With the new world of branding a tenant on Office 365, styling the suite bar and using a theme (aka Composed Look) can take you pretty far toward improving the user experience. A Composed Look is made up of (potentially): A master page – generally either Seattle or Oslo Theme URL – the spcolor file to…
Part of a good user experience with software is feeling that it is our own. When it comes to SharePoint, which for many people is their Intranet or at least an important work environment, we almost always do some level of branding. It’s hard to keep up with how we are supposed to brand our…
Thanks to everyone who attended my session at SharePoint Saturday Boston on ‘Best Practices for Small-Scale Client-Side Development in SharePoint’. I’ve posted my slides on SlideShare for everyone’s enjoyment. Be sure to follow my series on Sympraxis Client Side Development Pipeline for more details on some of the approaches and methods I demonstrated in the session. [slideshare…
I’m working in a SharePoint 2013 on premises installation, and I needed to get the ContentType back from a REST call. Content Type is often the most important piece of metadata in a list or library, with the detailed metadata for the Content Type coming in as secondary. It certainly matters which Content Type you…
As I mentioned in my previous post, when Julie Turner (@jfj1997) joined Sympraxis, we quickly realized we needed to get smarter about managing our code and our overall development process. One of the first things Julie and I discussed was where we should store our code. Even way back before SharePoint entered my life, I’ve…
There’s no official blog post to point to yet (I’ll add it when it appears later), but today is a big day for SharePoint! The new SharePoint Framework is ready for its developer preview. UPDATE: Here’s the REAL post. I’ve been watching the Twitter feed from SharePoint Fest Seattle, and Jeff Teper (@jeffteper) announced the…
As promised in our August Sympraxis Newsletter, Julie and I wanted to start a new blog series to explain our new SharePoint client side development pipeline. We’ll each put our own spin on the idea, as our ways of thinking, backgrounds, and blog focuses are a bit different (but totally compatible!), so be sure to…
If you’ve been following the “code-based sandbox solutions on Office 365” saga, you know that there is little time left to fix your existing sandbox solutions in Office 365. See: Microsoft Is Removing Code-Based Sandbox Solutions in SharePoint Online – Be Prepared! Last week, Vesa Juvonen (@vesajuvonen) released a script (New Script Available from Microsoft PnP: Generate…
As I wrote on Monday, the decision to begin removing already deprecated code-based sandbox solutions on SharePoint Online took many people by surprise. Even though the news about the deprecation has been out there since 2014, the abrupt move – especially during a time when many people are on summer vacation – caused consternation for some….
Though Microsoft announced that sandbox solutions with “code” (this is becoming a more confusing distinction than ever with JavaScript becoming a first class coding citizen!) were deprecated back in 2014, last week’s announcement that sandbox code was being shut off caught many people by surprise. There was a post that went up last Friday, July…