Thanks to eagle-eyed reader Markus Bütterhoff’s (@buetti) comment on my post showing how to Group By Content Type in Modern Lists and Libraries, I learned of some recent changes for Content Types in Microsoft (SharePoint) Lists and Document Libraries. I’m not sure when these rolled out, but it must have been in the last few weeks….
Site Designs (See the Site design JSON schema article for all the great things we should be able to do with them) continue to seem like an awesome way to roll out a sound information architecture, yet they are still buggy and lack some basic reliability. I wish Microsoft would pay more attention to this…
We’re in an interesting time in the SharePoint world. Rather than waiting for three year product cycles like we did in the past, we’re along for the ride. To me, it feels like we’re nearing the end of one of the cycles, as modern SharePoint has almost fully taken hold – at least in Office…
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…
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…
This is yet another in the “Things that Make You Go Hmm…” category. If I only had a nickel… I would think that one of the most common needs on a search results page would be to add a refiner by Content Type. After all, we all have robust, sensical information architectures in place to…
Dan Antion (@dantion) did a great post over on his SharePoint Stories blog this morning called People Want Different Things. Dan does one excellent post per week on that blog. They arrive every Saturday morning, and reading it is usually one of the first things I do of a Saturday. Today’s was a great post,…