modern" Document Sets in the new modern SharePoint? Right now, the experience is y ...
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I was able to create a document library, where my document sets are also modern "inside". I was changing the views and editing the "welcome page" for the document set, wh ...
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I know most of this thread is taken up with the modern v classic UI. However I'd like to post a 'wishlist' feature to tac onto Brent's original comment. I'd like to see a ...
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The inability to update Document Set metadata in the Modern UI is freaking out my users. Back to classic view for everyone. Hope classic view is supported at least until ...
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Hi Brent,
We're looking closely at Document Sets currently. They get significant usage in the service, and it's clear that they're in need of a UX update. We want to ...
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How or where did you copy the original URL from?
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Our instance of Office 365 does not respect the settings in the SharePoint Admin Center.
Our settings are:
Site Pages: Prevent users from creating Site Pages.
Site Creation: Hide the Create site command.
Users are still able to create both Sites and ...
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The sites setting is for the SharePoint office 365 user dashboard screen. Are you confusing this with the ability to create subsites?
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I may be late to this conversation if it's been had already, but now that my organization has gained access to more Modern page design features (editable banner, Hero web part, Events web part, layout options), I'm left wondering if there is no fundamenta ...
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Does anyone know how to change classification for Communication site? Is it only possible to select one during site creation?
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Hi Matt, There is one difference which i noticed related to navigation. There is left navigation and golabal navigation available in team site ,In case of communication si ...
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my pennies worth on this one is, that this is more a strategic separation than a technical one You can see on the 'new site' dialgue that Microsoft are asking the basic qu ...
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The introduction of Communication sites, and the similar/identical options for pages, has made us re-think about how on-prem sites will be migrated to online sites. ...
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One of the items I've been trying to tackle is how to move a site page between site collections (two different communication sites). In the same Site Pages library, this is simple. The usage case scenario here would be if we have a designated "UAT" envi ...
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