Tag: azure
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Discord Bot From Hello World to Container Apps
Recently I Became Curious About Discord Bots and How They Work.
In this blog post, I am going to write about my learnings. While some parts might be familiar to you, I found it very amusing to start with a simple “Hello, World!” bot, run it locally, deploy it to the cloud, and integrate it with ChatGPT. Along the way, I learned a lot. I hope this post can inspire other people or at least serve as a reference to refresh my memory when I revisit this topic in the future.
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A powershell script for activating an eligible role assignment in Azure AD
Recently my role assignments in Azure AD were switched from permanent to eligible ones. This is part of PIM - Privileged Identity Management, you can read more about it on MS Docs:
Start using Privileged Identity Management To activate your eligible assignment you can use Azure Portal, Graph API, and PowerShell. The activation in the portal and Graph API is described on MS Docs:
Activate my Azure AD roles in PIM My roles within Privileged Identity Management in Azure Portal
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Sites.Selected and Governance
The new permission in Graph API - Sites.Selected - is a step in the right direction. Since long we have been looking for ways of scoping the accesses to live up to the least privilege principle. It was either nothing or everything. I have tried out the new Sites.Selected permission and here are my findings.
First of all, if you haven’t heard about Sites.Selected, please visit these pages to find out more.
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A cost effective way of running legacy scripts in the cloud
Have you also got some old huge scripts that run on a server locally? Have you also considered moving them to the cloud? Here comes an idea of how to do it quickly and easy.
In my case I have some older powershell scripts that are harder to convert to serverless applications:
They use MSOnline module in PowerShell, hence they require rewriting to AzureAD before using them in an Azure Function They take around 15 minutes to complete, Azure Functions Consumption Plan is limited to 10 minutes.
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
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Setting up a HelloWorld Azure Alert
Azure Alerts are awesome for monitoring of solutions in Azure. If you are about to set up your first Alert Rules in Azure, then it’s a guide for you. Configuring alert rules can be quite intimidating at first, with all the options, metrics, evaluation times, etc.
Here is a very very simple setup that can serve as a teaser and help you get started with the Azure Alerts.
I’ll use Teams as an easy way to set up notifications.
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Using secrets in Logic Apps in a secure way
This is a guide for how to handle secrets in a logic app in a secure way. It combines three resources:
Accessing Key Vault from Logic App with Managed Identity Get Secrets Key Vault API Hide your logic apps secrets from prying eyes First, enable a Managed Identity for your Logic App:
In the KeyVault, add a new Access Policy for the new Managed Identity (from the previous step). Use the least priviliges.
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Filtering Azure Table Data directly in the Azure Function Binding
Instead of filtering values from an Azure Storage Table, you can do it directly in the bindings. It might not be a solution for everything, but in the right place, it is fantastic. I was very surprised to see how little code was needed after this binding change:
For that to work, define the filter attribute in the bindings: “filter”: “(PartitionKey eq ‘{package}’)”
To try it out, add a new row in a table defined in the bindings (“metadata” in my case):
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Azure Key Vault vs. Pipeline Variables
Using Azure Key Vault in a Pipeline is cool, but it is less secure.
The Key Vault setup
Have you tried the Key Vault Step in an Azure DevOps Pipeline? If you haven’t, please follow these awesome guides:
Azure DevOps Labs. Using secrets from Azure Key Vault in a pipeline Tobias Zimmergren. Using Azure Key Vault Secrets in Azure DevOps pipelines The steps described in these guides are easy, but that effort made me think about the first pair of pros and cons.
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Trust gulp-connect certificate from Visual Studio Online on Mac OS
I have read and followed this awesome post:
Getting SPFx working in Visual Studio Online by SPDavid.
I got my fingers and tried that guide out. This worked good, I spent some time, though, googling (binging) around to get rid of the SSL Warnings for the remote “localhost” on my Mac.
I would like to share this simple instruction on how to trust a self signed certificate from gulp-connect on Mac OS.
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Tips and Trick for Azure Functions
These are my favourite tips and tricks. These are only those who me and my colleguages have tried out.
Architecture tips Keep it slim Functions should do one thing and they should do it well. When you develop it in C# and Visual Studio, it is so tempting to develop a “microservice” in a good way, you add interfaces, implement good patterns, and all of a sudden you get a monolith packaged in a microservice.
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Simple Build for dotnet new react
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
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S01E01 IoT: Posting Temperature from Raspberry Pi to Azure
Recently I have looked more at IoT, Raspberry Pi in my spare time. In my blog post I want to share my experience in a series of posts. This post is about measuring temperature, humidity and pressure with Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and Sense Hat and posting this data to Azure Table Storage. I followed this tutorial for connecting to azure with python and these instructions for reading data from Sense Hat.
Tag: bot
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Discord Bot From Hello World to Container Apps
Recently I Became Curious About Discord Bots and How They Work.
In this blog post, I am going to write about my learnings. While some parts might be familiar to you, I found it very amusing to start with a simple “Hello, World!” bot, run it locally, deploy it to the cloud, and integrate it with ChatGPT. Along the way, I learned a lot. I hope this post can inspire other people or at least serve as a reference to refresh my memory when I revisit this topic in the future.
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11 Things I learned about chat bots in Teams
Recently we developed and published a chat bot in Power Virtual Agents for Teams (PVAforTeams). I would like to share my takes and lessons learned with you.
#1 Easy to edit, fun to work with Bots in PVAforTeams are no-code solutions and provide a comprehensive graphical interface. Developers, analysts, business representatives can work together on defining topics, user flows. It has been really fun to shape the bot in a group - with a lot of laughter and interesting discussions about users’ work habits and how users search and find information.
Tag: chatgpt
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Discord Bot From Hello World to Container Apps
Recently I Became Curious About Discord Bots and How They Work.
In this blog post, I am going to write about my learnings. While some parts might be familiar to you, I found it very amusing to start with a simple “Hello, World!” bot, run it locally, deploy it to the cloud, and integrate it with ChatGPT. Along the way, I learned a lot. I hope this post can inspire other people or at least serve as a reference to refresh my memory when I revisit this topic in the future.
Tag: cloud
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Discord Bot From Hello World to Container Apps
Recently I Became Curious About Discord Bots and How They Work.
In this blog post, I am going to write about my learnings. While some parts might be familiar to you, I found it very amusing to start with a simple “Hello, World!” bot, run it locally, deploy it to the cloud, and integrate it with ChatGPT. Along the way, I learned a lot. I hope this post can inspire other people or at least serve as a reference to refresh my memory when I revisit this topic in the future.
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First look at Yammer integration in SharePoint 2013 SP1
I have installed SharePoint SP1 on my development machine. Yammer and OneDrive links have appeared in the Central Administration: If you go ahead and click “Configure Yammer”, you can activate it: Because:
Yammer is Microsoft’s recommended tool for social collaboration.
When you activate Yammer, you’ll get this dialog, and the Yammer link in the SuiteBar: What happens when you click on Yammer, is that you are redirected to Yammer.com and you are prompted a login page.
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Hello world in node.js
I know, node.js has been present for a while. But I actually had no time to try it. I was surprised that now it is very straight forward to start with node.js. Allright, everything begins with Hello world. Eventhough it is available for allmost all combinations of operating systems and servers, the easiest way to test it was actually Ubuntu. To install just run:
sudo apt-get install nodejs ```Then make a new directory and create the hello.
Tag: containerapp
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Discord Bot From Hello World to Container Apps
Recently I Became Curious About Discord Bots and How They Work.
In this blog post, I am going to write about my learnings. While some parts might be familiar to you, I found it very amusing to start with a simple “Hello, World!” bot, run it locally, deploy it to the cloud, and integrate it with ChatGPT. Along the way, I learned a lot. I hope this post can inspire other people or at least serve as a reference to refresh my memory when I revisit this topic in the future.
Tag: discord
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Discord Bot From Hello World to Container Apps
Recently I Became Curious About Discord Bots and How They Work.
In this blog post, I am going to write about my learnings. While some parts might be familiar to you, I found it very amusing to start with a simple “Hello, World!” bot, run it locally, deploy it to the cloud, and integrate it with ChatGPT. Along the way, I learned a lot. I hope this post can inspire other people or at least serve as a reference to refresh my memory when I revisit this topic in the future.
Tag: docker
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Discord Bot From Hello World to Container Apps
Recently I Became Curious About Discord Bots and How They Work.
In this blog post, I am going to write about my learnings. While some parts might be familiar to you, I found it very amusing to start with a simple “Hello, World!” bot, run it locally, deploy it to the cloud, and integrate it with ChatGPT. Along the way, I learned a lot. I hope this post can inspire other people or at least serve as a reference to refresh my memory when I revisit this topic in the future.
Tag: github
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Discord Bot From Hello World to Container Apps
Recently I Became Curious About Discord Bots and How They Work.
In this blog post, I am going to write about my learnings. While some parts might be familiar to you, I found it very amusing to start with a simple “Hello, World!” bot, run it locally, deploy it to the cloud, and integrate it with ChatGPT. Along the way, I learned a lot. I hope this post can inspire other people or at least serve as a reference to refresh my memory when I revisit this topic in the future.
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New Home for My Blog
Hello World Now I have moved my blog. chuvash.eu is a static site. I’ll share more details and insights later.
Update 2022-02-10 It has passed a few months since the move from Wordpress to a static site. Now it is time to summarize the insights.
Why I moved Here are the reasons why I switched from Wordpress.com to a static site
To be honest, the main reason was that I was curious about static sites.
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Re-discovering Github
Github has changed a lot. While working mostly in Azure DevOps I haven’t followed all the development on Github. Now when I look at that, I am really amazed.
Private Repos for Free accounts Well, for me it is not as interesting, because with my free account, I don’t see any harm having my labs public. But I know, some people used bitbucket for their smaller private repos.
Github Project I suppose it is the Azure DevOps Project concept that was copied to Github, a place for planning and having multiple connected repos.
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SharePoint Utilities - a promising JavaScript Framework
My colleagues at Bool have developed a new JavaScript framework for SharePoint - sharepoint utilities. It started on our DevDay last year - a whole free day when we could learn new things, try out new techniques or build something that was not even requested from a customer. I was not working on sharepoint utilities, so I almost forgot it until… I recently re-discovered sharepoint utilities. It is on Github, it is MIT licensed and contributions are welcome.
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JSGrid Basics
JSGrid is the javascript framework in SharePoint used in Quick Edit View (previously Datasheet View). There are a few very good blog posts on this topic (See below in “Sources”). Nevertheless the fact is that jsgrid and working with quick edit from a developer’s perspective is a huge undiscovered area. Articles I have seen are intended for advanced developers. The goal with my post today is to outline the very basics of working with JSGrid.
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Load git into PowerShell
Just a little productivity tip. If you use git on Windows, you probably already have the Github for Windows application. This application adds the Git Shell:
The Git Shell will open a PowerShell window and execute shell.ps1 from the Github directory:
What it won’t do is to load your personal PowerShell profile. I want to use my PowerShell profile that creates some links and adjust the look-and-feel and the promt of the shell.
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Toastr.js and SharePoint
Have you used SharePoint javascript Notifications (SP.UI.Notify)? Are you looking for something new and fresh? Well then check out the Toastr.js - a simple, beautiful, fully responsive and light-weight javascript lib for notifications, developed by John Papa and Hans Fjällemark and released under the MIT License. By the way, toastr was one of many things I discovered and learned on John Papa’s online course by pluralsight: Single Page Apps with HTML5, Web API, Knockout and jQuery.
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css3 transform
See Richards Bradshaw’s page with explanations and examples of css3 transform and transitions. His code is also available for forking on Github.
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Sharepoint repos on github
You may think all interesting open source Sharepoint projects on codeplex. Well it is true, but there are some interesting projects on github as well. There are 17 projects for now. From a matrix to RichControls.
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cloud9 web ide
Skapa javascript-appar i din webbläsare. Mycket smidigt. Direkt kontakt till github.
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Improvement ideas
Now, to organize it a little bit, all improvement ideas will be placed in project issues on the github and tagged as “improvement ideas”. It is much better to collaborate this way. You can track the status of a improvement idea, comment it. Every time it is changed, all the involved developers will be announced.
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Good beginners' tutorial on android, eclipse and git
Smashing magazine has a pretty good tutorial how to start programming for android using git, github, eclipse and datastorage. I recommend: Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse, Reloaded
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New files in Eclipse
If there are new classes or files in the project (say you have got the latest version from github into existing workspace in Eclipse). In order for Eclipse to see them, right click on the package and press “Refresh”.
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migrera svn till git
Ja, hur gör man om man vill migrera till git? Låt oss säga, man vill använda github. Jag ska berätta hur man kan göra det. Jag gör det i Linux, förmodar samma gäller Mac. Det finns en bra manual om hur man migrerar svn till git. Vi ska gå igenom steg för steg. Skapa en fil som heter users.txt på ditt Skrivbord:
jmaddox = Jon Maddox <jon@gmail.com> bigpappa = Brian Biggs <bigpappa@gmail.
Tag: doclib
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Show Path Column in SharePoint
PnP.PowerShell is just the tool you need to show the Path column in a SharePoint document library view. Scroll down to see the script, or read on to learn more.
An introduction Do you still have folders in SharePoint? Well, you are not alone. Remember the old dream of relying on metadata only? Forget it! As a matter of fact, folders are still a popular way of organizing files in SharePoint.
Tag: List
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Show Path Column in SharePoint
PnP.PowerShell is just the tool you need to show the Path column in a SharePoint document library view. Scroll down to see the script, or read on to learn more.
An introduction Do you still have folders in SharePoint? Well, you are not alone. Remember the old dream of relying on metadata only? Forget it! As a matter of fact, folders are still a popular way of organizing files in SharePoint.
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Make javascript code work with Minimal Download Strategy Part 1
I have a newer blog post about MDS, that provides a much simpler solution. Please check it before reading further.
This is a part 1 of the blog post about Minimal Download Strategy and javascript adjustments for user code. What I initially thought should be enough for one post, is not enough, so I see it as a part 1. I wrote this post after I had read Chris O’Brien’s post about JSLink Here I want investigate how we can get his accordion list view working with MDS.
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ForEach-metod i List
En intressant variant av foreach är ForEach-metoden i List. Titta på det lilla exemplet:
private static void SavePlacesToDB(SQLiteConnection cnn, List<dynamic> places) { places.ForEach(obj => SavePlaceToDB(obj, cnn)); } ```Här används även det nya objektet [dynamic](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264736.aspx) som har kommit i Visual Studio 2010, samt en [lambda expression (=>)](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397687.aspx).
Tag: pnp
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Show Path Column in SharePoint
PnP.PowerShell is just the tool you need to show the Path column in a SharePoint document library view. Scroll down to see the script, or read on to learn more.
An introduction Do you still have folders in SharePoint? Well, you are not alone. Remember the old dream of relying on metadata only? Forget it! As a matter of fact, folders are still a popular way of organizing files in SharePoint.
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Sites.Selected and Governance
The new permission in Graph API - Sites.Selected - is a step in the right direction. Since long we have been looking for ways of scoping the accesses to live up to the least privilege principle. It was either nothing or everything. I have tried out the new Sites.Selected permission and here are my findings.
First of all, if you haven’t heard about Sites.Selected, please visit these pages to find out more.
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Smarter way of loading SharePoint CSOM dll in PowerShell
Have you also got a legacy powershell script that loads SharePoint dlls and runs CSOM code directly? It’s quite easy to convert to PnP PowerShell. But if you run out of time and just need to execute the script, then I have a quick tip for you.
First of all, a CSOM script can be recognized by Add-Type commands (or Import-Module) plus the SharePoint dll paths.
Loading the dll the old way.
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Demote News in SharePoint Online
In case you published a news in SharePoint Online and you now want to “downgrade” it to a regular page, I have a solution for you.
The reasons why you would like to demote a News might vary:
You publish an important message, perhaps a note about an operational disturbance. It might not relevant anymore, but you still want to keep the page in case someone wants to access the information.
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Hiding Teamify Prompt
If you want to remove the Microsoft Teams Banner on your SharePoint Site, the only thing you need is to set a web property on a site: TeamifyHidden=TRUE. I’ll give you some guidance below. But before you do that, consider following:
If there is already a team created for a group connected site, the prompt won’t show up. Why fix something that is not a problem? Only group owners will get the prompt, if they are few and they know what it is, it is better to let them to decide whether to create or not to create a team.
Tag: PowerShell
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Show Path Column in SharePoint
PnP.PowerShell is just the tool you need to show the Path column in a SharePoint document library view. Scroll down to see the script, or read on to learn more.
An introduction Do you still have folders in SharePoint? Well, you are not alone. Remember the old dream of relying on metadata only? Forget it! As a matter of fact, folders are still a popular way of organizing files in SharePoint.
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Automate Creation of Git Repos Using Azure DevOps API
Today I got a question: how can we precreate 50 git repositories in an Azure DevOps Project? I started to learn about the API in Azure DevOps and I found it very interesting. With the API you can script and automate administration of projects, repositores, pull requests etc. To keep this blog post simple and digestable I would like to focus on the intitial request - creating git repositories by code.
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A powershell script for activating an eligible role assignment in Azure AD
Recently my role assignments in Azure AD were switched from permanent to eligible ones. This is part of PIM - Privileged Identity Management, you can read more about it on MS Docs:
Start using Privileged Identity Management To activate your eligible assignment you can use Azure Portal, Graph API, and PowerShell. The activation in the portal and Graph API is described on MS Docs:
Activate my Azure AD roles in PIM My roles within Privileged Identity Management in Azure Portal
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Sites.Selected and Governance
The new permission in Graph API - Sites.Selected - is a step in the right direction. Since long we have been looking for ways of scoping the accesses to live up to the least privilege principle. It was either nothing or everything. I have tried out the new Sites.Selected permission and here are my findings.
First of all, if you haven’t heard about Sites.Selected, please visit these pages to find out more.
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Smarter way of loading SharePoint CSOM dll in PowerShell
Have you also got a legacy powershell script that loads SharePoint dlls and runs CSOM code directly? It’s quite easy to convert to PnP PowerShell. But if you run out of time and just need to execute the script, then I have a quick tip for you.
First of all, a CSOM script can be recognized by Add-Type commands (or Import-Module) plus the SharePoint dll paths.
Loading the dll the old way.
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A cost effective way of running legacy scripts in the cloud
Have you also got some old huge scripts that run on a server locally? Have you also considered moving them to the cloud? Here comes an idea of how to do it quickly and easy.
In my case I have some older powershell scripts that are harder to convert to serverless applications:
They use MSOnline module in PowerShell, hence they require rewriting to AzureAD before using them in an Azure Function They take around 15 minutes to complete, Azure Functions Consumption Plan is limited to 10 minutes.
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Demote News in SharePoint Online
In case you published a news in SharePoint Online and you now want to “downgrade” it to a regular page, I have a solution for you.
The reasons why you would like to demote a News might vary:
You publish an important message, perhaps a note about an operational disturbance. It might not relevant anymore, but you still want to keep the page in case someone wants to access the information.
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Add a security group as hubbers using PowerShell
Today I needed to add a security group to “People who can associate sites with this hub” through PowerShell. Here is quick how-to. I usually say “hubbers” instead of the long “People who….”. By the way, if you want to know what prerequisites there are for being a hubber, read my other blog post
Infographics. Who can associate a site with a hub An example of how to add a security group is missing in the MS Docs:
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Setting up a HelloWorld Azure Alert
Azure Alerts are awesome for monitoring of solutions in Azure. If you are about to set up your first Alert Rules in Azure, then it’s a guide for you. Configuring alert rules can be quite intimidating at first, with all the options, metrics, evaluation times, etc.
Here is a very very simple setup that can serve as a teaser and help you get started with the Azure Alerts.
I’ll use Teams as an easy way to set up notifications.
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Is an M365 Group a Yammer Community
Nowadays a Yammer Community gets a corresponding Microsoft 365 Group (Office 365 Group, Unified Group). In your work as an SPO Admin, you might need to differentiate “ordinary” Modern Team Sites from those ones that were created for a Yammer Community.
They both have GROUP#0 as Template. On the actual SPO Site object, there is nothing that you can use to differentiate those. Neither you can use the Office 365 Group information.
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Estimated Completion in Write-Progress in PowerShell
Have you also got many sites in your tenant? Write-Progress is the bare minimum in a script that goes through all sites. But there is also another nice way to make easier to see the progress - estimated completion time.
Although the idea comes from another blog post (My life is a message), I thought it could be worth sharing it again, especially in the cloud context.
Here is a bit simplified scenario: Getting information for every site.
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Optimizing lookups in PowerShell
Have you had a PowerShell script that contains two bigger arrays and you wanted merge the information. It can become quite slow if you need to search for every item from array A through all items in array B. The solution is called a HashTable! It might be not an advanced tip for some, but I was really glad to see a huge improvement, so I decided to share it as a post.
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Get totals from a list view using PowerShell
Today I will share a short script for getting totals from a list view in SharePoint. Imagine this scenario: you have set up a list view with totals and you want get the totals every day for statistics or some other reasons. Instead of getting all items, and/or fiddling around with CamlQueries, there is a better and quicker way - List.RenderListData. This combined with a tip from Piyush K Singhs blog post Get Aggregate Values… I came up with an idea to read the ViewXml from an existing view and retrieve the totals (in my case Count and Sum).
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My PowerShell Profile
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: [code language=“powershell”] Function Prompt { $PromptData=“PS $($executionContext.SessionState.Path.CurrentLocation)$(’>’ * ($nestedPromptLevel + 1)) " $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle=$PromptData +’-’+(Get-Date).tostring() # .
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Export SharePoint List Data To Xml through PowerShell
Today my colleague Johannes Milling wrote an awesome post: Export SharePoint List Data To XML Directly from the GUI He uses the old and forgotten RPC-based web service owssvr.dll (that has existed since SharePoint 2003). This url pattern is used to get the xml-formatted list data for a specific ListView: [source] http://<site_url>/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?Cmd=Display&List=&View=&Query=*&XMLDATA=TRUE [/source] To automate this I have written a PowerShell function. All the details are in the comments: [source language=“PowerShell”] function Export-OIPSPListDataAsXml { <# .
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Showing Birthdays and Job Anniversaries in the Newsfeed
In our project we have a requirement to show birthdays and job anniversaries in the Newsfeed. The solution is simple (when you know it) but there has not been any information about it online, until today. I want to share a few lines of PowerShell code to enable Anniversary notifications in the Newsfeed. This desired piece of code was written by my colleague Emma Degerman. Enjoy:
[source language=“PowerShell”] $job = Get-SPTimerJob | ?
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Load git into PowerShell
Just a little productivity tip. If you use git on Windows, you probably already have the Github for Windows application. This application adds the Git Shell:
The Git Shell will open a PowerShell window and execute shell.ps1 from the Github directory:
What it won’t do is to load your personal PowerShell profile. I want to use my PowerShell profile that creates some links and adjust the look-and-feel and the promt of the shell.
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A presentation about PowerShell and SharePoint
Yesterday I had a little presentation about PowerShell basics in the SharePoint context. Here you can see the presentation I’ve published on slideshare. The text is in Swedish.
[slideshare id=37316916&doc=sharepoint-140724063012-phpapp01&w=600]
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A PowerShell one liner
PowerShell is powerful. You can write concise, well formulated, functional-style code. Recently I got the following quiz:
You’ve got $100. You have to buy exactly 100 animal, at least 1 dog, 1 cat and 1 mouse. 1 dog costs $15, 1 cat costs $1, 1 mouse costs $0.25.
There can be many ways to solve it. But look at this one line solution. It is quite impressive what you can do with PowerShell [code language=“powershell”] 1.
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Debugging "What's happening" in Communities
Recently an issue was reported about count mismatches in SharePoint 2013 Communities. The number of replies in category tiles sometimes is different compared to the community stats in the web part called “What’s happening”. The actual number of replies is 1 in the figure below. The user who has reported has tried to add, update and delete discussions and replies. I have invested some time debugging this issue. It would be pity to not share my findings.
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PowerShell: Migrate field choices to a termset
In my current project we are migrating a custom sharepoint solution from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. One of the improvements is that we migrate custom field choices to Managed Metadata. Choice Fields were not intended to be so many. So now it is time to convert them to metadata terms. I have written a PowerShell script which copies all the choices from a field to a termset. The script uses Client Side Object Model (CSOM) to get the choice values and it uses Server Object Model to write data to the termset.
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PowerShell: Get version and ProductId from an .app package
In my project I deploy some apps directly through the ObjectModel directly with PowerShell. The apps are built with TFS I have a script that installs or updates apps if there is a new version of the app. Previously I used Import-SPAppPackage to compare the version and productid with an existing app instance, but often I get this error:
The provided App differs from another App with the same version and product ID.
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Count lines of code with PowerShell
Today I got a question:
How many lines of code are there in our SharePoint solution?
After a little search, I found that PowerShell is really a nice tool to count lines of code:
How do you count lines of code (stackoverflow)? I wanted to count lines for different types of code:
Code Behind written in C#, the files have .cs file extension JavaScript code (except jQuery, angular or knockout frameworks) PowerShell files (.
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scriptcs and SharePoint. How SharePoint can benefit?
Last Saturday I attended Leetspeak. Among many awesome speeches and presentations I discovered scriptcs. scriptcs lets you write C# code directly in the console, or execute scripts written with just your favourite editor. Please see more about it on the site. What I thought during Justin Rusbatch’s session at Leetspeak:
Can we use scriptcs in SharePoint? Technically there is no limitations in SharePoint for scriptcs. Any .NET code can be registered, imported and invoked in a console or in a standalone script.
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The CDN concept in SharePoint
How many instances of jquery are there in your SharePoint farm? [sourcecode language=“powershell”] Get-SPWebApplication http://dev ` | Select -Expand Sites ` | Select -Expand AllWebs ` | Select -Expand Lists ` | Select -Expand Items ` | ? { $_.Url -match “jquery.*.js” } ` | select Name, Url [/sourcecode] Have you more than two (jquery and jquery-ui), then you have too much. You can save much place and performance by using Content Delivery Network (CDN) links for the resources like javascript, css, fonts and icons.
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Set IE Proxy Server with PowerShell
Today just a quick one-liner tip for PowerShell. Use this script to set a proxy server in IE Settings. I got the inspiration from Aymeric’s blog: Scripting : Toggle proxy server in IE settings with PowerShell: [sourcecode language=“PowerShell”] sp AutoConfigUrl “http://proxy.contoso.com” ` -Path “HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings” [/sourcecode] By the way sp is just alias for Set-ItemProperty cmdlet: This corresponds these settings in IE (Tools - Internet Options - Connections - Lan Settings): It can be useful if you have want to automate this.
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A quick guide to configuring the Loopback check
Great tutorial how to configure the loopback check on a dev machine. Exactly what I needed for a month ago. Pity that this article came after that. :-) Here is the command to disable it completeley:
\# Disable Loopback check http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861 # New-ItemProperty HKLM:\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Lsa -Name "DisableLoopbackCheck" -Value "1" -PropertyType dword
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AutoSPInstaller: error while stopping the default web site in IIS
During an installation with AutoSPInstaller on my development machine I ran into a strange issue. I got the following error:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.IIS.PowerShell.Framework’ or one of its dependencies
I haven’t found any other people having the same problem with the AutoSPInstaller, but I found a similar report on another forum: help.octopusdeploy.com. Maybe I am the only one who gets this error in AutoSPInstaller, if not it can be useful to write the solution down.
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PowerShell: Copy an entire document library from SharePoint 2007 to disk
For a while ago I needed to copy all files from a document library within a SharePoint 2007 site to the hard drive. So I didn’t need to copy files from SharePoint to SharePoint so I couldn’t use the stsadm -o export command or Chris O’Brien’s nice SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard. I came across the SPIEFolder application which should work with SharePoint 2007 and 2010. It has a site on codeplex: spiefolder.
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Run web.config-dependant code in PowerShell
PowerShell is a great tool. It helps in SharePoint administration and tasks automation. Today I needed to provision a webpart on many similar pages. This third-party webpart’s constructor instantiates a dataaccess service and uses a connectionstring which is stored in the web.config file. So the webpart creation failed until I found a way to load the configuration into powershell. First you can create a simple file powershell.exe.config, put it into $pshome (C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.
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Create SPGroup in PowerShell
Thanks to Ryan for sharing powershell functions. I used New-SPGroup which I altered. Now You can define which permissions will be given to the new group. You can even create groups without default users. Here it comes:
function New-SPGroup { <# .Synopsis Use New-SPGroup to create a SharePoint Group. .Description This function uses the Add() method of a SharePoint RoleAssignments property in an SPWeb to create a SharePoint Group. .Example New-SPGroup -Web http://intranet -GroupName "Test Group" -OwnerName DOMAIN\\User -MemberName DOMAIN\\User2 -Description "My Group" -Role "Read" This example creates a group called "Test Group" in the http://intranet site, with a description of "My Group".
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Creating custom powershell cmdlet
Why I need to to activate a feature in PowerShell and specify some properties. Simple? Yes. Possible? No. In the default Enable-SPFeature cmdlet you can’t specify any properties:
Enable-SPFeature –Identity "b5eef7d1-f46f-44d1-b53e-410f62032846" -URL http://dev We can of course easily add properties when activating features in onet.xml:
<!-- Publishing Resources --> <Feature ID="AEBC918D-B20F-4a11-A1DB-9ED84D79C87E"> <Properties xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> <Property Key="AllowRss" Value="false" /> <Property Key="SimplePublishing" Value="false" /> </Properties> </Feature> So I went to SharePoint StackExchange and asked the question.
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Out-Gridview in PowerShell
Did you know that we can pipe the output from PowerShell into a graphical GridView? I have used PowerShell for one year and only now I discovered this nice feature. You can add filter criteria, you can filter by typing in a textbox: Other useful output cmdlets out-file out-clip out-null
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Run powershell remotely
To run powershell remotely is really easy. First enable it on the machine which will receive the remote commands:
Enable-PSRemoting Then go to another machine and connect to your host:
$cred = Get-Credential Enter-PSSession -Computername dev -Credential $cred If you want to know more about powershell remoting, I recommend “A layman’s guide…”. See even a detailed example on poshcode.
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Access User Profile Properties from Powershell
To use only SPUser objects isn’t always sufficient. To get other properties we have to retrieve user profiles. Giles Hamson gives an example how to get and how to update user profile properties with powershell. Here is an example how to get all work phones:
$url = "http://intranet/" $site = Get-SPSite $url $context = Get-SPServiceContext $site $profileManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($context) $profiles = $profileManager.GetEnumerator() while ($profiles.MoveNext()) { $userProfile = $profiles.Current $name = $userProfile.
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Adding organizational units to AD through powershell
Want to create some organizational structure in AD, I suppose it is specifically useful in a development environment, well the best solution is powershell then. Mastering Powershell by and Powershell.nu by Niklas Goude provide examples how to do this.
$domain = \[ADSI\]"" $ou = $domain.Create("organizationalUnit", "OU=Administration") $ou.SetInfo() ```Be sure you write "organizationalUnit" in lower case. Otherwise you'll get "Exception calling "SetInfo" with "0" argument(s): "The specified directory service attribute or value does not exist" when you invoke **$ou.
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Install a custom timer job in Powershell
First we have to create a class for our timer job which inherits SPTimerJobDefinition, build it and deploy it.
public class TakanaTimer : SPJobDefinition { public TakanaTimer(){} public TakanaTimer(string jobName, SPService service, SPServer server, SPJobLockType targetType) : base(jobName, service, server, targetType) { } public TakanaTimer(string jobName, SPWebApplication webapp) : base(jobName, webapp, null, SPJobLockType.ContentDatabase) { Title = jobName; } public override void Execute(Guid contentDbId) { Log.Info("Running Takana Timer"); } } There is a powershell example for this, but it has not been updated since MOSS.
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SPWebConfigModification
SPWebConfigModification. Some links to start with: http://panvega.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/using-spwebconfigmodification-within-a-feature-receiver/ http://www.onedotnetway.com/get-name-of-current-executing-assembly-in-c/ http://blogs.devhorizon.com/reza/?p=459 http://ikarstein.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/add-web-config-modification-with-powershell-spwebconfigmodification/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861909.aspx
public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties) { var webapp = parent as SPWebApplication; if (webapp != null) { var mod1 = GetWebControlsConfigMod(); webapp.WebConfigModifications.Add(mod1); var mod2 = GetConStringConfigMod(); webapp.WebConfigModifications.Add(mod2); SaveChanges(webapp); } else { Log.Warning("no modifications to webapp are done"); } } public override void FeatureDeactivating(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties) { var webapp = parent as SPWebApplication; if (webapp != null) { var mod = GetWebControlsConfigMod(); var modsCollection = webapp.
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\n and \t in powershell
Want to add some tabs and new lines to your output in Powershell. Well, it works like \n and \t. But there is a little different syntax: `t and `n. Just a tip. An alternative way to add new line is to use [Environment]::NewLine:
$nl = \[Environment\]::NewLine $var = "hej" + $nl Write $var
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Add Sharepoint Snap-in if needed
Just include it in your script or function:
if(-not(Get-PSSnapin | Where { $_.Name -eq "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"})) { Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell} By the way, I found it in PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators by Niklas Goude and Mattias Karlsson. Powershell for Sharepoint Administrators. UPDATE: I found a better way to check a variable for null: Thomas Maurer. Powershell: check variable for null. It is like in javascript, just put it in the if-statement to test if it exists or not:
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Add global navigation links in Powershell and Feature Receiver
I think, powershell is the best way to do configurations you have to do once. Adding some links to global (top) navigation is one of them:
asnp microsoft.sharepoint.powershell $w = get-spweb http://takana $l = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPNavigationNode("Smells like team spirit", "/pages/teamspirit.aspx") $w.Navigation.TopNavigationBar.AddAsLast($l) Feature receiver The alternative is to create a web scoped feature and provide properties:
public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties) { var web = properties.Feature.Parent as SPWeb; var prop = properties.
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Batch remove
To add items to a list in bulk, or remove them in bulk. Well to do that you can use SPLinq, Server Object Model and … web.ProcessBatchData, which is the most effective. I did an experiment today. I created 1000 tasks in my task list three times and removed all items in three different ways and took time. First I put 1000 items with ajax and listdata.svc:
function pad(n) { if (n >= 10000) return n; if (n >= 1000) return '0' + n; if (n >= 100) return '00' + n; if (n >= 10) return '000' + n; return '0000' + n; } var s; var counter = 0; var title = "task " function foo() { counter++; if (counter > 10000) { window.
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Powershell scripts for AD
A tip for all who want to administer AD with powershell: Idera Powershell scripts. Just sign up and get the free scripts for AD, SQL, Exchange and Sharepoint. I personally prefer to user modules, so I change the file extension from ps1 to psm1 and then I can use import functions as modules. Here is a simple example for creating for domain users:
import-module .\\New-IADUser1.psm1 function Add-User($name) { New-IADUser -Name $name -sAMAccountname $name -ParentContainer 'CN=Users, DC=contoso, DC=com' -Password 'SvenskaAkademien1786' -EnableAccount -PasswordNeverExpires } Add-User "user01" Add-User "user02" Add-User "user03" Add-User "user04" update 2012-03-15: nice script from Ryan Ryan Dennis has created a very handy script for creating random users.
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Uninstall custom features in a batch
A funny powershell command I came upon today together with my colleague. Remove all your custom features (which start with something, say contoso):
Get-SPFeature | Where { $\_.DisplayName.StartsWith("Contoso.") } | ForEach { Uninstall-SPFeature $\_.Id -confirm:0 -force } Have fun!
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Configure User Profile Service Application
Today I have struggled with User Profile Service Application. I should have followed this awesome tutorial by ShareponitGeorge. And many thanks to my friend David for the great assistance! One important thing to beware about: Forefront Identity Manager Service must be running. Otherwise you don’t see the existing synchronization connections and you can’t add new connections. You can ensure that this service is running by running services.msc (just press Windows button and write services).
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Sharepoint Warmup Script
It is useful to warm up a site after app pool recycling or after a site creation in development environments. I found a very simple script which I made even simpler:
$url = "http://takana" $wc = new-object net.webclient $wc.credentials = \[System.Net.CredentialCache\]::DefaultCredentials $wc.DownloadString($url) | out-null $wc.Dispose() For more sophisticated warmups Wahid Salemi provided an interisting script to warm up your Sharepoint. By the way. Let us save it as a powershell function.
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Change CA port number
In order to change port number for the Central Administration site, run this cmdlet:
Set-SPCentralAdministration -Port 1337 You can set any number between 1023 and 32767 except 443.
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Get role assignments of a web or a list
In Powershell you can easily get the permissions in a web or in a list:
$web = get-spweb http://contoso.com $web.Groups | select Name, Roles > .\\Desktop\\webgroups.txt $list = $web.Lists.TryGetList("Assets"); $list.RoleAssignments | select Member, RoleDefinitionBindings > .\\Desktop\\assets-roleassignements.txt ```To get all users in all groups run: $web.Groups | Foreach { Write $_.Name; Write “————-”; $_.Users | Select Name; Write “”; Write "" }
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pause in Powershell
Om man högerklickar och väljer “Run With Powershell”, är det bra om fönstret inte försvinner… Det hade varit bra med en funktion som pause… Här kommer väl till pass en egen pause.:
function Pause ($Message="Press any key to continue...") { Write-Host -NoNewLine $Message $null = $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown") Write-Host "" }
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powershell.exe -Command
man kan skapa en .bat-fil med olika powershell-anrop:
powershell.exe -Command "& {.\\Script1.ps1}"
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Flaggor i powershellfunktioner
Har länge letat efter möjligheten att skriva funktioner med egna flaggor på ett enkelt sätt. “Flaggor” (flags) är namngivna parametrar. Följande kommando har flaggor: -Identity, -WebApplication och -GACDeployment.
