Automated SharePoint Dashboard provisioning made easy
One of the latest updates to SharePoint includes the Dashboard feature, which allows any SharePoint site to have a dashboard for displaying information to end users. Previously, the Viva Connections...
View ArticleLet’s crack this code: Solving Duplicated Headings in SharePoint List Forms
SharePoint is like a playground for customizing list forms, where you can tweak headers, footers, and form layouts to your heart’s content. And JSON formatters are like the magic wands that make it...
View ArticleAudience targeting custom SPFx webpart
A lot of standard SharePoint webparts have the ability to use audience targeting. Audience targeting can be used to promote content to specific audiences across the site using Microsoft Entra ID...
View ArticleCreating seamless Video Galleries with New Stream and SharePoint components
With the New Stream feature video content can be saved in a document library without the need for a dedicated portal like Classic Stream.To reference a video on a SharePoint page the FileViewer...
View ArticlePower Automate Update Dynamic SharePoint Item
In flows I like to use dynamic inputs for Site Address and List Name in actions like ‘Update item’ so I can enter these values once and reuse them throughout the entire flow. Another advantage is...
View ArticleTo lock or unlock a SharePoint Online site
SharePoint sites can be locked or put in read-only mode.In this post PowerShell is used to lock a site. Another option is to use the Site Policies settings of the site. The PowerShell commands are...
View ArticleSharePoint Auto Digest Email
Recently Microsoft announced a new feature: SharePoint Auto Digest Email SharePoint Auto-News Digest sends automated email to users covering the latest News posts that they have not yet read. It is...
View ArticleList all site collections with app catalog enabled
This information is published on the world wide web but I find myself looking it up all the time. So for my own convenience: To list all site collections in the tenant that have the site collection...
View ArticlePnP PowerShell Format-default error
It was a while ago when I saw the error format-default : The collection has not been initialized. It has not been requested or the request has not been executed. It may need to be explicitly...
View ArticleInconvenient getpreview.ashx
Thumbnails for pages in SharePoint Online are generated using the getpreview handler. Using this handler predefined image formats can be used using the ‘resolution’ URL parameter. When this parameter...
View ArticleComments setting when a page is duplicated
The comments setting on a duplicated page isn’t the same as the source page when comments are disabled at the source page. Comments are always enabled regardsless of the comments setting on the source...
View ArticleControlling comments settings
Comments can be controlled at three levels: page, web and tenant. This post describes these options. SitePage level Comments can be switched on and off at page level. This does not delete the comments...
View ArticleHow to manage ‘Allow access requests’ with PowerShell
In SharePoint access requests to the current web can be managed.Go to Site Settings; Site Permissions; and select ‘Access Request Settings’ in the ribbon. Figure 1 – ‘Access Request Settings’ in the...
View ArticleRecreate root site collection based on Communication site template
The root site collection of SharePoint Online is still a classic teamsite. It is possible to recreate the root site collection, but be aware of some downtime of sites located in one of the managed...
View ArticleRename an exsting Microsoft Flow
Renaming an existing Microsoft Flow is probably easier than you think… Let’s create a flow from scratch using the template ‘Send myself a reminder in 10 minutes’ or just another template. Figure 1 –...
View ArticleFlow Condition – check string is empty
A Flow condition to check if a string variable is empty can be accomplished as follows: (fx) empty(variables(‘myStringVariable’)) ‘is equal to’ (fx)true Not very exciting, but quite handy.
View ArticleNotification – Azure SignalR – Sentiment of comments given on a SharePoint...
The previous two posts (part 1, part 2) explained the analysis of the sentiment of a comment given on a page and a webhook that was triggered when this sentiment score was written to the list. The...
View ArticleWebhook – Sentiment of comments given on a SharePoint page – Part 2
This is the continuation of a previous post called ‘Sentiment of comments given on a SharePoint page‘. The scenario: The sentiment of the comments of the page is analyzed and updated in the list...
View Articlengrok – Testing local Azure Function
The other day I was creating a SharePoint webhook using an Azure Function. I like to develop and debug Azure Functions locally on my machine. A publicly accessible URL is necessary to create a webhook...
View ArticleSentiment of comments given on a SharePoint page
Microsoft Cognitive Services (formerly Project Oxford) are a set of APIs, SDKs and services available to developers to make their applications more intelligent, engaging and discoverable. Microsoft...
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