Handle Throttling in SharePoint Online

3rd of May, 2018 / / No Comments

Introduction

In this post I will be talking about handling throttling in SharePoint online custom code. I had recently faced throttling issue in custom CSOM code running from a console application which was working fine with the exponential delay pattern suggestion by community to handle throttling but lately started facing some issues.


Background

For one of our client we had console application to migrate documents from network file-share to SharePoint and update the corresponding managed metadata using the client side object model.… [Keep reading] “Handle Throttling in SharePoint Online”

Moving SharePoint Online workflow task metadata into the data warehouse using Nintex Flows and custom Web API

23rd of April, 2016 / / No Comments

This post suggests the idea of automatic copying of SharePoint Online(SPO) workflow tasks’ metadata into the external data warehouse.  In this scenario, workflow tasks are becoming a subject of another workflow that performs automatic copying of task’s data into the external database using a custom Web API endpoint as the interface to that database. Commonly, the requirement to move workflow tasks data elsewhere arises from limitations of SPO. In particular, SPO throttles requests for access to workflow data making it virtually impossible to create a meaningful workflow reporting system with large amounts of workflow tasks.… [Keep reading] “Moving SharePoint Online workflow task metadata into the data warehouse using Nintex Flows and custom Web API”