Category: Workflows
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Email an External User in a SharePoint 2013 Workflow
I am sure we can all agree that at some point or another we had a need to email a user that did not have an account within our domain via a SharePoint Designer (SPD) 2013 workflow. And while attempting to set it up we were surprised to find out it wouldn’t work. Not only…
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Proper way to handle workflows that throw a Microsoft.Workflow.Client.ActivityValidationException
I had to build a fairly complex workflow not long ago. The workflow was built in SharePoint Designer 2013 and had a lot of moving parts to it. So many, that when I went to publish it I received the following error message: “Microsoft.Workflow.Client.ActivityValidationException: Workflow XAML failed validation due to the following errors: Activity “SomeXActivity”…
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Using Microsoft Flow to Update a Field From a Lookup Column
While planning out a new series I want to do around PowerApps and Flow I realized one of the things I needed to do was get the value of a lookup field into a text field. Now we all know that using a calculated field for this isn’t going to work since they can’t see…
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Best Practices in Waiting for a Value to Change in a SharePoint Designer Workflow
Back in October I did an overview of the different ways to wait for a change in a SharePoint Workflow. You also have the option to wait for a certain time, there are two options which are waiting for a set duration or waiting until a set date. Either of which are easy to control…
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Another Cause of a SharePoint Workflow Stuck at Starting or Started
There are already a ton of posts out there where a SharePoint 2013 workflow becomes stuck at started or starting. Well I have another one. This problem actually originated in a SharePoint 2013 farm. If you are using SharePoint Online, the cause is actually pretty easy to determine. So for those of you not lucky…