Install-SPSolution -Identity contoso.portal.wsp -WebApplication http://contoso -GACDeployment ```Låt oss titta på ett gammalt exempel: function hello($firstname, $lastname) { Write “Hello $firstname $lastname” }
hello -firstname Gregor -lastname Samsa
hello -lastname Samsa -firstname Gregor
function helloInColor($firstname, $lastname, [switch]$red = $false, [switch]$green = $false) { $greeting = “Hello, $firstname $lastname” if($red) { Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red $greeting } if($green) { Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green $greeting } }
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Lägg till en annan administrator på site collection
Man kan göra det i CA (Application Mgmnt - Change Site Cltn Admins). Det kan man också snabbt göra med powershell:
Set-SPSite http://contoso -SecondaryOwnerAlias contoso\\admin2
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defaultvärde på parametern i powershellfunktioner
Läser ett intressant inlägg om deployskript i powershell. Har upptäckt att man kan stoppa in ett defaultvärde i funktionens parameter. Så i stället för
function hello($name) { Write-Host $name } Kan man köra:
function hello($name = "Gregor") { Write-Host $name } ```Mycket smidigt.
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parametrar i powershell-funktioner
Man kan skapa funktioner med parametrar som påminner mycket om i C#. Så i stället för:
function Just-Test { Write-Host $args\[0\] } ```Skriv: function Just-Test($param) { Write-Host $param }
if($site -ne $null -and $url -ne $null) {“Url OR Site can be given”; return}
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powershell_ise
Powershell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) är ett bra verktyg för att skriva powershell-skript med färgmarkering och möjligheten att testköra det. Synd bara att det inte är aktiverat ifrån början i Server 2008. För att [aktivera](Import-Module ServerManager 2 Add-Windowsfeature PowerShell-ISE ) kör följande kommandon i powershell:
Import-Module ServerManager Add-Windowsfeature PowerShell-ISE För att sedan starta powershell kör:
powershell\_ise
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Förenkla skapandet av utvecklingsmiljön till SharePoint 2010
Jag är fortfarande i mitt sökande efter den perfekta (för mig) utvecklingsmiljön för SharePoint 2010. Fram tills nu har jag arbetat med en virtuell (VMware) maskin som kollegor till mig har konfigurerat. Men jag vill ha kunskapen att göra det själv. Än så länge har jag bara stött på procedurer som är relativt långdragna, fram tills idag. Se på videon på sidan jag länkat nedan. Jag ska testa det och sen förhoppningsvis komma med resultat här.
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Powershell med tysk precision
Master Powershell ebookDe som har missat Powershell, läser nog andra sorts bloggar än denna. Så rak på sak: det finns en lovande ebook om Powershell, skriven av Tobias Weltner. Ska absolut läsa den. Ni som har läst, vad tycker ni om den? Master-PowerShell | With Dr. Tobias Weltner i html
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Sharepoint + OpenSource = Sant
Om man söker på Sharepoint i codeplex.com får man 729 projekt som är alltså öppna. Det är inte illa. Bland dem finns till exempel Sharepoint Log Viewer. Till det kommer 713 öppna projekt som är taggade ASP.NET som kan användas väldigt mycket i Sharepoint-utveckling. Bland ASP.NET-taggade finns smidiga Telerik Extensions. Powershell är också absolut en tag som man ska söka på i codeplex. codeplex.com är Microsofts officiella OpenSource-portal. Det måste finnas andra sidor där öppna projekt inom Sharepoint och ASP.
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Radera en sajt ifrån Powershell
Att radera en sajt ifrån Powershell är väldigt enkelt. Skriv bara:
Remove-SPWeb [http://sharepoint/test](http://sharepoint/test)
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Aktivera PowerShell för Sharepoint
Som standard så är snap-in i Powershell för Sharepoint inte aktiverat. Gå in på Powershell och aktivera det genom att skriva in: Enable PowerShell Sharepoint:
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell ```Se mer på [social.technet.microsoft](http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010setup/thread/81392f4c-549c-4c4b-a158-99ab8ef8e114).
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Retrieve information from AD
Here is a a link you can start with. To test AD, install AD. Then we canplay with it. Take a look those examples, too.
PrincipalSearcher vs. DirectorySearcher What is the difference?
OU Here are two examples (one for PrincipalSearcher and the other for DirectorySearcher) to retrieve users from an OU:
//PrincipalSearcher internal static void ListPrincipalsFromOu() { using(var ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "takana.local", "OU=SOME\_OU ,DC=takana, DC=local")) { using (var up = new UserPrincipal(ctx)) { using (var ps = new PrincipalSearcher(up)) { using (var res = ps.
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PowerShell
PowerShell är ett sätt att manipulera data och struktur i SharePoint-portalen. Samma uppgifter låter göras med konsoll-applikationer. Fördelen med PowerShell är att man kan skapa skript som är flexibla och kan köras med olika parametrar. PowerShell påminner starkt om shell-skript i Linux. För mig som egentligen kommer snarare från bash-världen. Där har Microsoft låtit sig inspireras starkt :). Det finns en bok om PowerShell, skriven av svenskar, som låter intressant. Man behöver inte heller uppfinna hjul på nytt: det finns färdiga skripts som man direkt.
Tag: sharepoint
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Show Path Column in SharePoint
PnP.PowerShell is just the tool you need to show the Path column in a SharePoint document library view. Scroll down to see the script, or read on to learn more.
An introduction Do you still have folders in SharePoint? Well, you are not alone. Remember the old dream of relying on metadata only? Forget it! As a matter of fact, folders are still a popular way of organizing files in SharePoint.
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Lookup Person Field in Power Automate
Hello Citizen Developers!
I get more and more questions about Power Automate. One of the recent questions is about how to look up a person field from SharePoint using Power Automate. I’ll give you a bit of the background in a second. Power Automate is really awesome for citizen developers. There are a lot of triggers and actions that are easy to understand and use, such as send email, create a list item in Sharepoint etc.
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Automatically Send Email When News Is Published
News in SharePoint are great, it is easy to edit and post news, add pictures and web parts. But you might have thought how you would spread the word better. If your workmates would check the start page on your site or on the SharePoint Home every day, it would be awesome, it might be the case in future. In the meantime though, you probably have considered sending out email notifications to your workmates whenever there is fresh news.
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My WSL Setup
This is my installation of Windows WSL and SharePoint Development Environment. The procedure and technology is ever-changing, the details might change, but the process is worth documenting, at least for myself, this is a working guide as of writing (2021-12-20).
Installing Windows Terminal Installing Windows Terminal is not a prerequisite, but it will make your life much easier. Open Windows Store and search for Windows Terminal and click on Install.
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Export AppendOnly Comments
Remember the old comments in SharePoint Lists? I am sure there are tons of lists that use the Append-Only Comments. They are implemented using versioning. The problem is that it is hard to export the comments, unless you know the tricks. The trick I want to share comes from a colleague of mine. The reason why we need export all the comments is that we need to document and save/archive the decision making process that took place in the comments field.
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Sites.Selected and Governance
The new permission in Graph API - Sites.Selected - is a step in the right direction. Since long we have been looking for ways of scoping the accesses to live up to the least privilege principle. It was either nothing or everything. I have tried out the new Sites.Selected permission and here are my findings.
First of all, if you haven’t heard about Sites.Selected, please visit these pages to find out more.
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Smarter way of loading SharePoint CSOM dll in PowerShell
Have you also got a legacy powershell script that loads SharePoint dlls and runs CSOM code directly? It’s quite easy to convert to PnP PowerShell. But if you run out of time and just need to execute the script, then I have a quick tip for you.
First of all, a CSOM script can be recognized by Add-Type commands (or Import-Module) plus the SharePoint dll paths.
Loading the dll the old way.
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Monitoring Microsoft 365 using Raspberry Pi and M365 CLI
I would like to show you my recent hobby project with a raspberry pi, a unicorn phat and the powerful cli-microsoft365: A simple monitoring solution of Microsoft 365 Services.
Status of some important services in Microsoft 365
In essence, I put the unicorn phat onto the raspberry pi zero w and wrote this python script:
unicorn03_m365.py The python script checks the service status every five minutes and shows it with colors on the unicorn phat.
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1TB=1024GB in SPO Storage
You want to calculate your storage capacity in SharePoint Online? Here is how:
Every 1TB is 1024GB (it might be confusing, see my previous post, but it’s how it is calculated) A tenant gets 1024GB by default For every user license of a product that includes the service plan called “SHAREPOINTSTANDARD”/SharePoint Online (Plan 1) you get 10 GB extra For every user license of a product that includes the service plan called “SHAREPOINTENTERPRISE”/SharePoint Online (Plan 2) you get 10 GB extra For every user license of a product that includes the service called “ONEDRIVEBASIC”/SharePoint Online OneDrive Basic you get 0.
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Print2SPO - en enkel utskrift till SharePoint
Den här bloggposten är ett (en aning större) användar- (eller verksamhetsutvecklar-)tips om hur man kan sätta upp smarta utskrifter till SharePoint Online - utan några extraappar eller lösningar.
Först och främst, stort tack till min kollega Shahram som har presenterat idén för mig. Tänk dig ett följande scenario:
Du har en mall i Word som du fyller i, skriver ut på papper. Låt säga, det är en plockorder. Du vill digitalisera processen genom att skicka pdf:en till ett gemensamt dokumentbibliotek i SharePoint eller Teams.
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1 TB = 1024 GB in SPO?
There is confusion around how the storage is calculated in SharePoint Online. I believe, in SharePoint Online 1 TB is 1024 GB (based on powers of two), although the SI Prefix is for numbers based on powers of 10 (1TB = 1000GB, Wikipedia). In this post I would like to summarize the results of my investigations and I hope Microsoft or the community can confirm or disconfirm this.
First, let me explain why we care about it.
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Demote News in SharePoint Online
In case you published a news in SharePoint Online and you now want to “downgrade” it to a regular page, I have a solution for you.
The reasons why you would like to demote a News might vary:
You publish an important message, perhaps a note about an operational disturbance. It might not relevant anymore, but you still want to keep the page in case someone wants to access the information.
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Kombinera två SharePoint-listor i PowerBI
Det här är en enkel guide på svenska om hur du kan ladda in data från två eller fler listor i SharePoint och lägga ihop dem till en.
Scenariot är följande. Du har två eller fler sajter i SharePoint Online som har var sin lista (med samma kolumner). Du vill ladda in data från båda och se en aggregerad/summerad version. Alternativet är att ha en delad lista, men ibland (av behörighetskäl eller av behovet för smärre anpassningar av enskilda listor), ligger det i separata listor/sajter.
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Add a security group as hubbers using PowerShell
Today I needed to add a security group to “People who can associate sites with this hub” through PowerShell. Here is quick how-to. I usually say “hubbers” instead of the long “People who….”. By the way, if you want to know what prerequisites there are for being a hubber, read my other blog post
Infographics. Who can associate a site with a hub An example of how to add a security group is missing in the MS Docs:
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Two workarounds for overcoming the listview threshold
These are two workarounds to see documents / list items in a view that exceeds the listview threshold of 5000 items.
Overcoming the listview threshold is as fun as succeeding in the limbo games.
This is changing all the time. When you read this, it might have changed. Today, 2021-01-05, me and my colleague found following two workarounds for listing over 5000 items in a list view in SharePoint Online:
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Two site logos?
We have had troubles updating site icons in SharePoint Online. It might be related to one of the following:
It occures only on hub sites The sites have a custom theme The error message:
We experienced a problem updating the icon. Please try again in a few minutes.
But what I found is that there are two places where you change the site icon. If the first does not work, try the second one, that was what worked for us:
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Listing all renamed sites in SharePoint Online
When you rename a site, a new site is REDIRECTSITE#0, you can get all the sites of that type by running
Get-SPOSite -Template REDIRECTSITE#0
Please consider some caveats with renaming a site url
Effects of changing a site address, MSDocs
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Automatically detect new sites in SharePoint Online
Original image by William Warby. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/16414155179/in/photostream/
Sites in SharePoint are created all the time, not only for SharePoint, but also as storage for Yammer, Teams, Planner and other services in Microsoft 365. There are ways to keep track of them, but the ability to automatically detect a new site creation is quite appealing. Automatic detection means a trigger of a Power Automate (Flow) or a Logic App.
There are a few blog posts that exactly describe how you can detect when a new site is created in SharePoint Online:
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Infographics. Who can associate a site with a hub
I found this nice post and a nice decision flowchart.
Intelogy. Who can associate a site to a SharePoint Hub Low resolution, visit the post to see more.
I also have drawed a simple chart while explaining for my colleagues, you can see it above. I hope this infographics can be useful to more people. By the way, we use the word “Hubber” (sv. Hubbare) for “People who can associate sites to hubs”
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Is an M365 Group a Yammer Community
Nowadays a Yammer Community gets a corresponding Microsoft 365 Group (Office 365 Group, Unified Group). In your work as an SPO Admin, you might need to differentiate “ordinary” Modern Team Sites from those ones that were created for a Yammer Community.
They both have GROUP#0 as Template. On the actual SPO Site object, there is nothing that you can use to differentiate those. Neither you can use the Office 365 Group information.
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Estimated Completion in Write-Progress in PowerShell
Have you also got many sites in your tenant? Write-Progress is the bare minimum in a script that goes through all sites. But there is also another nice way to make easier to see the progress - estimated completion time.
Although the idea comes from another blog post (My life is a message), I thought it could be worth sharing it again, especially in the cloud context.
Here is a bit simplified scenario: Getting information for every site.
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Optimizing lookups in PowerShell
Have you had a PowerShell script that contains two bigger arrays and you wanted merge the information. It can become quite slow if you need to search for every item from array A through all items in array B. The solution is called a HashTable! It might be not an advanced tip for some, but I was really glad to see a huge improvement, so I decided to share it as a post.
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Page Diagnostics for SharePoint
While trying to set up a new Home Site, I discovered that there is a tool (browser extension) called Page Diagnostics for SharePoint.
After running this, I tried that command again and it was smart enough to detect the problem the tool discovered.
Also Network Trace is available.
Network trace
Page Diagnostics Tool is defnitely a tool to have in the troubleshooting toolbelt for SharePoint.
Setting up a Home Site Here is the script:
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Deploying SPFx using Office 365 cli, custom AAD App and Azure Pipelines
In this post I would like to share some findings from setting a deployment of SPFx. In my work:
I need to deploy SPFx solutions using Azure Pipelines I need to use the least privileges/permissions I cannot use Legacy Authentication First of all, big thanks to @waldekm and the whole community of @office365cli and @m365pnp for the quick help, and that outside working hours.
Let’s take a look at the setup piece by piece
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Power Automate for a one-time operations
Honestly, Power Automate is great for automating repetetive stuff. But I think there is room for one-time flows as well. I’ll give you an example.
I’ve got an excel file with quite a few rows. And I need to convert it to a SharePoint List. I know there is a couple of options, such as Quick Edit in Classic View, Import an Excel file as a list (it also requires the classic view), there will be Excel import in Modern as well.
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Modern Team Site without an Office 365 Group
These are my findings around Modern Sites without Office 365 Groups. It is, of course, a subject to change.
Today (2020-02-21) when you create a Modern Team Site without a group, you will get a site with the template STS#3. This oldie has been around for a while, hasn’t it?
I would always recommend creating Office 365 Group Connected sites.
How it is created Through PowerShell/REST or from SharePoint Home, if your account is not allowed to create Office 365 Groups, it will automatically create a site without a group.
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Kalendern i SharePoint
Dags för ett svenskt inlägg igen. Idag vill jag titta på kalenderfunktionaliteten i SharePoint Online.
Fortfarande gammalt (classic) utseende Tyvärr är det gammalt utseende som gäller och det finns inga planer från Microsoft att modernisera kalendern:
SharePoint UserVoice: Modern Calendars Jag förstår att det är väldigt mycket kod för att få till kalendervyn och att det inte är så lätt omvandla till ett modernt utseende, men det ställer till eftersom det upplevs som gammalt och inte användarvänligt ute i verksamheten.
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Hiding Teamify Prompt
If you want to remove the Microsoft Teams Banner on your SharePoint Site, the only thing you need is to set a web property on a site: TeamifyHidden=TRUE. I’ll give you some guidance below. But before you do that, consider following:
If there is already a team created for a group connected site, the prompt won’t show up. Why fix something that is not a problem? Only group owners will get the prompt, if they are few and they know what it is, it is better to let them to decide whether to create or not to create a team.
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Site Collection App Catalog vs. Tenant App Catalog
Site Collection App Catalogs are great for special cases (like developing apps or site unique apps), but using them on scale would be a mess.
I got a question: Why should we use the Tenant App Catalog at all when we could enable a Site Collection App Catalog on every teamsite? So the suggestion here is to install SharePoint Framework Packages on many Site Collection App Catalogs, instead of the Tenant App Catalog.
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Permissions in SPFx apply to your whole tenant
Once you approve a permission request from an SPFx app, it will grant the same permission to all other apps in the same tenant.
Nothing new, but I want to emphasize that in that blog post only dedicated to that. You can read it here:
MS Docs. Connect to Azure AD-secured APIs in SharePoint Framework solutions A simple sketch over the permissions.
Here is a simple FAQ to explain what it means:
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Trust gulp-connect certificate from Visual Studio Online on Mac OS
I have read and followed this awesome post:
Getting SPFx working in Visual Studio Online by SPDavid.
I got my fingers and tried that guide out. This worked good, I spent some time, though, googling (binging) around to get rid of the SSL Warnings for the remote “localhost” on my Mac.
I would like to share this simple instruction on how to trust a self signed certificate from gulp-connect on Mac OS.
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Is Custom Script Dangerous
Allowing custom script has its security implications. But what exactly does it mean? Is it dangerous? My colleauge Daniel and me have done a little experiment. There are two implications stated on MS Docs:
Scripts have access to everything the user has access to. Scripts can access content across several Office 365 services and even beyond with Microsoft Graph integration. To summarize, we can look at that picture:
So the risk that user 1 (the Blue User) intentionally or unintentionally places a script and lets user 2 (the Red User) run this script by linking to the page that has this script.
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The Path Length Limit of 400 chars in SharePoint Online
This post is my summary and my conclusions on the Path Length Limit in SharePoint Online and OneDrive.
How the path length is calculated Path Length is not the same as the URL length. It is the relative Url.
/sites/site-url/documenlibrary/folder1/folder2/filename.fileextension Calculations rules Only the server relative url part is counted. The “https://[tenant].sharepoin.com” has no impact on that. It starts from the foward slash: “/sites” (or /teams). An encoded value such as a blankspace (%20) is treated as one character, not three.
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Renaming site urls
I saw a demo of it on the European SharePoint Conference in Copenhagen in 2018. Sebastian Fouillade, who showed this, compared this big change with brain surgery. All the urls, all the connections. But now it is possible. Today I have seen it even in my standard release tenant.
It is really appreciated. Soon it will be possible to rename misspelled sites, like “devlepment” to “development” etc.
To rename you need to go the SharePoint Admin, find your site among Active sites and click on “Edit” in the site url area.
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A user can only create 250 groups
A non-admin user can create no more than 250 resources in Azure AD. That is one of the many Azure AD service limits and restrictions. A “resource” can be an app registration, an Office 365 Group etc. But I would like to discuss Groups more in detail.
Imagine the following scenario: Your organization has disabled Office 365 Group Creation. Only IT can create new groups. A service account has been set up for creation of team sites.
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Snabba diagram i SharePoint Online
Ett nytt tips på svenska: det finns en webpart i SharePoint Online: snabbdiagram.
När du har lagt till ett snabbdiagram, kan du skriva välja mellan stapel och cirkeldiagram
Du kan bara välja mellan stapel- och cirkeldiagram.
Data går att mata in direkt.
Resultatet får du direkt:
Använd data från en lista Det går att visualisera data från en SharePoint-lista. Det är inte så mycket mer komplicerat, men det öppnar nya möjligheter.
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Troubleshooting Performance in SharePoint Online
This is my personal list of links and thoughts on troubleshooting performance in SharePoint Online.
Resources @MSFT365Status, a twitter flow on the incidents and resolutions connectivity service Service Status (open for all), Service Health (for admins) Health info in Response Headers Every response from SharePoint Online contains some health information:
Diagnosing performance issues with SharePoint Online (MSDocs) Troubleshooting SharePoint Performance Issues with F12 (blog post) Following Response Headers could reveal the health:
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Min första kolumnformatering
Jag har precis börjat med kolumnformatering, bara testat. Det är annorlunda, jag är nöjd med första resultatet. Även om det påminner om jslink som jag har jobbat mycket med, så är det mycket lättare att sätta igång:
Det är enklare att ändra, även för en icke-utvecklare. Man får en början:
Med hjälp av dokumentation av List Formatting och Office UI Fabric Icons, har jag skapat en enkel formatering som jag är riktigt nöjd med:
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Get totals from a list view using PowerShell
Today I will share a short script for getting totals from a list view in SharePoint. Imagine this scenario: you have set up a list view with totals and you want get the totals every day for statistics or some other reasons. Instead of getting all items, and/or fiddling around with CamlQueries, there is a better and quicker way - List.RenderListData. This combined with a tip from Piyush K Singhs blog post Get Aggregate Values… I came up with an idea to read the ViewXml from an existing view and retrieve the totals (in my case Count and Sum).
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English vs. Non-English
This post is about the default language of a new site in SharePoint Online. There are some pros and cons of using English as the default language for Non-English sites.
In my case I want to know what is better for Swedish users:
A site with English as default and Swedish as an alternate language (among many other alternate languages)? A site with Swedish as default? Today, when you create a site, English is pre-selected in the form, you have to choose Swedish actively.
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Switch back to Modern UI
Just a little tip. When you switched to a Classic View of Site Contents, you can switch back by removing a cookie called “splnu”.
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Tips and tricks for Site Collection App Catalogs
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.
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Just because I can should I use Private Office 365 CDN
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.
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My list of _layouts pages
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.
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Update Field.JSLink using JSOM or REST
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. [code language=“javascript”] 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.
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Trigger SP2010 Workflows using JSOM
Today I found out how to start workflows in JSOM (JavaScript Object Model in SharePoint). Nothing special, but since it is not documented, it took me a while to find a solution. Here is the code which I want to keep as simple as possible. What you need to start a SP2010 Workflow for a list item or a document in JSOM, you need to load SP.WorkflowServices.js and you need to create the manager and get the service, then you can trigger a workflow using the workflow name, the list guid and the guid of the list item: [code language=“javascript”] var ctx = SP.
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Minimal Download Strategy. Simple
There are many correct ways (1, 2, 3, 4, 5…) of making scripts work with the Minimal Download Strategy Feature (MDS) in SharePoint 2013 and 2016. But to be honest - every time I need it, I get confused. So now it is time to find a simple solution for that. Who is better at it than the developers of the SharePoint themselves? Look at the MDS code in the built-in Display Templates: Let’s keep it as simple as Item_Default.
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Minimal Display Template
We want to use our own Display Templates on Non-publishing sites - our team sites. Without the Publishing Feature activated you have to create an own javascript file. Here is short and concise instructions how to install it: Display Templates on Non-publishing Sites. As described on that blog, you can make copy of an existing Item_Default.js and adjust to your needs. I also asked Elio Struyf and I got the same tip.
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SharePoint Utilities - a promising JavaScript Framework
My colleagues at Bool have developed a new JavaScript framework for SharePoint - sharepoint utilities. It started on our DevDay last year - a whole free day when we could learn new things, try out new techniques or build something that was not even requested from a customer. I was not working on sharepoint utilities, so I almost forgot it until… I recently re-discovered sharepoint utilities. It is on Github, it is MIT licensed and contributions are welcome.
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A tiny tool for User Custom Actions
Everybody loves User Custom Actions in SharePoint. That’s the only recommended way of customizing SharePoint. You have heard about it. Unfortunately there is no convinient way of administering them. People have their console applications or powershell scripts to add, update and delete user custom actions. It works but it is hard to open up Visual Studio or PowerShell every time you will try out an idea on a test site.
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Provisioning Google Maps JSLink with SPMeta2
Among PnP Samples there is a solution for using Google Maps. Great solution where where you can pick a point on a map and define a spacial area on the map. Unfortunately it is a sandbox solution. I rewrote it to a code based template with SPMeta2 Framework. Now it can be installed on any site very easily, without needing UserCode Service and a cumbersome process of uploading a wsp package and activating it.
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My first Office Add-In
Yesterday I participated in the Hackathon at European SharePoin Conference in Stockholm. The main goal was to learn more about Office Add-Ins. I wanted to create a very very simple app to learn the basics. Here in this post I’ll provide some links and describe the steps needed to start developing your Office Add-Ins. The Add-in I created is an Outlook Add-In, it is called “Joke Inserter” and with it you can insert a random Chuck Norris joke.
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Copy SharePoint WebDav Address to Clipboard
While configuring SharePoint sites and helping users I often use File Explorer View for editing pages, resources like css and javascript. In IE there is a dedicated button in the ribbon for that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, because of permissions or other restrictions. Anyway, I use Firefox and Chrome while troubleshooting and developing, so I have created a bookmarklet for copying the webdav address of a site that is open in the browser.
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Export Any Web Part using a Bookmarklet
My blog post about exporting any webpart from a SharePoint Page is one of the most read articles on my blog. I use this method a lot. Now what I want to do is to simplify the process. Inspired by my colleague Dan Saedén’s awesome bookmarklet for reading and updating web properties, I decided to make my own bookmarklet. That was easy. Now we can export any web part from any SharePoint page without even looking at any ids in the html markup and assembling the export url manually.
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Add Search Verticals by code
Adding own search verticals is a common task in the Search Configuration in SharePoint. Here I want to share a code sample for achieving this programmatically. I hope, this model can be added to SPMeta2. First of all, Search Verticals are dedicated Search Results Pages and links to them. How to add them manually is described on technet:
How to add a custom search vertical to your search results page in SharePoint 2013 There is no API in CSOM for that.
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What is a SharePoint application
[caption id=“attachment_3759” align=“alignnone” width=“660”] A meaningful collection of Lego bricks is a toy. A meaningful collection of Lists, Fields, Files and other SharePoint artefacts becomes a SharePoint Application. Private picture.[/caption] App, Add-In, List, Web, Site, Sandbox solution, Workflow. There are too many words flying around in SharePoint that confuse users and Non-SharePoint-Developers. I want to introduce a “new” concept that is so simple and that a company can understand and govern: a SharePoint Application.
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Http to Https Redirect in Provider Hosted Apps
It is strongly recommended to use https in SharePoint Provider Hosted Apps. In many provider hosted apps I have seen, only https works. I would recommend to configure a simple http to https redirect in IIS and make solutions better. Many Provider Hosted Apps can be done in that way that they are available without SharePoint Context, e.g. for browsing information. In that case that is important to have an easy url and an automatic http -> https redirect.
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Kom igång med SPMeta2
SPMeta2 (eller bara M2) är ett relativt nytt ramverk för provisionering av SharePoint-artefakter. Bakom ramverket ligger ett gediget arbete. I den här posten vill jag skriva upp mina steg för att sätta upp ett litet projekt. För mig är SPMeta2 nytt och huvudprincipen i den här bloggposten att få en fungerande lösning så snabbt som möjligt. Informationen här kan snabbt bli inaktuell, eftersom SPMeta2 förändras och förbättras väldigt snabbt. Vad är SPMeta2 SPMeta är ett ramverk för att provisionera SharePoint-artefakter, allt från fält, innehållstyper, listor, dokumentbibliotek, user custom actions, ladda upp filer med mera.
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Method "GetList" does not exist
I troubleshooted a piece of CSOM code in SharePoint 2013. I got the following error:
Method “GetList” does not exist
The reason was that the method GetList was not imlemented until March 2015 CU (15.0.4701.1001), and the SharePoint farm I had was SharePoint 2013 SP1 (15.0.4569.1000). So the solution is to install the Cumulative Update or use web.Lists.GetByTitle. GetByTitle has one aweful shortcoming: it doesn’t work in multilingual environments. So I have recommended to install the March 2015 CU.
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Tillgänglighet i SharePoint
From 1 januari 2015 är bristande tillgänglighet inkluderad i svenska diskrimineringslagen. Detta krav på tillgängligt webbinnehåll ställer högre krav på SharePoint-baserade webbplatser i offentliga sektorn (och helst i alla webbplatser). Regler och riktlinjer för tillgänglighet på webben är definierade av W3C i ett dokument som heter: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 vilket finns i en auktoriserad översättning på svenska: Riktlinjer för tillgängligt webbinnehåll (WCAG) 2.0. (Gjort av Funka)
Hur ska vi tänka om Tillgänglighet i SharePoint Som vilket webbaserat system som helst bör man i SharePointlösningar tänka på tillgänglighet i alla faser av projektet.
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Onpremifying SharePoint apps
We want to make an app available in SharePoint OnPrem, we want to onpremify it. Rethink SharePoint apps and provisioning SharePoint artifacts. It has been a while since I updated my blog – Chuvash.eu. I had my vacation, I visited the sunny and green Chuvashia. Now I am back and I am looking forward to an awesome SharePoint Autumn. One of the first things I had to deal with in this SharePoint Autumn was Onpremifying of a SharePoint Online App.
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Resetting SharePoint Search Configuration Cache
Now it is the second time it happens that the search cannot return any results. This hickup is rare but it happens. To solve it I had to follow these steps:
Stop the Timer Service Clear the configuration cache Find in \ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config the folder where the file cache.ini exists Delete every file from this folder EXCEPT cache.ini Open cache.ini, delete the content and put ’1′ (without the quotes) in it and save the file Restart the Timer Service Index reset Full crawl Source: ITIDea.
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Why Swedish matters
I Sverige är engelskan är väldigt stark. Speciellt i IT-branschen är vi vana att ha i princip allt på engelska, från kommentarer i koden till stora upphandlingar, rapporter och dokumentation. Trots det ser jag ett stort behov av att kunna prata om IT på svenska. Det gäller både lokala företag och globala företag. Det finns flera anledningar:
Företag i Sverige följer svenska lagar som är skrivna på svenska, för att leva upp till kraven ska man kunna formulera sig på svenska.
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Publishing Visio drawings as SVG
In my post yesterday I showed how to publish Visio files as html image maps. That was one of the alternatives. Today I’ll present how to use SVG to achieve the same goal: publish Visio diagrams in SharePoint without having the Enterprise license. There are some alternatives:
Show Visio diagrams as pdf files on SharePoint Pages Embed Visio diagrams as html image maps - Read more in my previous blog post Embed Visio diagrams as svg pictures - This blog post.
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Publishing Visio diagrams as html image maps
I got a question from a customer: We have our processes defined in Visio, we don’t have SharePoint Enterprise CALs to use the Visio webpart. We have links in process maps. What can we do? Well there are three five ways to solve this business need:
Find money for SharePoint Enterprise - Very expensive Show Visio diagrams as pdf files on SharePoint Pages - Expensive. Embed Visio diagrams as html image maps - Least expensive Embed Visio diagrams as svg pictures - Separate blog post.
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Struggling with Taxonomy in CSOM
The parts of the CSOM for updating Taxonomy fields are really cumbersome. I mean, look at this code, nicely provided by Vadim Gremyshev (@vgrem). To set a value in a taxonomy field we have to assemble a text representation, and adding a “fake” lookup id. What is needed is a wrapper for handling Taxonomy fields. SPMeta2 and PnP don’t seem to have it yet. Another issue that I have struggled with today was the missing Microsoft.
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Bypass all custom jslink
Client Side Rendering (CSR) and jslink are great for customizing lists and forms in SharePoint. In my current project we use it a lot of it. A disadvantage of that path, although, is that it might occur javascript errors, during the development phase, but also in production. We do, of course, our best to leverage the best jslink code, but unfortunately we have to live with the fact that errors can occur, especially when we use it for NewForm, EditForm, DisplayForm and View (in list and grid).
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Client Side Rendering with Async dependencies
Yesterday I asked a question on SharePoint StackExchange:
Client Side Rendering with Async dependencies I also asked Elio Struyf on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eliostruyf/status/540473976255152128 Good idea, Elio Struyf! Now I want to try it out.
Preparations In this case I’ll be using my example from my blog post yesterday: Drag and Drop Image using Client Side Rendering I have created a new list and added a lookup field to my previous list. What I get is a Title of the lookup item, but not my custom field called DragAndDrop.
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Drag and Drop Image using Client Side Rendering
I continue my series about Client Side Rendering (CSR) and jsgrid. Today I want to try a custom field where users can drag and drop images. The inspiration comes from:
AutoUpload field written by Anton Vishnyakov and Base64 Drag and drop written by oroboto What I want to achieve is:
A custom field that is rendered with jslink Users can drag and drop small pictures (thumbnails) into the field A base64 image representation is saved as the field value Optionally implement pasting images using Clipboard API Step 1 Create a field with a custom jslink Create a field of type Note.
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Disabling a column in Quick Edit
In my project I have a column called Request Status. This column is not shown in any forms, meaning users should not edit, because it is controlled through the app. Nevertheless it is editable in the Quick Edit. Yesterday I wrote about jsgrid in my blog. Now comes more. Today I’ll share a little practical solution how one can disable editing a field in Quick Edit. The field is edited in jsgrid, but to disable it, we only have set the property called AllowGridEditing to false on our column (not even touching the heavy jsgrid api).
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JSGrid Basics
JSGrid is the javascript framework in SharePoint used in Quick Edit View (previously Datasheet View). There are a few very good blog posts on this topic (See below in “Sources”). Nevertheless the fact is that jsgrid and working with quick edit from a developer’s perspective is a huge undiscovered area. Articles I have seen are intended for advanced developers. The goal with my post today is to outline the very basics of working with JSGrid.
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Announcing web based SQL Max Memory calculator
Today I want to announce a tiny web application for calculating max memory in the SQL Server to improve the overall performance in you SharePoint environment: SQL Max Memory Calculator. One of the important actions to improve the performance in SharePoint is fine tuning of the SQL Databases. Regarding the databases one of the crucial settings is the Max Memory Setting. You can read more about database optimizations for SharePoint in a whitepaper written by SharePoint MVP Vlad Catrinescu.
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Export any web part from a SharePoint page
The blog post below describes the technical details about how Web Parts can be exported using a hidden tool in OOB SharePoint, though this requires manual assembling of a special url. If you are just interested in a solution for an easy Web Part Export function, just proceed directly to my new blog post where you can download my tool that you can add to your web browser.
Web Part Exporter
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Export SharePoint List Data To Xml through PowerShell
Today my colleague Johannes Milling wrote an awesome post: Export SharePoint List Data To XML Directly from the GUI He uses the old and forgotten RPC-based web service owssvr.dll (that has existed since SharePoint 2003). This url pattern is used to get the xml-formatted list data for a specific ListView: [source] http://<site_url>/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?Cmd=Display&List=&View=&Query=*&XMLDATA=TRUE [/source] To automate this I have written a PowerShell function. All the details are in the comments: [source language=“PowerShell”] function Export-OIPSPListDataAsXml { <# .
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Improving the web performance of an intranet
[caption id=“attachment_3437” align=“alignnone” width=“480”] All the “small” app parts, web parts, delegate controls, user controls, and other “packages” that “must” be delivered to the users on every page load of the Start Page of your Intranet.[/caption] Recently we made an investment to improve the performance of our intranet. We made many changes in different layers: SQL, Network, Browser upgrade and code. Here I want to tell about what code changes we did to improve the web browser performance.
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Do not mess with the hive
In our Intranet we got this nasty double encoding error that was introduced in SharePoint April 2014 CU. In July 2014 CU the problem is still there. I often hear the suggestions to update files directly in the hive (the root folder for SharePoint: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\) In that blog post it is described what the problem is and what files are affected and what code must be altered in order to get it to work (which I like).
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Showing Birthdays and Job Anniversaries in the Newsfeed
In our project we have a requirement to show birthdays and job anniversaries in the Newsfeed. The solution is simple (when you know it) but there has not been any information about it online, until today. I want to share a few lines of PowerShell code to enable Anniversary notifications in the Newsfeed. This desired piece of code was written by my colleague Emma Degerman. Enjoy:
[source language=“PowerShell”] $job = Get-SPTimerJob | ?
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AppLoader Concept for SharePoint apps
In this post I want to share an unusual, nevertheless interesting conceptual idea of loading content from SharePoint 2013 apps on many pages. The original awesome concept was proposed and developed by my colleague Martin Villysson at Bool.
The problem we are trying to solve SharePoint apps are great to extend functionality in SharePoint and integrate other systems (full page apps available through Site Contents), they also provide tools to enrich the default SharePoint experience by App Parts (Client Web Parts) and Custom Actions (additional menus).
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Configuring VirtualBox for SharePoint-Hosted Apps
Recently I have switched from VMWare to VirtualBox for my SharePoint Development. So far it really works good. I have prepared this guide for configuring VirtualBox for SharePoint-hosted apps. That means we need a new adapter with a static ip address. All the steps done inside the virtual machine are applicable for VMWare and Hyper-V, too. This guide does not cover the full configuration of the app environment, it covers only the network and dns settings needed for SharePoint-hosted apps on Premises in a Development machine.
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A presentation about PowerShell and SharePoint
Yesterday I had a little presentation about PowerShell basics in the SharePoint context. Here you can see the presentation I’ve published on slideshare. The text is in Swedish.
[slideshare id=37316916&doc=sharepoint-140724063012-phpapp01&w=600]
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Updating hover style in IE8 Developer Tools
In our project we still have to support Internet Explorer 8. The CSS issues in IE8 are most difficult to debug and solve. You can not add a new rule in Developer Tools or toggle the state of an element to hover as in moder web browser dev tools. One solution that I’ve come up to today, is to add a style with javascript or jQuery, open the script pane in IE8 Dev Tools and add this line: [code language=“javascript”] $(’.
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Debugging "What's happening" in Communities
Recently an issue was reported about count mismatches in SharePoint 2013 Communities. The number of replies in category tiles sometimes is different compared to the community stats in the web part called “What’s happening”. The actual number of replies is 1 in the figure below. The user who has reported has tried to add, update and delete discussions and replies. I have invested some time debugging this issue. It would be pity to not share my findings.
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Tip: Use the weakest CSS selectors
I am reading Mobile HTML5 written by Estelle Weyle. It is an awesome recap and new knowledge about html, css and javascript. I want to highlight one of tips I got: Use the weakest CSS selectors (can be found on page 204). We all know, that inline CSS and !important are evil. They have a higher level of specifity and override the standard cascade of the CSS rules. If you use !
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Using CAML with SharePoint REST API
Do you prefer REST over CSOM as I do? I’ll skip the whys. Andrew Connell put it already in wrtiting so nicely. Well, if you do prefer REST, then you must have discovered some shortcomings of REST, or its incompleteness compared to CSOM. I think of:
Inability to filter items based on multivalued taxonomy fields Inability to filter items based on user fields where user is added through a group, rather than directly, e.
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What about the SharePoint app domain?
