In SharePoint Online we often deploy custom or 3rd party applications that have SPFx extensions. If you are not familiar with these, SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Extensions can be used to extend the SharePoint user experience. Using these extensions, you can customize more facets of the SharePoint experience, including notification areas, toolbars, and list data views. [...]
Creating site collections from a SharePoint Site Template in SharePoint Online is little more involved than creating sites. The article below guides you through with the steps to create an entire site collection based on a custom site template. Scenario: You have a site (e.g. department or project) that we would like to be its [...]
SharePoint’s Classic user interface was introduced in 2002 and since then Microsoft has continued to build features on top of the original foundation. In 2017, they started phasing in “modern” SharePoint pages leveraging more up-to-date web technologies. Modern SharePoint is an entirely new user experience that exists in SharePoint Online fully redesigned to address prior [...]
Many of us have created and used O365 security groups instead of AD groups to assign permissions in SharePoint online sites. In this scenario, where we have used security groups under SharePoint sites for some time, when the security group gets renamed it does not take the update on the SharePoint side. This blog further [...]
Many of us have experienced the problem of working with custom display in modern pages. You can easily feel as if you are in handcuffs and unable to change any display aspect of the page. This short blog further explains that issue, as well as a way to remedy it. Scenario: Modern pages under SharePoint [...]
A SharePoint hub site is a newly added intranet building block that brings related sites together to roll up news and activity, simplify search, create cohesion with shared navigation, and for general look and feel. Basically, it connects and organize sites based on organizational attributes such as project, department, division, or region and makes it [...]
Many of us have experienced the scenario where despite removing the user from O365 Users list as well as SharePoint User profile, the user will still appear in the “Add User/Share with” dialog box in the SharePoint online site. Scenario: On a given SharePoint tenant, a user/external user might have been added previously and granted [...]
Have you ever noticed that sometimes calendar events display the wrong time piece for the start or end date of recurring events? It often has to do with Daylight Savings! However, not all events have this issue – read on to learn more. Scenario: Recurring events will display the time an hour off when they [...]
Many of us have used custom code to format the columns in SharePoint, either to display color-coded data or display images instead of text based on the scenario. It has often been very complex to implement the desired requirements. Microsoft has finally provided us with a column formatting feature that does not require client site [...]
Many of us have experienced errors when starting SharePoint 2013 Designer for Workflows. One of the most common errors is: “Retrying last request. Next attempt scheduled in less than one minute. Details of last request: HTTP Unauthorized to /_vti_bin/client.svc/SP.WorkflowServices.InteropService.Current/StartWorkflow Correlation Id: abeacd31-09ba-4a4e-8fdf-79eb7af480fe Instance Id: 9c909563-00c1-4b66-b3b4-d48c6da06b22” In starting to troubleshoot, you will see messages like the [...]
