Strausy's O365/SharePoint KB

Issue: Recently a user stated they were getting an error message in Outlook stating "Outlook cannot open a new form. The form contains schema validation errors." when they clicked on the Open this Task button in a SharePoint Task assignment email. Root Cause: The user had created an out-of-the-box Approval workflow and inside the Request box had entered several HTML tags like <a href="site">link</a> where the site reference in the href was outside of SharePoint. Resolution: While I don't recommend putting HTML tags in the Task assignment emails in workflows, it will work if you reference the same SharePoint site or site collection the Task is coming from.

Here is a new one I ran into the other day. The user was using the standard Collect Feedback workflow on a Shared Document library. Then another user noticed that they received an email stating their task was overdue, even though it stated it was Completed in the Tasks list. Initially I noticed that users were stating their Tasks were complete, but had percent complete ranging from 0 to 100%. A pet peeve of mine for sure, but why does this matter? The Collect Feedback workflow relies on this field to be 100%, otherwise the workflow never finishes. So after a chance Google search I found a Microsoft KB article with a similar issue on the Approval workflow. As it turns out the Assigned To column must be set to allow only one person per task. Allowing multiple entries prevents the workflow from marking percent complete at all. Here is how to change that setting. Go to the Tasks list Go to Settings > List Settings Under Columns, select Assigned To Make sure "Allow multiple...