On Jul 28, 2015, I posted a little item in SharePoint UserVoice: Enable support for lookup columns in other webs in the REST API. It actually seemed like a pretty simple idea, especially since this used to work in earlier versions of SharePoint. Fast forward to this week, and the UserVoice item got the wonderful Boom! It’s…
PowerApps is really cool, and I really mean it. Unfortunately, it’s been moving forward so fast that it’s really hard to find clear information about how to do things. Examples you may find from just a few months ago may not look at all like what you see on your screen. (This post may be…
This is a quick one, but if it has the potential to bite you, you’ll thank me for it later. I use AngularJS generally these days when I want to write solutions in SharePoint, whether on premises or in SharePoint Online. Yes, that’s the older version of Angular, meaning versions in the 1.x range. When…
It’s not at all unusual to want to send an email from some page in SharePoint where there isn’t a native capability available. While there are lots of external services which can send email for us – like SendGrid – we usually want to keep the email “in house” in an enterprise environment. (In fact,…
It’s almost the normal course of events that we SharePointilists have to bend SharePoint’s capabilities to our whim to accomplish business requirements. This post is about one of these sort of bastardizations of the platform which allow us to get something important done. I’m writing it up because it’s what I do, but also to…
Another day, another promise from the Ignite conference fulfilled. It’s great to see so many fantastic new capabilities rolling out to Office 365 – and quickly. At Ignite, the Product Group really seemed to focus on near term enhancements and improvements, which makes this last part of the year a fertile one for new goodies….
I just got back from a great SPTechCon conference in North Bethesda, Maryland (aka “DC”) last night. It was the last SPTechCon under the BZ Media banner, as SPTechCon has been acquired by Exposition Development Company (ExpoDevCo). SPTechCon is one of the oldest SharePoint conferences and has been very good to its speakers and attendees over the…
The 5000-item view threshold in SharePoint lists and libraries has been a bane for many people for a long time. I’ve been very vocal about it for the community (as well as for my own selfish reasons – I have client work to do!). I have a plethora of posts tagged with 5000 item limit,…
Every once in a while, something comes to Office 365 where no one has anything negative to say. (Is that a back-handed complement?) Column Formatting in @SharePoint Online starts rolling out end of October. https://t.co/FVAz9BxfB6 pic.twitter.com/kiiyNtVrT4 — Marc D Anderson (@sympmarc) October 16, 2017 The fact that this tweet got 22 retweets and 34 likes…
Julie (@jfj1997) and I are working hard on SPS New England coming up on October 28 in Burlington, MA. I wanted to set up an easy place for the speakers to drop their slide decks. We have a perfectly good Office 365 tenant, so I figured I’d just create a Document Library somewhere and share the…