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….
As always, I don’t know where to report issues with Office 365. So here I am carping in a public channel in the hopes that the right person sees it. This also may happen with SharePoint 2013 on premises, but I can’t recall. When I use a refiner that is based on a Lookup column,…
Ever watchful – and talented – guy that he is, my friend Paul Tavares (@paul_tavares) pinged me the other day on Twitter with a question. Hey. Question. On your O365, did you add RequireJS as a SOD? Noticed it was registered when I looked at the page code the other day. Paul has a Site Collection…
Yesterday I helped my pal Marcel Meth (@marcelmeth) with a pretty simple little task, but everything’s simple if you know how to do it! We needed to add simple accordion-like expand/collapse functionality to the Quick Launch on the pages in a Site Collection. Because there were going to be a lot of links in the…
This is a simple thing, but because at the moment it’s sort of invisible, you may need a little help understanding it. The Content Type Hub is a nice capability that lets you create your Site Columns and Content Types in one centralized Site Collection for syndication across your farm. It’s an excellent idea to…
I am putting together a presentation talking about UI hacks that we all need to do in order to accomplish everyday UI customizations that our customers – internal or external – require. For this one I want to limit it to SharePoint 2013 and/or SharePoint Online (Office365). Another way to think of it is how…
Until the other day when I figured this out, every time I hovered my mouse pointer over a presence indicator on SharePoint Online, my browser – which is Internet Explorer 10 at the moment – would crash. It wasn’t some polite little crash, either. The window would freeze, the dreaded “Internet Explorer has stopped working”…
I had great fun presenting at Office365 Redmond a few Saturdays ago. Not only was it on the Microsoft campus, but some Microsoft folks were in my session as well. It’s always interesting to see the reactions from Microsofties when they see how people really use their stuff. My session was entitled “Flying in the…
I had another situation today where the portability issues between Office365 and an on premises installation reared its ugly head. This is the reverse situation from the issues I had a while ago trying to move my demo sites from my VM to SharePoint Online. Last week, I shared a WSP containing some of my…
Well, it took me a while, but I solve this problem. In my first post about it, I explained how I was having trouble figuring out what features installed in my local VM were causing the problems instantiating my demo site in Office365 – SharePoint Online. I got stuck with the feature that has the…