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Office 365 August 12, 2020

Getting rid of JSON validation errors on comments

Introduction If you’re an SPFx developer who uses Visual Studio Code, you may have noticed that the JSON files that the Yeoman generator creates contain comments to help you understand how to configure your manifest. The only problem is: JSON files aren’t supposed to have comments. And Visual Studio Code likes to remind you of that when it sees comments in a JSON file. For example, when you open the manifest for your brand new SPFx web part, you’ll find these nasty error messages: An example of schema validation errors caused by comments I’m one of those people who can’t stand any validation errors or warnings. I know, I know, I’m weird. But it drives me insane!!! Luckily, Paul Schaeflein has a solution that he Tweeted this morning: In this super-quick post, I’ll show how to configure your Visual Studio Code to stop showing validation errors for comments in…

Office 365 July 30, 2020

Adding custom Edge profile images

Edge Chromium lets you use different browsing profiles, but did you know that you could have custom profile images for each one? Here’ show.

Office 365 July 30, 2020

Working with rules in Microsoft Lists

Microsoft Lists will soon make it easy to create rules to react to changes in your lists. Find out what I’ve learned so far.

Office 365 July 28, 2020

Getting to know Microsoft Lists

Get ready for Microsoft Lists!

Office 365 July 28, 2020

Adding support for theme variants in SPFx web parts

Like chameleons, SPFx web parts can change colors to adapt to changing environments and blend in.

With a few lines of code and some knowledge of which semantic colors you can use, you can built awesome web parts that will look good no matter what theme (or theme variant) your site uses.

Office 365 June 29, 2020

Solving the “Failed to execute ‘removeChild’ on ‘Node'” error on modern SharePoint pages

If you’re getting errors in modern SharePoint pages when trying to open a link in a new tab, read this.

SharePoint June 16, 2020

SPFx Projects, SCSS, Pseudo-classes, and Stylelint

In this post, I’ll show you how you can use SCSS pseudo-classes in your SPFx projects and configure stylelint so that it doesn’t give you any warnings.

Office 365 March 31, 2020

Interactive Post: Summarized GitHub cheat sheet for PnP contributions

This is an interactive post that allows you to customize the article to get a personalized list of commands you’ll need when contributing to a PnP repository on GitHub.

Office 365 March 30, 2020

Display the solution version in your web part

Find out how you can automatically synchronize your NodeJS package version with your web part solution version and display it in a web part’s property pane.

Office 365 March 13, 2020

Generate Word documents from a template using Power Automate

WIth some Word template know-how and Power Automate, you can dynamically generate documents in your business processes. Find out how!

Office 365 March 5, 2020

Accessing Your On-Premises Data Using the On-Premises Data Gateway

The on-premises data gateway allows your cloud-based Power Platform services to access your on-premises data, such as databases, file shares, and SharePoint data. Find out how it works and how to use it.

Office 365 March 1, 2020

Find Your SharePoint Online Tenant ID — without any tools or code

Sometimes you just need to find your SharePoint Online tenant ID and you don’t have access to the Azure Admin center. It is so easy that it will take you longer to read this post than it will to get your tenant ID.

Office 365 January 20, 2020

Leveling the playing field with accessibility

Find out how the Xbox Adaptive Controller gives everyone the opportunity to be

SharePoint December 30, 2019

SPFx Compatibility Matrix

Here is a handy compatibility matrix telling you which version of SharePoint and SPFx work together.

Office 365 December 16, 2019

Redirect your users to SharePoint Online with Smart 404

In today’s post, we unearth an old SharePoint feature from 2009 and create a more contemporary version of it to help redirect users from your old on-premises SharePoint infrastructure to SharePoint Online.

Office 365 December 12, 2019

Working as multiple Office 365 users using user profiles in Edge Chromium

Using Edge Chromium, you can open multiple browser windows as multiple Office 365 users. Here’s how to do it.

Office 365 November 25, 2019

The Sharing is Caring Initiative

Making your first contribution to the SharePoint PnP community can be scary!

Office 365 August 31, 2019

SharePoint Framework Design Series: Layout Patterns — Part IV

In today’s post in the web part layout series, we discuss the compact layout.

Office 365 August 31, 2019

Fixing base64 SVG icons in SPFx — an interactive post

According to Microsoft documentation, you should be able to use a base64-encoded SVG image for your web part icon, but it hasn’t worked in a while. This article shows you how to use an embedded SVG image.

SharePoint August 23, 2019

Popular PnP repositories and how to get started contributing

Here is a list of the most common SharePoint Developer community repositories and information to get started with each one.

SharePoint

In this part II, we actually create the Flow and import elements in SharePoint!

Power Automate

In this first part, we use Flow to parse an iCal feed that will be synchronized to a SharePoint event list.

SharePoint August 20, 2019

August 2019 Updates to SharePoint pages and news authoring — updates for busy people

Updates for busy people are easy-to-read mind maps that save you from having to read super-long announcements.

Office 365 August 19, 2019

Create a Link to a Delve Profile

Create a link to someone’s Delve profile using this interactive link generator.

