One of my top interests in Microsoft O365 is how SharePoint is now available as a service. Sure, it was once fun to build a farm from scratch, but people want results quick. SharePoint O365 should mean getting operational faster, and Microsoft offering the business community more appreciation how SharePoint administration is itself an abstraction.
A huge strength of list management is the visual workflow creation capabilities of SharePoint Designer. Since Designer will not run on OSX, I created a Windows 10 64-bit VM to run on VMware Fusion. With O365 then installed, the initial login / sign-in of SharePoint Designer failed.
First, with Designer installed, we try to connect to the SharePoint site of my marketing team, https://ZZZZZ.sharepoint.com/prodmkt/ .
The request fails.. click on “Details”…
Error is a “403 FORBIDDEN” … yikes.
I was connecting using the O365 account that absolutely was in the admin group, and it said I should have Full Access. Looking at SharePoint permissions, there appears to be a DENY on SharePoint Designer access. Seriously! SharePoint is often the victim of having simply offered way too many dials and levers.
The fix for this is identified in (
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-scripting-capabilities-on-or-off-1f2c515f-5d7e-448a-9fd7-835da935584f?ui=en-US&=amp&rs=en-US&ad=US
) and in (
http://anujabhojani.blogspot.com/2015/09/permission-denied-for-add-and-customize.html
).
I needed the overall O365 account admin at my company to intervene and help me fix – I did not, even as a site administrator, have enough privilege to change what needed to be changed. That person enabled ” Allow users to run custom script on personal sites ” and ” Allow users to run custom script on self-service created sites” for the SharePoint O365 top-level ZZZZZ site.
According to Microsoft this can take up to 24 hours to take effect, and sure enough that is true! I tested 2 hours, 6 hours, 16 hours after the fix – I thought the 24 hours was just a worst case scenario. But after hour 20 or so, access was granted !
And now we can start making workflows ….
Hope this helps. Good luck with it!
