Issues at Office 365


Office 365 – next extension of SharePoint 2013 has great set of features. Microsoft cloud and its hosting environment is awesome. Real fast and I believe you may find it better than your local VMs.
During last a few project implementation, found the following issues in O365 as well as in SharePoint 2013 and all of those are resides within out-of-the-box features. I understand it would take some time for MS team to take care those and I’m looking forward to have the stable SP2016 version.

Site Column still remains in Site Column Gallery after deletion from CT even there is no references
1.       For example, create any column from content type page and delete this newly created column from there immediately. Even you see the message, it has been deleted, but it is not actually deleted. It still remains in SiteColumn gallery. Following are the screen shot where I still found the new column exist even after deleted this from content type window.




 How to lookup a column from one CT to another CT
2.       Let’s take a scenario where you created column using Content Type ‘A’ which is basically a lookup column. Now, you are going to create another lookup column on another Content Type ‘B’ and this will refer to the column which is residing in Content Type ‘A’ as lookup. Using the current feature, it’s a kind of limitation and it’s not a bug actually.
 You can create a list without any field
3.       In SP 2013, there is no validation on list or on event-type on list field. You can simple create a list and make this list as without any field.

How – Create a list and then create one site Content Type and make its ‘Title’ field as hidden. Now, add this Content Type with your newly created custom list where only default ‘Title’ column present. Next action is to remove the default Item Content Type from that list.

Now, once you click on new item, you will be landed to an INPUT form without any input fields – funny stuff

This is the ‘All Items’ view and it is showing ‘Title’ field, though it is hidden in content type…no internal checking




Finally – No Input fields for you to input data in input UI

Can’t delete navigation header without web address

4.       Here is another funny story. In the navigation area, you can simply add a new header without any web address. Now, if you’d like to delete this entry, SharePoint unable you to do so.  It will try to proceed and then validation rule STOP it. I’m not sure why this validation integrated with deletion. My thought, it was not pass through unit test properly



Master-Child wepart integration needs to be more tighten
5.       Here is a scenario, where you integration master and child webpart and connected in SharePoint page. All looks good. Cool! Now, if you sort the record in master webpart, then the related records on child would be messed up.

 Here, it looks good. If you select any record on master, child record will be filter out.




   Now, if you sort the master record (in my example, it is ‘Campaign’), the child refresh agent is not getting called and remains same

Following the right one which it should be
It would be great to have refresh agent with child webpart on sort/filter event.




6.       There are double comma appears between last name and first name of the person who created as well as modified list item or document library (In sandbox only) – Not appearing in Office 365.


 Column ordering is missing while creating column in Content Type.

7.       Change column order functionality is missing while adding site column on custom Content Type. In the middle, you can’t change, you have to delete all and then recreate those again.

 I’d say – nice to have this feature in upcoming SP2016.
  
Flickering screen – like Ghost is dancing in front of you for a sec
8.       While working both on SharePoint 2013 (on premise) and Office 365 sites, sometimes you may get screen is flickering and not loading properly.

Second thing, I found in the browser taskbar. Sometimes you can found there JavaScript error message ‘Error Occurred’. Clearing browser cookies and temporary files and opening anew browser could help you to get in or have the right content.

Unable to make out sum on calculated field
10.   This issue remains from earlier versions of SharePoint as well – You will unable to implement SUM on any calculated field in group by order. I did tried it on MOSS 2007 as well as SP2010 couple of years before and the same applicable on SP2013/O365 product versions.  Here the detailed explanation – let’s say you have four column Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 and they represent total pending amount of each quarter. You have another field say ‘Sum’ which is calculated column i.e.  (q1 + q2 + q3 + q4). Now, if you group by your list by Year or by any other column, you can have summation of Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4. But you will unable to make a summation of the calculated column i.e. ‘Sum’ in my example.

I’d say by design this is a limitation since beginning.  
Workflow log not working as expected

11.   Workflow history log not generated in O365. I tried creating a very simple workflow to log entries into history list. It started and then nothing is going on even after 12 hours!

Here the snapshot my simple workflow created by SharePoint designer 2013.
Here the history list
Latter I found the below links which states it is a kind of major bug. http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/154/t/275505.aspx & http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/154/t/279992.aspx

 Frustrating popup window may appear while creating Content organizer

12.   While specifying rule on Content organizer for asset library, you will have a popup window to select the destination library. There is high chance to have a warning popup window and the pathetic part is, once you hit the OK button in the popup window, both the window is getting closed.
Would be great if MS teams take care this in SP 2016.

Ref         :               http://kristofeschberger.com/sp2013-rest-api-doesnt-support-cross-site-lookups



Good areas
 While you change any column title/name, it will automatically adjusted not only in the view, but also on any custom/list view webpart. No need to visit webpart page and change the column name there (was limitation till previous versions)


[Note: This post was original from ShareKb.com]

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