Office 365 August 18, 2019

Interactive Post: My GitHub cheat sheet for PnP contributions

If you want to try your hand at contributing to the Office 365 Developer Community and you aren’t familiar with GitHub, this interactive cheat sheet will give you detailed step-by-step instructions to get you started.

SharePoint August 15, 2019

Take your first step and contribute to Office Dev PnP

Making your first contribution to the Office Dev PnP community can be scary, but David Warner is here to help!

Office 365 August 7, 2019

SharePoint Framework Design Series: Layout Patterns — Part III

In this episode of my series about SharePoint Framework Design, we discuss the carousel layout.

SharePoint August 2, 2019

Would you like to create low-fidelity SharePoint wireframes in PowerPoint?

For your next SharePoint low-fidelity wireframes, feel free to use this PowerPoint template I created.

Office 365 July 31, 2019

SharePoint Framework Design Series: Layout Patterns — Part II

Today, we’ll discuss how to use the filmstrip layout.

SharePoint July 28, 2019

Prevent SCSS from changing your CSS class names

Sometimes you just want to define a CSS class in your `.scss` file but you don’t want SCSS to mangle the class name.

Office 365 July 28, 2019

SharePoint Framework Design Series: Layout Patterns — Part I

SharePoint uses a number of different layout types for web parts. How do you decide the best layout for your web parts, and how do you build such web parts? Part I.

Office 365 July 24, 2019

SharePoint Framework Timeline

To celebrate the release of the SharePoint Framework v1.9, I wanted to share this timeline that I created that highlights the SPFx Yeoman generator’s history since it first became available.

Office 365 July 17, 2019

SharePoint Framework Design Series: Property Panes — Part III

In this third article about property panes, find how to create image choice groups, conditional fields, and conditional groups.

Office 365 July 15, 2019

SharePoint Framework Design Series: Property Panes — Part II

Reactive and non-reactive web parts and displaying a loading indicator in the property pane.

Office 365 July 13, 2019

Making an educated decision when acquiring software — Part II: Total Cost of Ownership

When buying software, there are many hidden costs to consider.

Office 365 July 12, 2019

SharePoint Framework Design Series: Property Panes — Part I

In this post from our SharePoint Framework Design Series, we begin discussing how to create property panes.

Dynamics 365 July 10, 2019

Making an educated decision when acquiring software — Part I: Acquisition Model

Impulse buying is something that may be suitable for a pack of gum while you’re waiting to pack at the grocery store, but it should never be an option when it comes to enterprise applications.

Make an educated decision, and follow an acquisition model that will help you find the ideal solution for your organization’s needs.

SharePoint July 10, 2019

SharePoint Framework Design Series: Web Part Titles and Descriptions

In this first real SharePoint Design series, we discuss how to add titles and descriptions to web parts to help users understand their purpose.

SharePoint July 9, 2019

How to tell what version of the SPFx Yeoman generator is installed

Dear future me: next time you look for this, I hope you’ll find this post in the top search results.

SharePoint July 8, 2019

Introducing the SharePoint Framework Design Series

In this companion series to Microsoft’s SharePoint Framework Design, we’ll explore the various design elements of a SharePoint web part.

Logic Apps July 6, 2019

Configuring scheduled Flows to skip holidays

Flow supports scheduled flows, but unfortunately it does not know whether today is a statutory holiday or not. But you can teach it with the help of SharePoint!

Logic Apps July 4, 2019

How to count number of items returned by SharePoint GetItems action in Flow

Now that we know how to use the SharePoint Get items action, let’s find out how many items got returned.

Azure July 3, 2019

Using the SharePoint GetItems action in Flow

The Microsoft Power Platform provides an easy way to connect to SharePoint and retrieve items using Get Items. Find out how to use it within Flow.

Office 365 July 2, 2019

Disabling Telemetry network traffic on SPFx workbench

Did you know that you can temporarily turn off telemetry calls on an SPFx workbench page to make it easier to analyze the page’s network traffic with a simple query string parameter? Find out how.

SharePoint June 21, 2019

Sorting SharePoint List Items Using a Custom Sort

Ever try to sort SharePoint list items by Low, Medium, High instead of alphabetically? Here’s how to cheat. Works with any sort logic you want!

Office 365 May 3, 2019

MORE UPDATES: Inject Custom CSS on SharePoint Modern Pages using SPFx Application Extensions

A while ago, I wrote an SPFx Application Customizer that allows you to insert custom CSS on your SharePoint modern pages and posted about it.

The solution is now a sample in the SharePoint SharePoint Framework Extensions Samples & Tutorial Materials repo.

I received lots of feedback, comments and questions about the article so I decided to write an updated article to answer the most frequently asked questions.

I have since updated the solution to SPFx 1.8 and created a simple automated deployment script to (hopefully) reduce issues.

Office 365 April 25, 2019

Office 365 April 19, 2019

Converting SPFx Web Part from Javascript to React

In this article, I convert a Javascript-only SPFx web part created by Eric Skaggs into a React SPFx web part. See if I do his example justice.