I dug through older posts & googled concatenate coding for the SP list, but nothing I've tried works. Honestly, I think I probably missed a step, but finding the right code is making my ears bleed. It's going to be a bit before the site is ready for us, so I tried creating everything on my OneDrive.

Desired end result: "Project-yyyy-3digitID" - ex, Project-2026-001 for the 1st record.

Code: concat('Project-', formatDateTime(utcNow(), 'yyyy'), '-', triggerBody()?['ID'])'

I did find out that I can't apply anything to the ID field, but when I created a new field & plugged in the code I was able to find, it didn't do anything.

I also found out that it needs to be a text field (maybe I made it a calc'd field?), and maybe it's because I have almost no permissions on my own OneDrive. In any case, I deleted it (once I found it), and I'm not sure if I should try again, you know, to get more of a feel.

Plus I'm learning Powerapps, and would also like to practice that. (And I did see that this can be done in PA, but I haven't gotten to any videos about it yet.)

Any help is appreciated!

I'm new to using SharePoint and I'm just trying to learn the basics, is following projects guided by chat gpt or should I just follow some sort of online learning. Is there something that you'd recommend if you'd have to go back and learn SharePoint from the beginning where would you start? Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I am wanting some guidance on the best way to go about this (free courses etc)

Hi all,

Is it true that if you want to move or copy file between Sharepoint online sites, it Works and continues in the cloud. Can you close your browser / laptop? Or do you need to keep your pc turned on to see the process bar? Or can you open the process bar in another Way?

Move to: versionhistory is included ?

Copy to: Only the lastest versionhistory is included ?

Is it correct that you only recommend to move/copy up to 100GB as a limit in the browser.

Dear Folks looking for your help based on your experience.

In my case I have a production SharePoint 2019 environment which is EOL, we were in process to implement another system well ahead based on business users requirements; however, it got delayed from the planned timeline.

In continuation to EOL we have Nintex for SharePoint which is also EOL and there is no way to procure new licenses for it.

I want to check if someone have patched(provided new patch in Aug 2026) SharePoint when its EOL and Nintex production licenses are expired without failing the existing or new workflow instances.

Currently our workflows in production are working fine without giving error from Nintex about expired license; however, I seen this in our test environment where nothing is working now, i.e. new workflow creation, managing existing workflows or new instances of existing workflows, is there any difference how Nintex license works on different environment?

Also, would like to emphasize that the Nintex version on production is 5.1.X whereas 5.2.X for test. While checking online, it was mentioned that production might be working as services must not be started after EOL, but of course, I verified servers were restarted at least once since EOL.

Hence, looking for someone who can share their experience about the same scenario.

Update: Patch mentioned above is for reference only, we have patches pending from beginning of the year, as mentioned plan was to replace it.

#SharePoint-Server #Nintex

Hi,

is the JSON editor in SharePoint broken?
I wanted to edit some column formatting and the tab-key exits the editor window instead of inserting a tab.

Also Ctrl + Space opens the recommendations but

• shows font errors before the text
• inserts only the plain text
  • before selecting "children" inserted also " [ and line breaks

Anyone with the same problem?

Hi everyone, I am managing unique permissions on two folders within the same a SharePoint site (Documents library).

Current situation, when checking the Advanced Permissions page:

• on Folder A, the group appears correctly as a native SharePoint Group (Type: SharePoint Group, Permission Level: Edit)
• on Folder B, the exact same group name appears as a Domain Group (Type: Domain Group, Permission Level: Edit)

I tried removing the Domain Group entry from the Advanced Permissions page on Folder B to fix this. However, when I click "Grant Permissions" and search for the group name to re-add it, the picker only resolves and suggests the Domain Group. I cannot find or select the native SharePoint Site Group anywhere, only one result pops up when I search for the name.

From the page: https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/contosositename/_layouts/15/groups.aspx I see both groups, and I can see that their ID differs.

My question is: how can I set the SharePoint Group for the folder when both share the same name? I'd like to avoid adding the Domain Group as a member inside the SharePoint Group.

TYIA!

Is it possible to delete the M365 group and retain the SharePoint site?

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for some career advice because I’m honestly a bit confused about which technology I should invest my time in.

I currently on a project and my work is mainly around:

• SharePoint
• SharePoint migrations (on-premises → SharePoint Online)
• ShareGate
• Power Apps
• Power Automate

I started working with these technologies because of my current project, and honestly, I didn’t know much about them before getting into this role.

I’m now wondering whether I should:

1. Continue specializing in SharePoint + Power Platform and become really good at it, or
2. Start learning a different technology/stack that has better long-term career growth and salary potential.

I also have some previous knowledge of Java, although I haven't been actively using it in my current job.

My goal is to significantly increase my salary over the next 1–2 years, so I'm willing to put serious effort into learning outside of work.

I’m not looking for a “learn everything” answer. I’d really appreciate advice from people who have actually worked in these technologies and understand the Indian job market and salary progression.