This is an open question about the domains for SharePoint apps. On Technet: Configure an environment for apps for SharePoint (SharePoint 2013) we can read the following:
You must configure a new name in Domain Name Services (DNS) to host the apps. To help improve security, the domain name should not be a subdomain of the domain that hosts the SharePoint sites. For example, if the SharePoint sites are at Contoso.
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First look at Yammer integration in SharePoint 2013 SP1
I have installed SharePoint SP1 on my development machine. Yammer and OneDrive links have appeared in the Central Administration: If you go ahead and click “Configure Yammer”, you can activate it: Because:
Yammer is Microsoft’s recommended tool for social collaboration.
When you activate Yammer, you’ll get this dialog, and the Yammer link in the SuiteBar: What happens when you click on Yammer, is that you are redirected to Yammer.com and you are prompted a login page.
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The sessions I attended
My colleagues and friends keep asking me what sessions I went to and what I would recommend to see on channel9 where all of them are publicly available. Here is my prioritized list of sessions:
#spc325 Real-world examples of FTC to CAM transformations. This was the most exciting developer session. Vesa Juvonen takes the Cloud App Model to its maximum. Wanna know more about the future. See this session. #spc404 Build your own REST service with WebAPI 2.
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My five takeaways from the SharePoint Conference 2014
The SharePoint Conference 2014 was an astounding event. Over 10 000 like-minded SharePointers that met, learned a lot and shared new ideas, couldn’t be better. It was also the first time I was to the U.S. and Las Vegas. What a country, what a city! This place must burn people’s lives faster than anywhere else in the world :) I want to share my five takeaways from this conference. I’ll keep it short:
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Custom Error and Access denied pages in Sharepoint
Unfortunately in SharePoint 2013 the custom error pages are not applied: link 1, link 2. Hopefully there will be a hotfix that solves it.
Comments from Wordpress.com ryan - Mar 5, 2014
I agree, I have seen a few about. Thanks for the post
Jon - Mar 2, 2014
I have seen a few blog posts about this, it is a common dislike about 2013. Nice post.
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PowerShell: Migrate field choices to a termset
In my current project we are migrating a custom sharepoint solution from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. One of the improvements is that we migrate custom field choices to Managed Metadata. Choice Fields were not intended to be so many. So now it is time to convert them to metadata terms. I have written a PowerShell script which copies all the choices from a field to a termset. The script uses Client Side Object Model (CSOM) to get the choice values and it uses Server Object Model to write data to the termset.
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PowerShell: Get version and ProductId from an .app package
In my project I deploy some apps directly through the ObjectModel directly with PowerShell. The apps are built with TFS I have a script that installs or updates apps if there is a new version of the app. Previously I used Import-SPAppPackage to compare the version and productid with an existing app instance, but often I get this error:
The provided App differs from another App with the same version and product ID.
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Count lines of code with PowerShell
Today I got a question:
How many lines of code are there in our SharePoint solution?
After a little search, I found that PowerShell is really a nice tool to count lines of code:
How do you count lines of code (stackoverflow)? I wanted to count lines for different types of code:
Code Behind written in C#, the files have .cs file extension JavaScript code (except jQuery, angular or knockout frameworks) PowerShell files (.
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Debugging OOB SharePoint. Unable to post comments on SharePoint blogs (SP2013 June CU)
I have had a strange bug. The comment text box in a OOB SharePoint 2013 blog doesn’t appear. It only says: “There are no comments for this post.” In this blog post I’ll tell you how I found the bug and I’ll show you how you can temporarily bring the commenting to life. I have had luck. While it doesn’t work on the Test Environment, it does actually work on my development machine.
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Log to ULS using javascript
The more javascript code is produced in SharePoint solutions, the more need we have to log information and possible errors to a central logging place in SharePoint: ULS. This blog post is about logging to ULS from javascript. For a while ago I read a blog post:
5 suggestions to implement a better logging in SharePoint The author @avishnyakov mentions the ability log to ULS from javascript. I want to dive deeper.
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scriptcs and SharePoint. How SharePoint can benefit?
Last Saturday I attended Leetspeak. Among many awesome speeches and presentations I discovered scriptcs. scriptcs lets you write C# code directly in the console, or execute scripts written with just your favourite editor. Please see more about it on the site. What I thought during Justin Rusbatch’s session at Leetspeak:
Can we use scriptcs in SharePoint? Technically there is no limitations in SharePoint for scriptcs. Any .NET code can be registered, imported and invoked in a console or in a standalone script.
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Apps can only call the OOB CSOM and REST endpoints
As a SharePoint architect or a SharePoint developer, you must have been thinking about the benefits/limitations of SharePoint apps a lot. I want to point out one of them today, which is very important: using custom webservices deployed to SharePoint inside apps. That is impossible and it is designed to be so due to the security architecture in the sharepoint app framework. I have read much about SharePoint apps (books, whitepapers, blog posts) and stumbled over these two contradictive statements:
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javascript: Alert Me on a Page
Recently I needed to add an Alert Me link on Pages. Alert Me is a well known SharePoint functionality for notifying users about changes in list or list items. It is availabe in OOB SharePoint as a command in Ribbon if you go to a list view: When you click on this ribbon command, SharePoint opens a modal dialog and takes you to layouts page: SubNew.aspx. To open a modal dialog and load a page is not a rocket science.
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javascript: Remove illegal characters in url
Recently I needed to create valid urls for pages using javascript. Also this time I thought it must be some out-of-the-box code for that in SharePoint. The first thing I came up was the “Add page” dialog. I found that the actual dialog was in the _layouts virtual folder:
/\_layouts/15/CreatePublishingPageDialog.aspx ```Bingo, it does the validation in the client side. This is the responsible javascript function that resides directly in the page: \[sourcecode language="javascript"\] function UpdateUrl() { LoadTermContextInfo(); var hiddenPageUrlLabelExtensionClientId = "<%=hiddenPageUrlLabelExtension.
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The CDN concept in SharePoint
How many instances of jquery are there in your SharePoint farm? [sourcecode language=“powershell”] Get-SPWebApplication http://dev ` | Select -Expand Sites ` | Select -Expand AllWebs ` | Select -Expand Lists ` | Select -Expand Items ` | ? { $_.Url -match “jquery.*.js” } ` | select Name, Url [/sourcecode] Have you more than two (jquery and jquery-ui), then you have too much. You can save much place and performance by using Content Delivery Network (CDN) links for the resources like javascript, css, fonts and icons.
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Convert any web app to a SharePoint app
Have you noticed that you can right-click a web application project in Visual Studio and convert it to a provider hosted app? Well why not? Basically your own website and a SharePoint manifest is all what you need for a provider hosted app. This discovery today made me think about all legacy web apps out there that can be converted to SharePoint apps. Traditionally we had to add plain links to external applications or embed them into an IFrame by hardcoding it in an .
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SharePoint Apps: "Provider Hosted First" Approach
Recently I had an exciting mail conversation with Thomas Deutsch. He came up with an idea how to fasten the development of apps. This smart approach is called “Provider Hosted First”. See Thomas’ original blog post. Here are some highlights: What you actually do is a local website which runs in grunt server:
localhost:9000 ```Then a SharePoint-hosted app is created with an SPAppIframe that refers to that local app site.
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Make javascript code work with Minimal Download Strategy Part 2
I have a newer blog post about MDS, that provides a much simpler solution. Please check it before reading further.
Minimal Download Strategy (MDS) is an important feature in SharePoint 2013. It lets you download only a page delta, only changes. There is still issues with the MDS and custom scripts and almost no documentation on msdn or technet. In this blog post I want to learn more about adjusting custom scripts for MDS.
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Make javascript code work with Minimal Download Strategy Part 1
I have a newer blog post about MDS, that provides a much simpler solution. Please check it before reading further.
This is a part 1 of the blog post about Minimal Download Strategy and javascript adjustments for user code. What I initially thought should be enough for one post, is not enough, so I see it as a part 1. I wrote this post after I had read Chris O’Brien’s post about JSLink Here I want investigate how we can get his accordion list view working with MDS.
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Styling suiteBar and IE8
Today I want to share little css tip for styling the suiteBar in SharePoint 2013 and making it work even in IE8. I needed to apply a green color to the suiteBar (#005128). It worked in all browsers except IE8: The reason why is a special css rule (in corev15.css) that only IE8 understands: [sourcecode language=“css”] .ms-core-needIEFilter #suiteBarLeft { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(GradientType=0,startColorstr=#ff0072c6,endColorstr=#ff0072c6); } [/sourcecode] I found this answer in an blog post written by Trace Armstrong: SharePoint 2013 – Branding the Top Bar and the Importance of Browser Testing.
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AutoSPInstaller: error while stopping the default web site in IIS
During an installation with AutoSPInstaller on my development machine I ran into a strange issue. I got the following error:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.IIS.PowerShell.Framework’ or one of its dependencies
I haven’t found any other people having the same problem with the AutoSPInstaller, but I found a similar report on another forum: help.octopusdeploy.com. Maybe I am the only one who gets this error in AutoSPInstaller, if not it can be useful to write the solution down.
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Multi-lingual "Last Modified" footer
You want to show when a page is last modified? The label should, of course, work in multi-language environment. For MOSS, there is a great article about how to achieve this: Jamie McAllister. Building a multi-lingual ‘Last Modified’ Footer for MOSS. Here is a simple example for doing the same in SharePoint 2013: [sourcecode language=“html”] <%@ Register TagPrefix=‘SharePointWebControls’ Namespace=‘Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls’ Assembly=‘Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’ %> <SharePointWebControls:EncodedLiteral runat=‘server’ Text=’<%$Resources:cms,pagesettings_modifieddate_label%>’ EncodeMethod=‘HtmlEncode’/>: <SharePointWebControls:DateTimeField runat=“server” FieldName=“Modified” ControlMode=“Display”/> [/sourcecode] It fetches the localized value from cms.
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REST API: Add a plain text file as an attachment to a list item
SharePoint 2013 REST API has been enhanced and extended. The old _vti_bin/listdata.svc is still there, but the new api for working with lists and list items is much more and obviously a part of a bigger api: _api/web/lists Yesterday I saw an interesting question on SharePoint StackExchange:
“500: Internal Server Error” when trying to add a simple text file as an attachment via SharePoint 2013 REST API The instructions in the MSDN resource are not so detailed, the cannot be.
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Error: Sorry, we're having trouble reaching the server
I ran into a an issue today. When I tried to add a user to a site in my SharePoint 2013 site, I got this error:
Sorry, we’re having trouble reaching the server
A google search gave these two possible solutions:
More RAM Using Display Names I know it can almost everything that can cause this error. Here are my two öre :) I found that when I tried to add a user, an ajax call was made.
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SharePoint Modal Dialog as AngularJS directive
It has already become a series of posts in my blog about the combination of AngularJS and SharePoint:
AngularJS: prevent form validation in Page Edit Mode angular jQuery UI autocomplete AngularJS: sync $location.search with an input value And it will be more. Some of them are a pure angular stuff, some of them are really for SharePoint. In this post post I’ll show how to create a directive for a sharepoint modal dialog (SP.
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JavaScript Localization in SharePoint
Yesterday Waldek Mastykarz published a cool post: Globalizing JavaScript in SharePoint 2013. This is a very cool technique to localize your client code in javascript and reuse your resx files in Server Side and Client Side. This is actually not new for SharePoint 2013 despite it has become more needed with the huge client focus in the new SharePoint. I have used this in SharePoint 2010 for a long time. In my blog post: ScriptResx.
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AngularJS: prevent form validation in Page Edit Mode
I work on a cool project where AngularJS is used for rendering of business data in a SharePoint portal. One of the beautiful parts of AngularJS is the client validation. AngularJS understands the new html5 attributes like “required” and pattern, which makes the markup and javascript concise and semantic. Recently I ran into a problem: The SharePoint webparts which had html forms with required fields were impossible to add to a page in the web browser, neither was it possible to edit the pages with these webparts.
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PowerShell: Copy an entire document library from SharePoint 2007 to disk
For a while ago I needed to copy all files from a document library within a SharePoint 2007 site to the hard drive. So I didn’t need to copy files from SharePoint to SharePoint so I couldn’t use the stsadm -o export command or Chris O’Brien’s nice SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard. I came across the SPIEFolder application which should work with SharePoint 2007 and 2010. It has a site on codeplex: spiefolder.
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Run web.config-dependant code in PowerShell
PowerShell is a great tool. It helps in SharePoint administration and tasks automation. Today I needed to provision a webpart on many similar pages. This third-party webpart’s constructor instantiates a dataaccess service and uses a connectionstring which is stored in the web.config file. So the webpart creation failed until I found a way to load the configuration into powershell. First you can create a simple file powershell.exe.config, put it into $pshome (C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.
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Create SPGroup in PowerShell
Thanks to Ryan for sharing powershell functions. I used New-SPGroup which I altered. Now You can define which permissions will be given to the new group. You can even create groups without default users. Here it comes:
function New-SPGroup { <# .Synopsis Use New-SPGroup to create a SharePoint Group. .Description This function uses the Add() method of a SharePoint RoleAssignments property in an SPWeb to create a SharePoint Group. .Example New-SPGroup -Web http://intranet -GroupName "Test Group" -OwnerName DOMAIN\\User -MemberName DOMAIN\\User2 -Description "My Group" -Role "Read" This example creates a group called "Test Group" in the http://intranet site, with a description of "My Group".
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JSOM: Alter a column's DisplayName
Here is another article in my JSOM series. For one month ago I showed how to alter a column’s ShowInDisplayForm property with JSOM. This time I’ll show a code sample for changing a column’s (field’s) display name. If you want to alter the displayname with Server Object Model, grab the code in the sharepoint.stackexchange.com: Change Field’s DisplayName in a List. [sourcecode language=“javascript”]var ctx = SP.ClientContext.get_current(), //SP.ClientContext field = ctx.get_web() //SP.Web .
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Delete all list items with jsom
Today I needed to “clean” a list, meaning to remove all list items. For some time ago I wrote a post about different ways of removing list items in bulk: Server Object Model, SPLinq and RPC. This time I had only the web browser. So I tried the jsom way. By the way, the javascript documentation for jsom on msdn is getting really good. Don’t miss that: How to: Complete basic operations using JavaScript library code in SharePoint 2013.
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TypeScript in SharePoint
By now TypeScript shouldn’t be something one has to introduce.
TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
If you haven’t already done it, go and see the intro video for TypeScript, check out a tutorial and visit the typescript playground. There are other javascript libraries which extend javascript and are compatible/compile to javascript: Dart and CoffeeScript. To be honest I had never time to try those.
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GeoLocation Field in SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2013 Preview there is a new type of field: GeoLocation which is, like the old SPUrlField, a pair of values. The geolocation is described as longitude and latitude. Unfortunately you can’t add this field in list settings. You have to create this in code. In the provided link you can find the code C# code which uses the Client Object Model. In another link you can find an example how to create the geolocation file using Server Object Model (in FeatureActivated EventReceiver).
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Callouts in SharePoint 2013 Preview
While ModalDialog is not default for editing list items in SharePoint 2013 Preview, there is a new “popup” element in SharePoint - callout or popover. I would like to recommend these two blogs when you want discover more: Andrey Markeev: Callouts (popovers) в SharePoint 2013 Preview (in Russian) Alex Boev: a three part series: 1. Custom Callouts in the SharePoint 2013 Metro UI: Part 1: Basics 2. Custom Callouts in the SharePoint 2013 Metro UI, Part 2: Actions 3.
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.tfignore - ".gitignore" for TFS
I haven’t used TFS so much. But I like it so far. It works smoothly, both TFS 2012 (on premises) and TFS Preview (online). I really appreciate that Microsoft has been inspired from git - the world’s best VCS :). For example .tfignore which works exactly like the .gitignore file. It is nice that the non-classic Microsoft dot notation convention for naming the hidden files is chosen. So if you have any files to ignore just do it like you did in your git projects.
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Paging with JSOM
If there are many list items you try retrieve with javascript object model,paging could be very useful. Today I came across a wonderful blog post series about javascript object model in SharePoint: The SharePoint javascript object model - Resources and Real World Examples posted by David Mann and published on Aptilon Blog. There is an example how to achieve paging with JSOM. The key is items.get_listItemCollectionPosition() and query.set_listItemCollectionPosition() I have refactored David’s example to avoid global variables and to put into a module.
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Simplify js and css development with Web Essentials (Visual Studio Extension)
If you develop much javascript and css, this is the exension to Visual Studio you just can’t live without: Web Essentials (It is even released for VS2012). You can do many things with it. Here are two examples for simple but very useful functions: 1. Show which browsers support a css attribute: 2. Collapse javascript functions and create #region areas like in C# code: There is much more, like less and coffeescript parsing.
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Toastr.js and SharePoint
Have you used SharePoint javascript Notifications (SP.UI.Notify)? Are you looking for something new and fresh? Well then check out the Toastr.js - a simple, beautiful, fully responsive and light-weight javascript lib for notifications, developed by John Papa and Hans Fjällemark and released under the MIT License. By the way, toastr was one of many things I discovered and learned on John Papa’s online course by pluralsight: Single Page Apps with HTML5, Web API, Knockout and jQuery.
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JSOM: Alter a column's ShowInDisplayForm property
When you create a content type, you can define if your fields will be shown in DisplayForm, EditForm, NewForm. You can hide or show them, just as Yaroslav Pentsarsky says. If your list is already provisioned, you can change them with Server Object Model, why not in PowerShell: Technet: Setting ShowInDisplayForm, ShowInEditForm, ShowInNewForm properties with powershell. If you don’t have access to the server, then the same can be done with JSOM.
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JSOM: Last Modified Date of a List
The data transfer between server and client can heavily affect the performance. One of the measures to reduce the amount data transferred from the server to the client is storing data on the client. In many modern browsers we can use html5 localStorage. Even in older browsers there are ways to store data. I would recommend a nice js lib called amplify.js. The interface is much easier, then:
amplify.store("key", { title: "value" }); ```It comes in nicely, if we have much data which we get with JSOM.
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The original Visual Web Part template is missing in Visual Studio 2012
Today I encountered a weird issue, the classic Visual Web Part template was gone in Visual Studio 2012. When I created a Visual WebPart, a webpart was created with a generated .g.cs file, like the sandboxed visual webparts. I am not exactly sure why it happened. According to the MSDN guide Creating Web Parts for SharePoint, the structure of Visual Webparts should be the same as in Visual Studio 2010. It could have happened after I installed the power tools.
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The right URL regardless AAM zone
For a while ago my colleague gave me a nice tip of getting the right absolute url regardless sharepoint zone in Alternate Access Mappings. I want to share it, because it is brilliant:
var url = SPUtility.AlternateServerUrlFromHttpRequestUrl(new Uri(value)).AbsoluteUri;
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Using SharePoint tooltips
I found a great post about using sharepoint tooltips on Andrey Markeev’s (@amarkeev, omlin) blog: JavaScript ToolTip’ы для SharePoint. He describes how he found the standard sharepoint tooltips and how they can be reused. The best part of it his “research”. Andrey’s conclusion is to create an own, simplified javascript class which enables “sharepoint” tooltips. I modified it somewhat. I think there is no need to instantiate a TooltipManager…
var Takana = window.
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Multiple instances of javascript webparts on the same page
Javascript has become popular among many SharePoint developers thanks to easy and fast jQuery, CSOM, SPServices and many other javascript libraries. That can make solutions modern and fast. On the other hand developers should be aware of more things (some of them at Bamboo Team Blog). One of those is scoping of javascript webparts. The problem a developer has to consider: what happens if a user creates two or more instances of the same beautiful webpart on the page?
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Three ways to get the id of last created SPListItem
An interesting question came on SharePoint StackExchange: How to retrieve the guid of the last uploaded file. It is only possible in CSOM as far as I know. But if we simplify the task, how to get the id of the last item, the we can compare three ways of getting them: SPServices, jQuery + listdata.svc and CSOM.
SPServices The most easiest way, but not available in async:
$().SPServices.SPGetLastItemId({ listName: "Documents" }); listdata.
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Web Application Properties as JSON
I saw an interesting question on sharepoint.stackexchange: How to access a Web application/Farm level property bag via jQuery/Javascript/ClientContext. Some time ago I tested a custom http handler, so I wanted to try a custom httphandler for this as well. It worked. Here more details: Just deploy sp-lend-id.tupsam from the solution. If you don’t have any properties in your web application, just add some:
asnp microsoft.sharepoint.powershell $app = get-spwebapplication http://dev $app.Properties.Add("Santa", "Claus") $app.
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Using javascript objects passed from closed popup
It is not a rocket science to pass objects from child window (popup) to main window. The problem I encountered today was IE and passing complex objects. So it is just an IE issue as far as I know. The problem occurs when you pass some object (not a simple String or Number) to main window:
window.opener.takeAnObjectFromChild = { title: "Should even be available when I close the child" }; and you then close the child window, next time the main window tries to access the passed object:
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javascript: developing for performance
Many words have been said about the importance of performance when working with javascript files. Here I want to summarize what developers can do to increase the performance related to javascript. I found many tips on blogs. Here comes my aggregated list of actions one can do to speed up sharepoint (and not only) sites with focus on javascript:
1. Load only sharepoint stuff you need Use prefetch option to only load sharepoint javascript files that needed.
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nodeunit and SharePoint: unit tests in javascript
nodeunit is a (relatively) new test framework for javascript, mainly for node, but it can be run in a browser as well. The most popular framework for testing javascript is Qunit, but I’ll lab with it another time. I found nodeunit tests in moment.js - the best date handling framework for javascript and it worked very well. So first of all, why should we test? The best answer is actually: Life is to short for manual testing (it was actually the slogan at the Google London Test Automation Conference 2007.
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Develop for SharePoint on Windows 8
Do you like Windows 8 user expirience, as me? Well than you want to try developing sharepoint solutions in Windows 8. Here I will show what I found out.
Environment I installed Windows 8 Release Preview as a VMWare machine. Then I installed Visual Studio 2012 RC. Then I followed the steps for installing SharePoint on Windows 8 which are more or less the same as for Windows 7 client install.
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$ in cmssitemanager.js conflicts with $ in jQuery
In SharePoint 2010 if CMSSiteManager.js library is loaded besides jQuery, then much of stuff stops working. The reason is that the dollar sign ($) is used in cmssitemanager.js as well which conflicts with jQuery. Mostly it appears on pages where you load jQuery and have an image library with thumbnails. To avoid this, just replace all $ with jQuery in your custom scripts. A more crazy situation is when avoiding $ isn’t enough.
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javascript toolkit on text file
Referencing javascript libraries from Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like jQuery can have many benefits. The self-hosted javascript files are on the other hand give you more control. But in one situation it is much better with cdns: the development. Like Marc D Anderson pointed:
I didn’t realize it at the time, but this txt file has become a standard part of my toolkit already. I’ve added it to three client environments just since last week.
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jQuery mobile and SharePoint
In this post I want to explore how to build a mobile app using jQuery mobile. Recently I discovered two great blog posts about this:
Building SharePoint web apps using Sencha Touch by Luc Stakenborg jQuery mobile and SharePoint by Chris Quick In my post I’ll use their findings and share some of mine thougts. I’ll focus mostly on how to get started with jQuery mobile and SharePoint. So go ahead and create your jQuery mobile app, just drag’n’drop some controls: Download it and yout get an “app.
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Implement public wcf service in SharePoint
If you have an external web service reference in your sharepoint solution, you can use web.config configuration like:
<system.serviceModel> <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" /> <bindings> <wsHttpBinding> <binding name="WSHttpBinding\_ISuperService" > <security mode="None"> <message clientCredentialType="None" /> </security> </binding> </wsHttpBinding> </bindings> <client> <endpoint address="http://super.domain/SuperService.svc" binding="wsHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="WSHttpBinding\_ISuperService" contract="ISuperService" name="SuperServiceEndpoint"> </endpoint> </client> </system.serviceModel> ```security mode is set to "None". Then in code just get this configuration: var proxy = new SuperServiceClient(“SuperServiceEndpoint”); var result = proxy.GetSomething();
var binding = new WSHttpBinding(); binding.
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Creating custom powershell cmdlet
Why I need to to activate a feature in PowerShell and specify some properties. Simple? Yes. Possible? No. In the default Enable-SPFeature cmdlet you can’t specify any properties:
Enable-SPFeature –Identity "b5eef7d1-f46f-44d1-b53e-410f62032846" -URL http://dev We can of course easily add properties when activating features in onet.xml:
<!-- Publishing Resources --> <Feature ID="AEBC918D-B20F-4a11-A1DB-9ED84D79C87E"> <Properties xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> <Property Key="AllowRss" Value="false" /> <Property Key="SimplePublishing" Value="false" /> </Properties> </Feature> So I went to SharePoint StackExchange and asked the question.
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Out-Gridview in PowerShell
Did you know that we can pipe the output from PowerShell into a graphical GridView? I have used PowerShell for one year and only now I discovered this nice feature. You can add filter criteria, you can filter by typing in a textbox: Other useful output cmdlets out-file out-clip out-null
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ResxCrunch: Localization tool
If your solution has two or more languages to support, I can recommend an open source tool ResxCrunch. Btw, you can even use ResxCrunch for localization of Android applications.
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Access User Profile Properties from Powershell
To use only SPUser objects isn’t always sufficient. To get other properties we have to retrieve user profiles. Giles Hamson gives an example how to get and how to update user profile properties with powershell. Here is an example how to get all work phones:
$url = "http://intranet/" $site = Get-SPSite $url $context = Get-SPServiceContext $site $profileManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($context) $profiles = $profileManager.GetEnumerator() while ($profiles.MoveNext()) { $userProfile = $profiles.Current $name = $userProfile.
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Add Comments column to your sharepoint list
If you have used Issue tracking list template in SharePoint you must have marked that the comments are added and marked with author name and datetime. It is handy to have these micro “discussion boards” on items. The comment-formed communication can help to fine-tune task definitions. By the way, have you seen Trello? So the question is how we can create this column in other lists? Here is a little tutorial how to create “append-only comments”, as they are called:
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fallback for html5 placeholders
Placeholders are very handy in html5, we don’t need to fool with input values. But in SharePoint and IE we must provide fallback for placeholders if we want use them in other browsers. Here is an jQuery extension to do that:
(function ($) { $.fn.extend({ ensurePlaceholders: function () { var input = document.createElement('input'); var placeholderSupported = ('placeholder' in input); if (placeholderSupported) { return; } function setHints(elem) { var $elem = $(elem); var value = $elem.
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SP.UI.Notify in Modal Dialog
If you open a custom page (not a list item form) in a modal dialog, your notification won’t be shown. The reason is that the notification area (#notificationArea) is inside a hidden div (#s4-ribbonrow). To show this notificationArea we must display the notification area:
var $ribbon = jQuery("#s4-ribbonrow"); if ($ribbon.is(":hidden")) { $ribbon.css({"min-height": 0, "height": "0px"}) .show().children().hide() .filter("#notificationArea").show() } Comments from Wordpress.com Jens Malmberg - Jan 3, 2013
Thanks a bunch again, your solution was the only good information i found quickly.
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cross browser console.log
console.log is the best tool for debugging javascript. In Firefox Firebug and Chrome Dev Tools you can even log objects which are represented as tree nodes of properties. If Firebug or Dev Tools in Chrome and IE9 are not opened, all these messages are ignored. But IE8 doesn’t understand console (if Dev Tools are closed) and raises an error: To avoid these errors, just declare an empty function just for IE8–:
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Enable Save in IE9 mode
Wouldn’t it be nice to use html5 and css3 in SharePoint? No problems, there is actually v5 master out there, created by Kyle Schaefer. Or just use h5ml5 and css3 right away in your webparts and pages. But there is a big problem. It doesn’t work in IE9–. One of the issues (even listed by Kyle) is that “save” doesn’t work in modal dialogs where Rich Text Editor is used. Especialy it is for modal dialogs.
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$().SPServices is best for SOAP
SPServices is a great tool, really nice work, Marc Anderson (@sympmarc). It has been there all the time I have developed for SharePoint. But the fact that you work with XML and you must parse the attributes (!) was the reason why I prefered listdata.svc and Client Object Model, where you get objects in JSON or you have a nice API to get objects and their properties. But there is an area where SPServices are really the best tool: SharePoint Web Services which only understand SOAP like SocialDataService.
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$ and jQuery in SharePoint
Do you still use $ for jQuery? Well, don’t. If your code with $ resides with a SharePoint Images webpart, it will stop working. You’ll get errors like
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'empty' of null The reason is that SharePoint uses $ in its own javascript code: CMSSiteManager.js function $() {ULSjlC:; var elements=new Array(); for (var i=0; i < arguments.length; i++) { var element=arguments\[i\]; if (typeof element=='string') element=document.getElementById(element); if (arguments.
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ScriptResx.ashx in SharePoint
In my previous post I showed a little proof-of-concept for an httphandler which I want to use to dynamically get the localization resources from SharePoint as javascript object. But wait a moment. How does SharePoint handle localization on client? When you look in Script tab in Chrome dev tools, you’ll find:
ScriptResource.axd It is added to the server when deployed. See a good introduction to WebResource.axd and ScriptResource.axd by Brian Chavez.
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Custom HttpHandler in SharePoint for getting dynamic javascript code
Sometimes I want to add some dynamic javascript code. E.g. I had an idea to get javascript code for localization dynamically. Kirk Evan provides a very clean approach to add ASP.NET HttpHandler to SharePoint. This is just a little lab: Create a SharePoint empty project. I call it Jerkelle. Create a class called Resx2JsHandler and implement the IHttpHandler interface Add the mapped folder Layouts and create Jerkelle.ashx file Here is the project.
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XMLHttpRequest the hard way
$.ajax is great, it hides much of the complexity. But sometimes we need to work with “raw” javascript :) So let’s look behind the scenes. The XMLHttpRequest (or just XHR) is used to open a connection to a server without a page reload. Internet Explorer calls it ActiveXObject and it differs in IE versions. Wikipedia article gives a good example how to create one constructor for all browsers: [sourcecode language=“javascript”]if (typeof XMLHttpRequest == “undefined”) XMLHttpRequest = function () { try { return new ActiveXObject(“Msxml2.
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Push a copy of Resources to client in javascript
In one of my previous posts I told about pushing a copy of an object into client. Now I’ll try to copy my resource values into client. The problem is often that we must create multiple localization resources: first as resx-file. If we use much ajax and client side rendering, we must provide some localization there, too. If they are different subsets of localization resources, it isn’t a problem. But when you get overlapping, it becomes more difficult to manage and sync them.
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Knockout.js!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnhGqcKEPiM&w=640&h=360] See an example what you can with it SharePoint, written by Thorsten Hans.
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Add links to Global Navigation in My Sites
Oliver Wirkus shows how to add links to Global Navigation in My Sites. Just go to: Central Administration Applicaiton Management Manage Service Applications User Profile Service Application Configure Personalization Site
Comments from Wordpress.com Lroth - Feb 4, 2015
There is no “configure personalization site” link. What is in the tea you are drinking?
It is actually coffee…Just kidding. This is an instruction for SharePoint 2010.
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Parameterize a javascript object and create url
If you want to add some parameters to an url which you want to open, you can use jQuery.param function:
var url = "some\_url"; var params = { name: "Setner", email: "setner@narspi.name", mobile: "123456789" }; var search = "?" + $.param(p); url += search; ```It is handy, indeed. In an environment without jQuery (are there some?:) ) you can just iterate an object and join properties: var url = “some_url”; var params = { name: “Setner”, email: “setner@narspi.
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Erik Swensson's book about Sharepoint Branding
Today Erik Swensson’s book Practical SharePoint 2010 Branding and Customization came to our company. I am looking forward to read it. It’s about time to see alternatives to Randy’s starters.
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OOTB permission levels in SharePoint
There are much info about standard permission levels in SharePoint. Here is my visualization for that. Just a little bit easier to find out the right permission level. Enjoy:
Full Control (FullMask)
Design
Contribute
Read
Limited Access
Restricted Reader
Manage Hierarchy
Approve
ViewListItems
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AddListItems
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Remove protected Organizational Units from AD
To remove a protected OU, go to ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers), select the domain and enable “Advanced Features” in View. When Advanced Features are enabled, just right click you OU go to Properties -> Object and uncheck “Protect against accidential deletion”. Disable Advanced Features after that. By the way. When Advanced Features are enabled you can even see the distinguished Name of objects directly in ADUC UI.
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Settings in Sharepoint_config database instead of appSettings
An alternative to store key-value paired properties in appSettings in web.config we can use Sharepoint_config database by creating our own SPPersistedObject. First we have to create a class which inherits from SPPersistedObject and decorate its properties with [Persisted]:
namespace Takana.SharePoint { public class Settings: SPPersistedObject { \[Persisted\] public string DbConString; public LinkCheckerPersistedSettings() { } public LinkCheckerPersistedSettings(string name, SPPersistedObject parent) : base(name, parent) { } } } ```Then we must create such an object.
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Adding organizational units to AD through powershell
Want to create some organizational structure in AD, I suppose it is specifically useful in a development environment, well the best solution is powershell then. Mastering Powershell by and Powershell.nu by Niklas Goude provide examples how to do this.
$domain = \[ADSI\]"" $ou = $domain.Create("organizationalUnit", "OU=Administration") $ou.SetInfo() ```Be sure you write "organizationalUnit" in lower case. Otherwise you'll get "Exception calling "SetInfo" with "0" argument(s): "The specified directory service attribute or value does not exist" when you invoke **$ou.
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Install a custom timer job in Powershell
First we have to create a class for our timer job which inherits SPTimerJobDefinition, build it and deploy it.
public class TakanaTimer : SPJobDefinition { public TakanaTimer(){} public TakanaTimer(string jobName, SPService service, SPServer server, SPJobLockType targetType) : base(jobName, service, server, targetType) { } public TakanaTimer(string jobName, SPWebApplication webapp) : base(jobName, webapp, null, SPJobLockType.ContentDatabase) { Title = jobName; } public override void Execute(Guid contentDbId) { Log.Info("Running Takana Timer"); } } There is a powershell example for this, but it has not been updated since MOSS.
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Shrink sharepoint database
A Sharepoint Database can become big and have unused spaces. To shrink database go to CA-> Health Analyzer: http://takana:1337/Lists/HealthReports/AllItems.aspx See if there is a list item about unused space in db under the Availability. Click on Repair Automatically in the opened Modal Dialog:
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Set ObjectTrackingEnabled = false when reading
In LINQ 2 SP we work with a data context. By default a data context has the property ObjectTrackingEnabled = true. This property is crucial for all other operations in CRUD except Read. I performed a mini experiment. I created 20 000 items in my task list. Every seventh item contains “pärla”. Allright, here is what I found out: 2857 / 20 000 items
ObjectTrackingEnabled = true
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Find the current Active Directory Domain
While working with Active Directory within SharePoint we probably don’t need to specify the domain or the root container. We can the current values. Here is a simple method from a console application just to demonstrate:
internal static void GetDomain() { var context = new DirectoryContext(DirectoryContextType.Domain); var domain = Domain.GetDomain(context); Console.WriteLine("Full domain:"); Console.WriteLine(domain.Name); //takana.local Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine("root container"); var parts = domain.Name.Split(new\[\] {"."}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries); var dcParts = parts.Select(n => "dc=" + n).
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Two interesting html5-in-sharepoint presentations
[slideshare id=11031050&doc=sharepointhtml5-120113215236-phpapp02] HTML5-and-CSS3-What-About-SharePoint.pdf (968 KB) by Kyle Schaefer
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Datetime in ASP.NET javascript and $.ajax
In one of my previous blogs I wrote about serializing of javascript objects. You can do it with JSON.stringify or Sys.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer.serialize. Both methods work fine… almost. There is a big difference when it comes to datetime objects. MS treats dates a little bit different (like RegEx and much more). Let’s try this one:
var writer = { name: "Ajgi", birthdate: new Date(1934, 8-1, 21) }; var json = JSON.stringify(writer); var msjson = Sys.
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SPWebConfigModification
SPWebConfigModification. Some links to start with: http://panvega.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/using-spwebconfigmodification-within-a-feature-receiver/ http://www.onedotnetway.com/get-name-of-current-executing-assembly-in-c/ http://blogs.devhorizon.com/reza/?p=459 http://ikarstein.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/add-web-config-modification-with-powershell-spwebconfigmodification/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861909.aspx
public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties) { var webapp = parent as SPWebApplication; if (webapp != null) { var mod1 = GetWebControlsConfigMod(); webapp.WebConfigModifications.Add(mod1); var mod2 = GetConStringConfigMod(); webapp.WebConfigModifications.Add(mod2); SaveChanges(webapp); } else { Log.Warning("no modifications to webapp are done"); } } public override void FeatureDeactivating(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties) { var webapp = parent as SPWebApplication; if (webapp != null) { var mod = GetWebControlsConfigMod(); var modsCollection = webapp.
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Check if a user is in a OU
To get all users from an AD group is very simple:
groupName = "an\_ad\_group"; PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain); GroupPrincipal grp = GroupPrincipal.FindByIdentity(ctx, IdentityType.Name, groupName); var principals = grp.GetMembers(true); ```But what about an OU? There is no OrganizationUnitPrincipal... [Well, there is a solution: to instantiate a context for your OU](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1927476/632117 "See the solution on Stack Overflow"): So if you want to check if a user in a OU: internal static bool IsUserInOu(string ou, string name) { var domain = “takana.
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\n and \t in powershell
Want to add some tabs and new lines to your output in Powershell. Well, it works like \n and \t. But there is a little different syntax: `t and `n. Just a tip. An alternative way to add new line is to use [Environment]::NewLine:
$nl = \[Environment\]::NewLine $var = "hej" + $nl Write $var
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Add Sharepoint Snap-in if needed
Just include it in your script or function:
if(-not(Get-PSSnapin | Where { $_.Name -eq "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"})) { Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell} By the way, I found it in PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators by Niklas Goude and Mattias Karlsson. Powershell for Sharepoint Administrators. UPDATE: I found a better way to check a variable for null: Thomas Maurer. Powershell: check variable for null. It is like in javascript, just put it in the if-statement to test if it exists or not:
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Get url parameters with javascript
There is a question in Stackoverflow and this one, too. There is a fine solution for jQuery. The only thing we need is window.location.search. Say we have http://domain.com?q=hello&a=good#home, then it takes only ?q=hello&a=good, and leaves #home and the main url. Anchors can be retrieved with hash. Here are all properties of window.location: Google Chrome provides a fine function: window.location.getParameter: I like the name of this function. So why not to use it or create this one if a browser doesn’t have it?
