This post is for those, who have huge PnP Provisioning schema with hundreds or thousands of lines. Or for those, who want to organize PnP provisioning schema into isolated logical components (folders & files) instead of having a solid single schema file. When your PnP provisioning template grows, it becomes harder to search nodes, to add and update entities,...
You have a custom SharePoint Site Design, which executes (through MS Flow or Azure Logic App) PnP Provisioning process. You want to notify users that the site is not fully ready yet and it's still being updated (by background provisioning, which might take a long time). One option is to use two-way interactive communication between the SharePoint web site...
I continue exploring REST API changes using my tool called SharePoint REST API Metadata Explorer. Here I post only some interesting findings, the full log is available for you on the SharePoint REST API Metadata Explorer web site under the "API Changelog" tab. Please note, that all changes are gathered from Targeted tenant. Most likely these changes haven’t....
1. Microsoft Flow - one piece 2. Power BI report - one piece 3. Modern SharePoint Power BI web part - one piece 4. Mikael Svenson's post - Working with Hub Sites and the search API - one piece Well, actually we don't need any specific preparations. Just have a cup of tea or coffee if you wish :) The idea is that we query all hub sites and associated sites...
Any version? \-Yes, any. Including the latest versions of React, TypeScript, etc. ? \-Yes. - The problem - A way to solve the issue of the outdated packages - A bit of theory - Implementation - Scaffold SPFx project for SharePoint 2019 - Create externals library to host your web part code - Add webpack build into the external lib - Fix localized resources -....
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.....