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…
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…
Imagine my pleasure to see this tweet first thing this morning from Sohail Merchant (@sohailmerchant)! I’m not sure when this actually showed up, but it’s an ask from me which goes back almost four years on UserVoice. Interestingly enough, they are still THINKING ABOUT IT. I don’t see anything obvious on the Office 365 Roadmap,…
File this under “sometimes it’s useful to be subscribed to too many things”. Yesterday I noticed in an alert from Github that Chris Kent (@theChrisKent) made a whole bunch of changes to the samples in the SharePoint/sp-dev-list-formatting Github repo. If you’re not familiar with that repo, it contains a whole pile of useful samples showing how you…
The successful approach below has made it into the official Microsoft docs in the article Customizing the “modern” experiences in SharePoint Online. tl;dr It would be great to create a modern home page for the classic root site of an Office 365 tenant. You can’t. This is another case where I would love to be proven…
IMO, this should be an easier thing to do. It’s a VERY common request from my clients, and for years we’ve had to hack this together. There are currently two UserVoice items about it that I can find – here and here – but not nearly enough votes to get on the radar of the…
I was thinking about this a while back, and I started a conversation with a few of my go to smart people, Sue Hanley (@susanhanley) and Julie Turner (@jfj1997). If you were starting today with someone on a new Intranet on Office 365 – someone who has never used SharePoint at all – where would…
As we’re moving into the “modern” era in SharePoint Online, we will need to use the Content Type Hub more and more frequently. This is due to the fact that we are moving from a subsite-laden pyramid of sites to a flat topology of sites. Where we used to build our information architecture – Site…