Azure Key Vault simplifies a lot of things when it comes to secrets, passwords, certificate management. There are a lot of different ways of using it for different apps or services. In this post I'm going to cover below scenario: - we have a service, running in the background, which connects to SharePoint API and performs some operations. As a good example,....
\- What?? Two major releases in just two weeks? Should I again migrate? \- Unfortunately, yes, you should migrate again. Fortunately, it's not that difficult. Additionally, 3.0 is a lot more flexible and simple. Technically, it's the same codebase and functionality as 2.0, however recent findings made me available to drastically change the way of handling...
In the last few weeks, I was working on spfx-fast-serve v2.0 release. What is spfx-fast-serve? A command line utility, which modifies your SharePoint Framework solution, so that it runs continuous command as fast as possible. - New architecture - Better extensibility - Configuration file - SPFx 1.12+ support - Migration guide At the very beginning, this tool...
If you develop multi-lingual SharePoint Framework solutions, you know that you should keep your localization files in sync. You have a "master" file, which defines your localization resources structure, by default it's called "mystrings.d.ts" where you define all different keys. In the corresponding {locale}.js file you implement actual translations. In some...
Very often you need some fields in your SPFx web parts. Like text fields, dropdowns, checkboxes, etc. While you can manually perform form validation and form data collection, you can also use a helper library. React form libraries simplify a lot of things, however, they also require some time to learn the API and to adapt a library to your UI framework....
In this post, we're going to build a prototype of an outlook add-in, which saves the current email to your OneDrive. The interesting part is, that our add-in will be SPFx based, and our code, which saves emails, is hosted on Azure Functions and uses MSAL.NET for authentication and MS Graph .NET library to interact with MS Graph API. Important! On the moment....
At the end of 2020, I worked on a bunch of new features for SP Formatter. SP Formatter is a web extension (supports Chrome and Edge), which transforms the out-of-the-box SharePoint Column (View) Formatting experience and makes JSON editing a lot more convenient. You can watch a short demonstration video on youtube here. This post covers changes I added in...
In this post, I'm going to cover different options when it comes to accessing organizational data from SPFx web parts. By organizational data I mean the most common APIs like SharePoint or MS Graph. However, it's valid for all other APIs as well. I'm going to cover two primary options here. The first one doesn't include any custom services or custom APIs and...
I had a need to hide all documents, which were checked out by users. With help of Column Formatting. When you check out documents, SharePoint sets a special field called CheckoutUser to be equal to a person, who checked out the document. The idea is to check if this field is null and hide a row in a view. However, the idea didn't work for some reason. The...
The year 2020 is over and once again it's time to perform regular analysis of data at sharepoint.stackexchange. This is the fourth edition of such an analysis. - Power BI with Power BI Desktop - super cool tools for data analysis. If you don't have experience with Power BI, it's worth trying to see what is possible. When I first tried it a few years ago I...