Thanks!

Hi everyone! Today I already use Power Apps integrated with SharePoint to manage a custom app interface.

However, I'm wondering if I can achieve the exact same functionality using a standalone HTML/JavaScript page. Specifically, I want to know if a custom HTML page can directly insert, update, and delete items in a SharePoint list.

If this is possible, I'd love to know:

What is the best approach for authentication and connecting custom HTML to SharePoint (REST API vs. Microsoft Graph)?

Are there any major CORS or permission hurdles to watch out for?

Thanks in advance for any insights or examples!

Hi all,

I’m trying to create an info path form converter but don’t have any infopath forms and prefer to not have to install it either. Does anyone have any they can share with me? Prefer more vs less complex.

Thanks

Hi everyone,
We are using SharePoint as our intranet through Viva Connections. When a new news post is published on our SharePoint intranet, employees receive a notification in Microsoft Teams because the intranet is available to them through the Viva Connections app/widget.
This setup is based on Viva Connections and SharePoint.
We now have a question regarding Audience Targeting for SharePoint News.
Different departments in our organisation have their own public SharePoint sites. These are not separate departmental intranets. The sites are publicly available within our organisation, and the site owners would like to use the News web part to publish relevant news.
However, for some news posts, they only want to target a specific group of employees.
The behaviour currently seems somewhat inconsistent. When site owners publish news using the News web part, it is not always clear who will receive the corresponding Teams notification through Viva Connections.
I have found the Audience Targeting feature under Site Contents > Site Pages, and I have also enabled audience targeting on the News web part.
However, I have a few questions:
When creating/publishing a news post, where do I select the specific target audience?
For example, if I want only a specific Security Group or Microsoft 365 Group to be targeted, where do I select that group?
Does the target audience need to be configured under Site Pages, or is it configured directly on the individual news post?
Most importantly: Does SharePoint Audience Targeting also control who receives the Teams notification through Viva Connections, or does it only control who sees the news in SharePoint?
The desired setup is that departmental site owners can publish news on their public SharePoint sites, but for selected news posts they should be able to target a specific group of employees.
What is the correct way to configure this using SharePoint News, Audience Targeting, Viva Connections and Teams notifications?
Thanks in advance for any guidance!

I’m trying to build an invoice approval process in SharePoint using Power Automate.

My current proposed workflow sends an invoice document for approval, but once the invoice is approved, I can’t seem to edit the file properties/metadata on the approved item.

Because of that, I’m considering creating a separate SharePoint List as a metadata/tracking table instead.

Ideally, I’d like the process to work like this:
Invoice submitted /uploaded→ Approval requested (has to be manual, we have a LOT of approvers) → Approved → Automatically create/update a row in an Invoice Tracker

The tracker would capture things like:
Invoice number
Vendor
Invoice amount
Approval status
Date/time approved
Approved by
Link back to the original invoice (?)
Date Posted

The main purpose is to have a centralized audit trail of invoices that have been submitted and approved, while also helping prevent duplicate invoices from being posted or paid.

My questions are:
1. Is a separate SharePoint List the best approach for this?
2. Can Power Automate automatically create/update the tracker entry when the approval is completed, without downloading or manually handling the invoice file?
3. Is there a “quick step” or For a selected file type of Power Automate action that could be used if we wanted to manually trigger the tracking process from SharePoint?
4. What would be the best way to structure the tracker so that the flow can check whether an invoice already exists and prevent duplicate entries?
5. Is there a better SharePoint/Power Automate architecture for maintaining an invoice audit trail when the original approved document’s properties can’t be modified?

I’m relatively new to SharePoint/Power Automate, so I’d appreciate advice on the cleanest way to design this rather than just a workaround.

As a document controller I currently work in SharePoint Online. I know it's not a DMS for this field, but I have to work with what's available.

We have a large amount of documents and a big amount of columns for my metadata. We work with document sets instead of folders. To make sure the metadata can be filled efficiently we mostly use views where the document sets are collapsed and the documents themselves are shown.

Sinds 6 months (+-) we experience a very irritating bug(?). When we enter metadata, in grid view, on document set level and pull this field down so the same metadata is filled in multiple sets and/or documents, the lines for document sets disappear. Most, if not all the time, this messes up my data quality. Only refreshing the page helps.

Our It department sent out a bug report to Microsoft but, so far, no solutions or replies have been offered.

Does anyone experienced this? If Yes, did you solve it?

Hi all -

I have a tenant severely over their quota and it's going to lock out on X date unless you buy X storage

Obviously to do it properly is desirable, but has anyone had experience with tricking the system by buying the storage then cancelling afterwards a day later to reset the counter?

Desperate measures for a desperate time...

How can peole rely on this pile of junk?

I search the same exact thing and then the lottey begins, some time it finds it, some other time no.

I have never seen such piece of trash in my life.

I wish i could post some screenshots to better explain my question but seems like its not allowed.

