Another day, another chunk of PowerShell. Sometimes when we iteratively build out our information architecture, we’re over-zealous. It seems like we need a set of Site Columns to maintain metadata on lists or libraries, but in the end, we decide we want to trim away a few of the Site Columns we’ve created. Or, maybe…
Have I ever mentioned how important Content Types are in SharePoint? Almost everything you work with in SharePoint has a Content Type. If you’re just using Document and Item, you’re really not using the platforms. In this post, I want to talk about Site Content Types and the Location column type. Location Columns Sometime in…
This isn’t rocket science, but it’s something I do often enough that I want to lodge the PowerShell in a post instead of continuing to rewrite it. When we are building an Intranet, we often want to grant permissions for all the Communication Sites to a small set of people during the testing process. This…
This is a quick tip about a SNAFU which caught me up today. I got to do a “Doh!” in front of a client, which is always fun. Hopefully this will save you the same embarrassment. Filtering News pages based on some metadata applied to the pages is a thing, and has been for a…
Here’s a quick tip to improve your Global Navigation for the new SharePoint App Bar. From what I’ve seen, most organizations will use the Hub or global navigation for the App Bar’s home link – which is the Global Nav. The root site of the tenant should be a Home Site and also a Hub…
In SharePoint – because it’s primarily a collaboration platform – we often struggle with the difference between security and obscurity. Some content absolutely must be secured, meaning only certain people can see or edit it. In these cases, we set the permissions such that people simply can’t see or even be aware of the content….
The recently added capability to perform simple layout changes on a SharePoint list form using JSON is the bee’s knees. As is the case with many insect joints, the examples out there mostly are the same and the documentation isn’t full featured enough for most people’s taste. Sue Hanley (@SusanHanley) and I were working on…
You know that feeling where you’ve done something so many times and it’s worked and then one day it just doesn’t? Yeah, I just had one of those. I’m still a big fan of the PnP Modern Search Web Parts, just like I was last week or last year. To really make them sing in…
My frustration last week in my post Dear Microsoft: Determining Solution Usage in Your Tenant Shouldn’t Be Like This was driven by a need to understand where the PnP Modern Search Web Parts had been used in pages. Now that v4 is available and solid, I want to discuss upgrading the v3 Web Parts to…
You love the SharePoint Framework, so you build stuff with it. It’s the accepted development model, and it’s been around for years now. There’s no risk of falling behind or getting out of sync with the rest of the Microsoft 365 development world. You’re playing by the rules! Scenario One You’ve created some fantastic Web…