Way Back Machine – Content Query Webpart Hacks – Reference the Webpart Title...
Content search in SharePoint Online (and SharePoint 2013) is powerful and all, but sometimes the good-old Content Query Webpart (CBQ) is much easier and quicker to configure, and even customize...
View ArticleContent Query Webpart Hacks – Reference the ItemStyle in ContentQueryMain
Let’s look at another Content Query Webpart (CBQ) hack, following up on my previous post on a CBQ method to access the webpart title in your XSLT. As before, this next hack will also work in SharePoint...
View ArticleSharePoint 2016 Preview Released – A First Look at Branding
Exciting news on the SharePoint 2016 front, Microsoft announced the availability of the public preview for SharePoint 2016 yesterday. Check out Bill Baer’s post on the Office 365 blogs regarding the...
View ArticleSharePoint 2016 Preview and Version 16 Branding Elements
About once every three years we SharePoint geeks get an odd kind of gift that we get in an odd kind of digital package. Just like a child waiting for days, weeks or more, looking at that shiny new gift...
View ArticleMove the SharePoint 2013 Notification and Status Bar in HTML Master Pages
A while back I wrote a series of posts on customizing the modern SharePoint Ribbon (SharePoint Online, SharePoint 2013 and now SharePoint 2016). Let’s continue this series after a long break with a...
View ArticleSharePoint 2016 RTM Announced – General Release Early May 2016
I guess the rumors of March 14th and SharePoint 2016 were in fact true. Today marks another milestone we have been eagerly awaiting, the official Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of SharePoint Server...
View ArticleThe New SharePoint Framework: A New Perspective from DevKit3
Last week I had the privilege of attending the third Developer Kitchen (DevKit3). The mini-conference, with content centered on the upcoming SharePoint Framework (#SPFx / the Framework), gave attendees...
View ArticleThe SharePoint Framework: The potential to replace the SharePoint UI...
The First Real Change in the SharePoint Interface The release of the new SharePoint Framework (SPFx) signifies the first real shift in the SharePoint interface development since 2007. Microsoft...
View ArticleAsynchronous Dynamic Properties in SharePoint Framework Webpart Property Panes
Recently Wictor Wilén penned a great how to on dynamically loading data into a SharePoint Framework Webpart property pane. Yet what if you want to dynamically, with asynchronous data, populate a...
View ArticleSharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) Common PowerShell...
The SharePoint / Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) initiative provides a massive array of guidance, code samples and most often used by me, a PnP PowerShell command set that makes...
View ArticleThe New Wave of SharePoint: #SPFx Release Candidate 0 #RC0 Available
The SharePoint Framework recently reached another milestone with the drop of the Release Candidate 0 (RC0) bits. You can read all of the technical details of this latest drop at GitHub. Changes to The...
View ArticleWebinar Recap: Who Needs a Developer for SharePoint Provisioning?
Last week I presented on Sharepoint Provisioning with PnP, during one of many upcoming #PixelMillWebinars. First, I want to say thank you to all those who attended. We had excellent attendance, which...
View ArticleScript Editor Webpart (SEWP) now Available for the SharePoint Framework #SPFx...
During the March 14th, 2017 SharePoint PnP Monthly Community Call, Mikael Svenson introduced a SharePoint Framework (#SPFx) webpart he recently created. Essentially, the SPFx webpart provides an...
View ArticlePodcasts & PnP – Discussing Customizing SharePoint w/ Jeremy Thalke
I have had a very busy last few weeks. A week in Redmond with all my developer friends, a week in Austin at SPTechCon, a SharePoint Saturday in Vancouver, and now currently I’m polishing my sessions in...
View ArticlePublic Facing SharePoint Online Sites Going Dark May 1st, 2017
If you have a public facing SharePoint Online site as a part of your Office 365 tenant, i.e. for those of you that spun this up prior to March 9th, 2015, this will be my final reminder to you that...
View ArticleSharePoint Virtual Summit 2017 in Review
Just a few hours ago, Microsoft wrapped up their SharePoint Virtual Summit 2017, a follow-up to their May 4th, 2016 “Future of SharePoint” event. After watching the Summit keynote, I quickly jumped...
View Article#SPFx Extensions Dev Preview Drop 1 Breaks Placeholder Control
The SharePoint Framework (#SPFx) Extensions Dev Preview Drop 1 utilizes a new version of one of the core node modules, sp-webpart-base v1.1.1. This module removed, possibly by accident, a particular...
View ArticleSharePoint Search – Querying Private Groups and Documents Within Private Groups
Since private Groups were provided in Office 365, we have had a need to surface private groups and private group content in SharePoint Search. A while back many quickly found that the “WebTemplate” for...
View ArticleSharePoint Framework Extensions Milestone – Release Candidate 0 Available
We are one step closer to the highly anticipated release of SharePoint Framework Extensions. Microsoft announced yesterday the release of SharePoint Framework Extensions RC0. My obvious questions are,...
View ArticleConditional Load of External Library such as jQuery in SharePoint Framework...
When a SharePoint Framework based use-case arising that includes conditionally loading an external library such as jQuery, an option exists that includes looking to see if a library has already been...
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