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All Microsoft MVP, Pieter Veenstra’s posts about SharePoint Designer. If you want to learn more about SharePoint Designer then this is the site to visit
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 … read the microsoft-flow-vs-sharepoint-designer-workflows post
After yesterday’s post about migrating from SharePoint Designer to Microsoft Flow I will start today with a series of posts with practical examples of losing the Work in your Workflow … read the microsoft-flow-migrate-to-sharepoint-designer-practical-examples-part-1-clone-list-items post
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 … read the microsoft-flow-how-to-migrate-from-sharepoint-designer-to-flow-or-azure-logic-apps post
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 … read the sharepoint-2016-copying-sharepoint-designer-workflows-from-one-list-to-another post
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 … read the office-365-sharepoint-designer-workflows-calling-long-running-web-services post
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 … read the office-365-sharepoint-implementing-drag-and-drop-for-list-items post
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 … read the office-365-the-http-request-has-timed-out-after-200000-milliseconds-system-net-webexception-the-request-was-aborted-the-request-was-canceled post
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: … read the sharepoint-2013-an-unhandled-exception-occurred-during-the-execution-of-the-workflow-instance post
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 … read the sharepoint-2013-system-io-filenotfoundexception-could-not-load-file-or-assembly-microsoft-sharepoint-client-workflowservices-version15-0-0-0-cultureneutral-publickeytoken71e9bce111e9429c post
Today I tried to get the TemplateID for starting a workflow from the ribbon in SharePoint 2013 workflow. Some Background To start a workflow from a SharePoint ribbon a URL … read the get-templateid-for-starting-a-workflow-from-the-ribbon-in-sharepoint-2013-workflow post
So I had a reusable SharePoint Designer list workflow deployed in SharePoint 2013. The process that I’m implementing is creating project sites using web templates created in Visual Studio 2013. … read the share-point-2013-workflow-manager-1-0-how-to-publish-a-list-workflow-programmatically post
Today I wanted to update a list item’s related Items (I renamed the Related Items to Secured Comments in my list) field. I’m using the Update List Item action and … read the update-related-items-in-sharepoint-2013-using-sharepoint-designer-workflow post
In SharePoint 2013 it is now possible to create code free workflows. There are quite a few articles about how to install workflow manager 1.0. For a step by step … read the code-free-workflows-in-sharepoint-2013 post
Today I came across the following error when I tried to activate a SharePoint designer workflow feature: SharePoint 2013 Workflow: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: App Management Shared Service Proxy is not installed. So … read the sharepoint-2013-workflow-microsoft-sharepoint-spexception-app-management-shared-service-proxy-is-not-installed post
Today I tried enabling the export option on a custom web part. To do this I went through the following steps: Opened SharePoint Designer Opened the site that contained the … read the enabling-the-export-option-for-a-web-part post