Lots of my clients want a quick and easy way to search for people in SharePoint. Unfortunately, it isn’t as simple as it should be. On any given site, when you use the Search Box in the top right, you land on a search results page which doesn’t even have a People tab. Worse, you…
We’re in an interesting time in the SharePoint world. Rather than waiting for three year product cycles like we did in the past, we’re along for the ride. To me, it feels like we’re nearing the end of one of the cycles, as modern SharePoint has almost fully taken hold – at least in Office…
In my previous post entitled Creating and Deploying a Custom Theme in SharePoint Online, I was remiss by not mentioning Stefan Bauer’s (@stfbauer) highly useful Panthema Web Part. See: Panthema web part is now release – know your SharePoint theme colours The Panthema Web Part shows the colors for all the theme “slots”. We can…
Also see my follow up post… If you’re moving from classic SharePoint to modern, sooner or later (I’m guessing sooner), you’ll want some control over the colors and fonts in your modern sites. I think the main reason people decide they need to do something about this is the random colors which are assigned to…
When we migrate from classic SharePoint to modern SharePoint, we often have some historical content which should turn into News items on the modern end. If we need to load a large number of News stories, we may use Powershell or custom code, depending on the source. Because News hasn’t existed in SharePoint before, it’s…
Yay! SharePoint Framework 1.8.0 is available! I decided to upgrade one of my simpler Web Parts to see what the experience was like. I learned a few things, I figured I’d share. One of the things we get as part of this upgrade is a newer version of the TypeScript transpiler. We can choose which…
With all of the changes happening in Office 365, it can be difficult to know how a particular thing works at any given point in time. I find myself doing little experiments all the time so I’m sure the information I give my clients is true – at least when I tell them! I figure…
At Sympraxis, we love interacting with the SharePoint community. Julie, Todd, and I try to get to as many great conferences as we can, whether we are speakers or just attendees. We learn a lot attending the sessions, but the best part is often the interactions we have in the hallways and sides of session…
This occasional series probably ought to be titled “How to solve a search problem by asking Mikael Svenson” (@MikaelSvenson), but he probably doesn’t want to be the world’s help desk for search. Luckily, I know him. In my previous post, I showed how to simplify your code by using PnPJS and async/await. I didn’t focus much…
Anyone who knows us at Sympraxis realizes that Julie (@jfj1997) is the master developer. I consider myself quite capable, but Julie is always at least three steps ahead of me. She often leads me by the nose to a better pattern or practice, and it always seems to be a good idea. Over the last…