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Reload page in js: RefreshPage
There are many ways to reload / refresh a page in javascript. One of them is as in discoveringsharepoint.wordpress.com describes:
window.location.reload() ```Today I found some tools which are shipped with ASP.NET/SharePoint to reload a page. The big advantage of them they are designed to work with SharePoint and take all possible aspects of page life cycle into account. The javascript function to refresh a page is just called, guess..: **RefreshPage** and it resides in init.
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Run javascript code except it is inside a modal dialog
Want to run some javascript code everywhere, but not in a modal dialog. Because errors are occured, or this code is unnecessary i dialogs. Well here is a solution I have found after some experiments:
$(document).ready(function() { if (!window.location.href.match(/isdlg=1/i)) { onDocumentReadyExceptItIsInDialog(); } }); function onDocumentReadyExceptItIsInDialog() {} ```This code checks with Regular Expressions if the url of the parent window contains IsDlg=1, if so nothing happens. In the usual case (not inside a dialog), the javascript code runs.
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listdata.svc vs CSOM for retrieving and manipulation of list items
What is better and where and when… I’ll try to find out.. This post will be updated soon. Take a look at this so far: http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/23209/sharepoint-2010-javascript-client-object-model-cross-site-collections
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String.format for javascript
sprintf is actually the best javascript implementation of sprintf (string.format). But wait, shouldn’t it be some more .NET-like stuff in SharePoint environment? Indeed there is! (Well, not only in SP, but ASP.NET) String.format(“Hello {0}”, “world”) does exactly the same thing as on server side. Wow, it opens for many opportunities, e.g. in jQuery tmpl: String.format validates arguments, and if all is OK, it invokes another function String._toFormattedString:
function String$\_toFormattedString(useLocale, args) { var result = ''; var format = args\[0\]; for (var i=0;;) { var open = format.
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$select in listdata.svc
Sure you don’t want to load all the properties of listitems, like ContenTypeId and so on. We cannot avoid __metadata property :), but we can let listdata.svc to send only properties we want. By the way, the best tool for building listdata.svc queries is linqpad. Just write a usual Linq and linqpad converts it to web service url query: Another great stuff is $count, just add ?$count and you get only the count of items, no other junk.
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Add global navigation links in Powershell and Feature Receiver
I think, powershell is the best way to do configurations you have to do once. Adding some links to global (top) navigation is one of them:
asnp microsoft.sharepoint.powershell $w = get-spweb http://takana $l = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPNavigationNode("Smells like team spirit", "/pages/teamspirit.aspx") $w.Navigation.TopNavigationBar.AddAsLast($l) Feature receiver The alternative is to create a web scoped feature and provide properties:
public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties) { var web = properties.Feature.Parent as SPWeb; var prop = properties.
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Can't add a global site navigation link
If you encounter problems while customizing global site navigation in a custom site definition for SharePoint 2010, you probably can solve it by adding the necessary navbar element in navbars section of the onet.xml:
<NavBar Name="$Resources:core,category\_Top;" Separator="&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" Body="<a ID='onettopnavbar#LABEL\_ID#' href='#URL#' accesskey='J'>#LABEL#</a>" ID="1002" /> It solved the problems for me :).
Comments from Wordpress.com Chilly - Nov 3, 2012
How did you edit the Onet.XML file? What if this is only happening on one site in a whole site colleciton will this help this site as well.
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Retention policies
Ziegler provides a cool intro, implementation sample and much more. When deployed we can apply this policy to a contenttype in the UI, or in code. To create our own expiration logic we have to implement IExpirationFormula and its ComputeExpireDate:
public class TaskExpiration : IExpirationFormula { public DateTime? ComputeExpireDate(SPListItem item, XmlNode parametersData) { if (!item\["Status"\].Equals("Completed")) { return null; } var dt = (DateTime) item\["Modified"\]; return dt.AddDays(30); } } ```In order to see IExpirationFormula, add a reference to Microsoft.
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Batch remove
To add items to a list in bulk, or remove them in bulk. Well to do that you can use SPLinq, Server Object Model and … web.ProcessBatchData, which is the most effective. I did an experiment today. I created 1000 tasks in my task list three times and removed all items in three different ways and took time. First I put 1000 items with ajax and listdata.svc:
function pad(n) { if (n >= 10000) return n; if (n >= 1000) return '0' + n; if (n >= 100) return '00' + n; if (n >= 10) return '000' + n; return '0000' + n; } var s; var counter = 0; var title = "task " function foo() { counter++; if (counter > 10000) { window.
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Add stsadm folder to PATH in cmd
Tired to see C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe? Wouldn’t be nice to run stsadm directly without going the 14 bin folder, or permanently changing %PATH%, well add this line to your script:
PATH=%PATH%;C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\Web Server Extensions\\14\\BIN\\
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format javascript date in ISO 8601
There is a solution in StackOverflow:
/\* use a function for the exact format desired... \*/ function ISODateString(d){ function pad(n){return n<10 ? '0'+n : n} return d.getUTCFullYear()+'-' + pad(d.getUTCMonth()+1)+'-' + pad(d.getUTCDate())+'T' + pad(d.getUTCHours())+':' + pad(d.getUTCMinutes())+':' + pad(d.getUTCSeconds())+'Z'} var d = new Date(); print(ISODateString(d)); // prints something like 2009-09-28T19:03:12Z ```But there is already a function for this: toISOString, it came with ecmascript 5. [Unfortunately, not all browsers support this](http://kangax.github.com/es5-compat-table/ "See the best comparision for ecmascript 5 support"), to solve this problem, we can provide our own prototype function for Date if it doesn't exist: if (!
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Pass arguments from/to Modal Dialog
To pass arguments from a ModalDialog is easy. Provide some buttons and invoke close function:
SP.UI.ModalDialog.commonModalDialogClose(SP.UI.DialogResult.OK, someValue); ```The first argument is result, [it is a enumeration with three alternatives](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff409060.aspx): cancel, invalid and OK. The value you pass back to the main window can be a simple string, or a complex javascript object. In this example I'll create a html element which is hidden (id="modal-form" [class="s4-die"](/2011/10/14/s4-die/)): Pass arguments to Modal Dialog and use it In options you pass to SP.
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Get current user and handle a success callback
In my previous post I needed the accound id of the current user for posting new list items. To retrieve the id, we can push this to the client from the code behind, or get the current user using Client Object Model. To provide a more generic way we can write a js function which get the current user. But we must even provide some callback functionality, otherwise we don’t know if the operation was successful or not.
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Update list items with listdata.svc
In one of my previous posts I showed how to retrieve data from listdata.svc with jQuery $.getJSON method. Getting data is very simple, listdata.svc provides a powerful restful interface with filtering, expanding and other features. Read the best and short introduction to listdata.svc by Suneet Sharma or a more detailed and technical article about filters, functions and operators by Mike Flasko at Microsoft with short examples here. Now back to listdata.
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Add content to a provisioned publishing page
We can use PublishingPageContent Property to write content to a page:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> <Module Name="Pages" Url="$Resources:cmscore,List\_Pages\_UrlName;" > <File Path="Pages\\Help.aspx" Url="Help.aspx" Type="GhostableInLibrary"> <Property Name="Title" Value="Contoso Help Page" /> <Property Name="PublishingPageLayout" Value="~SiteCollection/\_catalogs/masterpage/ContosoPageLayout.aspx, Text page" /> <Property Name="ContentType" Value="$Resources:cmscore,contenttype\_welcomepage\_name;" /> <Property Name="PublishingPageContent" Value="hello world"/> </File> </Module> </Elements>
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javascript load callback for UpdatePanel
Using asp:UpdatePanel isn’t so easy with jQuery(document).ready() or jQuery(window).load(). The jQuery selectors can’t find elements which are not shown in the beginning. All other elements which are loaded dynamically are difficult to catch. I found a solution in forums.asp.net. A user called germanz creates an jQuery event listener AjaxReady, he uses the ASP.NET built-in PageRequestManager. If there only few usages of it it can be invoked directly from a PageRequestManager instance:
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jQuery UI Datepicker
As an alternative to asp:Calendar we can use the fancy jQuery UI Datepicker:
$(document).ready(function () { $.datepicker.setDefaults($.datepicker.regional\["sv"\]); $("#").datepicker({ changeMonth: true, changeYear: true, yearRange: "-120:+0" }); }); ```I found this a much simple and best solution for an [birthdate input](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/339956/whats-the-best-ui-for-entering-date-of-birth). We can set [international options](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1865091/jquery-datepicker-language-problem), [year range](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/269545/jquery-datepicker-years-shown), [year](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3164898/jquery-ui-datepicker-next-and-previous-year) and [month navigation](http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/dropdown-month-year.html). Other options I have tried are asp:Calendar, ajaxtoolkit:CalendarExtender and DateJs. jQuery UI is the most simple much more than datepicker and works smoothily with SharePoint.
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ASP.NET Ajax Toolkit
To integrate ASP.NET Ajax Toolkit is not the most straight forward task in SharePoint. If you want to take the risk, “Inspired by Technology” provides the best guide so far.
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Sort a lib when column headers are hidden
Just add this to the url in the browser address bar:
?SortField=Modified&SortDir=Asc
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Push a copy of an object to client
To reduce postbacks and database calls, a copy of the current object(s) can be pushed down to the client in JSON format. Say a webpart renders information about a person, another webpart shows related information which is retrieved dynamically (like web services). Instead of getting the current person from the database in the second webpart again, we can reuse the same person object from the first webpart. To do so we must provide a DataContract for the Person class:
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Custom Picker in Sharepoint
PeopleEditor is a nice webcontrol for picking people. To add it to your webpart or page is easy: But there is more we can do with pickers in Sharepoin. We can define our own pickers. Jeremy Luerkens gives one such example and a code sample (!). Another example can be found in Sharepoint as a Development Platform (p. 661), even though it misses the important class BookQueryControl. Just to start I made a book picker (I simplified and changed the idea provided in the book).
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Powershell scripts for AD
A tip for all who want to administer AD with powershell: Idera Powershell scripts. Just sign up and get the free scripts for AD, SQL, Exchange and Sharepoint. I personally prefer to user modules, so I change the file extension from ps1 to psm1 and then I can use import functions as modules. Here is a simple example for creating for domain users:
import-module .\\New-IADUser1.psm1 function Add-User($name) { New-IADUser -Name $name -sAMAccountname $name -ParentContainer 'CN=Users, DC=contoso, DC=com' -Password 'SvenskaAkademien1786' -EnableAccount -PasswordNeverExpires } Add-User "user01" Add-User "user02" Add-User "user03" Add-User "user04" update 2012-03-15: nice script from Ryan Ryan Dennis has created a very handy script for creating random users.
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json serializer in Sharepoint
There is a very handy JSON lib for serializing javascript objects. It is hosted on github under douglas crockford. Download json2.js and serialize with JSON.stringify function: EDIT: There is actually this function in core javascript. It exists since javascript 1.7 and ecmascript 5. So you don’t have to add anything to get this functionality:
var t = { name: "dev", city: "new york" }; JSON.stringify(t); ```There are actually built-in goodies for serializing javascript objects in [ASP.
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Load Profile Image with javascript
See a great post in “Learning Sharepoint” with an example how to get a picture of user with Client Object Model and javascript.
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Get Distinguished Name for a user
To get the distinguished name for a user, it isn’t enough to get an SPUser object. The distinguished name is the unique string for identifying a user in Active Directory (eg. CN=BeforeDAfter,OU=Test,DC=North America,DC=Fabrikam,DC=COM) Even using UserProfile object is not that clear. The distinguished name can be found in a property which can be retrieved with brackets: up[PropertyConstants.DistinguishedName]
public static string GetDistinguishedName(string login) { var dn = ""; UserProfile up; using (var site = new SPSite("http://dev")) { var serviceContext = SPServiceContext.
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jQuery timeago and the localization
If you have used SPUtility.TimeDeltaAsString you must know how useful it is. There is also the jQuery plugin that can perform counting of time deltas and (!) translate it. jQuery timeago is available for many languages, Swedish among others:
// Swedish jQuery.timeago.settings.strings = { prefixAgo: "för", prefixFromNow: "om", suffixAgo: "sedan", suffixFromNow: "", seconds: "mindre än en minut", minute: "ungefär en minut", minutes: "%d minuter", hour: "ungefär en timme", hours: "ungefär %d timmar", day: "en dag", days: "%d dagar", month: "ungefär en månad", months: "%d månader", year: "ungefär ett år", years: "%d år" }; ```The code is hosted on [Github](https://github.
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Google Analytics in Sharepoint
Google Analytics is a popular and mature tool for monitoring network activities on your site. Why not use it in Sharepoint? Dave Coleman and Mike Knowles provide good guides for doing that. There is a promising plugin to SP SPGoogleAnalytics which integrates both and provides an easy interface to put GA to your SharePoint installation and see the data directly on your intranet. It comes from codeplex: What do you think about spgoogleanalytics.
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Subdomains for site collections
In order to be able to use subdomains for different sitecollections, we have to use hostheaders. Sharad Kumar provides a good example:
$w = Get-SPWebApplication http://sitename New-SPSite http://www.contoso.com -OwnerAlias "DOMAIN\\jdoe" -HostHeaderWebApplication $w -Name "Contoso" -Template "STS#0" ```If we want to create, say http://rockets.contoso.com, we can run: New-SPSite http://rockets.contoso.com -OwnerAlias “DOMAIN\jdoe” -HostHeaderWebApplication “http://sitename” -Name “Rockets” -Template “STS#0” -Language 1053
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Working with web.Properties
Sometimes one may need more properties to track on a SPWeb beside Title and Description. One of the possibilities is to create a custom list (maybe a hidden one) with keys and values (Title and Value). It works fine. The good thing with it is also the possibility to change the key-value pair directly in the web interface. Another approach is to use web.Properties which is a Dictionary with key-values pairs.
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$.getJSON, jQuery.tmpl and _vti_bin
Javascript is very fast, responsive and unburdens the cpu at the server. Here I show a little example how to use jQuery.getJSON, jQuery.tmpl (wonderful plugin for rendering repeating data, repo hosted on Github) and REST-based service listdata.svc from /_layouts/_vti_bin/ folder. For this example I created a generic list “Contacts”, added two text fields Name and Phone. Add some phone numbers and try to go to /_vti_bin/ListData.svc/Contacts If you get 404-error, install a ADO.
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Remove links to user profiles on list with javascript
Well, if you need remove links to user profiles, you can iterate all td-elements with class ms-vb-user using jQuery each function and remove a elements. Here is a little script:
$(document).ready(function() { $(".ms-vb-user a").each(function() { var text = $(this).text(); var span = document.createElement("span"); var user = document.createTextNode(text); span.appendChild(user); var parent = $(this).parent()\[0\]; parent.removeChild(this); parent.appendChild(span); }); }); ```EDIT 2012-02-05 A much more better way to do it is [to use replaceWith in jQuery](http://stackoverflow.
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Reset favicon cache
Favicon is one of the hardest. Ctrl-F5 doesn’t help. You can of course see the source, find the location of the favicon, click on it (if you use Firefox or Chrome), otherwise copy the url and paste it in the address bar. When you load it separately, the favicon cache is renewed. It works. But if you want to make it easier for your users, set a version to your favicon file in the masterpage:
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Show files first in view
When you create an own view in schema.xml it is easy to show files first (Scope). It is quite useful if you want to show only few items on start page in xsltlistviewwebpart:
Scope="Recursive" ```Though there is a problem when you provision this list instance. Thanks to [a great post of Koen van der Linden about how to show files recursively](http://kvdlinden.blogspot.com/2010/04/schemaxml-onetxml-and-baseview-doesnt.html) it is no big deal to solve it. Just add the same scope to View element in the module in onet, which provisions your site: <View List="$Resources:core,shareddocuments_Folder;" BaseViewID=“41” WebPartZoneID=“Middle” WebPartOrder=“2” Scope=“Recursive” />
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Hide my site link with css
Want to hide my site link without disabling social features. Well, the simplest way to do it is to use css:
#mp1\_0\_0\_Anchor { display: none; } ```If you want to hide my profile instead, just hide #mp1\_0\_1\_Anchor: #mp1_0_1_Anchor { display: none; }
.ms-MenuUIUL li[text=‘My Site’] { display: none;}
##### Disable the my profile feature An even better solution is maybe to disable the ability to change the profiles. [Just remove the permission to "user personalization.
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Go back in javascript
Add link for “Go Back” in javascript (inspired by Webmasters tips):
<a href="javascript:location.href=document.referrer;">Back</a> ```If you have access to the code behind you can [do the same](http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-FAQ/Referrer-URL.aspx) with: Request.UrlReferrer.ToString() ```If you want to go to site collection root, it is simple, too: <SharePoint:SPLinkButton runat="server" NavigateUrl="<% $SPUrl:~SiteCollection/%>">Start</SharePoint:SPLinkButton>
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Uninstall custom features in a batch
A funny powershell command I came upon today together with my colleague. Remove all your custom features (which start with something, say contoso):
Get-SPFeature | Where { $\_.DisplayName.StartsWith("Contoso.") } | ForEach { Uninstall-SPFeature $\_.Id -confirm:0 -force } Have fun!
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Configure User Profile Service Application
Today I have struggled with User Profile Service Application. I should have followed this awesome tutorial by ShareponitGeorge. And many thanks to my friend David for the great assistance! One important thing to beware about: Forefront Identity Manager Service must be running. Otherwise you don’t see the existing synchronization connections and you can’t add new connections. You can ensure that this service is running by running services.msc (just press Windows button and write services).
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Sense of case
Sometimes one must have much sense of humour. Take a look at this:
<Field ID="{0F0BC0C4-2478-4CB5-85B0-A01B79956061}" Name="TargetUrl" DisplayName="MyUrl" StaticName="TargetUrl" Type="URL" Sealed="TRUE"/> ```How many erros can arise in this custom field? Hmpf, everything is clear. But when I tried this (with Type="Url") many unexpected errors occured. Sometimes it is a tumbleweed with case-sensitive stuff in the case-insensitive Windows environment.
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Auto-resize the main container in master page
If you have a master page with fixed size (perhaps in a centered layout). Here is a simplistic js-script to auto-resize:
$(window).load(function(){ $wider = false; $pagecontainer = $("#pagecontainer"); $elementsToCareAbout = $("#ctl00\_MSO\_ContentDiv > \*, #ctl00\_MSO\_ContentDiv table") $elementsToCareAbout.each(function(){ if($(this).width() > $pagecontainer.width()) { $wider = true; } }); if ($wider) $pagecontainer.width(1200); }); Any improvement ideas and suggestions are more than welcome.
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Check if an html element is hidden using jQuery
Well, sometimes we need to calculate width and so on. In my next post I will write about how to fix auto-resize on fixed sized master pages. But now: a very nice stuff: how to check if an element is hidden or not:
$("#s4-leftpanel").is(":visible") ```It is a pure poetry. It reminds me of the beauty of [symbols in Ruby](http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/ruby_symbols.html).
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Add article content and editing to your Page Layout
If you work with Sharepoint Designer, use your own page layouts and want to have them for a page in a publishing site, you have to put in some controls in order to see th page content in you custom page layout. Put in a appropriate place in you page layout ( taken from ArticleLeft.aspx):
<div> <PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel runat="server" CssClass="edit-mode-panel"> <SharePoint:TextField runat="server" FieldName="Title"/> </PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel> <div class="captioned-image"> <div class="image"> <PublishingWebControls:RichImageField FieldName="PublishingPageImage" runat="server"/> </div> <div class="caption"> <PublishingWebControls:RichHtmlField FieldName="PublishingImageCaption" AllowTextMarkup="false" AllowTables="false" AllowLists="false" AllowHeadings="false" AllowStyles="false" AllowFontColorsMenu="false" AllowParagraphFormatting="false" AllowFonts="false" PreviewValueSize="Small" AllowInsert="false" runat="server"/> </div> </div> <div class="article-header"> <div class="date-line"> <SharePoint:DateTimeField FieldName="ArticleStartDate" runat="server"/> </div> <div class="by-line"> <SharePoint:TextField FieldName="ArticleByLine" runat="server"/> </div> </div> <div class="article-content"> <PublishingWebControls:RichHtmlField FieldName="PublishingPageContent" HasInitialFocus="True" MinimumEditHeight="400px" runat="server"/> </div> <PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel runat="server" CssClass="edit-mode-panel roll-up"> <PublishingWebControls:RichImageField FieldName="PublishingRollupImage" AllowHyperLinks="false" runat="server" /> <asp:Label text="<%$Resources:cms,Article\_rollup\_image\_text%>" runat="server" /> </PublishingWebControls:EditModePanel> </div> Comments from Wordpress.
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Add TreeView to Site
For all of who use Randy Drisgill’s starter masters, it won’t help if you go to Site Actions TreView and just enable it, because the DelegateControl is in a hidden panel. To really restore the original treeview you have to copy this xml from v4.master:
<Sharepoint:UIVersionedContent runat="server" UIVersion="4"> <ContentTemplate> <Sharepoint:SPNavigationManager id="TreeViewNavigationManagerV4" runat="server" ContainedControl="TreeView" CssClass="s4-treeView" > <SharePoint:SPLinkButton runat="server" NavigateUrl="~site/\_layouts/viewlsts.aspx" id="idNavLinkSiteHierarchyV4" Text="<%$Resources:wss,treeview\_header%>" accesskey="<%$Resources:wss,quiklnch\_allcontent\_AK%>" CssClass="s4-qlheader" /> <div class="ms-treeviewouter"> <SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="TreeViewAndDataSource"> <Template\_Controls> <SharePoint:SPHierarchyDataSourceControl runat="server" id="TreeViewDataSourceV4" RootContextObject="Web" IncludeDiscussionFolders="true" /> <SharePoint:SPRememberScroll runat="server" id="TreeViewRememberScrollV4" onscroll="javascript:_spRecordScrollPositions(this);" style="overflow: auto;height: 400px;width: 155px; "> <Sharepoint:SPTreeView id="WebTreeViewV4" runat="server" ShowLines="false" DataSourceId="TreeViewDataSourceV4" ExpandDepth="0" SelectedNodeStyle-CssClass="ms-tvselected" NodeStyle-CssClass="ms-navitem" SkipLinkText="" NodeIndent="12" ExpandImageUrl="/_layouts/images/tvclosed.
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Creating custom my site template
Here are some links to start creating a custom my site template:
intro branding Sharepoint Designer and my site customizations If you want to take the default templates take a look at **{SharepointRoot}\TEMPLATE\SiteTempates\SPMSITE **(the site template for “my content” - an individual site collection rootweb template, and first of all {SharepointRoot}\TEMPLATE\SiteTempates\SPMSITEHOST, the host site template for my sites. They include pages and onet.xml. Both use mysite.master which can be found at:
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master page for html5 and css3
A great work: v5.master. I am recommending to try it. The problem are some javascript bugs in the IE 9 when you run IE mode 9 that are necessary to enable html5 and css3 support. You can’t “save” a list item: The reason why it doesn’t work in IE, but in Chrome, Firefox, is that IE invokes some functionality that it doesn’t invoke in other browsers. Next: Enable Save button in IE9
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Determine the build version of Sharepoint
Sometimes you need to know what version of Sharepoint is installed on your machine. Perhaps when you want to restore a .bak-file (a backup done on another machine and you get error message like:
Restore-SPSite : Your backup is from a different version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version '14.0.0.6109' or later To find out your build version you can do it in UI: go to Central Administration -> System Settings -> Manage servers in this farm -> Configuration database version.
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Sharepoint Warmup Script
It is useful to warm up a site after app pool recycling or after a site creation in development environments. I found a very simple script which I made even simpler:
$url = "http://takana" $wc = new-object net.webclient $wc.credentials = \[System.Net.CredentialCache\]::DefaultCredentials $wc.DownloadString($url) | out-null $wc.Dispose() For more sophisticated warmups Wahid Salemi provided an interisting script to warm up your Sharepoint. By the way. Let us save it as a powershell function.
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A simple Log for ULS
Do an unsafe update in a unified manner « Sharepoint. Kunskap. Upptäckter på resan. - Sep 3, 2011
[…] Log class is my own class which I presented in my previous post. Like this:GillaBli först att gilla denna […]
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A simple Log for ULS
Here is a simple log which has been inspired of Android Log. It logs to ULS which you can open with ULSViewer, SharePoint Log Viewer.
using System; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration; namespace Contoso.Intranet.Portal.Utilities { public class Log { private static readonly string \_CATEGORYNAME = "CONTOSO"; private static readonly SPDiagnosticsCategory \_ERROR\_CATEGORY = new SPDiagnosticsCategory(\_CATEGORYNAME, TraceSeverity.Unexpected, EventSeverity.Error); private static readonly SPDiagnosticsCategory \_WARNING\_CATEGORY = new SPDiagnosticsCategory(\_CATEGORYNAME, TraceSeverity.High, EventSeverity.Warning); private static readonly SPDiagnosticsCategory \_VERBOSE\_CATEGORY = new SPDiagnosticsCategory(\_CATEGORYNAME, TraceSeverity.
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Custom Title on built-in webpart
What to do if you want to change the title in the built-in webpart like Tasks or so. Your own title or just to avoid tasks (1) and tasks (2) if you add two views of them to a page. In onet.xml you add them as view:
<View List="$Resources:core,lists\_Folder;/$Resources:core,tasks\_Folder;" BaseViewID="7" WebPartZoneID="Middle" WebPartOrder="6"/> ```The solution is to add [cdata element and webpart tag within it](http://www.novolocus.com/2011/06/14/set-the-title-of-a-listviewwebpart/). So now replace this with: <. Eller lägg till vanliga script-taggar som beskrivet i boken Sharepoint As Developer Platform: <asp:PlaceHolder ID=“PlaceHolder1” runat=“server” Visible=“false”> </asp:PlaceHolder>
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SocialCommentWebPart
Lägg till en kommentarruta i din sida. Gör det lite till webb2.0. Här finns lite info. På denna sida står det hur man kan lägga till webparten mha xml. You can even provision a social comment webpart like it is done in my site:
<File Url="person.aspx" Type="Ghostable"> <AllUsersWebPart WebPartZoneID="MiddleLeftZone" WebPartOrder="3"> <!\[CDATA\[ <WebPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2"> <Assembly>Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c</Assembly> <TypeName>Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.SocialCommentWebPart</TypeName> <Title>$Resources:spscore,SocialComment\_WebPart\_Title</Title> <Description>$Resources:spscore,SocialComment\_WebPart\_Description</Description> <PartOrder>3</PartOrder> <FrameType>TitleBarOnly</FrameType> <AllowMinimize>true</AllowMinimize> <AllowRemove>true</AllowRemove> <IsVisible>true</IsVisible> </WebPart> \]\]> </AllUsersWebPart> </File>
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Sharepoint + OpenSource = Sant
Om man söker på Sharepoint i codeplex.com får man 729 projekt som är alltså öppna. Det är inte illa. Bland dem finns till exempel Sharepoint Log Viewer. Till det kommer 713 öppna projekt som är taggade ASP.NET som kan användas väldigt mycket i Sharepoint-utveckling. Bland ASP.NET-taggade finns smidiga Telerik Extensions. Powershell är också absolut en tag som man ska söka på i codeplex. codeplex.com är Microsofts officiella OpenSource-portal. Det måste finnas andra sidor där öppna projekt inom Sharepoint och ASP.
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Retrieve information from AD
Here is a a link you can start with. To test AD, install AD. Then we canplay with it. Take a look those examples, too.
PrincipalSearcher vs. DirectorySearcher What is the difference?
OU Here are two examples (one for PrincipalSearcher and the other for DirectorySearcher) to retrieve users from an OU:
//PrincipalSearcher internal static void ListPrincipalsFromOu() { using(var ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "takana.local", "OU=SOME\_OU ,DC=takana, DC=local")) { using (var up = new UserPrincipal(ctx)) { using (var ps = new PrincipalSearcher(up)) { using (var res = ps.
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Show Path Column in SharePoint
PnP.PowerShell is just the tool you need to show the Path column in a SharePoint document library view. Scroll down to see the script, or read on to learn more.
An introduction Do you still have folders in SharePoint? Well, you are not alone. Remember the old dream of relying on metadata only? Forget it! As a matter of fact, folders are still a popular way of organizing files in SharePoint.
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Vertical Laptop Holder
I just 3D-printed a laptop holder, a vertical one. It is so pretty and it makes my desktop tidier, so, I thought, it deserves an own blog post. This information might be too little for a blog post. So, as a bonus, I’ll tell you how the process of finding and customizing a 3D model looks like.
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Thingiverse customizer I found a nice laptop holder on Thingiverse. Then I just clicked on “Open in customizer” like this:
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3D-printa en Super Mario-blomkruka
Jag håller på och lär mig lite om 3D-Print på fritiden. Jag berättar om mina första intryck och hur jag skriver ut en blomkruka som ser ut som ett Super Mario-block - allt detta i en bloggpost.
Montering av 3D-skrivaren Jag behövde montera min 3D-skrivare (Creality Ender 3 v2) och det gick smidigt även om det tog flera timmar. Jag följde denna fantastiska Youtube video: JustVlad: Creality Ender 3 V2 - 3D Printer - Unbox & Setup .
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Vertical Laptop Holder
I just 3D-printed a laptop holder, a vertical one. It is so pretty and it makes my desktop tidier, so, I thought, it deserves an own blog post. This information might be too little for a blog post. So, as a bonus, I’ll tell you how the process of finding and customizing a 3D model looks like.
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Thingiverse customizer I found a nice laptop holder on Thingiverse. Then I just clicked on “Open in customizer” like this:
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3D-printa en Super Mario-blomkruka
Jag håller på och lär mig lite om 3D-Print på fritiden. Jag berättar om mina första intryck och hur jag skriver ut en blomkruka som ser ut som ett Super Mario-block - allt detta i en bloggpost.
Montering av 3D-skrivaren Jag behövde montera min 3D-skrivare (Creality Ender 3 v2) och det gick smidigt även om det tog flera timmar. Jag följde denna fantastiska Youtube video: JustVlad: Creality Ender 3 V2 - 3D Printer - Unbox & Setup .
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Microbit Mouse Jiggler
Do you want to be always green in Teams? This fun diy project will help you - a mouse jiggler that keeps your screen and Zoom and Teams awake.
The idea came when I had a fun conversation with a friend of mine about presence status tracking and how ineffecient it is. As a matter of fact I found a whole lot of products and diy projects just for faking your presence status.
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Vår robot Stefan
Roboten Stefan
Här är historian om Stefan, en robot jag och barnen har jobbat på under den senaste månaden. I en sann DIY-anda vill jag skriva om vårt projekt på bloggen och förhoppningsvis inspirera andra att utforska det. I och med projektet innebär en hel del pyssel, så är det lämpat i princip för alla åldrar.
Även om allting togs fram parallellt och stegvis (“i iterationer”), kommer projektet presenteras det i förenklad ordning
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Microbit Mouse Jiggler
Do you want to be always green in Teams? This fun diy project will help you - a mouse jiggler that keeps your screen and Zoom and Teams awake.
The idea came when I had a fun conversation with a friend of mine about presence status tracking and how ineffecient it is. As a matter of fact I found a whole lot of products and diy projects just for faking your presence status.
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Microbit Mouse Jiggler
Do you want to be always green in Teams? This fun diy project will help you - a mouse jiggler that keeps your screen and Zoom and Teams awake.
The idea came when I had a fun conversation with a friend of mine about presence status tracking and how ineffecient it is. As a matter of fact I found a whole lot of products and diy projects just for faking your presence status.
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Microbit Mouse Jiggler
Do you want to be always green in Teams? This fun diy project will help you - a mouse jiggler that keeps your screen and Zoom and Teams awake.
The idea came when I had a fun conversation with a friend of mine about presence status tracking and how ineffecient it is. As a matter of fact I found a whole lot of products and diy projects just for faking your presence status.
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Vår robot Stefan
Roboten Stefan
Här är historian om Stefan, en robot jag och barnen har jobbat på under den senaste månaden. I en sann DIY-anda vill jag skriva om vårt projekt på bloggen och förhoppningsvis inspirera andra att utforska det. I och med projektet innebär en hel del pyssel, så är det lämpat i princip för alla åldrar.
Även om allting togs fram parallellt och stegvis (“i iterationer”), kommer projektet presenteras det i förenklad ordning
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Microbit Mouse Jiggler
Do you want to be always green in Teams? This fun diy project will help you - a mouse jiggler that keeps your screen and Zoom and Teams awake.
The idea came when I had a fun conversation with a friend of mine about presence status tracking and how ineffecient it is. As a matter of fact I found a whole lot of products and diy projects just for faking your presence status.
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Lookup Person Field in Power Automate
Hello Citizen Developers!
I get more and more questions about Power Automate. One of the recent questions is about how to look up a person field from SharePoint using Power Automate. I’ll give you a bit of the background in a second. Power Automate is really awesome for citizen developers. There are a lot of triggers and actions that are easy to understand and use, such as send email, create a list item in Sharepoint etc.
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Automatically Send Email When News Is Published
News in SharePoint are great, it is easy to edit and post news, add pictures and web parts. But you might have thought how you would spread the word better. If your workmates would check the start page on your site or on the SharePoint Home every day, it would be awesome, it might be the case in future. In the meantime though, you probably have considered sending out email notifications to your workmates whenever there is fresh news.
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Lookup Person Field in Power Automate
Hello Citizen Developers!
I get more and more questions about Power Automate. One of the recent questions is about how to look up a person field from SharePoint using Power Automate. I’ll give you a bit of the background in a second. Power Automate is really awesome for citizen developers. There are a lot of triggers and actions that are easy to understand and use, such as send email, create a list item in Sharepoint etc.
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Automatically Send Email When News Is Published
News in SharePoint are great, it is easy to edit and post news, add pictures and web parts. But you might have thought how you would spread the word better. If your workmates would check the start page on your site or on the SharePoint Home every day, it would be awesome, it might be the case in future. In the meantime though, you probably have considered sending out email notifications to your workmates whenever there is fresh news.
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Power Automate for a one-time operations
Honestly, Power Automate is great for automating repetetive stuff. But I think there is room for one-time flows as well. I’ll give you an example.
I’ve got an excel file with quite a few rows. And I need to convert it to a SharePoint List. I know there is a couple of options, such as Quick Edit in Classic View, Import an Excel file as a list (it also requires the classic view), there will be Excel import in Modern as well.
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Lookup Person Field in Power Automate
Hello Citizen Developers!
I get more and more questions about Power Automate. One of the recent questions is about how to look up a person field from SharePoint using Power Automate. I’ll give you a bit of the background in a second. Power Automate is really awesome for citizen developers. There are a lot of triggers and actions that are easy to understand and use, such as send email, create a list item in Sharepoint etc.
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Lookup Person Field in Power Automate
Hello Citizen Developers!
I get more and more questions about Power Automate. One of the recent questions is about how to look up a person field from SharePoint using Power Automate. I’ll give you a bit of the background in a second. Power Automate is really awesome for citizen developers. There are a lot of triggers and actions that are easy to understand and use, such as send email, create a list item in Sharepoint etc.
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Automatically Send Email When News Is Published
News in SharePoint are great, it is easy to edit and post news, add pictures and web parts. But you might have thought how you would spread the word better. If your workmates would check the start page on your site or on the SharePoint Home every day, it would be awesome, it might be the case in future. In the meantime though, you probably have considered sending out email notifications to your workmates whenever there is fresh news.
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Automatically detect new sites in SharePoint Online
Original image by William Warby. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/16414155179/in/photostream/
Sites in SharePoint are created all the time, not only for SharePoint, but also as storage for Yammer, Teams, Planner and other services in Microsoft 365. There are ways to keep track of them, but the ability to automatically detect a new site creation is quite appealing. Automatic detection means a trigger of a Power Automate (Flow) or a Logic App.
There are a few blog posts that exactly describe how you can detect when a new site is created in SharePoint Online:
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Automatically Send Email When News Is Published
News in SharePoint are great, it is easy to edit and post news, add pictures and web parts. But you might have thought how you would spread the word better. If your workmates would check the start page on your site or on the SharePoint Home every day, it would be awesome, it might be the case in future. In the meantime though, you probably have considered sending out email notifications to your workmates whenever there is fresh news.
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Demote News in SharePoint Online
In case you published a news in SharePoint Online and you now want to “downgrade” it to a regular page, I have a solution for you.
The reasons why you would like to demote a News might vary:
You publish an important message, perhaps a note about an operational disturbance. It might not relevant anymore, but you still want to keep the page in case someone wants to access the information.
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Automate Creation of Git Repos Using Azure DevOps API
Today I got a question: how can we precreate 50 git repositories in an Azure DevOps Project? I started to learn about the API in Azure DevOps and I found it very interesting. With the API you can script and automate administration of projects, repositores, pull requests etc. To keep this blog post simple and digestable I would like to focus on the intitial request - creating git repositories by code.
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DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
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Hiding Teamify Prompt
If you want to remove the Microsoft Teams Banner on your SharePoint Site, the only thing you need is to set a web property on a site: TeamifyHidden=TRUE. I’ll give you some guidance below. But before you do that, consider following:
If there is already a team created for a group connected site, the prompt won’t show up. Why fix something that is not a problem? Only group owners will get the prompt, if they are few and they know what it is, it is better to let them to decide whether to create or not to create a team.
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Using CAML with SharePoint REST API
Do you prefer REST over CSOM as I do? I’ll skip the whys. Andrew Connell put it already in wrtiting so nicely. Well, if you do prefer REST, then you must have discovered some shortcomings of REST, or its incompleteness compared to CSOM. I think of:
Inability to filter items based on multivalued taxonomy fields Inability to filter items based on user fields where user is added through a group, rather than directly, e.
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REST API: Add a plain text file as an attachment to a list item
SharePoint 2013 REST API has been enhanced and extended. The old _vti_bin/listdata.svc is still there, but the new api for working with lists and list items is much more and obviously a part of a bigger api: _api/web/lists Yesterday I saw an interesting question on SharePoint StackExchange:
“500: Internal Server Error” when trying to add a simple text file as an attachment via SharePoint 2013 REST API The instructions in the MSDN resource are not so detailed, the cannot be.
