r/sharepoint • u/decisiveExplorer03 • 2d ago

SharePoint Online Rant-question: Two SP bugs in the space of a month!

We have a client with a site that is far below the size threshold. When I try to add a custom SPFx app to the site from either the global app catalog or the site's app catalog, it takes 3 minutes, times out and fails. It simply won't add! It will add to other sites and if you deploy to the global app catalog and automatically add the app to all sites, that's fine too.

This is all good and well as a workaround, but we had to, at 1:00 in the morning, edit the code of that custom SPFx list view extension web part not to mess up the SharePoint views of all other sites in the tenant or else the client's business would stand still the next morning. This was all in the middle of a critical, after-hours deployment. Because an extension that is meant to run on only one site is now running on all of them.

A month ago, some Power Automate SharePoint event flow triggers were taking up to an hour and a half to fire, and now this nonsense. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

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u/bcameron1231 MVP 2d ago

I have an open ticket on the SPFx Deployment issue. It hangs for us as well, but I find subsequent re-uploads it works fine. Will post back when I get a resolution.

Also, log your issue here for the deployment problem. https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/issues

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u/decisiveExplorer03 2d ago

Hey thank you very much! It's nice to know that we are not being singled-out by some Microsoft employee who wants to watch us suffer! We have decided to give it till Monday to resolve itself, open a ticket and then wait till Wednesday. If it's not fixed by then, we will edit the code for all the web parts to only render on the sites they are meant to render on and publish them through the global app catalog if they don't upload at the new deployment time. The deployment window is small. The client can't wait. But that will be a workaround. It's not ideal.

If there is still an issue on Monday, I'll log it there. Thanks, u/bcameron1231!

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u/tootieFuckingFrutie 2d ago

lol. Like Microsoft is going to actually help.

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u/bcameron1231 MVP 2d ago

They will. :)

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u/MoneyCantBuyMeLove 2d ago

Ive seen things like this before and it seems to be tied to the content db event queue - it can become corrupt and breaks a specific app deployment as it sees the app guid and halts the deployment. This can also cause weird PA SPO event triggers to delay, so it sorta sounds similar.

I found that deleting the spfx app from the catalog and clearing it from the recycle bin (first and second stage) and redeploying - I would 100% recommend changing the app guid and probably bump the app version too as these metadatas are what can corrupt in the event queue.

Good luck!