Sydney Ignite-Quick tip

For all Sydney Igniters, you can view the session listing and its timing on the link below https://sydney.myignitetour.techcommunity.microsoft.com/auth-redirect?dest=/sessions and you can download the Microsoft Events app on your mob (I’ve checked on android). I used it last year and it is very useful. It will let you know your schedules and other sessions as well. Continue reading Sydney Ignite-Quick tip

Power Apps not able to show the fields or causing any error from the SharePoint Connection

Just a Quick note, If Power Apps forms not able to show the fields or causing any error from the SharePoint Connection, it might be possible that some one have update the fields. And as per connection, it save schema of the List at the time of SharePoint connection creation. To resolve this Go to the Data Source and refresh the Connection as per the … Continue reading Power Apps not able to show the fields or causing any error from the SharePoint Connection

[InputMetaDataXml] : The ‘Fields’ is invalid. Input string was not in a correct format.

In Nintex workflow if you are trying to upload a document by using “Office 365 upload file” and trying to add value in person (user) field. You may encounter the following error “[InputMetaDataXml] : The ‘Fields’ is invalid. Input string was not in a correct format.” The solution is quite simple, you need to map the “User Id” in the “Advanced Lookup” option. Continue reading [InputMetaDataXml] : The ‘Fields’ is invalid. Input string was not in a correct format.

SharePoint Modernization Scanner, my two cents

Well with the annoucment of SharePoint Modernization Scanner tool, i thought to give it a try. I ran it for one site collection , which got some data, custom master pages plus some designer workflow. Following are my thoughts about the results sheet i got after running this tool. Page ScanI got useful information, like how many webparts, type of webpart are there on the … Continue reading SharePoint Modernization Scanner, my two cents

Updates on SharePoint Online social API

So Microsoft graph is a way to go for office 365 API and it’s now depreciating the existing API. But there is nothing to worry about as Graph will take over these API in more enhance manner. The affected API set is the social.following APIs (documentation) – specifically the followed count API (http://<siteCollection>/<site>/_api/social.following/my/followedcount) will no longer return results. I would suggest for all new office 365 solution … Continue reading Updates on SharePoint Online social API

Access to XMLHttpRequest at from origin ‘https://.sharepoint.com’ has been blocked by CORS policy: No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource.

Issue: So i was working on trying to make a post request, which was hosted on Azure Funciton Apps, from from Microsof Teams. So i came across with following error Access to XMLHttpRequest at <URL> from origin ‘https://<tenant&gt;.sharepoint.com’ has been blocked by CORS policy: No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. My solution comprises of following bits Azure Funciton Apps Teams One point … Continue reading Access to XMLHttpRequest at from origin ‘https://.sharepoint.com’ has been blocked by CORS policy: No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource.

Error: Activity in progress. Retrying last request. Next attempt scheduled after

I was using Nintex o365 workflow on the migrated site from SharePoint on prem to SharePoint online. When the workflow started on the item, it was showing the following message, Error: Activity in progress. Retrying last request. Next attempt scheduled after <time>. Details of last request: HTTP NotFound to https://<tenant&gt;.sharepoint.com/sites/<siteurl>/_api/web/lists(guid'<listguid>’)/Items(<itemguid>)?%24select=ID%2CTitle After a while, i found out that I need to activiate feature “Workflows can use … Continue reading Error: Activity in progress. Retrying last request. Next attempt scheduled after

Only one copy of the sharepoint products configuration wizard can be run at a time

I was evaluating SharePoint 2019, so i prepared only one VM which got (SQL Server, SharePoint, Active Directory). When i tried to run the SharePoint sites, it seems that it stuck somewhere and loading forever. I checked IIS, all the app pool and sites are in running mode. So i tried to run SharePoint Product Configuration wizard, and it throws the following error “Only one … Continue reading Only one copy of the sharepoint products configuration wizard can be run at a time