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 One of the things we get as part of this upgrade is a newer version of the TypeScript transpiler.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…
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…