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javascript API i Sharepoint
Det är supersmidigt. Här är ett exempel: function createAnnouncement(title, body) { var ctx = new SP.ClientContext.get\_current(); var list = ctx.get\_web().get\_lists().getByTitle('Meddelanden'); var itemCreationInfo = new SP.ListItemCreationInformation(); this.newListItem = list.addItem(itemCreationInfo); this.newListItem.set\_item("Title", title); this.newListItem.set\_item("Body", body); this.newListItem.update(); ctx.executeQueryAsync( Function.createDelegate(this, this.onSucceededCallback), Function.createDelegate(this, this.onFailedCallback)); } function onSucceededCallback(sender, args) { SP.UI.Status.addStatus("Info", "It worked!",true); } function onFailedCallback(sender, args) { SP.UI.Status.addStatus("Info", "It didn't work!",true); } Comments from Wordpress.com westerdaled - Feb 0, 2013
Thanks, I gather I can pass OnSucceedCallback as a delegate.
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Automate Creation of Git Repos Using Azure DevOps API
Today I got a question: how can we precreate 50 git repositories in an Azure DevOps Project? I started to learn about the API in Azure DevOps and I found it very interesting. With the API you can script and automate administration of projects, repositores, pull requests etc. To keep this blog post simple and digestable I would like to focus on the intitial request - creating git repositories by code.
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Git Merge develop to main in an Azure DevOps Release
This post is a techy one. It’s about running git commands in Azure DevOps Releases in order to finalize a deployment job to production.
Let me first describe our scenario: We use Azure DevOps for code and for deployment. Our branch strategy a simplified Gitflow model, where all the current work is merged to the “develop” branch. The code from the “develop” branch is then built and released to staging environments and production.
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Automate Creation of Git Repos Using Azure DevOps API
Today I got a question: how can we precreate 50 git repositories in an Azure DevOps Project? I started to learn about the API in Azure DevOps and I found it very interesting. With the API you can script and automate administration of projects, repositores, pull requests etc. To keep this blog post simple and digestable I would like to focus on the intitial request - creating git repositories by code.
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A cost effective way of running legacy scripts in the cloud
Have you also got some old huge scripts that run on a server locally? Have you also considered moving them to the cloud? Here comes an idea of how to do it quickly and easy.
In my case I have some older powershell scripts that are harder to convert to serverless applications:
They use MSOnline module in PowerShell, hence they require rewriting to AzureAD before using them in an Azure Function They take around 15 minutes to complete, Azure Functions Consumption Plan is limited to 10 minutes.
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Automate Creation of Git Repos Using Azure DevOps API
Today I got a question: how can we precreate 50 git repositories in an Azure DevOps Project? I started to learn about the API in Azure DevOps and I found it very interesting. With the API you can script and automate administration of projects, repositores, pull requests etc. To keep this blog post simple and digestable I would like to focus on the intitial request - creating git repositories by code.
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Git Merge develop to main in an Azure DevOps Release
This post is a techy one. It’s about running git commands in Azure DevOps Releases in order to finalize a deployment job to production.
Let me first describe our scenario: We use Azure DevOps for code and for deployment. Our branch strategy a simplified Gitflow model, where all the current work is merged to the “develop” branch. The code from the “develop” branch is then built and released to staging environments and production.
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Automate Creation of Git Repos Using Azure DevOps API
Today I got a question: how can we precreate 50 git repositories in an Azure DevOps Project? I started to learn about the API in Azure DevOps and I found it very interesting. With the API you can script and automate administration of projects, repositores, pull requests etc. To keep this blog post simple and digestable I would like to focus on the intitial request - creating git repositories by code.
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Git Merge develop to main in an Azure DevOps Release
This post is a techy one. It’s about running git commands in Azure DevOps Releases in order to finalize a deployment job to production.
Let me first describe our scenario: We use Azure DevOps for code and for deployment. Our branch strategy a simplified Gitflow model, where all the current work is merged to the “develop” branch. The code from the “develop” branch is then built and released to staging environments and production.
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Re-discovering Github
Github has changed a lot. While working mostly in Azure DevOps I haven’t followed all the development on Github. Now when I look at that, I am really amazed.
Private Repos for Free accounts Well, for me it is not as interesting, because with my free account, I don’t see any harm having my labs public. But I know, some people used bitbucket for their smaller private repos.
Github Project I suppose it is the Azure DevOps Project concept that was copied to Github, a place for planning and having multiple connected repos.
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Load git into PowerShell
Just a little productivity tip. If you use git on Windows, you probably already have the Github for Windows application. This application adds the Git Shell:
The Git Shell will open a PowerShell window and execute shell.ps1 from the Github directory:
What it won’t do is to load your personal PowerShell profile. I want to use my PowerShell profile that creates some links and adjust the look-and-feel and the promt of the shell.
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.tfignore - ".gitignore" for TFS
I haven’t used TFS so much. But I like it so far. It works smoothly, both TFS 2012 (on premises) and TFS Preview (online). I really appreciate that Microsoft has been inspired from git - the world’s best VCS :). For example .tfignore which works exactly like the .gitignore file. It is nice that the non-classic Microsoft dot notation convention for naming the hidden files is chosen. So if you have any files to ignore just do it like you did in your git projects.
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.gitignore for .net
At appharbor there is a simple .gitignore file for .net applications. If you use Resharper, you may find the extended version of .gitignore useful. A most comprehensive .gitignore can be found on gitextensions website. (Thanks to Vasiliy Aksyonov for the comment):
#ignore thumbnails created by windows Thumbs.db #Ignore files build by Visual Studio \*.obj \*.exe \*.pdb \*.user \*.aps \*.pch \*.vspscc \*\_i.c \*\_p.c \*.ncb \*.suo \*.tlb \*.tlh \*.bak \*.cache \*.ilk \*.log \[Bb\]in \[Dd\]ebug\*/ \*.
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Team Explorer
Until now I have only worked with svn and git. So I am very curious about the Team Foundation Server and Team Explorer which all talk much about. The best thing is the integration with the issue tracking. I can see all work item, or just my work items. Another fine feature, at leat if you use codeplex, is the Team Explorer Everywhere.
The Team Explorer Everywhere client works on Windows, Linux, Mac, or Solaris.
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.gitignore for android
.gitignore is very important. This file tells git which files not to care about. I found a good template for android .gitignore: .metadata tmp/** .DS_Store *.tmp *.bak tmp/**/* *.swp *~.nib Thumbs.db Desktop.ini *~ *.apk bin gen local.properties *.jar **.classpath** The only thing I have added is the last row: .classpath.
Comments from Wordpress.com J. Pablo Fernández - Apr 2, 2011
Thanks for pointing to the missing .classpath, it’s now fixed on gitignore.
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Good beginners' tutorial on android, eclipse and git
Smashing magazine has a pretty good tutorial how to start programming for android using git, github, eclipse and datastorage. I recommend: Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse, Reloaded
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Set up the Lusites development environment
There is a very good wiki page which describes how to set up the environment. If you think something is missing there, just leave a comment here. Much of that was inspired by a useful tutorial from doityourselfandroid.com
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Update from git
So if you have an existing copy of the project, just type: git pull origin master Or in Egit in Eclipse, right-click on repo and run “Fetch from upstream”.
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New files in Eclipse
If there are new classes or files in the project (say you have got the latest version from github into existing workspace in Eclipse). In order for Eclipse to see them, right click on the package and press “Refresh”.
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migrera svn till git
Ja, hur gör man om man vill migrera till git? Låt oss säga, man vill använda github. Jag ska berätta hur man kan göra det. Jag gör det i Linux, förmodar samma gäller Mac. Det finns en bra manual om hur man migrerar svn till git. Vi ska gå igenom steg för steg. Skapa en fil som heter users.txt på ditt Skrivbord:
jmaddox = Jon Maddox <jon@gmail.com> bigpappa = Brian Biggs <bigpappa@gmail.
Tag: app
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11 Things I learned about chat bots in Teams
Recently we developed and published a chat bot in Power Virtual Agents for Teams (PVAforTeams). I would like to share my takes and lessons learned with you.
#1 Easy to edit, fun to work with Bots in PVAforTeams are no-code solutions and provide a comprehensive graphical interface. Developers, analysts, business representatives can work together on defining topics, user flows. It has been really fun to shape the bot in a group - with a lot of laughter and interesting discussions about users’ work habits and how users search and find information.
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Tips and tricks for Site Collection App Catalogs
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.
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My first Office Add-In
Yesterday I participated in the Hackathon at European SharePoin Conference in Stockholm. The main goal was to learn more about Office Add-Ins. I wanted to create a very very simple app to learn the basics. Here in this post I’ll provide some links and describe the steps needed to start developing your Office Add-Ins. The Add-in I created is an Outlook Add-In, it is called “Joke Inserter” and with it you can insert a random Chuck Norris joke.
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What is a SharePoint application
[caption id=“attachment_3759” align=“alignnone” width=“660”] A meaningful collection of Lego bricks is a toy. A meaningful collection of Lists, Fields, Files and other SharePoint artefacts becomes a SharePoint Application. Private picture.[/caption] App, Add-In, List, Web, Site, Sandbox solution, Workflow. There are too many words flying around in SharePoint that confuse users and Non-SharePoint-Developers. I want to introduce a “new” concept that is so simple and that a company can understand and govern: a SharePoint Application.
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Http to Https Redirect in Provider Hosted Apps
It is strongly recommended to use https in SharePoint Provider Hosted Apps. In many provider hosted apps I have seen, only https works. I would recommend to configure a simple http to https redirect in IIS and make solutions better. Many Provider Hosted Apps can be done in that way that they are available without SharePoint Context, e.g. for browsing information. In that case that is important to have an easy url and an automatic http -> https redirect.
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Kom igång med SPMeta2
SPMeta2 (eller bara M2) är ett relativt nytt ramverk för provisionering av SharePoint-artefakter. Bakom ramverket ligger ett gediget arbete. I den här posten vill jag skriva upp mina steg för att sätta upp ett litet projekt. För mig är SPMeta2 nytt och huvudprincipen i den här bloggposten att få en fungerande lösning så snabbt som möjligt. Informationen här kan snabbt bli inaktuell, eftersom SPMeta2 förändras och förbättras väldigt snabbt. Vad är SPMeta2 SPMeta är ett ramverk för att provisionera SharePoint-artefakter, allt från fält, innehållstyper, listor, dokumentbibliotek, user custom actions, ladda upp filer med mera.
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Onpremifying SharePoint apps
We want to make an app available in SharePoint OnPrem, we want to onpremify it. Rethink SharePoint apps and provisioning SharePoint artifacts. It has been a while since I updated my blog – Chuvash.eu. I had my vacation, I visited the sunny and green Chuvashia. Now I am back and I am looking forward to an awesome SharePoint Autumn. One of the first things I had to deal with in this SharePoint Autumn was Onpremifying of a SharePoint Online App.
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Announcing web based SQL Max Memory calculator
Today I want to announce a tiny web application for calculating max memory in the SQL Server to improve the overall performance in you SharePoint environment: SQL Max Memory Calculator. One of the important actions to improve the performance in SharePoint is fine tuning of the SQL Databases. Regarding the databases one of the crucial settings is the Max Memory Setting. You can read more about database optimizations for SharePoint in a whitepaper written by SharePoint MVP Vlad Catrinescu.
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AppLoader Concept for SharePoint apps
In this post I want to share an unusual, nevertheless interesting conceptual idea of loading content from SharePoint 2013 apps on many pages. The original awesome concept was proposed and developed by my colleague Martin Villysson at Bool.
The problem we are trying to solve SharePoint apps are great to extend functionality in SharePoint and integrate other systems (full page apps available through Site Contents), they also provide tools to enrich the default SharePoint experience by App Parts (Client Web Parts) and Custom Actions (additional menus).
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Configuring VirtualBox for SharePoint-Hosted Apps
Recently I have switched from VMWare to VirtualBox for my SharePoint Development. So far it really works good. I have prepared this guide for configuring VirtualBox for SharePoint-hosted apps. That means we need a new adapter with a static ip address. All the steps done inside the virtual machine are applicable for VMWare and Hyper-V, too. This guide does not cover the full configuration of the app environment, it covers only the network and dns settings needed for SharePoint-hosted apps on Premises in a Development machine.
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What about the SharePoint app domain?
This is an open question about the domains for SharePoint apps. On Technet: Configure an environment for apps for SharePoint (SharePoint 2013) we can read the following:
You must configure a new name in Domain Name Services (DNS) to host the apps. To help improve security, the domain name should not be a subdomain of the domain that hosts the SharePoint sites. For example, if the SharePoint sites are at Contoso.
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My five takeaways from the SharePoint Conference 2014
The SharePoint Conference 2014 was an astounding event. Over 10 000 like-minded SharePointers that met, learned a lot and shared new ideas, couldn’t be better. It was also the first time I was to the U.S. and Las Vegas. What a country, what a city! This place must burn people’s lives faster than anywhere else in the world :) I want to share my five takeaways from this conference. I’ll keep it short:
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PowerShell: Get version and ProductId from an .app package
In my project I deploy some apps directly through the ObjectModel directly with PowerShell. The apps are built with TFS I have a script that installs or updates apps if there is a new version of the app. Previously I used Import-SPAppPackage to compare the version and productid with an existing app instance, but often I get this error:
The provided App differs from another App with the same version and product ID.
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Apps can only call the OOB CSOM and REST endpoints
As a SharePoint architect or a SharePoint developer, you must have been thinking about the benefits/limitations of SharePoint apps a lot. I want to point out one of them today, which is very important: using custom webservices deployed to SharePoint inside apps. That is impossible and it is designed to be so due to the security architecture in the sharepoint app framework. I have read much about SharePoint apps (books, whitepapers, blog posts) and stumbled over these two contradictive statements:
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Convert any web app to a SharePoint app
Have you noticed that you can right-click a web application project in Visual Studio and convert it to a provider hosted app? Well why not? Basically your own website and a SharePoint manifest is all what you need for a provider hosted app. This discovery today made me think about all legacy web apps out there that can be converted to SharePoint apps. Traditionally we had to add plain links to external applications or embed them into an IFrame by hardcoding it in an .
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SharePoint Apps: "Provider Hosted First" Approach
Recently I had an exciting mail conversation with Thomas Deutsch. He came up with an idea how to fasten the development of apps. This smart approach is called “Provider Hosted First”. See Thomas’ original blog post. Here are some highlights: What you actually do is a local website which runs in grunt server:
localhost:9000 ```Then a SharePoint-hosted app is created with an SPAppIframe that refers to that local app site.
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jQuery mobile and SharePoint
In this post I want to explore how to build a mobile app using jQuery mobile. Recently I discovered two great blog posts about this:
Building SharePoint web apps using Sencha Touch by Luc Stakenborg jQuery mobile and SharePoint by Chris Quick In my post I’ll use their findings and share some of mine thougts. I’ll focus mostly on how to get started with jQuery mobile and SharePoint. So go ahead and create your jQuery mobile app, just drag’n’drop some controls: Download it and yout get an “app.
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Bobusos. Rövarspråk translator
I have published my old app “Rövarspråksöversättare”, an assignment on the android course. Rövarspråket is the Swedish language game. Of course Bobusos (“bus” - en:prank in Rövarspråket) is open source and can be found on Github.
Tag: chatbot
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11 Things I learned about chat bots in Teams
Recently we developed and published a chat bot in Power Virtual Agents for Teams (PVAforTeams). I would like to share my takes and lessons learned with you.
#1 Easy to edit, fun to work with Bots in PVAforTeams are no-code solutions and provide a comprehensive graphical interface. Developers, analysts, business representatives can work together on defining topics, user flows. It has been really fun to shape the bot in a group - with a lot of laughter and interesting discussions about users’ work habits and how users search and find information.
Tag: low-code
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11 Things I learned about chat bots in Teams
Recently we developed and published a chat bot in Power Virtual Agents for Teams (PVAforTeams). I would like to share my takes and lessons learned with you.
#1 Easy to edit, fun to work with Bots in PVAforTeams are no-code solutions and provide a comprehensive graphical interface. Developers, analysts, business representatives can work together on defining topics, user flows. It has been really fun to shape the bot in a group - with a lot of laughter and interesting discussions about users’ work habits and how users search and find information.
Tag: no-code
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11 Things I learned about chat bots in Teams
Recently we developed and published a chat bot in Power Virtual Agents for Teams (PVAforTeams). I would like to share my takes and lessons learned with you.
#1 Easy to edit, fun to work with Bots in PVAforTeams are no-code solutions and provide a comprehensive graphical interface. Developers, analysts, business representatives can work together on defining topics, user flows. It has been really fun to shape the bot in a group - with a lot of laughter and interesting discussions about users’ work habits and how users search and find information.
Tag: pvaforteams
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11 Things I learned about chat bots in Teams
Recently we developed and published a chat bot in Power Virtual Agents for Teams (PVAforTeams). I would like to share my takes and lessons learned with you.
#1 Easy to edit, fun to work with Bots in PVAforTeams are no-code solutions and provide a comprehensive graphical interface. Developers, analysts, business representatives can work together on defining topics, user flows. It has been really fun to shape the bot in a group - with a lot of laughter and interesting discussions about users’ work habits and how users search and find information.
Tag: Swedish
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11 Things I learned about chat bots in Teams
Recently we developed and published a chat bot in Power Virtual Agents for Teams (PVAforTeams). I would like to share my takes and lessons learned with you.
#1 Easy to edit, fun to work with Bots in PVAforTeams are no-code solutions and provide a comprehensive graphical interface. Developers, analysts, business representatives can work together on defining topics, user flows. It has been really fun to shape the bot in a group - with a lot of laughter and interesting discussions about users’ work habits and how users search and find information.
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Why Swedish matters
I Sverige är engelskan är väldigt stark. Speciellt i IT-branschen är vi vana att ha i princip allt på engelska, från kommentarer i koden till stora upphandlingar, rapporter och dokumentation. Trots det ser jag ett stort behov av att kunna prata om IT på svenska. Det gäller både lokala företag och globala företag. Det finns flera anledningar:
Företag i Sverige följer svenska lagar som är skrivna på svenska, för att leva upp till kraven ska man kunna formulera sig på svenska.
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Version 0.2.0: Swedish localization
Well, it is time to localize. The first language has been added: Swedish, of course. To localize is pretty simple in Android. All you have to do is to create a new folder /res/values-xx where xx is the language code. sv is Swedish. In this folder create an xml file called strings.xml and copy all the content from /res/values/strings.xml. Replace all the strings from your default language into the language you want to localize to.
Tag: teams
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11 Things I learned about chat bots in Teams
Recently we developed and published a chat bot in Power Virtual Agents for Teams (PVAforTeams). I would like to share my takes and lessons learned with you.
#1 Easy to edit, fun to work with Bots in PVAforTeams are no-code solutions and provide a comprehensive graphical interface. Developers, analysts, business representatives can work together on defining topics, user flows. It has been really fun to shape the bot in a group - with a lot of laughter and interesting discussions about users’ work habits and how users search and find information.
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Own praise badges in Teams
While reading the Teams News recap from December 2020, I found one thing that caught my attention particularly: Custom Praise Badges in Teams. Let’s try this. But first, those badges are the default ones:
They are good starting point. But to take it a step further, to really engage people and praise, you need some specific badges that mean something for your company.
To add a new badge all you have to do is to go to Teams Admin (obviously it requires you having the Teams Administrator Role):
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Teams incoming webhooks for performance monitoring
Incoming webhooks in Teams are great, indeed. Last week I saw this tweet, which inspired me to share one of our webhooks.
There are many scenarios where it can be used, I would also like to share one of our scenarios: notifying our DevOps team about performance issues in SharePoint Online, detected through Exoprise.
This adaptive card (in Swedish) shows an alarm from Exoprise about login problems.
It’s simple and scalable:
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DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
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Setting up a HelloWorld Azure Alert
Azure Alerts are awesome for monitoring of solutions in Azure. If you are about to set up your first Alert Rules in Azure, then it’s a guide for you. Configuring alert rules can be quite intimidating at first, with all the options, metrics, evaluation times, etc.
Here is a very very simple setup that can serve as a teaser and help you get started with the Azure Alerts.
I’ll use Teams as an easy way to set up notifications.
Tag: linux
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My WSL Setup
This is my installation of Windows WSL and SharePoint Development Environment. The procedure and technology is ever-changing, the details might change, but the process is worth documenting, at least for myself, this is a working guide as of writing (2021-12-20).
Installing Windows Terminal Installing Windows Terminal is not a prerequisite, but it will make your life much easier. Open Windows Store and search for Windows Terminal and click on Install.
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Setting up Raspberry Pi2 for a Dashboard Monitor
I have set up Raspberry Pi as a Dashboard Monitor a couple of times. Here I want to summarize my steps. In fact, it is nothing special, a raspberry pi that is used as a browser showing a web based dashboard in full screen, but there are some important configuration steps needed to make it as good as possible.
Install Raspbian Raspbian is the best operating system for Raspberry Pi. Just stick with that.
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Trying out Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu
I am very curious about the new .NET Core, ASP.NET 5, EF 7 and Visual Studio Code for Linux, Mac and Windows. I have tried it out on an Ubuntu 15.04 machine. The installation and configuration required a few steps, so it is not an usual “Next-next-next”-installation. But, hey, it is just a beta, a preview so far, and first of all: It worked. I am sharing a couple of screenshots and the commands I ran in the terminal, mixed with comments and links: [source language=“bash”] #install latest node and npm #https://www.
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A new Chuvash keyboard layout
The Chuvash keyboard layout has been the Russian keyboard layout with 4 Chuvash letters that are typed by pressing the right Alt button plus the base letter. Some of the arguments have been
Users don’t need to switch or learn a new keyboard layout. They can keep on typing Russian texts and sometimes Chuvash texts It is easy to communicate about how the right Alt button works. The Right-Alt-technique is also used in Esperanto, Polish and other languages.
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Creating a Russian Extended Keyboard Layout
In my spare time I am currently working on a Chuvash-Tatar phrasebook. I have used the Chuvash and Tatar keyboard layout on Linux. They work fine, but switching between them takes time. So I decided to add Tatar letters (right Alt + combinations) to my Chuvash keyboard layout. While adding it I found a combined Russian-Ukranian United keyboard layout and I thought:
What if I create a new keyboard layout for Russian that will have almost all additional Cyrillic letters?
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It is time to standardize the Chuvash Keyboard Layout
[caption id=“attachment_3165” align=“alignnone” width=“630”] Proto-Bulgarian Runes (Chuvash language is the closest language to the Proto-Bulgar language). Wonder if they are supported in Unicode :)[/caption] The Chuvash Computer Keyboard layouts have existed since 2001, but due to the lack for Unicode support we were forced to use the look-alike letters from other latin-based keyboard layouts. On Linux The Chuvash keyboard layout was added in [2007](https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11246 “The original “bug” in FreeDesktop bugzilla”) and Linux is still the only operating system that has a native keyboard layout for Chuvash language.
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On Windows keyboard layouts for minority languages in Russia
I can’t write in Chuvash in Windows 8 (and all the previous Windows releases). Chuvash is a minority language in Russian Federation. In this blog post I want to summarize the status of the keyboard layout support of the minority languages of Russia and find a way to improve this situation.
Languages and Microsoft There are thousands of languages. Of course it is hard to support them all. As per 2012-02-21 Windows 8 supports 109 (!
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Hello world in node.js
I know, node.js has been present for a while. But I actually had no time to try it. I was surprised that now it is very straight forward to start with node.js. Allright, everything begins with Hello world. Eventhough it is available for allmost all combinations of operating systems and servers, the easiest way to test it was actually Ubuntu. To install just run:
sudo apt-get install nodejs ```Then make a new directory and create the hello.
Tag: NodeJs
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My WSL Setup
This is my installation of Windows WSL and SharePoint Development Environment. The procedure and technology is ever-changing, the details might change, but the process is worth documenting, at least for myself, this is a working guide as of writing (2021-12-20).
Installing Windows Terminal Installing Windows Terminal is not a prerequisite, but it will make your life much easier. Open Windows Store and search for Windows Terminal and click on Install.
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Convert any web app to a SharePoint app
Have you noticed that you can right-click a web application project in Visual Studio and convert it to a provider hosted app? Well why not? Basically your own website and a SharePoint manifest is all what you need for a provider hosted app. This discovery today made me think about all legacy web apps out there that can be converted to SharePoint apps. Traditionally we had to add plain links to external applications or embed them into an IFrame by hardcoding it in an .
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SharePoint Apps: "Provider Hosted First" Approach
Recently I had an exciting mail conversation with Thomas Deutsch. He came up with an idea how to fasten the development of apps. This smart approach is called “Provider Hosted First”. See Thomas’ original blog post. Here are some highlights: What you actually do is a local website which runs in grunt server:
localhost:9000 ```Then a SharePoint-hosted app is created with an SPAppIframe that refers to that local app site.
Tag: nvm
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My WSL Setup
This is my installation of Windows WSL and SharePoint Development Environment. The procedure and technology is ever-changing, the details might change, but the process is worth documenting, at least for myself, this is a working guide as of writing (2021-12-20).
Installing Windows Terminal Installing Windows Terminal is not a prerequisite, but it will make your life much easier. Open Windows Store and search for Windows Terminal and click on Install.
Tag: spfx
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My WSL Setup
This is my installation of Windows WSL and SharePoint Development Environment. The procedure and technology is ever-changing, the details might change, but the process is worth documenting, at least for myself, this is a working guide as of writing (2021-12-20).
Installing Windows Terminal Installing Windows Terminal is not a prerequisite, but it will make your life much easier. Open Windows Store and search for Windows Terminal and click on Install.
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Deploying SPFx using Office 365 cli, custom AAD App and Azure Pipelines
In this post I would like to share some findings from setting a deployment of SPFx. In my work:
I need to deploy SPFx solutions using Azure Pipelines I need to use the least privileges/permissions I cannot use Legacy Authentication First of all, big thanks to @waldekm and the whole community of @office365cli and @m365pnp for the quick help, and that outside working hours.
Let’s take a look at the setup piece by piece
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Site Collection App Catalog vs. Tenant App Catalog
Site Collection App Catalogs are great for special cases (like developing apps or site unique apps), but using them on scale would be a mess.
I got a question: Why should we use the Tenant App Catalog at all when we could enable a Site Collection App Catalog on every teamsite? So the suggestion here is to install SharePoint Framework Packages on many Site Collection App Catalogs, instead of the Tenant App Catalog.
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Permissions in SPFx apply to your whole tenant
Once you approve a permission request from an SPFx app, it will grant the same permission to all other apps in the same tenant.
Nothing new, but I want to emphasize that in that blog post only dedicated to that. You can read it here:
MS Docs. Connect to Azure AD-secured APIs in SharePoint Framework solutions A simple sketch over the permissions.
Here is a simple FAQ to explain what it means:
Tag: wsl
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My WSL Setup
This is my installation of Windows WSL and SharePoint Development Environment. The procedure and technology is ever-changing, the details might change, but the process is worth documenting, at least for myself, this is a working guide as of writing (2021-12-20).
Installing Windows Terminal Installing Windows Terminal is not a prerequisite, but it will make your life much easier. Open Windows Store and search for Windows Terminal and click on Install.
Tag: comments
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Export AppendOnly Comments
Remember the old comments in SharePoint Lists? I am sure there are tons of lists that use the Append-Only Comments. They are implemented using versioning. The problem is that it is hard to export the comments, unless you know the tricks. The trick I want to share comes from a colleague of mine. The reason why we need export all the comments is that we need to document and save/archive the decision making process that took place in the comments field.
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Add Comments column to your sharepoint list
If you have used Issue tracking list template in SharePoint you must have marked that the comments are added and marked with author name and datetime. It is handy to have these micro “discussion boards” on items. The comment-formed communication can help to fine-tune task definitions. By the way, have you seen Trello? So the question is how we can create this column in other lists? Here is a little tutorial how to create “append-only comments”, as they are called:
Tag: excel
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Export AppendOnly Comments
Remember the old comments in SharePoint Lists? I am sure there are tons of lists that use the Append-Only Comments. They are implemented using versioning. The problem is that it is hard to export the comments, unless you know the tricks. The trick I want to share comes from a colleague of mine. The reason why we need export all the comments is that we need to document and save/archive the decision making process that took place in the comments field.
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Power Automate for a one-time operations
Honestly, Power Automate is great for automating repetetive stuff. But I think there is room for one-time flows as well. I’ll give you an example.
I’ve got an excel file with quite a few rows. And I need to convert it to a SharePoint List. I know there is a couple of options, such as Quick Edit in Classic View, Import an Excel file as a list (it also requires the classic view), there will be Excel import in Modern as well.
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JSGrid Basics
JSGrid is the javascript framework in SharePoint used in Quick Edit View (previously Datasheet View). There are a few very good blog posts on this topic (See below in “Sources”). Nevertheless the fact is that jsgrid and working with quick edit from a developer’s perspective is a huge undiscovered area. Articles I have seen are intended for advanced developers. The goal with my post today is to outline the very basics of working with JSGrid.
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Save an excel sheet as a clean table
To save an excel sheet as a html table is very easy. Just select the needed area, then go to Save as and check the selection and choose html as output format. It works fine. It even looks like it did in Excel. But what if you don’t want all this junk, you want only the plain html table (e.g. for pasting into WP). When I saved my permission levels to html, I used this javascript code.
Tag: export
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Export AppendOnly Comments
Remember the old comments in SharePoint Lists? I am sure there are tons of lists that use the Append-Only Comments. They are implemented using versioning. The problem is that it is hard to export the comments, unless you know the tricks. The trick I want to share comes from a colleague of mine. The reason why we need export all the comments is that we need to document and save/archive the decision making process that took place in the comments field.
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Export any web part from a SharePoint page
The blog post below describes the technical details about how Web Parts can be exported using a hidden tool in OOB SharePoint, though this requires manual assembling of a special url. If you are just interested in a solution for an easy Web Part Export function, just proceed directly to my new blog post where you can download my tool that you can add to your web browser.
Web Part Exporter
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Export SharePoint List Data To Xml through PowerShell
Today my colleague Johannes Milling wrote an awesome post: Export SharePoint List Data To XML Directly from the GUI He uses the old and forgotten RPC-based web service owssvr.dll (that has existed since SharePoint 2003). This url pattern is used to get the xml-formatted list data for a specific ListView: [source] http://<site_url>/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?Cmd=Display&List=&View=&Query=*&XMLDATA=TRUE [/source] To automate this I have written a PowerShell function. All the details are in the comments: [source language=“PowerShell”] function Export-OIPSPListDataAsXml { <# .
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Formatera export xml av wordpress
Ville spara min blogg som en dagbok för utskrift. Exporterade hela bloggen som xml. Inga problem. Sedan var det dock nästan omöjligt att enkelt skriva in det i Word / OpenOffice. Jag har skrivit en liten css-fil som formaterar det lite så att man kan skriva ut. Lägg till:
<?xml-stylesheet type = "text/css" href="wordpress.css"?> direkt efter:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> Lägg filen “wordpress.com” i samma mapp. Här är wordpress.css
channel title { font-size:3em; } channel description { color:green; margin-bottom:1em; } item title { font-size:2em; font-family:Arial; margin-top:1em; } creator { color:green; } creator:before { content:"Skrivet av: "; color:black; font-style:italic; font-size:0.
Tag: guide
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Export AppendOnly Comments
Remember the old comments in SharePoint Lists? I am sure there are tons of lists that use the Append-Only Comments. They are implemented using versioning. The problem is that it is hard to export the comments, unless you know the tricks. The trick I want to share comes from a colleague of mine. The reason why we need export all the comments is that we need to document and save/archive the decision making process that took place in the comments field.
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Print2SPO - en enkel utskrift till SharePoint
Den här bloggposten är ett (en aning större) användar- (eller verksamhetsutvecklar-)tips om hur man kan sätta upp smarta utskrifter till SharePoint Online - utan några extraappar eller lösningar.
Först och främst, stort tack till min kollega Shahram som har presenterat idén för mig. Tänk dig ett följande scenario:
Du har en mall i Word som du fyller i, skriver ut på papper. Låt säga, det är en plockorder. Du vill digitalisera processen genom att skicka pdf:en till ett gemensamt dokumentbibliotek i SharePoint eller Teams.
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Kombinera två SharePoint-listor i PowerBI
Det här är en enkel guide på svenska om hur du kan ladda in data från två eller fler listor i SharePoint och lägga ihop dem till en.
Scenariot är följande. Du har två eller fler sajter i SharePoint Online som har var sin lista (med samma kolumner). Du vill ladda in data från båda och se en aggregerad/summerad version. Alternativet är att ha en delad lista, men ibland (av behörighetskäl eller av behovet för smärre anpassningar av enskilda listor), ligger det i separata listor/sajter.
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Configuring VirtualBox for SharePoint-Hosted Apps
Recently I have switched from VMWare to VirtualBox for my SharePoint Development. So far it really works good. I have prepared this guide for configuring VirtualBox for SharePoint-hosted apps. That means we need a new adapter with a static ip address. All the steps done inside the virtual machine are applicable for VMWare and Hyper-V, too. This guide does not cover the full configuration of the app environment, it covers only the network and dns settings needed for SharePoint-hosted apps on Premises in a Development machine.
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Windows 8: shutdown button on your start and desktop
If you think that “Go to corner” -> Settings -> Power -> Shut down are three steps to much if you just want to shutdown your Windows 8 machine, than do as I did: create a shortcut on you desktop and a tile on your start screen. Create a shortcut as usual: Write in the location field:
shutdown /s /t 0 Name it something, why not “shutdown”? Change the default icon: There it is.
Tag: versioning
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Export AppendOnly Comments
Remember the old comments in SharePoint Lists? I am sure there are tons of lists that use the Append-Only Comments. They are implemented using versioning. The problem is that it is hard to export the comments, unless you know the tricks. The trick I want to share comes from a colleague of mine. The reason why we need export all the comments is that we need to document and save/archive the decision making process that took place in the comments field.
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Team Explorer
Until now I have only worked with svn and git. So I am very curious about the Team Foundation Server and Team Explorer which all talk much about. The best thing is the integration with the issue tracking. I can see all work item, or just my work items. Another fine feature, at leat if you use codeplex, is the Team Explorer Everywhere.
The Team Explorer Everywhere client works on Windows, Linux, Mac, or Solaris.
Tag: blog
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New Home for My Blog
Hello World Now I have moved my blog. chuvash.eu is a static site. I’ll share more details and insights later.
Update 2022-02-10 It has passed a few months since the move from Wordpress to a static site. Now it is time to summarize the insights.
Why I moved Here are the reasons why I switched from Wordpress.com to a static site
To be honest, the main reason was that I was curious about static sites.
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 54,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 12 Film Festivals
Click here to see the complete report.
Comments from Wordpress.com Justin Cooney - Jan 3, 2013
Congratulations on a great 2012 for your blog. All the best for 2013!
Tag: hugo
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New Home for My Blog
Hello World Now I have moved my blog. chuvash.eu is a static site. I’ll share more details and insights later.
Update 2022-02-10 It has passed a few months since the move from Wordpress to a static site. Now it is time to summarize the insights.
Why I moved Here are the reasons why I switched from Wordpress.com to a static site
To be honest, the main reason was that I was curious about static sites.
Tag: netlify
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New Home for My Blog
Hello World Now I have moved my blog. chuvash.eu is a static site. I’ll share more details and insights later.
Update 2022-02-10 It has passed a few months since the move from Wordpress to a static site. Now it is time to summarize the insights.
Why I moved Here are the reasons why I switched from Wordpress.com to a static site
To be honest, the main reason was that I was curious about static sites.
Tag: static
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New Home for My Blog
Hello World Now I have moved my blog. chuvash.eu is a static site. I’ll share more details and insights later.
Update 2022-02-10 It has passed a few months since the move from Wordpress to a static site. Now it is time to summarize the insights.
Why I moved Here are the reasons why I switched from Wordpress.com to a static site
To be honest, the main reason was that I was curious about static sites.
Tag: website
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New Home for My Blog
Hello World Now I have moved my blog. chuvash.eu is a static site. I’ll share more details and insights later.
Update 2022-02-10 It has passed a few months since the move from Wordpress to a static site. Now it is time to summarize the insights.
Why I moved Here are the reasons why I switched from Wordpress.com to a static site
To be honest, the main reason was that I was curious about static sites.
Tag: admin
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A powershell script for activating an eligible role assignment in Azure AD
Recently my role assignments in Azure AD were switched from permanent to eligible ones. This is part of PIM - Privileged Identity Management, you can read more about it on MS Docs:
Start using Privileged Identity Management To activate your eligible assignment you can use Azure Portal, Graph API, and PowerShell. The activation in the portal and Graph API is described on MS Docs:
Activate my Azure AD roles in PIM My roles within Privileged Identity Management in Azure Portal
Tag: administrator
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A powershell script for activating an eligible role assignment in Azure AD
Recently my role assignments in Azure AD were switched from permanent to eligible ones. This is part of PIM - Privileged Identity Management, you can read more about it on MS Docs:
Start using Privileged Identity Management To activate your eligible assignment you can use Azure Portal, Graph API, and PowerShell. The activation in the portal and Graph API is described on MS Docs:
Activate my Azure AD roles in PIM My roles within Privileged Identity Management in Azure Portal
Tag: azuread
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A powershell script for activating an eligible role assignment in Azure AD
Recently my role assignments in Azure AD were switched from permanent to eligible ones. This is part of PIM - Privileged Identity Management, you can read more about it on MS Docs:
Start using Privileged Identity Management To activate your eligible assignment you can use Azure Portal, Graph API, and PowerShell. The activation in the portal and Graph API is described on MS Docs:
Activate my Azure AD roles in PIM My roles within Privileged Identity Management in Azure Portal
Tag: identity
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A powershell script for activating an eligible role assignment in Azure AD
Recently my role assignments in Azure AD were switched from permanent to eligible ones. This is part of PIM - Privileged Identity Management, you can read more about it on MS Docs:
Start using Privileged Identity Management To activate your eligible assignment you can use Azure Portal, Graph API, and PowerShell. The activation in the portal and Graph API is described on MS Docs:
Activate my Azure AD roles in PIM My roles within Privileged Identity Management in Azure Portal
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Using secrets in Logic Apps in a secure way
This is a guide for how to handle secrets in a logic app in a secure way. It combines three resources:
Accessing Key Vault from Logic App with Managed Identity Get Secrets Key Vault API Hide your logic apps secrets from prying eyes First, enable a Managed Identity for your Logic App:
In the KeyVault, add a new Access Policy for the new Managed Identity (from the previous step). Use the least priviliges.
