Site Collection App Catalogs (SCAC) are much appreciated, thank you, Office 365 Team. Here is a couple of tips and tricks for SCAC.

Tip #1 You don’t need Tenant Admin rights to add a new Site Collection App Catalog

I have seen many blogs, forum threads etc that state that only Global Tenant Administrators can add new Site Collection App Catalogs. The truth is that a SharePoint Admin rights are enough. The trick is to make that SharePoint Admin Account to a site collection administrator of the app catalog site. To be precise the account that adds a new SCAC must have Manage Web Permissions, as stated in error message:

This is about a topic brought up by Waldek Mastykarz: Just because you can should you use the Office 365 CDN. In my post I want to take a closer look at the private CDN option in Office 365. Please note, the whole thing is subject to change, and it reflects the circumstances at the time of writing - 2019-08-26.

I’ll skip the introduction of Office 365, let’s jump directly to the Private CDN option. Consider following scenarios.

I created a sample ASP.NET Core app with React. 

dotnet new react

Then it took a couple of hours to get the build to work. Here is my working azure-pipelines.yml:

Resources:

• Azure Pipelines Predefined Variables
• Create ASP.NET Core app with React
• PublishWebProjects must be false

Svenskt gränssnitt i Office 365 är inte självklart. Här är en lista på översättningar som jag stött på som går att härleda, men som inte är helt etablerade i svenskan.

• Compliance - efterlevnad
• Policy - princip
• Retention - kvarhållning

There are many resources on the internet that list _layouts/15 urls in SharePoint. Some are outdated, some are too short, some are to long. Here is my list of the urls, that I am going to update when I need. All the urls start with [Your-Tenant].sharepoint.com/sites/[Your-Site]/_layouts/15/ Here we go:

• viewlsts.aspx - Site Contents, Modern View
• viewlsts.aspx?view=14 - Site Contents, Classic View
• appinv.aspx - Grant Permissions to an App
• appregnew.aspx - Register a new SharePoint Application
• appprincipals.aspx - List Registered Add-Ins
• CreateGroup.aspx - Create Site page (Team and Communication)
• TA_AllAppPrincipals.aspx - List all app principals

Here is my list of repositories that provide examples of SPFx solutions.

• SharePoint/sp-dev-fx-webparts is a comprehensive collection of webparts and tutorials
• Puzzlepart/spfx-solutions is an intresting collection of spfx solutions, shared by Mikael Svenson.
• To be continued.

SwiftKey is a keyboard app for iOS and Android, it adds a new virtual keyboard and it provides the Chuvash one among others. Here is my review of Swiftkey from the perspective of a person who writes in Chuvash on the mobile.

Positive things

• The fact that it has the Chuvash keyboard map is awesome. There is no official Chuvash keyboard in iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows (well you can add Chuvash, but you won’t get the Chuvash letters). Only Linux has the built-in Chuvash keyboard.
• It has a built-in Chuvash dictionary, so that can provide suggestions. It also can learn from your typing. Although there is an issue  with the suggestions, see below.
• The Chuvash characters with diacritics are right: Unicode and Cyrillic, not their look-alikes from the Latin set. It is important: if people use the same characters, they can find more on Google.

Negative things

Actually I don’t want to call it negative things, many of them are just missing features. I hope with that review I can get in contact with the Swiftkey team and improve the app.

Ett litet projekt, ett experiment som jag håller på under min föräldralediga tid: Barnvagssolpanel. Jag har en liten solpanel på 10W som jag fäster på barnvagnen. Med den laddar jag mina batteripack, och med dem min mobil. Jag vill mäta hur mycket energi jag kan samla in under sommaren

Utrustning

Solpanel på 10W av märket Exibel köpt på Clas Ohlson. Den ska ge upp till 1,5A i direkt ljus. USB-doktorn. No-brand-produkt. Den visar spänning, ström, tid och kapacitet. USB-anslutningen är lite lös och kan glappa ibland. Den i sig förbrukar lite ström. Av någon anledning backar den flera mAh tillbaka efter man nått 3000 mAh varje gång man ansluter sladden igen. En svart powerbank från Clas Ohlson på 2600mAh = 9,62Wh. Blir laddad så fort solen skiner. I direkt solljus blir det 4,92v x 0,82A = 4W. En silverfärgad powerbank från Clas Ohlson på 3350mAh = 12,1Wh. Den fungerar mycket sämre, ofta laddar den inte alls, trots att den funkar från eluttaget. I skiftande strömförhållanden lägger den av. Är det på grund av någon elektronisk skyddspärr?

It has been a while I last worked with PowerShell. I had my custom profile where I had my own prompt and some other customizations. Now I cannot find it anymore. I’ll start with the new one and I am saving it on my blog, so it will be easier to find in future:

Function Prompt {
  $PromptData="PS $($executionContext.SessionState.Path.CurrentLocation)$('>' * ($nestedPromptLevel + 1)) "
  $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle=$PromptData +'-'+(Get-Date).tostring()
  # .Link
  # http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=225750
  # .ExternalHelp System.Management.Automation.dll-help.xml
}

The prompt function comes from the scripting guy blog. To customize your profile, just open it in a text editor (in my case: code)

Today I have just a little code snippet to share. This code snippet shows how to update the JSLink property for an existing field using JSOM and REST. For REST I use sharepoint-utilities.

var updateJsLinkCsom = function (config) {
  var ctx = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
  var web = ctx.get_web();
  var lists = web.get_lists();
  var list = lists.getByTitle(config.listTitle)
  var fields = list.get_fields();
  var field = fields.getByInternalNameOrTitle(config.fieldTitle)
  field.set_jsLink(config.jsLink)
  field.update()
  ctx.executeQueryAsync()
};
var updateJsLinkRest = function (config) {
  SP.SOD.registerSod('sputils.js', '<your cdn endpoint>/sputils.min.js')
  SP.SOD.executeFunc('sputils.js', '', function () {
    var url = _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + '/_api/web/lists/getbytitle(\''
      + config.listTitle + '\')/fields/getbyinternalnameortitle(\''
      + config.fieldTitle + '\')';
    var payload = {
      '__metadata': {
        'type': 'SP.Field'
      },
      'JSLink': config.jsLink
    };
    var config = {
      'headers': {
        'X-HTTP-Method': 'MERGE'
      }
    };
    sputils.rest.post(url, payload, config);
  });
};
var config = {
  listTitle: '<your list title>',
  fieldTitle: '<your field title>',
  jsLink: '~site/<your jslink>'
};
updateJsLinkCsom(config);
updateJsLinkRest(config);

A couple of notes, to update a field we need: