

This post details an alternative option, with no workflows required – but with the same set up – that may be sufficient in most cases. (Source: Microsoft Ending Workflows for SharePoint 2010 Online Next Month).

It recommended that organisations use Power Automate instead.

In July 2020, Microsoft announced that it would turn off SharePoint 2010 workflows for newly created tenants from 1 August 2020, and would remove the ability to run or create these workflows from existing tenants from 1 November 2020. The suggested model was based on using a SharePoint 2010 workflow in SharePoint Designer. In August 2019 I published a post titled ‘ Auto-populating document templates via a form in SharePoint‘.