Tag: Office 365
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A powershell script for activating an eligible role assignment in Azure AD
Recently my role assignments in Azure AD were switched from permanent to eligible ones. This is part of PIM - Privileged Identity Management, you can read more about it on MS Docs:
Start using Privileged Identity Management To activate your eligible assignment you can use Azure Portal, Graph API, and PowerShell. The activation in the portal and Graph API is described on MS Docs:
Activate my Azure AD roles in PIM My roles within Privileged Identity Management in Azure Portal
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Sites.Selected and Governance
The new permission in Graph API - Sites.Selected - is a step in the right direction. Since long we have been looking for ways of scoping the accesses to live up to the least privilege principle. It was either nothing or everything. I have tried out the new Sites.Selected permission and here are my findings.
First of all, if you haven’t heard about Sites.Selected, please visit these pages to find out more.
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Monitoring Microsoft 365 using Raspberry Pi and M365 CLI
I would like to show you my recent hobby project with a raspberry pi, a unicorn phat and the powerful cli-microsoft365: A simple monitoring solution of Microsoft 365 Services.
Status of some important services in Microsoft 365
In essence, I put the unicorn phat onto the raspberry pi zero w and wrote this python script:
unicorn03_m365.py The python script checks the service status every five minutes and shows it with colors on the unicorn phat.
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1TB=1024GB in SPO Storage
You want to calculate your storage capacity in SharePoint Online? Here is how:
Every 1TB is 1024GB (it might be confusing, see my previous post, but it’s how it is calculated) A tenant gets 1024GB by default For every user license of a product that includes the service plan called “SHAREPOINTSTANDARD”/SharePoint Online (Plan 1) you get 10 GB extra For every user license of a product that includes the service plan called “SHAREPOINTENTERPRISE”/SharePoint Online (Plan 2) you get 10 GB extra For every user license of a product that includes the service called “ONEDRIVEBASIC”/SharePoint Online OneDrive Basic you get 0.
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Print2SPO - en enkel utskrift till SharePoint
Den här bloggposten är ett (en aning större) användar- (eller verksamhetsutvecklar-)tips om hur man kan sätta upp smarta utskrifter till SharePoint Online - utan några extraappar eller lösningar.
Först och främst, stort tack till min kollega Shahram som har presenterat idén för mig. Tänk dig ett följande scenario:
Du har en mall i Word som du fyller i, skriver ut på papper. Låt säga, det är en plockorder. Du vill digitalisera processen genom att skicka pdf:en till ett gemensamt dokumentbibliotek i SharePoint eller Teams.
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1 TB = 1024 GB in SPO?
There is confusion around how the storage is calculated in SharePoint Online. I believe, in SharePoint Online 1 TB is 1024 GB (based on powers of two), although the SI Prefix is for numbers based on powers of 10 (1TB = 1000GB, Wikipedia). In this post I would like to summarize the results of my investigations and I hope Microsoft or the community can confirm or disconfirm this.
First, let me explain why we care about it.
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Demote News in SharePoint Online
In case you published a news in SharePoint Online and you now want to “downgrade” it to a regular page, I have a solution for you.
The reasons why you would like to demote a News might vary:
You publish an important message, perhaps a note about an operational disturbance. It might not relevant anymore, but you still want to keep the page in case someone wants to access the information.
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Kombinera två SharePoint-listor i PowerBI
Det här är en enkel guide på svenska om hur du kan ladda in data från två eller fler listor i SharePoint och lägga ihop dem till en.
Scenariot är följande. Du har två eller fler sajter i SharePoint Online som har var sin lista (med samma kolumner). Du vill ladda in data från båda och se en aggregerad/summerad version. Alternativet är att ha en delad lista, men ibland (av behörighetskäl eller av behovet för smärre anpassningar av enskilda listor), ligger det i separata listor/sajter.
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Add a security group as hubbers using PowerShell
Today I needed to add a security group to “People who can associate sites with this hub” through PowerShell. Here is quick how-to. I usually say “hubbers” instead of the long “People who….”. By the way, if you want to know what prerequisites there are for being a hubber, read my other blog post
Infographics. Who can associate a site with a hub An example of how to add a security group is missing in the MS Docs:
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Own praise badges in Teams
While reading the Teams News recap from December 2020, I found one thing that caught my attention particularly: Custom Praise Badges in Teams. Let’s try this. But first, those badges are the default ones:
They are good starting point. But to take it a step further, to really engage people and praise, you need some specific badges that mean something for your company.
To add a new badge all you have to do is to go to Teams Admin (obviously it requires you having the Teams Administrator Role):
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Two workarounds for overcoming the listview threshold
These are two workarounds to see documents / list items in a view that exceeds the listview threshold of 5000 items.
Overcoming the listview threshold is as fun as succeeding in the limbo games.
This is changing all the time. When you read this, it might have changed. Today, 2021-01-05, me and my colleague found following two workarounds for listing over 5000 items in a list view in SharePoint Online:
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Teams incoming webhooks for performance monitoring
Incoming webhooks in Teams are great, indeed. Last week I saw this tweet, which inspired me to share one of our webhooks.
There are many scenarios where it can be used, I would also like to share one of our scenarios: notifying our DevOps team about performance issues in SharePoint Online, detected through Exoprise.
This adaptive card (in Swedish) shows an alarm from Exoprise about login problems.
It’s simple and scalable:
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Two site logos?
We have had troubles updating site icons in SharePoint Online. It might be related to one of the following:
It occures only on hub sites The sites have a custom theme The error message:
We experienced a problem updating the icon. Please try again in a few minutes.
But what I found is that there are two places where you change the site icon. If the first does not work, try the second one, that was what worked for us:
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DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
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Automatically detect new sites in SharePoint Online
Original image by William Warby. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/16414155179/in/photostream/
Sites in SharePoint are created all the time, not only for SharePoint, but also as storage for Yammer, Teams, Planner and other services in Microsoft 365. There are ways to keep track of them, but the ability to automatically detect a new site creation is quite appealing. Automatic detection means a trigger of a Power Automate (Flow) or a Logic App.
There are a few blog posts that exactly describe how you can detect when a new site is created in SharePoint Online:
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Is an M365 Group a Yammer Community
Nowadays a Yammer Community gets a corresponding Microsoft 365 Group (Office 365 Group, Unified Group). In your work as an SPO Admin, you might need to differentiate “ordinary” Modern Team Sites from those ones that were created for a Yammer Community.
They both have GROUP#0 as Template. On the actual SPO Site object, there is nothing that you can use to differentiate those. Neither you can use the Office 365 Group information.
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Estimated Completion in Write-Progress in PowerShell
Have you also got many sites in your tenant? Write-Progress is the bare minimum in a script that goes through all sites. But there is also another nice way to make easier to see the progress - estimated completion time.
Although the idea comes from another blog post (My life is a message), I thought it could be worth sharing it again, especially in the cloud context.
Here is a bit simplified scenario: Getting information for every site.
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Optimizing lookups in PowerShell
Have you had a PowerShell script that contains two bigger arrays and you wanted merge the information. It can become quite slow if you need to search for every item from array A through all items in array B. The solution is called a HashTable! It might be not an advanced tip for some, but I was really glad to see a huge improvement, so I decided to share it as a post.
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Page Diagnostics for SharePoint
While trying to set up a new Home Site, I discovered that there is a tool (browser extension) called Page Diagnostics for SharePoint.
After running this, I tried that command again and it was smart enough to detect the problem the tool discovered.
Also Network Trace is available.
Network trace
Page Diagnostics Tool is defnitely a tool to have in the troubleshooting toolbelt for SharePoint.
Setting up a Home Site Here is the script:
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Deploying SPFx using Office 365 cli, custom AAD App and Azure Pipelines
In this post I would like to share some findings from setting a deployment of SPFx. In my work:
I need to deploy SPFx solutions using Azure Pipelines I need to use the least privileges/permissions I cannot use Legacy Authentication First of all, big thanks to @waldekm and the whole community of @office365cli and @m365pnp for the quick help, and that outside working hours.
Let’s take a look at the setup piece by piece
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Power Automate for a one-time operations
Honestly, Power Automate is great for automating repetetive stuff. But I think there is room for one-time flows as well. I’ll give you an example.
I’ve got an excel file with quite a few rows. And I need to convert it to a SharePoint List. I know there is a couple of options, such as Quick Edit in Classic View, Import an Excel file as a list (it also requires the classic view), there will be Excel import in Modern as well.
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Modern Team Site without an Office 365 Group
These are my findings around Modern Sites without Office 365 Groups. It is, of course, a subject to change.
Today (2020-02-21) when you create a Modern Team Site without a group, you will get a site with the template STS#3. This oldie has been around for a while, hasn’t it?
I would always recommend creating Office 365 Group Connected sites.
How it is created Through PowerShell/REST or from SharePoint Home, if your account is not allowed to create Office 365 Groups, it will automatically create a site without a group.
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Multilingual MS Forms
Want to translate your MS Forms into other languages? Create a form, not a quiz. It is available in both Forms and Forms Pro licenses.
Today I want to share one of my findings. One of those that seem obvious once you know, but that take time to find out.
Unfortunately, there is no official comparison of what is included in MS Forms vs. MS Forms Pro. So I thought that the ability to have forms in multiple languages was connected to the license.
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Using Sway as a simple static site builder
Sometimes all you need is just a simple static web page: instructions, a landing page, a collection of links. I think I have a perfect use case for Sway. Consider a scenario similar to what Laura Kokkarinen writes in her blog post:
How to build a guest user self-service registration for office 365 with azure An external user invitation needs an inviteRedirectUrl. Usually it is myapps.microsoft.com. In Laura’s case it was a given extranet url.
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Site Collection App Catalog vs. Tenant App Catalog
Site Collection App Catalogs are great for special cases (like developing apps or site unique apps), but using them on scale would be a mess.
I got a question: Why should we use the Tenant App Catalog at all when we could enable a Site Collection App Catalog on every teamsite? So the suggestion here is to install SharePoint Framework Packages on many Site Collection App Catalogs, instead of the Tenant App Catalog.
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The Path Length Limit of 400 chars in SharePoint Online
This post is my summary and my conclusions on the Path Length Limit in SharePoint Online and OneDrive.
How the path length is calculated Path Length is not the same as the URL length. It is the relative Url.
/sites/site-url/documenlibrary/folder1/folder2/filename.fileextension Calculations rules Only the server relative url part is counted. The “https://[tenant].sharepoin.com” has no impact on that. It starts from the foward slash: “/sites” (or /teams). An encoded value such as a blankspace (%20) is treated as one character, not three.
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A user can only create 250 groups
A non-admin user can create no more than 250 resources in Azure AD. That is one of the many Azure AD service limits and restrictions. A “resource” can be an app registration, an Office 365 Group etc. But I would like to discuss Groups more in detail.
Imagine the following scenario: Your organization has disabled Office 365 Group Creation. Only IT can create new groups. A service account has been set up for creation of team sites.
Tag: pim
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A powershell script for activating an eligible role assignment in Azure AD
Recently my role assignments in Azure AD were switched from permanent to eligible ones. This is part of PIM - Privileged Identity Management, you can read more about it on MS Docs:
Start using Privileged Identity Management To activate your eligible assignment you can use Azure Portal, Graph API, and PowerShell. The activation in the portal and Graph API is described on MS Docs:
Activate my Azure AD roles in PIM My roles within Privileged Identity Management in Azure Portal
Tag: aad
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Sites.Selected and Governance
The new permission in Graph API - Sites.Selected - is a step in the right direction. Since long we have been looking for ways of scoping the accesses to live up to the least privilege principle. It was either nothing or everything. I have tried out the new Sites.Selected permission and here are my findings.
First of all, if you haven’t heard about Sites.Selected, please visit these pages to find out more.
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Deploying SPFx using Office 365 cli, custom AAD App and Azure Pipelines
In this post I would like to share some findings from setting a deployment of SPFx. In my work:
I need to deploy SPFx solutions using Azure Pipelines I need to use the least privileges/permissions I cannot use Legacy Authentication First of all, big thanks to @waldekm and the whole community of @office365cli and @m365pnp for the quick help, and that outside working hours.
Let’s take a look at the setup piece by piece
Tag: application
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Sites.Selected and Governance
The new permission in Graph API - Sites.Selected - is a step in the right direction. Since long we have been looking for ways of scoping the accesses to live up to the least privilege principle. It was either nothing or everything. I have tried out the new Sites.Selected permission and here are my findings.
First of all, if you haven’t heard about Sites.Selected, please visit these pages to find out more.
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What is a SharePoint application
[caption id=“attachment_3759” align=“alignnone” width=“660”] A meaningful collection of Lego bricks is a toy. A meaningful collection of Lists, Fields, Files and other SharePoint artefacts becomes a SharePoint Application. Private picture.[/caption] App, Add-In, List, Web, Site, Sandbox solution, Workflow. There are too many words flying around in SharePoint that confuse users and Non-SharePoint-Developers. I want to introduce a “new” concept that is so simple and that a company can understand and govern: a SharePoint Application.
Tag: security
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Sites.Selected and Governance
The new permission in Graph API - Sites.Selected - is a step in the right direction. Since long we have been looking for ways of scoping the accesses to live up to the least privilege principle. It was either nothing or everything. I have tried out the new Sites.Selected permission and here are my findings.
First of all, if you haven’t heard about Sites.Selected, please visit these pages to find out more.
Tag: spo
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Sites.Selected and Governance
The new permission in Graph API - Sites.Selected - is a step in the right direction. Since long we have been looking for ways of scoping the accesses to live up to the least privilege principle. It was either nothing or everything. I have tried out the new Sites.Selected permission and here are my findings.
First of all, if you haven’t heard about Sites.Selected, please visit these pages to find out more.
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Monitoring Microsoft 365 using Raspberry Pi and M365 CLI
I would like to show you my recent hobby project with a raspberry pi, a unicorn phat and the powerful cli-microsoft365: A simple monitoring solution of Microsoft 365 Services.
Status of some important services in Microsoft 365
In essence, I put the unicorn phat onto the raspberry pi zero w and wrote this python script:
unicorn03_m365.py The python script checks the service status every five minutes and shows it with colors on the unicorn phat.
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Print2SPO - en enkel utskrift till SharePoint
Den här bloggposten är ett (en aning större) användar- (eller verksamhetsutvecklar-)tips om hur man kan sätta upp smarta utskrifter till SharePoint Online - utan några extraappar eller lösningar.
Först och främst, stort tack till min kollega Shahram som har presenterat idén för mig. Tänk dig ett följande scenario:
Du har en mall i Word som du fyller i, skriver ut på papper. Låt säga, det är en plockorder. Du vill digitalisera processen genom att skicka pdf:en till ett gemensamt dokumentbibliotek i SharePoint eller Teams.
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Two site logos?
We have had troubles updating site icons in SharePoint Online. It might be related to one of the following:
It occures only on hub sites The sites have a custom theme The error message:
We experienced a problem updating the icon. Please try again in a few minutes.
But what I found is that there are two places where you change the site icon. If the first does not work, try the second one, that was what worked for us:
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Listing all renamed sites in SharePoint Online
When you rename a site, a new site is REDIRECTSITE#0, you can get all the sites of that type by running
Get-SPOSite -Template REDIRECTSITE#0
Please consider some caveats with renaming a site url
Effects of changing a site address, MSDocs
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Automatically detect new sites in SharePoint Online
Original image by William Warby. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/16414155179/in/photostream/
Sites in SharePoint are created all the time, not only for SharePoint, but also as storage for Yammer, Teams, Planner and other services in Microsoft 365. There are ways to keep track of them, but the ability to automatically detect a new site creation is quite appealing. Automatic detection means a trigger of a Power Automate (Flow) or a Logic App.
There are a few blog posts that exactly describe how you can detect when a new site is created in SharePoint Online:
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Is an M365 Group a Yammer Community
Nowadays a Yammer Community gets a corresponding Microsoft 365 Group (Office 365 Group, Unified Group). In your work as an SPO Admin, you might need to differentiate “ordinary” Modern Team Sites from those ones that were created for a Yammer Community.
They both have GROUP#0 as Template. On the actual SPO Site object, there is nothing that you can use to differentiate those. Neither you can use the Office 365 Group information.
Posts
Page Diagnostics for SharePoint
While trying to set up a new Home Site, I discovered that there is a tool (browser extension) called Page Diagnostics for SharePoint.
After running this, I tried that command again and it was smart enough to detect the problem the tool discovered.
Also Network Trace is available.
Network trace
Page Diagnostics Tool is defnitely a tool to have in the troubleshooting toolbelt for SharePoint.
Setting up a Home Site Here is the script:
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Deploying SPFx using Office 365 cli, custom AAD App and Azure Pipelines
In this post I would like to share some findings from setting a deployment of SPFx. In my work:
I need to deploy SPFx solutions using Azure Pipelines I need to use the least privileges/permissions I cannot use Legacy Authentication First of all, big thanks to @waldekm and the whole community of @office365cli and @m365pnp for the quick help, and that outside working hours.
Let’s take a look at the setup piece by piece
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Kalendern i SharePoint
Dags för ett svenskt inlägg igen. Idag vill jag titta på kalenderfunktionaliteten i SharePoint Online.
Fortfarande gammalt (classic) utseende Tyvärr är det gammalt utseende som gäller och det finns inga planer från Microsoft att modernisera kalendern:
SharePoint UserVoice: Modern Calendars Jag förstår att det är väldigt mycket kod för att få till kalendervyn och att det inte är så lätt omvandla till ett modernt utseende, men det ställer till eftersom det upplevs som gammalt och inte användarvänligt ute i verksamheten.
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Snabba diagram i SharePoint Online
Ett nytt tips på svenska: det finns en webpart i SharePoint Online: snabbdiagram.
När du har lagt till ett snabbdiagram, kan du skriva välja mellan stapel och cirkeldiagram
Du kan bara välja mellan stapel- och cirkeldiagram.
Data går att mata in direkt.
Resultatet får du direkt:
Använd data från en lista Det går att visualisera data från en SharePoint-lista. Det är inte så mycket mer komplicerat, men det öppnar nya möjligheter.
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Troubleshooting Performance in SharePoint Online
This is my personal list of links and thoughts on troubleshooting performance in SharePoint Online.
Resources @MSFT365Status, a twitter flow on the incidents and resolutions connectivity service Service Status (open for all), Service Health (for admins) Health info in Response Headers Every response from SharePoint Online contains some health information:
Diagnosing performance issues with SharePoint Online (MSDocs) Troubleshooting SharePoint Performance Issues with F12 (blog post) Following Response Headers could reveal the health:
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Switch back to Modern UI
Just a little tip. When you switched to a Classic View of Site Contents, you can switch back by removing a cookie called “splnu”.
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My list of _layouts pages
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.
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AppLoader Concept for SharePoint apps
In this post I want to share an unusual, nevertheless interesting conceptual idea of loading content from SharePoint 2013 apps on many pages. The original awesome concept was proposed and developed by my colleague Martin Villysson at Bool.
The problem we are trying to solve SharePoint apps are great to extend functionality in SharePoint and integrate other systems (full page apps available through Site Contents), they also provide tools to enrich the default SharePoint experience by App Parts (Client Web Parts) and Custom Actions (additional menus).
Tag: core
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Smarter way of loading SharePoint CSOM dll in PowerShell
Have you also got a legacy powershell script that loads SharePoint dlls and runs CSOM code directly? It’s quite easy to convert to PnP PowerShell. But if you run out of time and just need to execute the script, then I have a quick tip for you.
First of all, a CSOM script can be recognized by Add-Type commands (or Import-Module) plus the SharePoint dll paths.
Loading the dll the old way.
Tag: csom
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Smarter way of loading SharePoint CSOM dll in PowerShell
Have you also got a legacy powershell script that loads SharePoint dlls and runs CSOM code directly? It’s quite easy to convert to PnP PowerShell. But if you run out of time and just need to execute the script, then I have a quick tip for you.
First of all, a CSOM script can be recognized by Add-Type commands (or Import-Module) plus the SharePoint dll paths.
Loading the dll the old way.
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Add Search Verticals by code
Adding own search verticals is a common task in the Search Configuration in SharePoint. Here I want to share a code sample for achieving this programmatically. I hope, this model can be added to SPMeta2. First of all, Search Verticals are dedicated Search Results Pages and links to them. How to add them manually is described on technet:
How to add a custom search vertical to your search results page in SharePoint 2013 There is no API in CSOM for that.
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Method "GetList" does not exist
I troubleshooted a piece of CSOM code in SharePoint 2013. I got the following error:
Method “GetList” does not exist
The reason was that the method GetList was not imlemented until March 2015 CU (15.0.4701.1001), and the SharePoint farm I had was SharePoint 2013 SP1 (15.0.4569.1000). So the solution is to install the Cumulative Update or use web.Lists.GetByTitle. GetByTitle has one aweful shortcoming: it doesn’t work in multilingual environments. So I have recommended to install the March 2015 CU.
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AppLoader Concept for SharePoint apps
In this post I want to share an unusual, nevertheless interesting conceptual idea of loading content from SharePoint 2013 apps on many pages. The original awesome concept was proposed and developed by my colleague Martin Villysson at Bool.
The problem we are trying to solve SharePoint apps are great to extend functionality in SharePoint and integrate other systems (full page apps available through Site Contents), they also provide tools to enrich the default SharePoint experience by App Parts (Client Web Parts) and Custom Actions (additional menus).
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PowerShell: Migrate field choices to a termset
In my current project we are migrating a custom sharepoint solution from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. One of the improvements is that we migrate custom field choices to Managed Metadata. Choice Fields were not intended to be so many. So now it is time to convert them to metadata terms. I have written a PowerShell script which copies all the choices from a field to a termset. The script uses Client Side Object Model (CSOM) to get the choice values and it uses Server Object Model to write data to the termset.
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Apps can only call the OOB CSOM and REST endpoints
As a SharePoint architect or a SharePoint developer, you must have been thinking about the benefits/limitations of SharePoint apps a lot. I want to point out one of them today, which is very important: using custom webservices deployed to SharePoint inside apps. That is impossible and it is designed to be so due to the security architecture in the sharepoint app framework. I have read much about SharePoint apps (books, whitepapers, blog posts) and stumbled over these two contradictive statements:
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JSOM: Alter a column's DisplayName
Here is another article in my JSOM series. For one month ago I showed how to alter a column’s ShowInDisplayForm property with JSOM. This time I’ll show a code sample for changing a column’s (field’s) display name. If you want to alter the displayname with Server Object Model, grab the code in the sharepoint.stackexchange.com: Change Field’s DisplayName in a List. [sourcecode language=“javascript”]var ctx = SP.ClientContext.get_current(), //SP.ClientContext field = ctx.get_web() //SP.Web .
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Delete all list items with jsom
Today I needed to “clean” a list, meaning to remove all list items. For some time ago I wrote a post about different ways of removing list items in bulk: Server Object Model, SPLinq and RPC. This time I had only the web browser. So I tried the jsom way. By the way, the javascript documentation for jsom on msdn is getting really good. Don’t miss that: How to: Complete basic operations using JavaScript library code in SharePoint 2013.
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JSOM: Last Modified Date of a List
The data transfer between server and client can heavily affect the performance. One of the measures to reduce the amount data transferred from the server to the client is storing data on the client. In many modern browsers we can use html5 localStorage. Even in older browsers there are ways to store data. I would recommend a nice js lib called amplify.js. The interface is much easier, then:
amplify.store("key", { title: "value" }); ```It comes in nicely, if we have much data which we get with JSOM.
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Three ways to get the id of last created SPListItem
An interesting question came on SharePoint StackExchange: How to retrieve the guid of the last uploaded file. It is only possible in CSOM as far as I know. But if we simplify the task, how to get the id of the last item, the we can compare three ways of getting them: SPServices, jQuery + listdata.svc and CSOM.
SPServices The most easiest way, but not available in async:
$().SPServices.SPGetLastItemId({ listName: "Documents" }); listdata.
Tag: dll
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Smarter way of loading SharePoint CSOM dll in PowerShell
Have you also got a legacy powershell script that loads SharePoint dlls and runs CSOM code directly? It’s quite easy to convert to PnP PowerShell. But if you run out of time and just need to execute the script, then I have a quick tip for you.
First of all, a CSOM script can be recognized by Add-Type commands (or Import-Module) plus the SharePoint dll paths.
Loading the dll the old way.
Tag: mac
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Smarter way of loading SharePoint CSOM dll in PowerShell
Have you also got a legacy powershell script that loads SharePoint dlls and runs CSOM code directly? It’s quite easy to convert to PnP PowerShell. But if you run out of time and just need to execute the script, then I have a quick tip for you.
First of all, a CSOM script can be recognized by Add-Type commands (or Import-Module) plus the SharePoint dll paths.
Loading the dll the old way.
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Mass remove live photo videos
While importing images from my iPhone using Image Capture on my mac, I discovered that almost all pictures had corresponding videos. They had the same name, only the file extension was different:
IMG_2829.JPG IMG_2829.MOV For archiving I don’t to have live photo videos, that’s why I needed a script for that. I found a good start in an answer on SuperUser.stackexchange.com:
OSX Command line Find Duplicate Filenames with different extensions I altered it a bit to remove the corresponding .
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Trust gulp-connect certificate from Visual Studio Online on Mac OS
I have read and followed this awesome post:
Getting SPFx working in Visual Studio Online by SPDavid.
I got my fingers and tried that guide out. This worked good, I spent some time, though, googling (binging) around to get rid of the SSL Warnings for the remote “localhost” on my Mac.
I would like to share this simple instruction on how to trust a self signed certificate from gulp-connect on Mac OS.
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Chuvash Keyboard Layout for Mac
I’ve got a Mac and one of my first questions was: How can I write in Chuvash on my Mac, obviously :) In this post I am going to tell how I created Chuvash Keyboard Layout. The solution and installation instructions are on Github: Chuvash Keyboard Layout for Mac What the heck is Chuvash? For those who don’t know yet: Chuvash are people who live in Chuvash Republic in Russian Federation, and abroad, as me.
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Trying out Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu
I am very curious about the new .NET Core, ASP.NET 5, EF 7 and Visual Studio Code for Linux, Mac and Windows. I have tried it out on an Ubuntu 15.04 machine. The installation and configuration required a few steps, so it is not an usual “Next-next-next”-installation. But, hey, it is just a beta, a preview so far, and first of all: It worked. I am sharing a couple of screenshots and the commands I ran in the terminal, mixed with comments and links: [source language=“bash”] #install latest node and npm #https://www.
Tag: script
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Smarter way of loading SharePoint CSOM dll in PowerShell
Have you also got a legacy powershell script that loads SharePoint dlls and runs CSOM code directly? It’s quite easy to convert to PnP PowerShell. But if you run out of time and just need to execute the script, then I have a quick tip for you.
First of all, a CSOM script can be recognized by Add-Type commands (or Import-Module) plus the SharePoint dll paths.
Loading the dll the old way.
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A cost effective way of running legacy scripts in the cloud
Have you also got some old huge scripts that run on a server locally? Have you also considered moving them to the cloud? Here comes an idea of how to do it quickly and easy.
In my case I have some older powershell scripts that are harder to convert to serverless applications:
They use MSOnline module in PowerShell, hence they require rewriting to AzureAD before using them in an Azure Function They take around 15 minutes to complete, Azure Functions Consumption Plan is limited to 10 minutes.
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Is Custom Script Dangerous
Allowing custom script has its security implications. But what exactly does it mean? Is it dangerous? My colleauge Daniel and me have done a little experiment. There are two implications stated on MS Docs:
Scripts have access to everything the user has access to. Scripts can access content across several Office 365 services and even beyond with Microsoft Graph integration. To summarize, we can look at that picture:
So the risk that user 1 (the Blue User) intentionally or unintentionally places a script and lets user 2 (the Red User) run this script by linking to the page that has this script.
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JavaScript Localization in SharePoint
Yesterday Waldek Mastykarz published a cool post: Globalizing JavaScript in SharePoint 2013. This is a very cool technique to localize your client code in javascript and reuse your resx files in Server Side and Client Side. This is actually not new for SharePoint 2013 despite it has become more needed with the huge client focus in the new SharePoint. I have used this in SharePoint 2010 for a long time. In my blog post: ScriptResx.
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PowerShell: Copy an entire document library from SharePoint 2007 to disk
For a while ago I needed to copy all files from a document library within a SharePoint 2007 site to the hard drive. So I didn’t need to copy files from SharePoint to SharePoint so I couldn’t use the stsadm -o export command or Chris O’Brien’s nice SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard. I came across the SPIEFolder application which should work with SharePoint 2007 and 2010. It has a site on codeplex: spiefolder.
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defaultvärde på parametern i powershellfunktioner
Läser ett intressant inlägg om deployskript i powershell. Har upptäckt att man kan stoppa in ett defaultvärde i funktionens parameter. Så i stället för
function hello($name) { Write-Host $name } Kan man köra:
function hello($name = "Gregor") { Write-Host $name } ```Mycket smidigt.
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PowerShell
PowerShell är ett sätt att manipulera data och struktur i SharePoint-portalen. Samma uppgifter låter göras med konsoll-applikationer. Fördelen med PowerShell är att man kan skapa skript som är flexibla och kan köras med olika parametrar. PowerShell påminner starkt om shell-skript i Linux. För mig som egentligen kommer snarare från bash-världen. Där har Microsoft låtit sig inspireras starkt :). Det finns en bok om PowerShell, skriven av svenskar, som låter intressant. Man behöver inte heller uppfinna hjul på nytt: det finns färdiga skripts som man direkt.
Tag: terminal
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Smarter way of loading SharePoint CSOM dll in PowerShell
Have you also got a legacy powershell script that loads SharePoint dlls and runs CSOM code directly? It’s quite easy to convert to PnP PowerShell. But if you run out of time and just need to execute the script, then I have a quick tip for you.
First of all, a CSOM script can be recognized by Add-Type commands (or Import-Module) plus the SharePoint dll paths.
Loading the dll the old way.
Tag: tip
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Smarter way of loading SharePoint CSOM dll in PowerShell
Have you also got a legacy powershell script that loads SharePoint dlls and runs CSOM code directly? It’s quite easy to convert to PnP PowerShell. But if you run out of time and just need to execute the script, then I have a quick tip for you.
First of all, a CSOM script can be recognized by Add-Type commands (or Import-Module) plus the SharePoint dll paths.
Loading the dll the old way.
Tag: job
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A cost effective way of running legacy scripts in the cloud
Have you also got some old huge scripts that run on a server locally? Have you also considered moving them to the cloud? Here comes an idea of how to do it quickly and easy.
In my case I have some older powershell scripts that are harder to convert to serverless applications:
They use MSOnline module in PowerShell, hence they require rewriting to AzureAD before using them in an Azure Function They take around 15 minutes to complete, Azure Functions Consumption Plan is limited to 10 minutes.
Tag: legacy
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A cost effective way of running legacy scripts in the cloud
Have you also got some old huge scripts that run on a server locally? Have you also considered moving them to the cloud? Here comes an idea of how to do it quickly and easy.
In my case I have some older powershell scripts that are harder to convert to serverless applications:
They use MSOnline module in PowerShell, hence they require rewriting to AzureAD before using them in an Azure Function They take around 15 minutes to complete, Azure Functions Consumption Plan is limited to 10 minutes.
Tag: logicapp
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A cost effective way of running legacy scripts in the cloud
Have you also got some old huge scripts that run on a server locally? Have you also considered moving them to the cloud? Here comes an idea of how to do it quickly and easy.
In my case I have some older powershell scripts that are harder to convert to serverless applications:
They use MSOnline module in PowerShell, hence they require rewriting to AzureAD before using them in an Azure Function They take around 15 minutes to complete, Azure Functions Consumption Plan is limited to 10 minutes.
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Using secrets in Logic Apps in a secure way
This is a guide for how to handle secrets in a logic app in a secure way. It combines three resources:
Accessing Key Vault from Logic App with Managed Identity Get Secrets Key Vault API Hide your logic apps secrets from prying eyes First, enable a Managed Identity for your Logic App:
In the KeyVault, add a new Access Policy for the new Managed Identity (from the previous step). Use the least priviliges.
Tag: msonline
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A cost effective way of running legacy scripts in the cloud
Have you also got some old huge scripts that run on a server locally? Have you also considered moving them to the cloud? Here comes an idea of how to do it quickly and easy.
In my case I have some older powershell scripts that are harder to convert to serverless applications:
They use MSOnline module in PowerShell, hence they require rewriting to AzureAD before using them in an Azure Function They take around 15 minutes to complete, Azure Functions Consumption Plan is limited to 10 minutes.
Tag: runbook
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A cost effective way of running legacy scripts in the cloud
Have you also got some old huge scripts that run on a server locally? Have you also considered moving them to the cloud? Here comes an idea of how to do it quickly and easy.
In my case I have some older powershell scripts that are harder to convert to serverless applications:
They use MSOnline module in PowerShell, hence they require rewriting to AzureAD before using them in an Azure Function They take around 15 minutes to complete, Azure Functions Consumption Plan is limited to 10 minutes.
Tag: schedule
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A cost effective way of running legacy scripts in the cloud
Have you also got some old huge scripts that run on a server locally? Have you also considered moving them to the cloud? Here comes an idea of how to do it quickly and easy.
In my case I have some older powershell scripts that are harder to convert to serverless applications:
They use MSOnline module in PowerShell, hence they require rewriting to AzureAD before using them in an Azure Function They take around 15 minutes to complete, Azure Functions Consumption Plan is limited to 10 minutes.
Tag: cli-microsoft365
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Monitoring Microsoft 365 using Raspberry Pi and M365 CLI
I would like to show you my recent hobby project with a raspberry pi, a unicorn phat and the powerful cli-microsoft365: A simple monitoring solution of Microsoft 365 Services.
Status of some important services in Microsoft 365
In essence, I put the unicorn phat onto the raspberry pi zero w and wrote this python script:
unicorn03_m365.py The python script checks the service status every five minutes and shows it with colors on the unicorn phat.
Tag: m365
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Monitoring Microsoft 365 using Raspberry Pi and M365 CLI
I would like to show you my recent hobby project with a raspberry pi, a unicorn phat and the powerful cli-microsoft365: A simple monitoring solution of Microsoft 365 Services.
Status of some important services in Microsoft 365
In essence, I put the unicorn phat onto the raspberry pi zero w and wrote this python script:
unicorn03_m365.py The python script checks the service status every five minutes and shows it with colors on the unicorn phat.
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Is an M365 Group a Yammer Community
Nowadays a Yammer Community gets a corresponding Microsoft 365 Group (Office 365 Group, Unified Group). In your work as an SPO Admin, you might need to differentiate “ordinary” Modern Team Sites from those ones that were created for a Yammer Community.
They both have GROUP#0 as Template. On the actual SPO Site object, there is nothing that you can use to differentiate those. Neither you can use the Office 365 Group information.
Tag: office365
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Monitoring Microsoft 365 using Raspberry Pi and M365 CLI
I would like to show you my recent hobby project with a raspberry pi, a unicorn phat and the powerful cli-microsoft365: A simple monitoring solution of Microsoft 365 Services.
Status of some important services in Microsoft 365
In essence, I put the unicorn phat onto the raspberry pi zero w and wrote this python script:
unicorn03_m365.py The python script checks the service status every five minutes and shows it with colors on the unicorn phat.
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Teams incoming webhooks for performance monitoring
Incoming webhooks in Teams are great, indeed. Last week I saw this tweet, which inspired me to share one of our webhooks.
There are many scenarios where it can be used, I would also like to share one of our scenarios: notifying our DevOps team about performance issues in SharePoint Online, detected through Exoprise.
This adaptive card (in Swedish) shows an alarm from Exoprise about login problems.
It’s simple and scalable:
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DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
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Is an M365 Group a Yammer Community
Nowadays a Yammer Community gets a corresponding Microsoft 365 Group (Office 365 Group, Unified Group). In your work as an SPO Admin, you might need to differentiate “ordinary” Modern Team Sites from those ones that were created for a Yammer Community.
They both have GROUP#0 as Template. On the actual SPO Site object, there is nothing that you can use to differentiate those. Neither you can use the Office 365 Group information.
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Deploying SPFx using Office 365 cli, custom AAD App and Azure Pipelines
In this post I would like to share some findings from setting a deployment of SPFx. In my work:
I need to deploy SPFx solutions using Azure Pipelines I need to use the least privileges/permissions I cannot use Legacy Authentication First of all, big thanks to @waldekm and the whole community of @office365cli and @m365pnp for the quick help, and that outside working hours.
Let’s take a look at the setup piece by piece
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Modern Team Site without an Office 365 Group
These are my findings around Modern Sites without Office 365 Groups. It is, of course, a subject to change.
Today (2020-02-21) when you create a Modern Team Site without a group, you will get a site with the template STS#3. This oldie has been around for a while, hasn’t it?
I would always recommend creating Office 365 Group Connected sites.
How it is created Through PowerShell/REST or from SharePoint Home, if your account is not allowed to create Office 365 Groups, it will automatically create a site without a group.
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Multilingual MS Forms
Want to translate your MS Forms into other languages? Create a form, not a quiz. It is available in both Forms and Forms Pro licenses.
Today I want to share one of my findings. One of those that seem obvious once you know, but that take time to find out.
Unfortunately, there is no official comparison of what is included in MS Forms vs. MS Forms Pro. So I thought that the ability to have forms in multiple languages was connected to the license.
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Using Sway as a simple static site builder
Sometimes all you need is just a simple static web page: instructions, a landing page, a collection of links. I think I have a perfect use case for Sway. Consider a scenario similar to what Laura Kokkarinen writes in her blog post:
How to build a guest user self-service registration for office 365 with azure An external user invitation needs an inviteRedirectUrl. Usually it is myapps.microsoft.com. In Laura’s case it was a given extranet url.
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Permissions in SPFx apply to your whole tenant
Once you approve a permission request from an SPFx app, it will grant the same permission to all other apps in the same tenant.
Nothing new, but I want to emphasize that in that blog post only dedicated to that. You can read it here:
MS Docs. Connect to Azure AD-secured APIs in SharePoint Framework solutions A simple sketch over the permissions.
