New to board, question
Hello, I am trying to find the right place to ask architecture questions and issues with SharePoint. If this is the right place, please let me know suggestions or where I can search for the following: We are running SharePoint Online. I do not have O365 Admin rights. I had created the Vandelay Project examples, site columns and document content types. After "playing" with the project I deleted the site columns from the content types, tried to delete the content types but keep getting the message they are being used somewhere. I put a ticket in with our IT but they have been unable to delete these with their rights. I have renamed them with a "z_" and assigned them to a Deprecated group. Can someone suggest what to do? Thank you, Carol
Automated upload competing with users who have a file open in Co-authoring mode
This behavior began approximately mid-December. An automated process uploading/overwriting a file located in SharePoint online was constantly receiving errors when executing. We ran through several scenarios for troubleshooting but in the end, we had found that a user would open the file and leave it open in the background through the working day. This behavior produced some co-authoring lock on the file where people could get in and work on the file at the same time but locked out the automated process that would upload a new version of the file regularly. We fixed the behavior after consulting with the people who were referencing the file, they were gathering data from it and were not updating it in any way. So, we broke the permission inheritance for this file and set it up to be read-only for all users but the process that was uploading the file. This allowed the people to reference the file and undid the locking behavior that we had observed. Now, before the middle of December, this locking mechanism didn't exist. Users could have the file open in edit mode and our automated process to update the file was able to upload and overwrite at the same time without issues. Has anyone else observed this behavior within the last few months? We didn't open up a ticket with Microsoft to get an official answer if something new was perhaps implemented and we're curious if anyone has opened a ticket regarding this behavior. Also, I briefly look through the message center and couldn't find any changes in there that seemed to be related to this change by their titles. The error that was seen from the automated process was: The remote server returned an error: (423) Locked. Any input appreciated - I am definitely curious to hear if others are observing this as well.Intermittent failures when creating new libraries in modern SharePoint
Hi everyone, I’m seeing an issue in our modern SharePoint Online site collection where creating new document libraries has started failing. This site has worked normally for years, but over the past week, most library creation attempts haven't worked. 1) The page briefly flashes or glitches during the creation process. and 2) A non‑ending spinning wheel when I hit "create" or 3) Creation attempts return “Something's not right.” error page. The failures happen across all subsites, in multiple browsers, and I’m a Site Collection Administrator. No permission changes were made recently. Has anyone seen similar intermittent library creation failures in a modern site collection, or know what might cause this kind of inconsistent behavior? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks! Meagan
To hide the file preview section in a SharePoint Document library gallery card with JSON
Hello All, I have a SharePoint document library and I created a gallery view for it. I displayed several columns/metadata on the gallery view. I want to disable/hide the file preview section in this card. I believe this can easily be done by changing some code in JSON at the Format view Advanced. However, I don't know how to do it. I hope there is someone, in this form, could be able to help me. Thanks in advanced.
Change in SharePoint File Selection Behaviour
Has anyone noticed this in the last week/s? Basically before, you used to be able to SELECT files without opening them. Now, 5-6 times out of ten, if I try to select a document or folder it opens instead. Like, even when i am clearly clicking the checkmark to the left of the file/folder, it will STILL OPEN in the browser, rather than just selecting. It's like the file open behaviour has gotten more sensitive or something? It's really frustrating because my users need to add metadata to documents by selecting them, and now they have to fight with SharePoint nearly every time.
Export list of users with unique permissions
Hello community, The context: We have a document library with 30 000 items. We broke inheritance and set up special permissions for some of them. Now we have about 30 items with special permissions that can be listed in Sharepoint Online. See the picture below. What we want: We want to get list of user on each item now. How can we do that? The output should look like this item1 - user 1 item1 - user 2 item1 - user 3 item1 - group 1 item1 - group 2 item 2 - user 1 item 2 - user 5 ... The idea We will write powershell script But can we identify items with special permissions the same way Sharepoint does it in the picture? How? How to use the API correctly because we cannot list each item (30k) in Sharepoint for performace reasons right? Related topics maybe? List of Unique Permissions from Site Settings | Microsoft Community Hub mentioning StephenRice
How can I rename a library in SharePoint?
Due to some testing with a failing copy flow, I have discovered that I need to rename a few libraries to get the flow to work properly with the requirements my clients have settled on. Is it possible to rename a library? I also need to edit the Web Address in List Information.
