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To extend the SharePoint user experience with modern pages en libraries the SharePoint Framework Extensions can be used. Currently three new extension types are available: ApplicationCustomizers – Adds scripts to the page, as well as access well-known HTML element placeholders … Read More »
In SharePoint Online an app can be easily created using PowerApps to manage data. In this post I want to show you how to create cascading drop downs in an app and save the data back to SharePoint. Start with … Read More »
A recent assignment was to adjust the hover panel of search results. At the bottom, the footer, a menu item was wished for. The displaytemplate involved here was Item_CommonHoverPanel_Actions. This displaytemplate is responsible for displaying the menu items at the … Read More »
Adding a list as web part to a page results in an XSLTListViewWebpart. Figure 1 Added a list to a page This results in a hidden view configured with the query and field references used. The accompanying view xml is … Read More »
The PnP Provisioning framework can be used to remotely extract and provision standardized sites based on templates. This is a typical requirement for enterprises and we have classically used technologies like site definitions, site templates or web templates to achieve … Read More »
To update shared fields in a document set using Office 365 Dev PnP PowerShell Cmdlets the following cmdlet can be used: This cmdlet sets the field from the available content types to the document set. ‘from the available content types‘ … Read More »
The other day I was trying to add terms to the site collection level term group using PowerShell CSOM when an issue arose: Cannot convert argument “context”, with value: “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext”, for “GetTaxonomySession” to type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientRuntimeContext” Let me explain the situation. There … Read More »
A nice feature available at document library level is to set a default value on a field. This can be done in the UI by navigating to the document library settings and select ‘Column default value settings’. A default value … Read More »
To create a document set in a document library its necessary to add a Document Set content type to the library. After doing this a document set can be created using various techniques. In this post I’ll show you how … Read More »
Microsoft exposes almost everything through REST API’s these days, which is excellent! Not only Mail, Contacts, Calendar and Files, but also Video. In this post I’m going to show you some simple steps to interact with Channels using the REST … Read More »