Column formatting allows you to customize look and feel for columns and views in modern SharePoint. That's a cool feature and gives you a lot of space for applying nice styling for your SharePoint data. It's called column formatting despite that you can customize views as well. You do not have to be a developer to use column formatting, yet you should have.....
A month ago (May 2019) Microsoft Authentication Libraries (aka MSAL) for .NET and JavaScript went GA. If you haven't heard or used MSAL before it's a good time to try it. Ok, what is all this stuff is about? A few theory here. Let's imagine you have a need to authenticate a user against organizational Azure AD. Most likely you will start looking at Azure...
What if you have a need to run a flow every time when a document is published in SharePoint? Out of the box SharePoint connector doesn't have "published" trigger, the only triggers are a document created or modified. While you technically can't use "Document published" trigger, you can use document updated trigger and check the status of a document using...
What's new and what's changed in SharePoint REST API in March in April 2019? Explore the most interesting changes (additions and updates) here! Just a quick reminder, all data come from my SharePoint REST API Metadata Explorer. Go to the "API Changelog" tab and see what's changed in recent months in SharePoint REST API. Please note, that all changes are...
This is a small tip for anybody who hates typing because it's too long and error-prone (or you're lazy like me :)). Check out below animation: What if we can simply type in order to scaffold the project? Well, we are in 2019 and of course, it's possible :) NOTE: Solution windows users only. Sorry MacOs :(. I'm pretty sure there is an alternative for Mac as.....
SharePoint modern pages support approvals with preconfigured Microsoft Flow. What if we want to partially automate and improve this process with some smart services, which will automatically reject approval if a page contains not appropriate content. Or add a piece of information to an approver to pay special attention to a particular page? This is a nice...
Almost a year ago Waldek Mastykarz posted a great article on how to debug your SharePoint Framework solution in production, where all the code is minified and source maps are not available. While it works, there is a manual step of uploading source maps in google chrome's dev tools, which isn't very convenient. I extended Waldek's solution with fully...
SharePoint Framework 1.8 is out and gives us a lot of new things. Check out SPFx 1.8 release notes to learn more. Among different generally available features, we also received some items in "beta" mode. One of them is a library component type. Library component currently is in preview and most likely will be generally available in SharePoint Framework 1.9.....
Modern SharePoint pages support built-in approval flows. While it's a cool feature, probably you don't need approval for all pages, but for news posts only. The question is how to detect that a page is a news post page? It turned out that it's not difficult at all! Every modern site page has a field called Promoted State. It holds information if a page was.....
I haven't posted about changes in REST API for a while, because nothing interesting was really happening inside REST API in December-November. But now we have something new to explore! Just a quick reminder, all data are coming from my SharePoint REST API Metadata Explorer. Go to the "API Changelog" tab and see what's changed in recent months in SharePoint.....