Here is a simple FAQ to explain what it means:
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The Path Length Limit of 400 chars in SharePoint Online
This post is my summary and my conclusions on the Path Length Limit in SharePoint Online and OneDrive.
How the path length is calculated Path Length is not the same as the URL length. It is the relative Url.
/sites/site-url/documenlibrary/folder1/folder2/filename.fileextension Calculations rules Only the server relative url part is counted. The “https://[tenant].sharepoin.com” has no impact on that. It starts from the foward slash: “/sites” (or /teams). An encoded value such as a blankspace (%20) is treated as one character, not three.
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Renaming site urls
I saw a demo of it on the European SharePoint Conference in Copenhagen in 2018. Sebastian Fouillade, who showed this, compared this big change with brain surgery. All the urls, all the connections. But now it is possible. Today I have seen it even in my standard release tenant.
It is really appreciated. Soon it will be possible to rename misspelled sites, like “devlepment” to “development” etc.
To rename you need to go the SharePoint Admin, find your site among Active sites and click on “Edit” in the site url area.
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A user can only create 250 groups
A non-admin user can create no more than 250 resources in Azure AD. That is one of the many Azure AD service limits and restrictions. A “resource” can be an app registration, an Office 365 Group etc. But I would like to discuss Groups more in detail.
Imagine the following scenario: Your organization has disabled Office 365 Group Creation. Only IT can create new groups. A service account has been set up for creation of team sites.
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Tips and tricks for Site Collection App Catalogs
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.
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Just because I can should I use Private Office 365 CDN
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.
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My first Office Add-In
Yesterday I participated in the Hackathon at European SharePoin Conference in Stockholm. The main goal was to learn more about Office Add-Ins. I wanted to create a very very simple app to learn the basics. Here in this post I’ll provide some links and describe the steps needed to start developing your Office Add-Ins. The Add-in I created is an Outlook Add-In, it is called “Joke Inserter” and with it you can insert a random Chuck Norris joke.
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Onpremifying SharePoint apps
We want to make an app available in SharePoint OnPrem, we want to onpremify it. Rethink SharePoint apps and provisioning SharePoint artifacts. It has been a while since I updated my blog – Chuvash.eu. I had my vacation, I visited the sunny and green Chuvashia. Now I am back and I am looking forward to an awesome SharePoint Autumn. One of the first things I had to deal with in this SharePoint Autumn was Onpremifying of a SharePoint Online App.
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Export any web part from a SharePoint page
The blog post below describes the technical details about how Web Parts can be exported using a hidden tool in OOB SharePoint, though this requires manual assembling of a special url. If you are just interested in a solution for an easy Web Part Export function, just proceed directly to my new blog post where you can download my tool that you can add to your web browser.
Web Part Exporter
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AppLoader Concept for SharePoint apps
In this post I want to share an unusual, nevertheless interesting conceptual idea of loading content from SharePoint 2013 apps on many pages. The original awesome concept was proposed and developed by my colleague Martin Villysson at Bool.
The problem we are trying to solve SharePoint apps are great to extend functionality in SharePoint and integrate other systems (full page apps available through Site Contents), they also provide tools to enrich the default SharePoint experience by App Parts (Client Web Parts) and Custom Actions (additional menus).
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What about the SharePoint app domain?
This is an open question about the domains for SharePoint apps. On Technet: Configure an environment for apps for SharePoint (SharePoint 2013) we can read the following:
You must configure a new name in Domain Name Services (DNS) to host the apps. To help improve security, the domain name should not be a subdomain of the domain that hosts the SharePoint sites. For example, if the SharePoint sites are at Contoso.
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The CDN concept in SharePoint
How many instances of jquery are there in your SharePoint farm? [sourcecode language=“powershell”] Get-SPWebApplication http://dev ` | Select -Expand Sites ` | Select -Expand AllWebs ` | Select -Expand Lists ` | Select -Expand Items ` | ? { $_.Url -match “jquery.*.js” } ` | select Name, Url [/sourcecode] Have you more than two (jquery and jquery-ui), then you have too much. You can save much place and performance by using Content Delivery Network (CDN) links for the resources like javascript, css, fonts and icons.
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SharePoint Apps: "Provider Hosted First" Approach
Recently I had an exciting mail conversation with Thomas Deutsch. He came up with an idea how to fasten the development of apps. This smart approach is called “Provider Hosted First”. See Thomas’ original blog post. Here are some highlights: What you actually do is a local website which runs in grunt server:
localhost:9000 ```Then a SharePoint-hosted app is created with an SPAppIframe that refers to that local app site.
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Develop for SharePoint on Windows 8
Do you like Windows 8 user expirience, as me? Well than you want to try developing sharepoint solutions in Windows 8. Here I will show what I found out.
Environment I installed Windows 8 Release Preview as a VMWare machine. Then I installed Visual Studio 2012 RC. Then I followed the steps for installing SharePoint on Windows 8 which are more or less the same as for Windows 7 client install.
Tag: python
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Monitoring Microsoft 365 using Raspberry Pi and M365 CLI
I would like to show you my recent hobby project with a raspberry pi, a unicorn phat and the powerful cli-microsoft365: A simple monitoring solution of Microsoft 365 Services.
Status of some important services in Microsoft 365
In essence, I put the unicorn phat onto the raspberry pi zero w and wrote this python script:
unicorn03_m365.py The python script checks the service status every five minutes and shows it with colors on the unicorn phat.
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Vår robot Stefan
Roboten Stefan
Här är historian om Stefan, en robot jag och barnen har jobbat på under den senaste månaden. I en sann DIY-anda vill jag skriva om vårt projekt på bloggen och förhoppningsvis inspirera andra att utforska det. I och med projektet innebär en hel del pyssel, så är det lämpat i princip för alla åldrar.
Även om allting togs fram parallellt och stegvis (“i iterationer”), kommer projektet presenteras det i förenklad ordning
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DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
Tag: raspberrypi
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Monitoring Microsoft 365 using Raspberry Pi and M365 CLI
I would like to show you my recent hobby project with a raspberry pi, a unicorn phat and the powerful cli-microsoft365: A simple monitoring solution of Microsoft 365 Services.
Status of some important services in Microsoft 365
In essence, I put the unicorn phat onto the raspberry pi zero w and wrote this python script:
unicorn03_m365.py The python script checks the service status every five minutes and shows it with colors on the unicorn phat.
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MagicMirror2 and Chuvash
This post is about my setup of the popular MagicMirror2 application. I show the steps needed to set it up on a Raspberry Pi Zero W and connect it to a TV set. As a bonus, I share my thoughts on the Chuvash localization work.
MagicMirror2 is a DIY project and an open-source application, voted to number one of the best Raspberry Pi Projects. In essence, it shows information of your choice (weather, calendar, news) on a screen that is embedded in a mirror.
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DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
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Setting up Raspberry Pi2 for a Dashboard Monitor
I have set up Raspberry Pi as a Dashboard Monitor a couple of times. Here I want to summarize my steps. In fact, it is nothing special, a raspberry pi that is used as a browser showing a web based dashboard in full screen, but there are some important configuration steps needed to make it as good as possible.
Install Raspbian Raspbian is the best operating system for Raspberry Pi. Just stick with that.
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S01E01 IoT: Posting Temperature from Raspberry Pi to Azure
Recently I have looked more at IoT, Raspberry Pi in my spare time. In my blog post I want to share my experience in a series of posts. This post is about measuring temperature, humidity and pressure with Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and Sense Hat and posting this data to Azure Table Storage. I followed this tutorial for connecting to azure with python and these instructions for reading data from Sense Hat.
Tag: unicorn
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Monitoring Microsoft 365 using Raspberry Pi and M365 CLI
I would like to show you my recent hobby project with a raspberry pi, a unicorn phat and the powerful cli-microsoft365: A simple monitoring solution of Microsoft 365 Services.
Status of some important services in Microsoft 365
In essence, I put the unicorn phat onto the raspberry pi zero w and wrote this python script:
unicorn03_m365.py The python script checks the service status every five minutes and shows it with colors on the unicorn phat.
Tag: bash
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Git Merge develop to main in an Azure DevOps Release
This post is a techy one. It’s about running git commands in Azure DevOps Releases in order to finalize a deployment job to production.
Let me first describe our scenario: We use Azure DevOps for code and for deployment. Our branch strategy a simplified Gitflow model, where all the current work is merged to the “develop” branch. The code from the “develop” branch is then built and released to staging environments and production.
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Mass remove live photo videos
While importing images from my iPhone using Image Capture on my mac, I discovered that almost all pictures had corresponding videos. They had the same name, only the file extension was different:
IMG_2829.JPG IMG_2829.MOV For archiving I don’t to have live photo videos, that’s why I needed a script for that. I found a good start in an answer on SuperUser.stackexchange.com:
OSX Command line Find Duplicate Filenames with different extensions I altered it a bit to remove the corresponding .
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Setting up Raspberry Pi2 for a Dashboard Monitor
I have set up Raspberry Pi as a Dashboard Monitor a couple of times. Here I want to summarize my steps. In fact, it is nothing special, a raspberry pi that is used as a browser showing a web based dashboard in full screen, but there are some important configuration steps needed to make it as good as possible.
Install Raspbian Raspbian is the best operating system for Raspberry Pi. Just stick with that.
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Install android sdk and eclipse in Ubuntu 12.04
Download and unpack the Android SDK, move it to your home folder. I prefer to set a point in front of the directory folder to make it be hidden so that my home directoy still looks tidy: .android-sdk-linux. Then add this to your path:
export PATH=${PATH}:~/.android-sdk-linux/tools:~/.android-sdk-linux/platform-tools .android-sdk-tools is for running android command, and .android-sdk-tools/platform-tools is for running adb command And add it to your .bashrc-file so that this path is loaded automatically when you log on.
Tag: deploy
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Git Merge develop to main in an Azure DevOps Release
This post is a techy one. It’s about running git commands in Azure DevOps Releases in order to finalize a deployment job to production.
Let me first describe our scenario: We use Azure DevOps for code and for deployment. Our branch strategy a simplified Gitflow model, where all the current work is merged to the “develop” branch. The code from the “develop” branch is then built and released to staging environments and production.
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defaultvärde på parametern i powershellfunktioner
Läser ett intressant inlägg om deployskript i powershell. Har upptäckt att man kan stoppa in ett defaultvärde i funktionens parameter. Så i stället för
function hello($name) { Write-Host $name } Kan man köra:
function hello($name = "Gregor") { Write-Host $name } ```Mycket smidigt.
Tag: deployment
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Git Merge develop to main in an Azure DevOps Release
This post is a techy one. It’s about running git commands in Azure DevOps Releases in order to finalize a deployment job to production.
Let me first describe our scenario: We use Azure DevOps for code and for deployment. Our branch strategy a simplified Gitflow model, where all the current work is merged to the “develop” branch. The code from the “develop” branch is then built and released to staging environments and production.
Tag: pipeline
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Git Merge develop to main in an Azure DevOps Release
This post is a techy one. It’s about running git commands in Azure DevOps Releases in order to finalize a deployment job to production.
Let me first describe our scenario: We use Azure DevOps for code and for deployment. Our branch strategy a simplified Gitflow model, where all the current work is merged to the “develop” branch. The code from the “develop” branch is then built and released to staging environments and production.
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Azure Key Vault vs. Pipeline Variables
Using Azure Key Vault in a Pipeline is cool, but it is less secure.
The Key Vault setup
Have you tried the Key Vault Step in an Azure DevOps Pipeline? If you haven’t, please follow these awesome guides:
Azure DevOps Labs. Using secrets from Azure Key Vault in a pipeline Tobias Zimmergren. Using Azure Key Vault Secrets in Azure DevOps pipelines The steps described in these guides are easy, but that effort made me think about the first pair of pros and cons.
Tag: programming
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Git Merge develop to main in an Azure DevOps Release
This post is a techy one. It’s about running git commands in Azure DevOps Releases in order to finalize a deployment job to production.
Let me first describe our scenario: We use Azure DevOps for code and for deployment. Our branch strategy a simplified Gitflow model, where all the current work is merged to the “develop” branch. The code from the “develop” branch is then built and released to staging environments and production.
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Vår robot Stefan
Roboten Stefan
Här är historian om Stefan, en robot jag och barnen har jobbat på under den senaste månaden. I en sann DIY-anda vill jag skriva om vårt projekt på bloggen och förhoppningsvis inspirera andra att utforska det. I och med projektet innebär en hel del pyssel, så är det lämpat i princip för alla åldrar.
Även om allting togs fram parallellt och stegvis (“i iterationer”), kommer projektet presenteras det i förenklad ordning
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MagicMirror2 and Chuvash
This post is about my setup of the popular MagicMirror2 application. I show the steps needed to set it up on a Raspberry Pi Zero W and connect it to a TV set. As a bonus, I share my thoughts on the Chuvash localization work.
MagicMirror2 is a DIY project and an open-source application, voted to number one of the best Raspberry Pi Projects. In essence, it shows information of your choice (weather, calendar, news) on a screen that is embedded in a mirror.
Posts
DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
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Setting up a HelloWorld Azure Alert
Azure Alerts are awesome for monitoring of solutions in Azure. If you are about to set up your first Alert Rules in Azure, then it’s a guide for you. Configuring alert rules can be quite intimidating at first, with all the options, metrics, evaluation times, etc.
Here is a very very simple setup that can serve as a teaser and help you get started with the Azure Alerts.
I’ll use Teams as an easy way to set up notifications.
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Working with resx files in Visual Studio
Today I found a nice Visual Studio Extension for working with localization and resx files: Resx Resource Manager. This extension provides an additional view in your project and scans all the resx files. I would recommend it to all projects where you have to translate your interface. Here is how it looks in my project: It can also assist with some machine translation from Bing and MyMemory: Another good thing is the Export and Import to and from Excel.
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Trying out Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu
I am very curious about the new .NET Core, ASP.NET 5, EF 7 and Visual Studio Code for Linux, Mac and Windows. I have tried it out on an Ubuntu 15.04 machine. The installation and configuration required a few steps, so it is not an usual “Next-next-next”-installation. But, hey, it is just a beta, a preview so far, and first of all: It worked. I am sharing a couple of screenshots and the commands I ran in the terminal, mixed with comments and links: [source language=“bash”] #install latest node and npm #https://www.
Tag: release
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Git Merge develop to main in an Azure DevOps Release
This post is a techy one. It’s about running git commands in Azure DevOps Releases in order to finalize a deployment job to production.
Let me first describe our scenario: We use Azure DevOps for code and for deployment. Our branch strategy a simplified Gitflow model, where all the current work is merged to the “develop” branch. The code from the “develop” branch is then built and released to staging environments and production.
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Azure Key Vault vs. Pipeline Variables
Using Azure Key Vault in a Pipeline is cool, but it is less secure.
The Key Vault setup
Have you tried the Key Vault Step in an Azure DevOps Pipeline? If you haven’t, please follow these awesome guides:
Azure DevOps Labs. Using secrets from Azure Key Vault in a pipeline Tobias Zimmergren. Using Azure Key Vault Secrets in Azure DevOps pipelines The steps described in these guides are easy, but that effort made me think about the first pair of pros and cons.
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Version 0.2.7: Nations added. Ready for release
It is my pleasure to announce that a new version is ready for release. The biggest news are the nations which are now on the map. Other improvements are spelling error corrections. Great thanks to Kigsz. You can read about adding nations to the map on Lusites wiki.
Tag: print
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Print2SPO - en enkel utskrift till SharePoint
Den här bloggposten är ett (en aning större) användar- (eller verksamhetsutvecklar-)tips om hur man kan sätta upp smarta utskrifter till SharePoint Online - utan några extraappar eller lösningar.
Först och främst, stort tack till min kollega Shahram som har presenterat idén för mig. Tänk dig ett följande scenario:
Du har en mall i Word som du fyller i, skriver ut på papper. Låt säga, det är en plockorder. Du vill digitalisera processen genom att skicka pdf:en till ett gemensamt dokumentbibliotek i SharePoint eller Teams.
Tag: svenska
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Print2SPO - en enkel utskrift till SharePoint
Den här bloggposten är ett (en aning större) användar- (eller verksamhetsutvecklar-)tips om hur man kan sätta upp smarta utskrifter till SharePoint Online - utan några extraappar eller lösningar.
Först och främst, stort tack till min kollega Shahram som har presenterat idén för mig. Tänk dig ett följande scenario:
Du har en mall i Word som du fyller i, skriver ut på papper. Låt säga, det är en plockorder. Du vill digitalisera processen genom att skicka pdf:en till ett gemensamt dokumentbibliotek i SharePoint eller Teams.
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Vår robot Stefan
Roboten Stefan
Här är historian om Stefan, en robot jag och barnen har jobbat på under den senaste månaden. I en sann DIY-anda vill jag skriva om vårt projekt på bloggen och förhoppningsvis inspirera andra att utforska det. I och med projektet innebär en hel del pyssel, så är det lämpat i princip för alla åldrar.
Även om allting togs fram parallellt och stegvis (“i iterationer”), kommer projektet presenteras det i förenklad ordning
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Kombinera två SharePoint-listor i PowerBI
Det här är en enkel guide på svenska om hur du kan ladda in data från två eller fler listor i SharePoint och lägga ihop dem till en.
Scenariot är följande. Du har två eller fler sajter i SharePoint Online som har var sin lista (med samma kolumner). Du vill ladda in data från båda och se en aggregerad/summerad version. Alternativet är att ha en delad lista, men ibland (av behörighetskäl eller av behovet för smärre anpassningar av enskilda listor), ligger det i separata listor/sajter.
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Snabba diagram i SharePoint Online
Ett nytt tips på svenska: det finns en webpart i SharePoint Online: snabbdiagram.
När du har lagt till ett snabbdiagram, kan du skriva välja mellan stapel och cirkeldiagram
Du kan bara välja mellan stapel- och cirkeldiagram.
Data går att mata in direkt.
Resultatet får du direkt:
Använd data från en lista Det går att visualisera data från en SharePoint-lista. Det är inte så mycket mer komplicerat, men det öppnar nya möjligheter.
Tag: tips
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Print2SPO - en enkel utskrift till SharePoint
Den här bloggposten är ett (en aning större) användar- (eller verksamhetsutvecklar-)tips om hur man kan sätta upp smarta utskrifter till SharePoint Online - utan några extraappar eller lösningar.
Först och främst, stort tack till min kollega Shahram som har presenterat idén för mig. Tänk dig ett följande scenario:
Du har en mall i Word som du fyller i, skriver ut på papper. Låt säga, det är en plockorder. Du vill digitalisera processen genom att skicka pdf:en till ett gemensamt dokumentbibliotek i SharePoint eller Teams.
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Two workarounds for overcoming the listview threshold
These are two workarounds to see documents / list items in a view that exceeds the listview threshold of 5000 items.
Overcoming the listview threshold is as fun as succeeding in the limbo games.
This is changing all the time. When you read this, it might have changed. Today, 2021-01-05, me and my colleague found following two workarounds for listing over 5000 items in a list view in SharePoint Online:
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Two site logos?
We have had troubles updating site icons in SharePoint Online. It might be related to one of the following:
It occures only on hub sites The sites have a custom theme The error message:
We experienced a problem updating the icon. Please try again in a few minutes.
But what I found is that there are two places where you change the site icon. If the first does not work, try the second one, that was what worked for us:
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Page Diagnostics for SharePoint
While trying to set up a new Home Site, I discovered that there is a tool (browser extension) called Page Diagnostics for SharePoint.
After running this, I tried that command again and it was smart enough to detect the problem the tool discovered.
Also Network Trace is available.
Network trace
Page Diagnostics Tool is defnitely a tool to have in the troubleshooting toolbelt for SharePoint.
Setting up a Home Site Here is the script:
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Tips and Trick for Azure Functions
These are my favourite tips and tricks. These are only those who me and my colleguages have tried out.
Architecture tips Keep it slim Functions should do one thing and they should do it well. When you develop it in C# and Visual Studio, it is so tempting to develop a “microservice” in a good way, you add interfaces, implement good patterns, and all of a sudden you get a monolith packaged in a microservice.
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Switch back to Modern UI
Just a little tip. When you switched to a Classic View of Site Contents, you can switch back by removing a cookie called “splnu”.
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Working with resx files in Visual Studio
Today I found a nice Visual Studio Extension for working with localization and resx files: Resx Resource Manager. This extension provides an additional view in your project and scans all the resx files. I would recommend it to all projects where you have to translate your interface. Here is how it looks in my project: It can also assist with some machine translation from Bing and MyMemory: Another good thing is the Export and Import to and from Excel.
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Bypass all custom jslink
Client Side Rendering (CSR) and jslink are great for customizing lists and forms in SharePoint. In my current project we use it a lot of it. A disadvantage of that path, although, is that it might occur javascript errors, during the development phase, but also in production. We do, of course, our best to leverage the best jslink code, but unfortunately we have to live with the fact that errors can occur, especially when we use it for NewForm, EditForm, DisplayForm and View (in list and grid).
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Improving the web performance of an intranet
[caption id=“attachment_3437” align=“alignnone” width=“480”] All the “small” app parts, web parts, delegate controls, user controls, and other “packages” that “must” be delivered to the users on every page load of the Start Page of your Intranet.[/caption] Recently we made an investment to improve the performance of our intranet. We made many changes in different layers: SQL, Network, Browser upgrade and code. Here I want to tell about what code changes we did to improve the web browser performance.
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Do not mess with the hive
In our Intranet we got this nasty double encoding error that was introduced in SharePoint April 2014 CU. In July 2014 CU the problem is still there. I often hear the suggestions to update files directly in the hive (the root folder for SharePoint: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\) In that blog post it is described what the problem is and what files are affected and what code must be altered in order to get it to work (which I like).
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Load git into PowerShell
Just a little productivity tip. If you use git on Windows, you probably already have the Github for Windows application. This application adds the Git Shell:
The Git Shell will open a PowerShell window and execute shell.ps1 from the Github directory:
What it won’t do is to load your personal PowerShell profile. I want to use my PowerShell profile that creates some links and adjust the look-and-feel and the promt of the shell.
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Updating hover style in IE8 Developer Tools
In our project we still have to support Internet Explorer 8. The CSS issues in IE8 are most difficult to debug and solve. You can not add a new rule in Developer Tools or toggle the state of an element to hover as in moder web browser dev tools. One solution that I’ve come up to today, is to add a style with javascript or jQuery, open the script pane in IE8 Dev Tools and add this line: [code language=“javascript”] $(’.
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Masked Inputs
Just a quick tip today. If you are looking after masked inputs like the old ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit MaskedEdit, you can try jQuery plugin called Masked Input from DigitalBush or even better jquery.inputmask.
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Toastr.js and SharePoint
Have you used SharePoint javascript Notifications (SP.UI.Notify)? Are you looking for something new and fresh? Well then check out the Toastr.js - a simple, beautiful, fully responsive and light-weight javascript lib for notifications, developed by John Papa and Hans Fjällemark and released under the MIT License. By the way, toastr was one of many things I discovered and learned on John Papa’s online course by pluralsight: Single Page Apps with HTML5, Web API, Knockout and jQuery.
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The original Visual Web Part template is missing in Visual Studio 2012
Today I encountered a weird issue, the classic Visual Web Part template was gone in Visual Studio 2012. When I created a Visual WebPart, a webpart was created with a generated .g.cs file, like the sandboxed visual webparts. I am not exactly sure why it happened. According to the MSDN guide Creating Web Parts for SharePoint, the structure of Visual Webparts should be the same as in Visual Studio 2010. It could have happened after I installed the power tools.
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javascript: developing for performance
Many words have been said about the importance of performance when working with javascript files. Here I want to summarize what developers can do to increase the performance related to javascript. I found many tips on blogs. Here comes my aggregated list of actions one can do to speed up sharepoint (and not only) sites with focus on javascript:
1. Load only sharepoint stuff you need Use prefetch option to only load sharepoint javascript files that needed.
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Out-Gridview in PowerShell
Did you know that we can pipe the output from PowerShell into a graphical GridView? I have used PowerShell for one year and only now I discovered this nice feature. You can add filter criteria, you can filter by typing in a textbox: Other useful output cmdlets out-file out-clip out-null
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Add Comments column to your sharepoint list
If you have used Issue tracking list template in SharePoint you must have marked that the comments are added and marked with author name and datetime. It is handy to have these micro “discussion boards” on items. The comment-formed communication can help to fine-tune task definitions. By the way, have you seen Trello? So the question is how we can create this column in other lists? Here is a little tutorial how to create “append-only comments”, as they are called:
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Powershell scripts for AD
A tip for all who want to administer AD with powershell: Idera Powershell scripts. Just sign up and get the free scripts for AD, SQL, Exchange and Sharepoint. I personally prefer to user modules, so I change the file extension from ps1 to psm1 and then I can use import functions as modules. Here is a simple example for creating for domain users:
import-module .\\New-IADUser1.psm1 function Add-User($name) { New-IADUser -Name $name -sAMAccountname $name -ParentContainer 'CN=Users, DC=contoso, DC=com' -Password 'SvenskaAkademien1786' -EnableAccount -PasswordNeverExpires } Add-User "user01" Add-User "user02" Add-User "user03" Add-User "user04" update 2012-03-15: nice script from Ryan Ryan Dennis has created a very handy script for creating random users.
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Check if an html element is hidden using jQuery
Well, sometimes we need to calculate width and so on. In my next post I will write about how to fix auto-resize on fixed sized master pages. But now: a very nice stuff: how to check if an element is hidden or not:
$("#s4-leftpanel").is(":visible") ```It is a pure poetry. It reminds me of the beauty of [symbols in Ruby](http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/ruby_symbols.html).
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Good pattern for javascript files
SP.js exists in two variants in debug mode and in modified. When you develop it is better to use debug mode. When it goes to production it is better to use minified files. The same you can do with your files. Wictor Wilen explains how to do minify your custom javascript files. I think it is a good pattern to create javascript files and call them something-something**.debug.js**. Then when you are done, run the custom tools to minify them.
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Todolist in VS
A really nice feature is a task list. Just write //TODO something something in your code and it appears in the task list which can be shown through View - Task List in Visual Studio.
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Increase performance while retrieving data with LINQ to SP
If you are just intrested in getting data, not writing to the source like SubmitChange, you can disable ObjectTracking and increase the performance.
context.ObjectTrackingEnabled = false; ```I found this tip on page 248 in the book "[Sharepoint 2010 as a development platform](http://www.apress.com/9781430227069)"
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Windows 8 preview
I have tested the Windows 8 developer preview. VMWare player 3 didn’t manage it, so I installed VirtualBox and it ran very well. One thing I did was to enable full screen on VirtualBox. Here is the list of features you get if you install the developer preview:
Windows SDK for Metro style apps Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview 28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app
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1DayLater.com - the best time tracking
I discovered a great tool for time tracking: 1DayLater. So far I am very pleased. You can add activities, write hash tagged descriptions, get an overview over you consultant hours and much more
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powershell.exe -Command
man kan skapa en .bat-fil med olika powershell-anrop:
powershell.exe -Command "& {.\\Script1.ps1}"
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Videokurs om Web Content Management
På microsoft.com finns en ny videokurs om web content management. Där kan du lära dig om hur man implementerar cms-funktionalitet med sharepoint, bl.a.: content types, page layouts med mera. Tack för tipset, deutschsprachige Sharepoint-Community.
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Autocomplete för sökruta i Sharepoint
Ett mycket trevligt projekt: Search As You Type på Codeplex. Ladda ner textfilen och lägg till javascript och css från den filen till masterpage. Så enkelt är det. Jag har testat det genom att direkt stoppa in koden i Chrome Console.
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uls logger
Det finns ett intressant projekt på codeplex: ULS Logger. Är absolut värt att testa.
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parametrar i powershell-funktioner
Man kan skapa funktioner med parametrar som påminner mycket om i C#. Så i stället för:
function Just-Test { Write-Host $args\[0\] } ```Skriv: function Just-Test($param) { Write-Host $param }
if($site -ne $null -and $url -ne $null) {“Url OR Site can be given”; return}
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Visa i hur länge sedan något hänt
Säg du vill visa när något har skapats. Att visa datum funkar. Ännu bättre är att visa det i stil: “För tre dagar sedan” eller så. Det finns en bra metod i SPUtility:
SPUtility.TimeDeltaAsString(Published, DateTime.Now);
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ID på befintliga kolumner
Det finns en fin lista över id på kolumner som man kan lägga till. Här är ett exempel hur man kan använda det. Här är ett exempel på två extra kolumner i contenttype:
<FieldRefs> <FieldRef ID="{23f27201-bee3-471e-b2e7-b64fd8b7ca38}"/> <!-- Enterprise Keywords--> <FieldRef ID="{3de94b06-4120-41a5-b907-88773e493458}"/> <!-- PublishingImage--> </FieldRefs>
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.gitignore for android
.gitignore is very important. This file tells git which files not to care about. I found a good template for android .gitignore: .metadata tmp/** .DS_Store *.tmp *.bak tmp/**/* *.swp *~.nib Thumbs.db Desktop.ini *~ *.apk bin gen local.properties *.jar **.classpath** The only thing I have added is the last row: .classpath.
Comments from Wordpress.com J. Pablo Fernández - Apr 2, 2011
Thanks for pointing to the missing .classpath, it’s now fixed on gitignore.
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Good beginners' tutorial on android, eclipse and git
Smashing magazine has a pretty good tutorial how to start programming for android using git, github, eclipse and datastorage. I recommend: Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse, Reloaded
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New files in Eclipse
If there are new classes or files in the project (say you have got the latest version from github into existing workspace in Eclipse). In order for Eclipse to see them, right click on the package and press “Refresh”.
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Get coordinates from Google Maps
To get longitude and latitude can be tricky at the first time. There are many ways to do this, e.g. getlatlon.com. Good enough, but not so practical if you want to collect many coordinates. You can’t search after street names, you only can scroll and drag. Another way is to use javascript to show the longitude and latitude. See this example. This works in all web browsers.Just find your object in Google Maps and paste this javascript in URL bar: javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.
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Programmers notepad
De flesta känner nog till Notepad++. Det finns en annan väldigt duktig textredigerare: Programmers notepad. Den är väldigt bra. code highlighting, filnavigering direkt i programmet mm. Testa gärna.
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Powershell med tysk precision
Master Powershell ebookDe som har missat Powershell, läser nog andra sorts bloggar än denna. Så rak på sak: det finns en lovande ebook om Powershell, skriven av Tobias Weltner. Ska absolut läsa den. Ni som har läst, vad tycker ni om den? Master-PowerShell | With Dr. Tobias Weltner i html
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JSFiddle
Vill du snabbt testa javascript, css och sånt, då är JSFiddle rätt för dig. Skapa ett konto där och njut.
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Ändra utseendet på sidan direkt i webbläsaren
I förra inlägget har jag berättat om devtools i Google Chrome. Ett ytterligare tips för att hålla på med klient-delen är att använda Optimizely.com. Det är väldigt smidigt. Gå in på optimizely.com och skriv in adressen till din sharepoint-applikation. Eller se denna video. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S0IrbwpfzE&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3]
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Felsök på clientsidan med Chrome DevTools
Här är en väldigt bra video som berättar om nya devtools i Google Chrome 10. Den visar 12 tricks hur man kan underlätta felsökning av html, css och javascript. Att kunna ändra html,css och js on-the-fly är faktiskt häftigt. För mig som länge har använt Firebug i Firefox (som nu inte funkar på FF4 RC) känns devtools väldigt bra. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOEw9iiopwI&w=530&h=335]
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Sharepoint Log Viewer
Mycket bra verktyg för att debugga din sharepoint applikation är Sharepoint Log Viewer som är Open Source och finns att hämta på codeplex.com Det går att öppna en logg-fil, det går att köra live monitoring och att exportera. Det sköna är att det är lätt att söka efter correlations-id. Rekommenderar verktyget!
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Tag: license
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1 TB = 1024 GB in SPO?
There is confusion around how the storage is calculated in SharePoint Online. I believe, in SharePoint Online 1 TB is 1024 GB (based on powers of two), although the SI Prefix is for numbers based on powers of 10 (1TB = 1000GB, Wikipedia). In this post I would like to summarize the results of my investigations and I hope Microsoft or the community can confirm or disconfirm this.
First, let me explain why we care about it.
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Multilingual MS Forms
Want to translate your MS Forms into other languages? Create a form, not a quiz. It is available in both Forms and Forms Pro licenses.
Today I want to share one of my findings. One of those that seem obvious once you know, but that take time to find out.
Unfortunately, there is no official comparison of what is included in MS Forms vs. MS Forms Pro. So I thought that the ability to have forms in multiple languages was connected to the license.
Tag: storage
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1 TB = 1024 GB in SPO?
There is confusion around how the storage is calculated in SharePoint Online. I believe, in SharePoint Online 1 TB is 1024 GB (based on powers of two), although the SI Prefix is for numbers based on powers of 10 (1TB = 1000GB, Wikipedia). In this post I would like to summarize the results of my investigations and I hope Microsoft or the community can confirm or disconfirm this.
First, let me explain why we care about it.
Tag: block programming
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Vår robot Stefan
Roboten Stefan
Här är historian om Stefan, en robot jag och barnen har jobbat på under den senaste månaden. I en sann DIY-anda vill jag skriva om vårt projekt på bloggen och förhoppningsvis inspirera andra att utforska det. I och med projektet innebär en hel del pyssel, så är det lämpat i princip för alla åldrar.
Även om allting togs fram parallellt och stegvis (“i iterationer”), kommer projektet presenteras det i förenklad ordning
Tag: makecode
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Vår robot Stefan
Roboten Stefan
Här är historian om Stefan, en robot jag och barnen har jobbat på under den senaste månaden. I en sann DIY-anda vill jag skriva om vårt projekt på bloggen och förhoppningsvis inspirera andra att utforska det. I och med projektet innebär en hel del pyssel, så är det lämpat i princip för alla åldrar.
Även om allting togs fram parallellt och stegvis (“i iterationer”), kommer projektet presenteras det i förenklad ordning
Tag: robot
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Vår robot Stefan
Roboten Stefan
Här är historian om Stefan, en robot jag och barnen har jobbat på under den senaste månaden. I en sann DIY-anda vill jag skriva om vårt projekt på bloggen och förhoppningsvis inspirera andra att utforska det. I och med projektet innebär en hel del pyssel, så är det lämpat i princip för alla åldrar.
Även om allting togs fram parallellt och stegvis (“i iterationer”), kommer projektet presenteras det i förenklad ordning
Tag: servo
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Vår robot Stefan
Roboten Stefan
Här är historian om Stefan, en robot jag och barnen har jobbat på under den senaste månaden. I en sann DIY-anda vill jag skriva om vårt projekt på bloggen och förhoppningsvis inspirera andra att utforska det. I och med projektet innebär en hel del pyssel, så är det lämpat i princip för alla åldrar.
Även om allting togs fram parallellt och stegvis (“i iterationer”), kommer projektet presenteras det i förenklad ordning
Tag: pbi
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Kombinera två SharePoint-listor i PowerBI
Det här är en enkel guide på svenska om hur du kan ladda in data från två eller fler listor i SharePoint och lägga ihop dem till en.
Scenariot är följande. Du har två eller fler sajter i SharePoint Online som har var sin lista (med samma kolumner). Du vill ladda in data från båda och se en aggregerad/summerad version. Alternativet är att ha en delad lista, men ibland (av behörighetskäl eller av behovet för smärre anpassningar av enskilda listor), ligger det i separata listor/sajter.
Tag: PowerBI
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Kombinera två SharePoint-listor i PowerBI
Det här är en enkel guide på svenska om hur du kan ladda in data från två eller fler listor i SharePoint och lägga ihop dem till en.
Scenariot är följande. Du har två eller fler sajter i SharePoint Online som har var sin lista (med samma kolumner). Du vill ladda in data från båda och se en aggregerad/summerad version. Alternativet är att ha en delad lista, men ibland (av behörighetskäl eller av behovet för smärre anpassningar av enskilda listor), ligger det i separata listor/sajter.
Tag: hubber
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Add a security group as hubbers using PowerShell
Today I needed to add a security group to “People who can associate sites with this hub” through PowerShell. Here is quick how-to. I usually say “hubbers” instead of the long “People who….”. By the way, if you want to know what prerequisites there are for being a hubber, read my other blog post
Infographics. Who can associate a site with a hub An example of how to add a security group is missing in the MS Docs:
Tag: hubsite
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Add a security group as hubbers using PowerShell
Today I needed to add a security group to “People who can associate sites with this hub” through PowerShell. Here is quick how-to. I usually say “hubbers” instead of the long “People who….”. By the way, if you want to know what prerequisites there are for being a hubber, read my other blog post
Infographics. Who can associate a site with a hub An example of how to add a security group is missing in the MS Docs:
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Infographics. Who can associate a site with a hub
I found this nice post and a nice decision flowchart.
Intelogy. Who can associate a site to a SharePoint Hub Low resolution, visit the post to see more.
I also have drawed a simple chart while explaining for my colleagues, you can see it above. I hope this infographics can be useful to more people. By the way, we use the word “Hubber” (sv. Hubbare) for “People who can associate sites to hubs”
Tag: adoption
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Own praise badges in Teams
While reading the Teams News recap from December 2020, I found one thing that caught my attention particularly: Custom Praise Badges in Teams. Let’s try this. But first, those badges are the default ones:
They are good starting point. But to take it a step further, to really engage people and praise, you need some specific badges that mean something for your company.
To add a new badge all you have to do is to go to Teams Admin (obviously it requires you having the Teams Administrator Role):
Tag: badge
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Own praise badges in Teams
While reading the Teams News recap from December 2020, I found one thing that caught my attention particularly: Custom Praise Badges in Teams. Let’s try this. But first, those badges are the default ones:
They are good starting point. But to take it a step further, to really engage people and praise, you need some specific badges that mean something for your company.
To add a new badge all you have to do is to go to Teams Admin (obviously it requires you having the Teams Administrator Role):
Tag: praise
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Own praise badges in Teams
While reading the Teams News recap from December 2020, I found one thing that caught my attention particularly: Custom Praise Badges in Teams. Let’s try this. But first, those badges are the default ones:
They are good starting point. But to take it a step further, to really engage people and praise, you need some specific badges that mean something for your company.
To add a new badge all you have to do is to go to Teams Admin (obviously it requires you having the Teams Administrator Role):
Tag: ListView
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Two workarounds for overcoming the listview threshold
These are two workarounds to see documents / list items in a view that exceeds the listview threshold of 5000 items.
