The Office 365 CLI is a great set of capabilities you can use to interact with Office 365 – which is platform independent. Because it’s written to run under Node.js®, it can run on any operating system. Since PowerShell requires Windows, it’s a handy-dandy toolkit for people on a Mac, for example.* Using the Office…
Very often in a Microsoft Flow, we want to send out emails. Many times, we have an array of values we’d like to include in the body of those emails, and using an HTML table is just the ticket. It only takes a little work to create the HTML, but I recently had to do this and didn’t know how.
This is more confusing than it should be, frankly. I’ve had to explain this to clients multiple times, so a blog post is in order! This stuff changes over time, so if you’re reading this post in the future, some screen details and actions may have changed. Actually, I hope they have changed, because this…
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When we migrate from classic SharePoint to modern SharePoint, we often have some historical content which should turn into News items on the modern end.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…