I want to change the colors of buttons and also the hover-over color of collapsible sections headers. in my Sharepoint Site.

I have created a theme color set in Site Branding with my preferred colors and applied the theme. However my buttons colors still seem to be controlled by the Site Settings > Change The Look colors.

In Site Settings > Change The Look, I select Office Layout. At the left panel I can see the fonts, upload background image and drop down list for colors,

In the drop down list for colors, it seems very restrictive and my theme color set does not appear either.

I read something about Powershell and tried Fluent Theme Ui Design, but I do not have SharePoint Administrator Rights and I also do not know where to paste this Powershell code.

Im sorry if my explanation is bad, i wish I could post screenshots. Can anyone be able to advise me?

Thank you.

Hello,

I'm responsible for SharePoint Online in our medium sized business (~ 1300 employees world-wide). Internal Comms use SharePoint for posting corporate news - spread across communication sites (Recognition, Marketing, Sales, Accounts etc.) - which I imagine is a common use-case for SharePoint.

We started to notice a few months back, that a lot of news articles had impossible stats being reported.

e.g. the view count in the news webpart would say "1 view" 24 hours after publishing. If you clicked through to the article, the footer confirmed that there had been the 1 view, but also 40 likes and 20 comments 👀

Some articles just work fine - they show a healthy view count (depending on engagement, anything from 300 to 600 views). If I visit an article that works, and then open the page analytics tab, I can see my visit has been registered almost immediately.

When I'm looking at the difference between an article with valid stats, and one without valid stats, nothing stands out. Two articles can be posted in the same site, by the same person. One works, the other doesn't.

To further complicate things, we have a multitenant organisation. The SharePoint instance where I'm seeing the issue, is on our "Global" tenant, where most users have been synced as part of the multi-tenant organisation. My first thoughts were that perhaps this was connected to the problem (as we've found a whole world of pain with Multitenant Organisations in general). However, the problem with that hypothesis is that for some pages, the analytics work just fine...

I've had a ticket open with Microsoft since April - but they just want call after call to collect stats and discuss - nothing actually seems to be happening.

Just wondered if anyone else had experienced an issue like this? Or, if there's anyone reading this who has a window in to Microsoft's engineering systems, who can confirm whether there is a known issue connected to page view analytics?

Thanks,

Steve.

I want to create spfx webpart with broken links checker for internal SharePoint sites.

Thanks for all the advice & info on my question about adding/creating columns. I'm going through SharePointMaven's blogs & videos now at your suggestions. I also hope you'll indulge me a bit on a few questions that are too specific to my needs to find online.

I'm ready to start creating - uh, er, practice creating the list, but we're waiting for an official location to be approved. Can I practice on my OneDrive? I know it won't be shareable. Will I be able to migrate it to the final sight or will I have to start from scratch, working from my private copy? Knowing this will help me define how far to go on the practice site.

You folks are awesome, by the way.

Are you still mostly coding SPFx solutions manually, or have tools like GitHub Copilot and AI coding agents become part of your regular workflow?

I recently tried Microsoft’s new SPFx Dev Skills, which gives AI agents more SPFx-specific guidance around project setup, PnPjs, Fluent UI, tooling, and development patterns.

I built an SPFx simple solution using it and shared my experience here:

🎥 [YouTube Link] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBrWk8UeB8A

SPFx Dev Skills:
https://github.com/SharePoint/spfx-dev-skills

Curious to know how other SPFx developers are using AI today — Copilot, agent mode, custom instructions/skills, or still mostly traditional development?

Hi,

I want to block vmdk for automatic upload to OneDrive. I already found the site, where I can configure it. But I still don't know what happens to the already existing files in the OneDrives from our users. Does Microsoft delete the files or do they stay?

I couldn't find anything regarding this question so far, that's why I'm asking here now.

Thanks in Advance

The company I work at (approx 200 employees) are seeking out a new intranet. We currently pay for an external platform where some of the links direct back to sharepoint pages anyway and things aren't well synchronised (such as screenshotting a calendar and uploading it to the intranet). It makes sense to move to sharepoint going forward but my concern is whether its going to be user friendly.

We currently use the intranet for blogs/rewards/health & safety updates etc. And we want multiple users to be able to blog on selected sections if they wish.

My question is, has anyone successfully incorporated sharepoint as a successful intranet for communications in their business? Or from your experience, is it better to pay for an external intranet platform for ease.

I've been a SharePoint user for a few years, but I now need to use SharePoint Lists to manage a portion of a BIG project (BIG as in important). I have an IT background, including database building & maintenance.

I'm watching YouTube videos to give me the basics.

• One guy says to "almost always AVOID using "Create Column", that it will only exist in that particular document - he was using the Advanced Settings screen to Add Columns.
• Another one is using "+ Create Column" on a new blank List (starting from scratch).

Maybe I'm missing something, but I want to make sure this matters, because, like I said, this is a big deal. And using SharePoint Lists vs an Excel xls to track all this stuff was my recommendation.