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,…
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…
I was thinking about this a while back, and I started a conversation with a few of my go to smart people, Sue Hanley (@susanhanley) and Julie Turner (@jfj1997). If you were starting today with someone on a new Intranet on Office 365 – someone who has never used SharePoint at all – where would…
It’s great to see the Hub Sites promised at Ignite last fall rolling out finally. Hub Sites will be the capability which allows us to associate related “modern” sites with each other. This is probably most common in Intranets, but other examples might be a set of Project sites, a multi-layered HR sites, etc. Keep…
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…
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,…
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….
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…