Information Architecture in the Modern World: Chasm One – Managing Content Types

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…

Creating and Deploying a Custom Theme in SharePoint Online – Follow Up

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…

Creating and Deploying a Custom Theme in SharePoint Online

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…

Join Sympraxis Consulting at the SharePoint Conference North America in May, 2019

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…

SharePoint Online Search Isn’t Displaying What I Expect – Part 2 – EnableDynamicGroups

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series SharePoint Online Search Isn't Displaying What I Expect

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…

Using PnPJS and Async/Await to Really Simplify Your API Calls

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…

Soon Autosave Will Be Enabled By Default in Office Desktop Applications

Autosave is a really great idea in theory, but not always in practice. It’s been available in Microsoft Office for quote a while now, but it wasn’t on by default. That’s changing very soon. AutoSave will be enabled by default in the upcoming semi-annual release of Office. This change means that for documents stored in…