Hi, I recently upgraded my machine to windows 11 home version and when trying to build a SPFx application customizer extension for the first time, I have noticed this error. "Error loading debug script. Ensure the server is running and the "debugManifestsFile" parameter URL is correct. Error: Script error for: https://localhost:4321/temp/manifests.js http://requirejs.org/docs/errors.html#scripterror" Resolution: Run gulp trust-dev-cert in your project location on the command prompt. Which creates a local certificate for development and debugging Thanks, Purna ..read more

Hi Guys, This is a short post regarding an error when displaying the Microsoft forms on a SharePoint modern page using "Microsoft Forms" webpart. While giving the Microsoft Form url in Form address section of webpart, getting below error : This is not a valid form link. Please copy a URL from Microsoft Forms Resolution : Change the address from https://forms.microsoft.com to https://forms.office.com  like below : https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=AMTFSSVS5-C2960-zJa4H09HDcNmDygV5UVFHNE1aMTFFVDJNR1RKRElFSC4u No idea on what is the logic behind this . Both lin ..read more

Hi, Recently I got a requirement to build a scheduled flow (Power Automate) which sends emails to users to work on some tasks before they attend a training. That email body contains few images which were stored in a SharePoint Picture Library. Issue : Images are not displayed to end users as they were not having access on the SharePoint site. One solution for this problem is, giving read access to all users (every one) on the site or at least on the picture library by breaking the permissions from parent. But due to some policy issues, we are not allowed to do that.  So because of ..read more

Hi Guys, This post is on a basic concept like reading the values of a SharePoint person or group field from Ms flow.  Recently i got a requirement to design a flow which reads the list item's metadata . During its design i noticed there is no direct way to read the values from the person or group field. ( at least by the time of writing this blog ). So i wanted to share the logic which i have implemented to achieve it. Here is my requirement : I have a field called Customers which is of type person or group with allow multiple sections . Which contains three people objects.  So i ..read more

Hi Guys, In this post I am going to show how to generate a word document from SharePoint online list items using MS Flow (Power Automate ). Here are the high level steps of this procedure 1> Product List & Inventory Library Creation 2> Product CT Content Type Creation 3> Product CT Content Type Association to Inventory library 4> Word Template Creation using Quick Parts 5> Design MS Flow using built in actions ( no custom connectors used ) 6> Word document generation in Flow using Word template Create a custom list called "Products" with below columns Create a Libr ..read more

Hello guys, Adding Emojis to SharePoint Links is a cool feature.  Here are the steps to do this. Edit your Menu Item --> Click "Windows" and "." keys on your keyboard at a time. It will open a window with all emojis like below Select an Image and Save the item. Also you can copy the emojis from this famous site https://emojipedia.org/ Also, you can apply these emojis for your site title and descriptions as well.  Here is the image ..read more

Hello guys, As the current trend is migrating on-premise versions of SharePoint to online, we definitely come across with a requirement to convert the classic sites to modern sites . In this post i am going to show how we can transform the classic SharePoint page to modern page. There are couple of approaches to do this transformation,  like using PowerShell, .Net and SharePoint Transformation UI using ModernizationFramework . In this post i am explaining the PowerShell method. The PnP Powershell provides a way to transform the classic SharePoint page to modern SharePoint page. Before ..read more

Recently i configured app store on my SharePoint 2013 environment and when i try to add the app from appstore , i got  below message : Error : " Everything is fine, but we had a small problem getting your license. Please go back to the SharePoint Store to get this app again and you wont be charged for it. " Fix : Usually you get this error when you try to add app using system account. So use non system account ..read more

Hello friends, Recently i got a situation where suddenly my csom code is stopped working . This CSOM code is to connect a SharePoint online site to fetch data from some list. The same code was running fine earlier. Issue Description: When connecting to SharePoint Online site using CSOM or Powershell(using Connect-SPOService command) from Windows 10 machine getting an error "Root Element Missing" CSOM error :  At context.ExecuteQuery it thrown "Root Element Missing" with below stack trace Powershell Error : Tried in different ways to fix this, like from changing the schema of ..read more

Friends, Here I am going to explain you, how we can customize the look and feel of login page of a SharePoint online site. Prerequisite to perform this action is , you should have global admin rights on the tenant. As you know the default SharePoint online page looks like below (I am using personal free trail account, so the login page may look slight different from the licensed/organizational one). Here are the steps to customize the login page Login to your office365 admin page (https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal)  with your admin credentials. Expand Na ..read more