SharePoint Designer
7 TopicsThe Business Data Connectivity Metadata store is currently unavailable. (External SharePoint List)
I'm trying to create an external SharePoint list to a SQL Table (Done this before). However, when trying to complete the step of External Content Type I am having no luck Connecting to SharePoint Online through the Designer tool then navigating to External Content Types is not working for me. I first get: The Business Data Connectivity Metadata store is currently unavailable. Then I get the following when clicking "External Content Type": The HTTP Service located at https://<org>.sharepoint.com/_vti_bin/BDCAdminService.svc is unavailable. This could be because the service is too busy or because no endpoint was found listening at the specified address. Please ensure that the address is correct and try accessing the service again later. (The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable.Solved10KViews0likes5CommentsDataview Date Sources Missing
Noticed an issue with SP Designer and dataviews within classic pages on 04/27/2020 after the MS removal of the ability to create custom list forms via SPDesigner. Now when editing any classic SharePoint page within SPDesigner that has a dataview on it, the dataview gets its data source ripped out and if page is saved now the dataview will no longer work. You can manually add the datasource back into the dataview but if you come back to the page in SPDesigner it is missing again. See screenshot below of where the datasource is removed when viewing on the page. Have confirmed this behavior on multiple tenants with various admin user accounts. Tried the usual clearing of cache and such to confirm not a local issue as well. Seems to possibly be related to the recent SPO update to remove SharePoint Designer's ability to create custom forms in your environment.888Views0likes0CommentsInitiate SharePoint Designer Workflow (Manual) via Ms Flow
I have a SP library and on each item I have a flow button. Now when the flow is activated for a particular item I need to initiate a SharePoint Designer workflow which was until now initiated manually. Is there any way to achieve this, please let me know. Thanks in advance.1.1KViews0likes1CommentHow to get custom reusable workflow feature in CSOM?
Hello, I have created a custom reusable workflow in SharePoint Designer. I am facing an issue after deployment of workflow. I have to activate the workflow feature with CSOM but I am not able to get that feature with CSOM code. I have tried code but this code is not showing that custom workflow feature id. I have tried on web & site level also : public static void GetAllWebFeatures(ClientContext ctx, Web web) { try { var webFeatures = web.Features; ctx.Load(webFeatures, fcol => fcol.Include(f => f.DisplayName, f => f.DefinitionId)); ctx.ExecuteQuery(); foreach (var f in webFeatures) { Console.WriteLine(f.DisplayName); } } catch(Exception ex) { Helper.WriteException("Error in GetAllFeatures", ex); } }1.3KViews0likes2CommentsSharePoint Designer to Microsoft Flow Limitations
Hi everyone, Like a lot of people who are reading this, we have been using SharePoint Designer (SPD) for several years to do a myriad of little things: Email reminders Copying documents from library to another if it meets a certain condition Copying list items from one library to another if it meets a certain condition Looping workflows Setting list/library column fields to a certain value While I'm committed to learning Flow better, and I realize that Microsoft is working every day to make Flow do more things that SPD has done in the past, I have one overwhelming problem in our Office 365 tenant. That's the hard limit of 4500 Flows per month. Since it's coming up to Black Friday, I have been getting a number of requests from people wanting me to buy things. Like online training, and at big, bargain prices. Anyway, I was talking with a lovely non-bot Samantha (I asked her if she was a real person, and she said yes), about their training offers, describing my issue with Flow. She said that PowerApps can actually do a number of these types of operations without using Flow. My first question is, anyone have any experience with PowerApps doing some of the tasks I listed? My second question, does anyone have any recommendations for training groups that are of good quality, offering online solutions at a reasonable price?Solved1.5KViews0likes3CommentsBest JS framework(Angular/React/Vue) to use in SharePoint 2013
Hi, We have tools (Basically CRUD operations in multiple lists across sites/site collections. Handles large amount of data and has lots of business functionalities/logic) that were built using jQuery and Datatables.js. We are planning to rebuild in 2013. Visual Studio/ server side coding is not allowed. Can anyone suggest which JavaScript framework (Angular Js1.x, Angular 2+, React, Vue/ Others) is best to use in SharePoint 2013? Difficult to get Node.JS/NPM/CLI on DEV environment. we have tried a PoC in Angular 4 using SystemJs-Manual mapping concept. But not sure how bundling and future upgrade will be if CLI/NPM is not used. Any suggestions please? Thanks, Puli2KViews1like1CommentSharePoint list view error Cannot complete this action
dears I have new server of sharepoint 2013 and when tried to create or modify existing view i got error " cannot complte this action note: the url retirect on servername/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?cs=65001 same senario hapens when tried to enable the list versioning sittings i read posts talks about modify the httpmodule to pass the owssvr.dll but sharepoint admin says we should not interacte with http modules becouse its new server withouty any old customization https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/sharepointdevelopersupport/2015/02/18/when-using-a-custom-http-module-and-you-create-a-view-for-a-list-you-get-an-error-saying-cannot-complete-this-action-please-try-again/ https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/ea0b1380-480f-4b2e-afde-77ed06995bb0/error-vtibinowssvrdllcs65001when-creating-or-editing-view?forum=sharepointdevelopmentprevious&prof=required any idea ????2.8KViews0likes0Comments