SharePoint Activities Fails to Load on Project Start

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Hi there,

I have around 10 projects with MicrosoftOffice365.Activities package using SharePoint List, Files, Calendar and Outlook.

This is one of the problems I had with the SharePoint Activities.

The activities I configured and used every day suddenly went missing from the project on project start.

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The image is an error log from a development environment, indicating various issues related to data types and member not found errors in activities. (Captioned by AI)
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Today, it happened twice. I’ve been using this project (opening, editing, etc.) for more than one week, and today, after I published the process to Orchestrator, it started failing to load these activities.

When I “Replace Activity”, activity properties return empty. So, if I don’t have the previous version or haven’t documented the properties in detail, it’s very difficult to recover from this situation. I have a previous package version, and I’m also not able to copy-paste the activities from the old project to the current project.

This issue is a critical problem for keeping the source code locally. What causes this, and how can I prevent it from happening again?

Best regards,
Ebru

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@sarikayaebru

  1. Is it happening when opening the nupkg?
  2. Did you happen to change the office 365 version or migrate from legacy to windows?
  3. Are there any studio upgrades or so?
  4. Is the project.json deleted?
  5. Did you delete the connection?

Cheers

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Hi,

This happens when the package version change and the activities are not supported for the new version.

In this case, if you select the previous version, it will work again.

Best regards

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download Microsoft 365 package that matches with the UiPath version you use

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Hi,

Today it happended twice without any of the changes. I only opened the code on my local, worked on it and published to Orchestrator. Then a moment later, I opened again and it was broken. I deleted the unresolved acitivites and added the activities again, then published again. A few hours later, opened the code, it’s broken again.

There isn’t any package update, studio version update or any change between the issues.

And the other projects are fine (for now) with the same activity package version.

Funnily enough, when I download the package from Orchestrator on a different machine, one of the package version is recovered by itself after I open and close the project a few times. But the later version of the project package didn’t recover. Both of them has the exact same dependency versions.

Best regards.

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@sarikayaebru

Try to remove all the folders starting with . And try reopening it to see if that resolves the issue…generally .project might cache the data

Cheers

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Hi,

It didn’t work. And I realised the other activities are also not normal. Please check the invoke activity, it’s missing import arguments, open workflow, arguments buttons and fields.

The image depicts a workflow process in a business automation tool, showing steps to log a message, invoke multiple workflow files, delete a folder, and an error indicating a missing or unloadable activity. (Captioned by AI)
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And please see one time where only some of the SharePoint activities were missing.

This image shows a workflow with several steps related to SharePoint, including getting and updating list items, logging messages, creating folders, and uploading files, with some activities marked as missing or needing to be replaced. (Captioned by AI)
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I was using the same account to connect to those activities. And sometimes the account connection loading takes a bit longer and can end up with another account from the list I didn’t select before.

Could that be because of the integration service connection with the Studio?

Best regards.

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@sarikayaebru

Can you please specify the version of studio and activities

this is observed when the system packages is old and the studio is latest or other way round

cheers

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Hi @Anil_G ,

Please see the details below. And Please check how the 2nd project has “.Runtime” dependencies. After I deleted the Runtime atleast the System Activities returned to normal:

The image shows two versions of a file for a UiPath project, highlighting differences in activity dependencies and indicating a consistent "studioVersion" of "24.10.1.0". (Captioned by AI)
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I don’t think it’s about the versions, as this happens after a usage period.

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@sarikayaebru

looks like you got the project from .nupkg…that is why it is goign to runtime

so basically to reduce package size while runnign here are runtime packages created and once you publish in package it would be liek that…so we should not use files prom nupkg instead have the process with us in repo

cheers

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Actually, I have the source process. I don’t know how that happened.

Anyways, the project can’t create .local/.customtypes for some reason. I tried to copy from other projects but didn’t solve the problem completely. (Studio.Generated.TypedDataRow1.dll etc.)

So I created a new project copied all unproblematic workflows and added SharePoint activities from scratch with the same package version. It’s working so far.

Studio creates a .customtype whenever we add a SharePoint List activity. Somewhere after DataRow30 or 40, some problems occur. I think it’s something about that. I also created a support ticket. I’ll keep this topic open until it reaches to product team.

Best regards,
Ebru

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Hey @sarikayaebru,

It is a strange behaviour and a bug somewhere indeed. We need to find the root cause and fix it ASAP.

As long as:

  1. You didn’t change Workflow
  2. You didn’t change the M365 package version
  3. Besides M365, other activities look strange as well.

It could be something from Studio.

→ Have you updated Studio?
→ What OR do you use?

Can you share with us a sample Project where this can happen so we can try to identify the root cause?

Thank you,

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Hi @AlexCrijman,

I sent you the project from DM.

I didn’t have any changes between the issues. And I have other projects -thankfully- not affected like this. All projects use the same version of the Microsoft365 activity package.

Best regards,
Ebru

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Hi @Ehab_Sawars ,

Thanks for the repeated suggestion but the activity version matches with the Studio version.

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I created a UiPath Support Ticket for this issue and attaching the response from them:

Our engineers released a fix that is now in Studio 24.10.7 patch. You will need to upgrade Studio to the latest version for the changes to take effect. I will proceed setting the case as “Resolved” since a fix was deployed. If you still encounter the issue, you can respond to the case within 1-2 days or re-open from the customer portal within 15 days and we’d be happy to continue support.

“They would need to upgrade either to the latest Studio 24.10.7 patch or Studio 25.0.0, which it will be released this month.”

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