Microsoft Flow vs SharePoint Designer Workflows
Today I ran a couple of tests comparing Microsoft Flow with SharePoint Designer Workflows and I found a number of interesting differences in the way the two engines work. In…
Migrate to Power Automate from SharePoint Designer practical examples – part 1 – Clone list items
I will start today with a series of posts with practical examples of how to migrate to Power Automate. Migrate to Power Automate example I’m going to start with an…
Migrate from SharePoint Designer to Power Automate
Recently I’ve looked at many SharePoint Designer workflows and migrated them to Microsoft Flow or Azure Logic Apps. There isn’t really a set approach that will work for all but…
SharePoint 2016 – Copying SharePoint Designer Workflows from one list to another
This time a short post with a quick win if you make a lot of similar workflows on SharePoint lists. I’m by no means a SharePoint Designer workflow expert and…
Office 365 – SharePoint Designer workflows calling long running web services
Today I created a SharePoint Designer workflow calling web services. The web service call creates a SharePoint site and applies a PnP template to the site. In general the setup…
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Office 365 – SharePoint implementing drag and drop for list items
Last week one of my customers at hybrIT Services wanted me to implement drag and drop to update a status field for one of their lists. So I found the Andrew…
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The HTTP request has timed out after 200000 milliseconds
Yesterday I was using the PnP Provisioning Engine to deploy a SharePoint Designer workflow and I got the following error: [ERROR] Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate : System.TimeoutException: The HTTP request has timed out[ERROR]…
SharePoint 2013 – An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the workflow instance
An unhandled exception I had a problem with a SharePoint Designer Workflow I was creating a task and assigned it to a SharePoint group. Then I got the error: Details:…
SharePoint 2013 – System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly
System.IO.FileNotFoundException During the deployment of a solution to my test environment I got the following error: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.WorkflowServices, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’ or one of…