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.....
When working with SharePoint as a developer you often need access to SharePoint data. If you use TypeScript you expect that all data will be strongly typed. However, it's not a case if you work with SharePoint dynamic data like lists and libraries. Consider the code below written with PnPjs: or with SPHttpClient inside SharePoint Framework solution: In both....
Today's task is to: - build a single page application with vue.js and TypeScript - enable authentication and authorization through organizational accounts using adal.js - get some data from SharePoint site using PnP.js library As usual, the full code is available here at GitHub. Let's get started! To make authentication with organizational accounts work, we....
Office365 family provides a lot of services for you and your organization. In recent weeks I was playing \\ working with some of them like Power BI and MS Flow. I wrote an article about sharepoint.stackexchange analysis with Power BI. Power BI is a great tool for data analysis. With Power BI Desktop you can create great visualizations of your data and share....
I'm pretty sure you have noticed that in modern SharePoint UI there is a way to run Microsoft Flow: You can see your flows, create a new one or trigger a flow using that drop-down. How to add my own flow to be visible in that drop-down? Read further to find out how. Well, it's not so difficult. However, the thing is, that not all the flows related to that...
The year 2018 is over and it's time to perform regular analysis of data at sharepoint.stackexchange. This is the third edition of such 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 two years ago I was sooo impressed....