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Hi guys, Recently one of my client has faced this issue while reassigning a task of default Approval workflow. Here is the screen shot:        SharePoint by default only allows the assignee to re-assign the task. If you try to re-assign a task that is not assigned to you, you get the following message: Task update was not accepted. To edit a task associated with a workflow task process, you must be the person to whom the task is currently assigned. Solution To overwrite this behaviour: Open SharePoint Designer Open the Workflow you wish to modify. On the step where you start the workflow task ‘Start <workflow task name> process on Current Item with…’, right click on the task name. Select Properties and look for the attribute  TaskProcessOwner . Click on the ‘ … ‘ button to select a group or specific user. You may wish to create a SharePoint group specifically for this purpose. All members of this group will have permissions to re-assign tasks that are assigned t...

  As we all aware, SharePoint search have great potential to provide very powerful search solution. Couple of new webparts are added in SharePoint 2013, like Content Search web part for which I should use rather a word "Smart" search web part. With a new rendering mechanism, content search webpart becomes more and more simple to edit and customize. That mechanism is called "Display Templates" and these are based upon simple Json to HTML templates. I recently has faced a project scenario, where I was asked to replace the part of search result web part and I provided a solution by updating search display template. Requirement:   When we add a search result web part on any result page along with a search text box web part to enter search keywords. Search results will be displayed in web part if keyword matches any text. When we add both these web parts on page and before entering the search term also the results web part show  “Nothing here matches your search” (as sho...

Hello SharePointers ;), Here is another quick finding which I just thought should be shared to save someone precious time. If you are dealing with SharePoint 2013 search and Result sources, you must try to test the query template before saving it. If you are not able to see any results instead just a red error saying below text don't get scared I have quick solution for you. “The Search display templates are not present on this site collection. To add them, you need to activate the “Search Server Web Parts and Templates” feature on the Site Collection Features page. Display Error: The display template had an error. You can correct it by fixing the template or by changing the display template used in either the Web Part properties or Result Types. Template ‘~sitecollection/_Catalogs/masterpage/DisplayTemplates/System/Control_QueryBuilderPreview.js’ not found or has sytax errors. (Load Template: ) ” You must get frustrated because your search is properly configured, its crawling the ...

Hi Guys, It was really interesting to work with my latest client. They had an very interesting and innovated idea to automate their manual file approval process.  The requirement was to create a multistage state machine workflow where users have privilege to approve and reject documents with some comments. It was very interesting to work with end client(as they them self don't know what they actually want). I will not go deep into the workflow but surly will come back with another post explaining it. This post is more about a requirement which I faced during the development of the workflow. Just wanted to share the design of the Workflow: Requirement:   As a user, I should have receive an email from workflow with custom subject having document name embedded to the subject where I can directly do some action like approve/reject or comment on the document. I should see a button in email "Open this task" which will redirect me to the page where I can take actions. It looks b...

Hi, I was creating a script to replicate document library structure similar to Prod just in order to test the ShareGate Migration. Let me take a brief description about my scenario: Description: There is a document library present on Prod, which contains bulk document (~3000). Now I need to update metadata for all those documents using Excel sheet and ShareGate. I don't have access to the Production library and not even replicate the Library to my Dev environment as it contains some very confidential documents. Solution: I have decided to create a script which will take one template document from file system and read name of document from one of columns of excel. The script will take some time(~hours in case of thousand documents) to upload the template with the new file name. The inputs to the script will be Path of the excel which contains name of documents in one column Path of the file where the template is placed on file system Url of the sharepoint web site Name of th...

Hi, In my last post , I have explained how to create a sub site using REST from and Console application. In this blog  will explain how we can upload a file, which is located in file system, will be uploaded to sharepoint Document library. So if I brief about requirement here: Need to upload a file to already created SharePoint site. Use REST(not even CSOM) will be used in order to create. API call will be send from some other machine(not SharePoint machine) which is in same domain and can access the SharePoint site. Follow the given steps to achieve the same: 1) Create a simple console application with c# selected language. 2) Next is to install the Newtonsoft.Json. Navigate to Visual studio menu: "View" > "Other Windows" > "Package Manager Console" and Then type the following: "Install-Package Newtonsoft.Json" 3) Now install RestSharp using the package manager. Type the following: "Install-Package RestSharp" 4) Now open th...

Hi, Recently, I got an requirement to create a SharePoint sub site from the some .Net application which is hosted somewhere hosted outside the SharePoint environment. It is provided that the .Net application can be added in same domain. So if I brief about requirement here: Need to create a sub site in SharePoint site collection based on some default template(later on custom template) Use REST(not even CSOM) will be used in order to create. API call will be send from some other machine(not SharePoint machine) which is in same domain and can access the SharePoint site. There are few challenges which I faces if we try to work with such kind of requirements. The authentication tokens and RequestDigest data are the crucial things to retrieve. I have explored some way to execute REST API and create a sub site without navigating to SharePoint site. Follow the given steps to achieve the same: 1) Create a simple console application with c# selected language. 2) Next is to install the New...

In this post, I’ll walk through how to use the postMessage api to enable cross-frame communication between your Client App Parts and the hosting SharePoint page, to make your SharePoint App Parts more dynamic and responsive to changes in the parent page. Overview In the SharePoint 2013 App Model, Client App Parts are implemented as iframes into pages hosted in App Webs or Provider Hosted web applications. Because SharePoint apps are hosted on different domains, the iframes can’t use javascript to access the parent window and get information from the hosting page. This is a good thing. You wouldn’t want a Client App Part that you installed from the marketplace to be able to see the list of customers on that List View web part that sits right next to it on the page. But it does make it very hard as a developer to give Client App Parts more dynamic page information to work with. The only contextual info a Client App Part can get is through Client App Part properties. Normal SharePoint Web...