I am trying to update the End Time column using a SharePoint Designer workflow. I simply want to add 15 minutes to any new event created, but I cannot update the End Time column. I constantly receive this error:
The workflow could not update the item, possibly because one or more
columns for the item require a different type of information.
I am able to add 15 minutes to any generic data column in the calendar, but not the End Time column.
Any ideas on how to update the column?
Does the workflow run on item update? SharePoint will not a workflow to loop e.g. you update the titem, the workflow updates the end time, this update restarts the workflow, so the emd time is updated etc
Have you tried using a calculated column for the end date? This link will show you how to add minutes to a time
Better late than never :)
I found the solution for this: EndDate should be updated the same time as EventDate.
You can use the Update List item action and update both fields with it to get rid of the error message.
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I'm looking to get some guidance with Sharepoint 2010. I am working on a project which requires a system that would inform concerned users of an outages with their applciation and provide regular updates via email (worflow).
I can accomplish most of the tasks with a simple custom list and workflow. Users would be able to input their start/end time of the outage, description and their update. With a workflow an email would be sent to the concerned users with all the details.
Where the problem starts is that, we have to provide hourly updates on an outage. So I would need to be able to add new update fields dynamically for every new updates and then be able to send all the updates via an email workflow.
At the moment I am just trying to figure out the best way to go about this. I tought that a simple custom list would be sufficient but looks like ill need to create a more complex system. Perhaps ill need to create 3 custom lists, 1 master list that would gather the details from list 1 (cotnains the description, start/end time) and the list 2 (contains updates) and some how link the together.
Would anyone have any advice about this?
I would create 2 lists: 1 main with all details and another one with updates and added multi lookup field to the first list.
OR even better -
added lookup field to the second list and when item is created - set lookup to the item in the list 1. Then you would be able to get all items from the list 2 (updates) by the item in the list 1.
Hope it makes sense.
Regards,
Andrey.
I would consider having following 4 fields apart from whatever you need right now.
1. Update
2. Outage (choice yes/no)
3. Previous updates (hide it on Edit form)
4. latest update hidden (hide this on edit form)
I would use one list. Let the workflow run whenever a new item is created or an existing item is updated.
For new Outage items send the outage email.
For updates:
Every hour check for update on the item
If there is any update then copy the value to latest update and previous updates. Clear the value of update column.
Send email with latest update value.
Once outage is over user updates the update field and makes outage over to yes.
At this point of time the workflow is complete.
I create one javascript function For calculate the No.Of Days from created Date and show in one Field.
And I add that script in Form Load and as well Form Save Actions.It was Working Fine.
Now My question is,I need to trigger that javascript function grid's(view) refresh.Or I need to calculate and show the No Of Days Field without opening Form.
Now the noofdays field affected when the form will getting open.
I need noofdays field automatically updated From the Created on date?How to do this...Thanks in Advance
Trigger an javaScript function without opening the from is not possible.
If i understood correctly, you want to display the time period between the creation and current date in days.
If so:
A Solution would be:
On creation of the record the noofdays field will always be 1 or 0. However you look at it.
So you can fill that field on creation per default to 1 per Plugin, JS, or simply per workflow.
Now you need to update this field each day via workflow.
The workflow must retrieve all records, calcualte and update the noofdays field.
I reccomend to run this workflow after midnight.
The other solution: (I do not reccomend)
Create an Plugin which is registerd to the message "retrieve" and "retrieve multiple".
If the message is triggered, check if you are in the right entity and fake the output of the noofdays field or update it.
I have a simple calculated column in my SharePoint 2010 list. It takes the list item ID, adds 100 to it.
When my users are creating items in the list, the calculated column does not get updated unless I go in, edit the column (do nothing) and save it. It, in fact, gives all items a value of 101 unless I manually edit the column.
Is this typical or is there a work around for this issue?
Thank you!
It is not possible to create calculated column based on ID value. The Id of the item is created after the item is added to the list.
You should use workflow instead.
The problem with using a workflow to do this (as per the accepted answer) is that workflow can take an appreciable time to execute. So you cannot create the ID until AFTER the new item is saved and there is always the danger that simultaneous users can create ID clashes that you also have to handle. If the workflow (as on a busy system) takes several minutes to work, you can also get the problem of someone else editing the item before the workflow has finished which may cause the workflow to fail leaving the item without any ID.
As an alternative, you might consider using JavaScript in the NewItem.aspx page to lookup and increment a counter from a separate list. Note that you have to update the counter as you read it if you are doing this so as to ensure that other users don't accidentally get the same ID if creating entries at the same time. This means that you must not mind the counter incrementing even if a user subsequently cancels the new item without saving.
As you noticed in opening/saving an item, The Calculated Column is updated on every item change.
Does it work to have a Workflow read the Title and write (the same) Title?
The [ID] reference in the Calculated Column should be set.
No need for an extra LookupID column then.
I was hoping you could help me. I have a calendar in SharePoint 2010 that I want to run a Nintex Workflow when the following conditions are true:
A new item is created
The "Type of Leave" field equals "Vacation". This field I created as just a category for the types of requests.
The date that the item was created for already has an entry with the "Type of Leave" field equaling "Vacation."
The use of this will be that the first person to enter vacation on a day will be automatically granted. But if more than one person enters vacation on the day that another vacation day is on, it will go through an approval process through their manager.
Here's what I've tried/reviewed:
- Using a Condition within a workflow. I can't find an option that would complete this.
- I did try looking on line searching for different solutions. I've watched some tutorials but nothing with this kind of solution was present.
- One thought I did have was to have an additional calculated column that counted how many entries for the same day with "Vacation" and then use that in a condition if the column was greater than 1 but I couldn't figure out the syntax.
This is on SharePoint 2010.
Thank you!
have you considered using the rest interface to query the list from nintex:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff521587(v=office.14).aspx
You can call this service from nintext using the call web service action.
Apply the filters on the url as per documentation above and count the records returned you can then include that in the nintext condition.
I am not sure if Nintext supports calls to Restfull services (from memory i think it does).
If not, you can use the Soap web service, same principle as above just the parameters to call it are slightly more complicated:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/lists.lists.getlistitems(v=office.12).aspx
I don't think there's an need for REST. Once your workflow starts, query the list for items matching the current item booking date and put the result in a collection. You can query the collection length, and if it's >0 you can use that condition to steer the logic of your workflow.
Is it possible to start a workflow automatically the first day of every month?
Edit:
In principle I think this has to be programmatically although if it can be achieved using an out of the box features it'd be easier.
Yes, you can start workflow using 2 diffrent approch as below.
Create one timer job which will run on every first of the month & kickoff the workflow programatically.
Create custom workflow which will run when item added but wait until 1st date of the month.
You can try creating a workflow for the list you are monitoring and set the action to wait until the 1st day of the month before doing the rest of the actions.