Overcoming the listview threshold is as fun as succeeding in the limbo games.
This is changing all the time. When you read this, it might have changed. Today, 2021-01-05, me and my colleague found following two workarounds for listing over 5000 items in a list view in SharePoint Online:
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Get totals from a list view using PowerShell
Today I will share a short script for getting totals from a list view in SharePoint. Imagine this scenario: you have set up a list view with totals and you want get the totals every day for statistics or some other reasons. Instead of getting all items, and/or fiddling around with CamlQueries, there is a better and quicker way - List.RenderListData. This combined with a tip from Piyush K Singhs blog post Get Aggregate Values… I came up with an idea to read the ViewXml from an existing view and retrieve the totals (in my case Count and Sum).
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Binda Data till ListView i WPF
Det är väldigt smidigt att koppla datakälla till en ListView i WPF. Man skriver kod i XAML. Och i koden bakom anger man: myListView.ItemsSource = myList;
Tag: threshold
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Two workarounds for overcoming the listview threshold
These are two workarounds to see documents / list items in a view that exceeds the listview threshold of 5000 items.
Overcoming the listview threshold is as fun as succeeding in the limbo games.
This is changing all the time. When you read this, it might have changed. Today, 2021-01-05, me and my colleague found following two workarounds for listing over 5000 items in a list view in SharePoint Online:
Tag: exoprise
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Teams incoming webhooks for performance monitoring
Incoming webhooks in Teams are great, indeed. Last week I saw this tweet, which inspired me to share one of our webhooks.
There are many scenarios where it can be used, I would also like to share one of our scenarios: notifying our DevOps team about performance issues in SharePoint Online, detected through Exoprise.
This adaptive card (in Swedish) shows an alarm from Exoprise about login problems.
It’s simple and scalable:
Tag: monitoring
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Teams incoming webhooks for performance monitoring
Incoming webhooks in Teams are great, indeed. Last week I saw this tweet, which inspired me to share one of our webhooks.
There are many scenarios where it can be used, I would also like to share one of our scenarios: notifying our DevOps team about performance issues in SharePoint Online, detected through Exoprise.
This adaptive card (in Swedish) shows an alarm from Exoprise about login problems.
It’s simple and scalable:
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Setting up a HelloWorld Azure Alert
Azure Alerts are awesome for monitoring of solutions in Azure. If you are about to set up your first Alert Rules in Azure, then it’s a guide for you. Configuring alert rules can be quite intimidating at first, with all the options, metrics, evaluation times, etc.
Here is a very very simple setup that can serve as a teaser and help you get started with the Azure Alerts.
I’ll use Teams as an easy way to set up notifications.
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Shrink sharepoint database
A Sharepoint Database can become big and have unused spaces. To shrink database go to CA-> Health Analyzer: http://takana:1337/Lists/HealthReports/AllItems.aspx See if there is a list item about unused space in db under the Availability. Click on Repair Automatically in the opened Modal Dialog:
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A simple Log for ULS
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A simple Log for ULS
Here is a simple log which has been inspired of Android Log. It logs to ULS which you can open with ULSViewer, SharePoint Log Viewer.
using System; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration; namespace Contoso.Intranet.Portal.Utilities { public class Log { private static readonly string \_CATEGORYNAME = "CONTOSO"; private static readonly SPDiagnosticsCategory \_ERROR\_CATEGORY = new SPDiagnosticsCategory(\_CATEGORYNAME, TraceSeverity.Unexpected, EventSeverity.Error); private static readonly SPDiagnosticsCategory \_WARNING\_CATEGORY = new SPDiagnosticsCategory(\_CATEGORYNAME, TraceSeverity.High, EventSeverity.Warning); private static readonly SPDiagnosticsCategory \_VERBOSE\_CATEGORY = new SPDiagnosticsCategory(\_CATEGORYNAME, TraceSeverity.
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Sharepoint Log Viewer
Mycket bra verktyg för att debugga din sharepoint applikation är Sharepoint Log Viewer som är Open Source och finns att hämta på codeplex.com Det går att öppna en logg-fil, det går att köra live monitoring och att exportera. Det sköna är att det är lätt att söka efter correlations-id. Rekommenderar verktyget!
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Tag: webhook
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Teams incoming webhooks for performance monitoring
Incoming webhooks in Teams are great, indeed. Last week I saw this tweet, which inspired me to share one of our webhooks.
There are many scenarios where it can be used, I would also like to share one of our scenarios: notifying our DevOps team about performance issues in SharePoint Online, detected through Exoprise.
This adaptive card (in Swedish) shows an alarm from Exoprise about login problems.
It’s simple and scalable:
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Setting up a HelloWorld Azure Alert
Azure Alerts are awesome for monitoring of solutions in Azure. If you are about to set up your first Alert Rules in Azure, then it’s a guide for you. Configuring alert rules can be quite intimidating at first, with all the options, metrics, evaluation times, etc.
Here is a very very simple setup that can serve as a teaser and help you get started with the Azure Alerts.
I’ll use Teams as an easy way to set up notifications.
Tag: Chuvash
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MagicMirror2 and Chuvash
This post is about my setup of the popular MagicMirror2 application. I show the steps needed to set it up on a Raspberry Pi Zero W and connect it to a TV set. As a bonus, I share my thoughts on the Chuvash localization work.
MagicMirror2 is a DIY project and an open-source application, voted to number one of the best Raspberry Pi Projects. In essence, it shows information of your choice (weather, calendar, news) on a screen that is embedded in a mirror.
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Chuvash Keyboard Layout for Mac
I’ve got a Mac and one of my first questions was: How can I write in Chuvash on my Mac, obviously :) In this post I am going to tell how I created Chuvash Keyboard Layout. The solution and installation instructions are on Github: Chuvash Keyboard Layout for Mac What the heck is Chuvash? For those who don’t know yet: Chuvash are people who live in Chuvash Republic in Russian Federation, and abroad, as me.
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A new Chuvash keyboard layout
The Chuvash keyboard layout has been the Russian keyboard layout with 4 Chuvash letters that are typed by pressing the right Alt button plus the base letter. Some of the arguments have been
Users don’t need to switch or learn a new keyboard layout. They can keep on typing Russian texts and sometimes Chuvash texts It is easy to communicate about how the right Alt button works. The Right-Alt-technique is also used in Esperanto, Polish and other languages.
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Creating a Russian Extended Keyboard Layout
In my spare time I am currently working on a Chuvash-Tatar phrasebook. I have used the Chuvash and Tatar keyboard layout on Linux. They work fine, but switching between them takes time. So I decided to add Tatar letters (right Alt + combinations) to my Chuvash keyboard layout. While adding it I found a combined Russian-Ukranian United keyboard layout and I thought:
What if I create a new keyboard layout for Russian that will have almost all additional Cyrillic letters?
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Chuvash localization
Recently I wanted to add Chuvash localization to the jQuery UI datepicker. Unfortunately, my pull request was rejected. The reason is that jQuery UI will be using Globalize framework: The jQuery Globalize framework relies on CLDR, so What is Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository)?
The Unicode CLDR provides key building blocks for software to support the world’s languages, with the largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data available.
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It is time to standardize the Chuvash Keyboard Layout
[caption id=“attachment_3165” align=“alignnone” width=“630”] Proto-Bulgarian Runes (Chuvash language is the closest language to the Proto-Bulgar language). Wonder if they are supported in Unicode :)[/caption] The Chuvash Computer Keyboard layouts have existed since 2001, but due to the lack for Unicode support we were forced to use the look-alike letters from other latin-based keyboard layouts. On Linux The Chuvash keyboard layout was added in [2007](https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11246 “The original “bug” in FreeDesktop bugzilla”) and Linux is still the only operating system that has a native keyboard layout for Chuvash language.
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Pragmatic Responsive Design
I have been curious about the responsive design but have not had time to try it out. To learn more I decided to make an existing website more responsive. A friend of mine drives a Chuvash Dictionary website: samah.chv.su. Today it looks like this in a mobile browser: The site is a classic 1000px-ish centered page with header and two columns. The left column is for the main content and the right column for additional “aside” information.
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On Windows keyboard layouts for minority languages in Russia
I can’t write in Chuvash in Windows 8 (and all the previous Windows releases). Chuvash is a minority language in Russian Federation. In this blog post I want to summarize the status of the keyboard layout support of the minority languages of Russia and find a way to improve this situation.
Languages and Microsoft There are thousands of languages. Of course it is hard to support them all. As per 2012-02-21 Windows 8 supports 109 (!
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Chuvash localization of moment.js
For three months ago I added Chuvash localization of moment.js. For 16 days ago moment.js 1.7.0 was officially released which included the Chuvash translation.
Wait a sec… What is moment.js? moment.js is the best datetime tool for javascript. It supports many languages (now even Chuvash) for displaying date and time. Another very handy functionality is showing relative time which has a simple interface: fromNow(). Here is a simple example from a web browser console:
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Chuvash translation of Wikipedia Mobile
The official Wikipedia mobile app is now translated into Chuvash language and available to use: What does Chuvash mean? I am Chuvash. Chuvash is the name of an ethnicity which counts up to 2 milions peoply (mostly in Russia). Chuvashes talk the Chuvash language which is also an official language in Chuvash Republic (besides Russian). Chuvash language is a Turkic language and has a status “Vulnerable” in the UNESCO list of languages in danger.
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Chuvash Keyboard for Android
Now there is a Chuvash keyboard for Android. The little program uses AnySoftKeyboard application, gives the ability to write in Cyrillic and Latin. All kinds of feedback are appreciated. Chuvash Keyboard for Android is open source like AnySoftKeyboard.
Tag: i18n
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MagicMirror2 and Chuvash
This post is about my setup of the popular MagicMirror2 application. I show the steps needed to set it up on a Raspberry Pi Zero W and connect it to a TV set. As a bonus, I share my thoughts on the Chuvash localization work.
MagicMirror2 is a DIY project and an open-source application, voted to number one of the best Raspberry Pi Projects. In essence, it shows information of your choice (weather, calendar, news) on a screen that is embedded in a mirror.
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On Windows keyboard layouts for minority languages in Russia
I can’t write in Chuvash in Windows 8 (and all the previous Windows releases). Chuvash is a minority language in Russian Federation. In this blog post I want to summarize the status of the keyboard layout support of the minority languages of Russia and find a way to improve this situation.
Languages and Microsoft There are thousands of languages. Of course it is hard to support them all. As per 2012-02-21 Windows 8 supports 109 (!
Tag: javascript
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MagicMirror2 and Chuvash
This post is about my setup of the popular MagicMirror2 application. I show the steps needed to set it up on a Raspberry Pi Zero W and connect it to a TV set. As a bonus, I share my thoughts on the Chuvash localization work.
MagicMirror2 is a DIY project and an open-source application, voted to number one of the best Raspberry Pi Projects. In essence, it shows information of your choice (weather, calendar, news) on a screen that is embedded in a mirror.
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Filtering Azure Table Data directly in the Azure Function Binding
Instead of filtering values from an Azure Storage Table, you can do it directly in the bindings. It might not be a solution for everything, but in the right place, it is fantastic. I was very surprised to see how little code was needed after this binding change:
For that to work, define the filter attribute in the bindings: “filter”: “(PartitionKey eq ‘{package}’)”
To try it out, add a new row in a table defined in the bindings (“metadata” in my case):
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Update Field.JSLink using JSOM or REST
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. [code language=“javascript”] 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.
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Trigger SP2010 Workflows using JSOM
Today I found out how to start workflows in JSOM (JavaScript Object Model in SharePoint). Nothing special, but since it is not documented, it took me a while to find a solution. Here is the code which I want to keep as simple as possible. What you need to start a SP2010 Workflow for a list item or a document in JSOM, you need to load SP.WorkflowServices.js and you need to create the manager and get the service, then you can trigger a workflow using the workflow name, the list guid and the guid of the list item: [code language=“javascript”] var ctx = SP.
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Create and download a file in javascript
Phew, I spent a lot of time to get this to work:
Create a text based file in javascript - a simple csv or txt Download a file in Chrome and Internet Explorer Make Excel understand Unicode characters (å ä ö and many more) in csv directly. I found many solutions on the Internet that I used to find out a solution that works for me A deep diving jsfiddle about unicode encodings, bom, line endings: http://jsfiddle.
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Minimal Download Strategy. Simple
There are many correct ways (1, 2, 3, 4, 5…) of making scripts work with the Minimal Download Strategy Feature (MDS) in SharePoint 2013 and 2016. But to be honest - every time I need it, I get confused. So now it is time to find a simple solution for that. Who is better at it than the developers of the SharePoint themselves? Look at the MDS code in the built-in Display Templates: Let’s keep it as simple as Item_Default.
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Minimal Display Template
We want to use our own Display Templates on Non-publishing sites - our team sites. Without the Publishing Feature activated you have to create an own javascript file. Here is short and concise instructions how to install it: Display Templates on Non-publishing Sites. As described on that blog, you can make copy of an existing Item_Default.js and adjust to your needs. I also asked Elio Struyf and I got the same tip.
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SharePoint Utilities - a promising JavaScript Framework
My colleagues at Bool have developed a new JavaScript framework for SharePoint - sharepoint utilities. It started on our DevDay last year - a whole free day when we could learn new things, try out new techniques or build something that was not even requested from a customer. I was not working on sharepoint utilities, so I almost forgot it until… I recently re-discovered sharepoint utilities. It is on Github, it is MIT licensed and contributions are welcome.
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A tiny tool for User Custom Actions
Everybody loves User Custom Actions in SharePoint. That’s the only recommended way of customizing SharePoint. You have heard about it. Unfortunately there is no convinient way of administering them. People have their console applications or powershell scripts to add, update and delete user custom actions. It works but it is hard to open up Visual Studio or PowerShell every time you will try out an idea on a test site.
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Copy SharePoint WebDav Address to Clipboard
While configuring SharePoint sites and helping users I often use File Explorer View for editing pages, resources like css and javascript. In IE there is a dedicated button in the ribbon for that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, because of permissions or other restrictions. Anyway, I use Firefox and Chrome while troubleshooting and developing, so I have created a bookmarklet for copying the webdav address of a site that is open in the browser.
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Export Any Web Part using a Bookmarklet
My blog post about exporting any webpart from a SharePoint Page is one of the most read articles on my blog. I use this method a lot. Now what I want to do is to simplify the process. Inspired by my colleague Dan Saedén’s awesome bookmarklet for reading and updating web properties, I decided to make my own bookmarklet. That was easy. Now we can export any web part from any SharePoint page without even looking at any ids in the html markup and assembling the export url manually.
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Bypass all custom jslink
Client Side Rendering (CSR) and jslink are great for customizing lists and forms in SharePoint. In my current project we use it a lot of it. A disadvantage of that path, although, is that it might occur javascript errors, during the development phase, but also in production. We do, of course, our best to leverage the best jslink code, but unfortunately we have to live with the fact that errors can occur, especially when we use it for NewForm, EditForm, DisplayForm and View (in list and grid).
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Client Side Rendering with Async dependencies
Yesterday I asked a question on SharePoint StackExchange:
Client Side Rendering with Async dependencies I also asked Elio Struyf on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eliostruyf/status/540473976255152128 Good idea, Elio Struyf! Now I want to try it out.
Preparations In this case I’ll be using my example from my blog post yesterday: Drag and Drop Image using Client Side Rendering I have created a new list and added a lookup field to my previous list. What I get is a Title of the lookup item, but not my custom field called DragAndDrop.
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Drag and Drop Image using Client Side Rendering
I continue my series about Client Side Rendering (CSR) and jsgrid. Today I want to try a custom field where users can drag and drop images. The inspiration comes from:
AutoUpload field written by Anton Vishnyakov and Base64 Drag and drop written by oroboto What I want to achieve is:
A custom field that is rendered with jslink Users can drag and drop small pictures (thumbnails) into the field A base64 image representation is saved as the field value Optionally implement pasting images using Clipboard API Step 1 Create a field with a custom jslink Create a field of type Note.
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Disabling a column in Quick Edit
In my project I have a column called Request Status. This column is not shown in any forms, meaning users should not edit, because it is controlled through the app. Nevertheless it is editable in the Quick Edit. Yesterday I wrote about jsgrid in my blog. Now comes more. Today I’ll share a little practical solution how one can disable editing a field in Quick Edit. The field is edited in jsgrid, but to disable it, we only have set the property called AllowGridEditing to false on our column (not even touching the heavy jsgrid api).
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JSGrid Basics
JSGrid is the javascript framework in SharePoint used in Quick Edit View (previously Datasheet View). There are a few very good blog posts on this topic (See below in “Sources”). Nevertheless the fact is that jsgrid and working with quick edit from a developer’s perspective is a huge undiscovered area. Articles I have seen are intended for advanced developers. The goal with my post today is to outline the very basics of working with JSGrid.
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Improving the web performance of an intranet
[caption id=“attachment_3437” align=“alignnone” width=“480”] All the “small” app parts, web parts, delegate controls, user controls, and other “packages” that “must” be delivered to the users on every page load of the Start Page of your Intranet.[/caption] Recently we made an investment to improve the performance of our intranet. We made many changes in different layers: SQL, Network, Browser upgrade and code. Here I want to tell about what code changes we did to improve the web browser performance.
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AppLoader Concept for SharePoint apps
In this post I want to share an unusual, nevertheless interesting conceptual idea of loading content from SharePoint 2013 apps on many pages. The original awesome concept was proposed and developed by my colleague Martin Villysson at Bool.
The problem we are trying to solve SharePoint apps are great to extend functionality in SharePoint and integrate other systems (full page apps available through Site Contents), they also provide tools to enrich the default SharePoint experience by App Parts (Client Web Parts) and Custom Actions (additional menus).
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Using CAML with SharePoint REST API
Do you prefer REST over CSOM as I do? I’ll skip the whys. Andrew Connell put it already in wrtiting so nicely. Well, if you do prefer REST, then you must have discovered some shortcomings of REST, or its incompleteness compared to CSOM. I think of:
Inability to filter items based on multivalued taxonomy fields Inability to filter items based on user fields where user is added through a group, rather than directly, e.
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Pragmatic Responsive Design
I have been curious about the responsive design but have not had time to try it out. To learn more I decided to make an existing website more responsive. A friend of mine drives a Chuvash Dictionary website: samah.chv.su. Today it looks like this in a mobile browser: The site is a classic 1000px-ish centered page with header and two columns. The left column is for the main content and the right column for additional “aside” information.
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Count lines of code with PowerShell
Today I got a question:
How many lines of code are there in our SharePoint solution?
After a little search, I found that PowerShell is really a nice tool to count lines of code:
How do you count lines of code (stackoverflow)? I wanted to count lines for different types of code:
Code Behind written in C#, the files have .cs file extension JavaScript code (except jQuery, angular or knockout frameworks) PowerShell files (.
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Debugging OOB SharePoint. Unable to post comments on SharePoint blogs (SP2013 June CU)
I have had a strange bug. The comment text box in a OOB SharePoint 2013 blog doesn’t appear. It only says: “There are no comments for this post.” In this blog post I’ll tell you how I found the bug and I’ll show you how you can temporarily bring the commenting to life. I have had luck. While it doesn’t work on the Test Environment, it does actually work on my development machine.
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Log to ULS using javascript
The more javascript code is produced in SharePoint solutions, the more need we have to log information and possible errors to a central logging place in SharePoint: ULS. This blog post is about logging to ULS from javascript. For a while ago I read a blog post:
5 suggestions to implement a better logging in SharePoint The author @avishnyakov mentions the ability log to ULS from javascript. I want to dive deeper.
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javascript: Alert Me on a Page
Recently I needed to add an Alert Me link on Pages. Alert Me is a well known SharePoint functionality for notifying users about changes in list or list items. It is availabe in OOB SharePoint as a command in Ribbon if you go to a list view: When you click on this ribbon command, SharePoint opens a modal dialog and takes you to layouts page: SubNew.aspx. To open a modal dialog and load a page is not a rocket science.
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javascript: Remove illegal characters in url
Recently I needed to create valid urls for pages using javascript. Also this time I thought it must be some out-of-the-box code for that in SharePoint. The first thing I came up was the “Add page” dialog. I found that the actual dialog was in the _layouts virtual folder:
/\_layouts/15/CreatePublishingPageDialog.aspx ```Bingo, it does the validation in the client side. This is the responsible javascript function that resides directly in the page: \[sourcecode language="javascript"\] function UpdateUrl() { LoadTermContextInfo(); var hiddenPageUrlLabelExtensionClientId = "<%=hiddenPageUrlLabelExtension.
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The CDN concept in SharePoint
How many instances of jquery are there in your SharePoint farm? [sourcecode language=“powershell”] Get-SPWebApplication http://dev ` | Select -Expand Sites ` | Select -Expand AllWebs ` | Select -Expand Lists ` | Select -Expand Items ` | ? { $_.Url -match “jquery.*.js” } ` | select Name, Url [/sourcecode] Have you more than two (jquery and jquery-ui), then you have too much. You can save much place and performance by using Content Delivery Network (CDN) links for the resources like javascript, css, fonts and icons.
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Convert any web app to a SharePoint app
Have you noticed that you can right-click a web application project in Visual Studio and convert it to a provider hosted app? Well why not? Basically your own website and a SharePoint manifest is all what you need for a provider hosted app. This discovery today made me think about all legacy web apps out there that can be converted to SharePoint apps. Traditionally we had to add plain links to external applications or embed them into an IFrame by hardcoding it in an .
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SharePoint Apps: "Provider Hosted First" Approach
Recently I had an exciting mail conversation with Thomas Deutsch. He came up with an idea how to fasten the development of apps. This smart approach is called “Provider Hosted First”. See Thomas’ original blog post. Here are some highlights: What you actually do is a local website which runs in grunt server:
localhost:9000 ```Then a SharePoint-hosted app is created with an SPAppIframe that refers to that local app site.
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Make javascript code work with Minimal Download Strategy Part 2
I have a newer blog post about MDS, that provides a much simpler solution. Please check it before reading further.
Minimal Download Strategy (MDS) is an important feature in SharePoint 2013. It lets you download only a page delta, only changes. There is still issues with the MDS and custom scripts and almost no documentation on msdn or technet. In this blog post I want to learn more about adjusting custom scripts for MDS.
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Make javascript code work with Minimal Download Strategy Part 1
I have a newer blog post about MDS, that provides a much simpler solution. Please check it before reading further.
This is a part 1 of the blog post about Minimal Download Strategy and javascript adjustments for user code. What I initially thought should be enough for one post, is not enough, so I see it as a part 1. I wrote this post after I had read Chris O’Brien’s post about JSLink Here I want investigate how we can get his accordion list view working with MDS.
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REST API: Add a plain text file as an attachment to a list item
SharePoint 2013 REST API has been enhanced and extended. The old _vti_bin/listdata.svc is still there, but the new api for working with lists and list items is much more and obviously a part of a bigger api: _api/web/lists Yesterday I saw an interesting question on SharePoint StackExchange:
“500: Internal Server Error” when trying to add a simple text file as an attachment via SharePoint 2013 REST API The instructions in the MSDN resource are not so detailed, the cannot be.
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SharePoint Modal Dialog as AngularJS directive
It has already become a series of posts in my blog about the combination of AngularJS and SharePoint:
AngularJS: prevent form validation in Page Edit Mode angular jQuery UI autocomplete AngularJS: sync $location.search with an input value And it will be more. Some of them are a pure angular stuff, some of them are really for SharePoint. In this post post I’ll show how to create a directive for a sharepoint modal dialog (SP.
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JavaScript Localization in SharePoint
Yesterday Waldek Mastykarz published a cool post: Globalizing JavaScript in SharePoint 2013. This is a very cool technique to localize your client code in javascript and reuse your resx files in Server Side and Client Side. This is actually not new for SharePoint 2013 despite it has become more needed with the huge client focus in the new SharePoint. I have used this in SharePoint 2010 for a long time. In my blog post: ScriptResx.
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AngularJS: prevent form validation in Page Edit Mode
I work on a cool project where AngularJS is used for rendering of business data in a SharePoint portal. One of the beautiful parts of AngularJS is the client validation. AngularJS understands the new html5 attributes like “required” and pattern, which makes the markup and javascript concise and semantic. Recently I ran into a problem: The SharePoint webparts which had html forms with required fields were impossible to add to a page in the web browser, neither was it possible to edit the pages with these webparts.
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angular jQuery UI autocomplete
Angular JS is one of the most developed MVC frameworks in the javascript world. Angular UI is a huge UI-centric extension of AngularJS (it is more or less like jQuery UI to the jQuery). It uses much jQuery UI and Twitter Bootstrap and provides many own components like modal dialogs, maps, tooltips, masked inputs and much more. And all this is easy to implement in your code just by adding a directive: [sourcecode language=“html”][/sourcecode] Much cleaner than listening on $(document).
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javascript: show only a part of a long string (ellipsis)
Ellipsis (…) is a character which indicates that the content is to wide. There are many solutions to truncate the text and show an ellipsis: in javascript and css. I want to share my humble function which extends the String.prototype: [sourcecode language=“javascript”]String.prototype.ellipsize = function(maxLength) { maxLength = maxLength || 100; if (this.length <= maxLength) { return this; } var text = this.toString().replace(/[\r\n]/g, “”), max = maxLength, min = maxLength - 20, elipsized, tryExtract = function () { var regex = new RegExp("^.
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Cool presentation about web performance optimization
by Chris Love [slideshare id=15218139&doc=webperformanceoptimizationformodernwebapplications-121116224847-phpapp01]
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AngularJS: sync $location.search with an input value
I have used AngularJS for a while and to me this seems to be the best MVC javascript framework. Today I wanted to implement a search which uses an input and a hash query string like in google. The input value and url have to be synced like:
index.html#?term=something To do this we have to inject $location into our angular control. See the Angular Guide about $location. Then we have to observe both the $scope.
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Determine if Silverlight is installed (javascript)
For a while ago I needed to provide an alternative solution when Silverlight isn’t installed. I searched for javascript code for this and found this:
A blog post about that: Piotr Puszkiewicz’s Silverlight Blog. Determining if Silverlight is installed using Javascript. A more advanced javascript function which can even determine the version of the Silerlight can be pulled from Silverlight.js library. I didn’t need to determine the version of Silverlight, so I wrote a simplified js function (but it works in all browsers): [sourcecode language=“javascript”] var isSilverlightInstalled = function() { var installed = false; try { installed = !
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JSOM: Alter a column's DisplayName
Here is another article in my JSOM series. For one month ago I showed how to alter a column’s ShowInDisplayForm property with JSOM. This time I’ll show a code sample for changing a column’s (field’s) display name. If you want to alter the displayname with Server Object Model, grab the code in the sharepoint.stackexchange.com: Change Field’s DisplayName in a List. [sourcecode language=“javascript”]var ctx = SP.ClientContext.get_current(), //SP.ClientContext field = ctx.get_web() //SP.Web .
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Delete all list items with jsom
Today I needed to “clean” a list, meaning to remove all list items. For some time ago I wrote a post about different ways of removing list items in bulk: Server Object Model, SPLinq and RPC. This time I had only the web browser. So I tried the jsom way. By the way, the javascript documentation for jsom on msdn is getting really good. Don’t miss that: How to: Complete basic operations using JavaScript library code in SharePoint 2013.
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TypeScript in SharePoint
By now TypeScript shouldn’t be something one has to introduce.
TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
If you haven’t already done it, go and see the intro video for TypeScript, check out a tutorial and visit the typescript playground. There are other javascript libraries which extend javascript and are compatible/compile to javascript: Dart and CoffeeScript. To be honest I had never time to try those.
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GeoLocation Field in SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2013 Preview there is a new type of field: GeoLocation which is, like the old SPUrlField, a pair of values. The geolocation is described as longitude and latitude. Unfortunately you can’t add this field in list settings. You have to create this in code. In the provided link you can find the code C# code which uses the Client Object Model. In another link you can find an example how to create the geolocation file using Server Object Model (in FeatureActivated EventReceiver).
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Callouts in SharePoint 2013 Preview
While ModalDialog is not default for editing list items in SharePoint 2013 Preview, there is a new “popup” element in SharePoint - callout or popover. I would like to recommend these two blogs when you want discover more: Andrey Markeev: Callouts (popovers) в SharePoint 2013 Preview (in Russian) Alex Boev: a three part series: 1. Custom Callouts in the SharePoint 2013 Metro UI: Part 1: Basics 2. Custom Callouts in the SharePoint 2013 Metro UI, Part 2: Actions 3.
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Masked Inputs
Just a quick tip today. If you are looking after masked inputs like the old ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit MaskedEdit, you can try jQuery plugin called Masked Input from DigitalBush or even better jquery.inputmask.
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Paging with JSOM
If there are many list items you try retrieve with javascript object model,paging could be very useful. Today I came across a wonderful blog post series about javascript object model in SharePoint: The SharePoint javascript object model - Resources and Real World Examples posted by David Mann and published on Aptilon Blog. There is an example how to achieve paging with JSOM. The key is items.get_listItemCollectionPosition() and query.set_listItemCollectionPosition() I have refactored David’s example to avoid global variables and to put into a module.
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Simplify js and css development with Web Essentials (Visual Studio Extension)
If you develop much javascript and css, this is the exension to Visual Studio you just can’t live without: Web Essentials (It is even released for VS2012). You can do many things with it. Here are two examples for simple but very useful functions: 1. Show which browsers support a css attribute: 2. Collapse javascript functions and create #region areas like in C# code: There is much more, like less and coffeescript parsing.
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Toastr.js and SharePoint
Have you used SharePoint javascript Notifications (SP.UI.Notify)? Are you looking for something new and fresh? Well then check out the Toastr.js - a simple, beautiful, fully responsive and light-weight javascript lib for notifications, developed by John Papa and Hans Fjällemark and released under the MIT License. By the way, toastr was one of many things I discovered and learned on John Papa’s online course by pluralsight: Single Page Apps with HTML5, Web API, Knockout and jQuery.
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Multiple events listeners in jQuery
Maybe it is not so often we face this situation where we one event handler for different events in javascript. But in my project I use many custom events and in some situations it is the same handler which listens to different events. What I found you can define multiple event listeners at the same time.
function myClick() { console.log("tada"); } $(".selector").on({ "click mouseover": myClick });
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JSOM: Alter a column's ShowInDisplayForm property
When you create a content type, you can define if your fields will be shown in DisplayForm, EditForm, NewForm. You can hide or show them, just as Yaroslav Pentsarsky says. If your list is already provisioned, you can change them with Server Object Model, why not in PowerShell: Technet: Setting ShowInDisplayForm, ShowInEditForm, ShowInNewForm properties with powershell. If you don’t have access to the server, then the same can be done with JSOM.
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JSOM: Last Modified Date of a List
The data transfer between server and client can heavily affect the performance. One of the measures to reduce the amount data transferred from the server to the client is storing data on the client. In many modern browsers we can use html5 localStorage. Even in older browsers there are ways to store data. I would recommend a nice js lib called amplify.js. The interface is much easier, then:
amplify.store("key", { title: "value" }); ```It comes in nicely, if we have much data which we get with JSOM.
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Using SharePoint tooltips
I found a great post about using sharepoint tooltips on Andrey Markeev’s (@amarkeev, omlin) blog: JavaScript ToolTip’ы для SharePoint. He describes how he found the standard sharepoint tooltips and how they can be reused. The best part of it his “research”. Andrey’s conclusion is to create an own, simplified javascript class which enables “sharepoint” tooltips. I modified it somewhat. I think there is no need to instantiate a TooltipManager…
var Takana = window.
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Chuvash localization of moment.js
For three months ago I added Chuvash localization of moment.js. For 16 days ago moment.js 1.7.0 was officially released which included the Chuvash translation.
Wait a sec… What is moment.js? moment.js is the best datetime tool for javascript. It supports many languages (now even Chuvash) for displaying date and time. Another very handy functionality is showing relative time which has a simple interface: fromNow(). Here is a simple example from a web browser console:
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Chuvash translation of Wikipedia Mobile
The official Wikipedia mobile app is now translated into Chuvash language and available to use: What does Chuvash mean? I am Chuvash. Chuvash is the name of an ethnicity which counts up to 2 milions peoply (mostly in Russia). Chuvashes talk the Chuvash language which is also an official language in Chuvash Republic (besides Russian). Chuvash language is a Turkic language and has a status “Vulnerable” in the UNESCO list of languages in danger.
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Multiple instances of javascript webparts on the same page
Javascript has become popular among many SharePoint developers thanks to easy and fast jQuery, CSOM, SPServices and many other javascript libraries. That can make solutions modern and fast. On the other hand developers should be aware of more things (some of them at Bamboo Team Blog). One of those is scoping of javascript webparts. The problem a developer has to consider: what happens if a user creates two or more instances of the same beautiful webpart on the page?
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Three ways to get the id of last created SPListItem
An interesting question came on SharePoint StackExchange: How to retrieve the guid of the last uploaded file. It is only possible in CSOM as far as I know. But if we simplify the task, how to get the id of the last item, the we can compare three ways of getting them: SPServices, jQuery + listdata.svc and CSOM.
SPServices The most easiest way, but not available in async:
$().SPServices.SPGetLastItemId({ listName: "Documents" }); listdata.
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Web Application Properties as JSON
I saw an interesting question on sharepoint.stackexchange: How to access a Web application/Farm level property bag via jQuery/Javascript/ClientContext. Some time ago I tested a custom http handler, so I wanted to try a custom httphandler for this as well. It worked. Here more details: Just deploy sp-lend-id.tupsam from the solution. If you don’t have any properties in your web application, just add some:
asnp microsoft.sharepoint.powershell $app = get-spwebapplication http://dev $app.Properties.Add("Santa", "Claus") $app.
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Using javascript objects passed from closed popup
It is not a rocket science to pass objects from child window (popup) to main window. The problem I encountered today was IE and passing complex objects. So it is just an IE issue as far as I know. The problem occurs when you pass some object (not a simple String or Number) to main window:
window.opener.takeAnObjectFromChild = { title: "Should even be available when I close the child" }; and you then close the child window, next time the main window tries to access the passed object:
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javascript: developing for performance
Many words have been said about the importance of performance when working with javascript files. Here I want to summarize what developers can do to increase the performance related to javascript. I found many tips on blogs. Here comes my aggregated list of actions one can do to speed up sharepoint (and not only) sites with focus on javascript:
1. Load only sharepoint stuff you need Use prefetch option to only load sharepoint javascript files that needed.
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nodeunit and SharePoint: unit tests in javascript
nodeunit is a (relatively) new test framework for javascript, mainly for node, but it can be run in a browser as well. The most popular framework for testing javascript is Qunit, but I’ll lab with it another time. I found nodeunit tests in moment.js - the best date handling framework for javascript and it worked very well. So first of all, why should we test? The best answer is actually: Life is to short for manual testing (it was actually the slogan at the Google London Test Automation Conference 2007.
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$ in cmssitemanager.js conflicts with $ in jQuery
In SharePoint 2010 if CMSSiteManager.js library is loaded besides jQuery, then much of stuff stops working. The reason is that the dollar sign ($) is used in cmssitemanager.js as well which conflicts with jQuery. Mostly it appears on pages where you load jQuery and have an image library with thumbnails. To avoid this, just replace all $ with jQuery in your custom scripts. A more crazy situation is when avoiding $ isn’t enough.
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javascript toolkit on text file
Referencing javascript libraries from Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like jQuery can have many benefits. The self-hosted javascript files are on the other hand give you more control. But in one situation it is much better with cdns: the development. Like Marc D Anderson pointed:
I didn’t realize it at the time, but this txt file has become a standard part of my toolkit already. I’ve added it to three client environments just since last week.
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jQuery mobile and SharePoint
In this post I want to explore how to build a mobile app using jQuery mobile. Recently I discovered two great blog posts about this:
Building SharePoint web apps using Sencha Touch by Luc Stakenborg jQuery mobile and SharePoint by Chris Quick In my post I’ll use their findings and share some of mine thougts. I’ll focus mostly on how to get started with jQuery mobile and SharePoint. So go ahead and create your jQuery mobile app, just drag’n’drop some controls: Download it and yout get an “app.
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Clone javascript objects
In javascript, if we copy objects or their properties, the reference still remains and by changing the new object the old one is changed, too. To clone or do a clean copy of an object I found a very useful solution by Jan Turoň on StackOverflow:
Object.prototype.clone = function() { if(this.cloneNode) return this.cloneNode(true); var copy = this instanceof Array ? \[\] : {}; for(var attr in this) { if(typeof this\[attr\] == "function" || this\[attr\]==null || !
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clearInterval in Chrome doesn't work on window blur
If you want to reset all interval jobs when a browser tab is inactive, the best way would be to use clearInterval on window blur. But unfortunately Chrome fires window focus and window blur two times. Here is an embryo to a solution:
var M = window.M || {}; M.counter = 0; M.focused = true; M.tick = function() { if (M.focused) { console.log("tic tac " + ++M.counter); } }; M.start = function(e) { console.
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shorthand for jQuery(document).ready
jQuery(document).ready is used very often, why not use the shorthand variant of that?
$(function() { // Code here });
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moment.js - the best javascript tool for working with dates
Just look at moment.js. Everybody who have worked with dates in javascript are going to love it.
Comments from Wordpress.com Justin Cooney - Mar 3, 2012
Interesting, I hadn’t heard of moment.js. I’m taking a look at the site right now; it looks to have some very handy functionality for date manipulation!
The great thing with moment.js is e.g. that one can create a date object from asp.net date format like /Date(123543534)/
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Kalendae - new javascript utility for calendars
An alternative to jQuery UI datepicker is Kalendae. (MIT License). Highly customizable and no dependencies to other javascript libraries. Here is the highlights:
Kalendae is an attempt to do something that nobody has yet been able to do: make a date picker that doesn’t suck. Kalendae provides the following features:
Fully portable, no dependencies. No jQuery, no Prototype, no MooTools; just add the script and the stylesheet and you’re good to go.
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fallback for html5 placeholders
Placeholders are very handy in html5, we don’t need to fool with input values. But in SharePoint and IE we must provide fallback for placeholders if we want use them in other browsers. Here is an jQuery extension to do that:
(function ($) { $.fn.extend({ ensurePlaceholders: function () { var input = document.createElement('input'); var placeholderSupported = ('placeholder' in input); if (placeholderSupported) { return; } function setHints(elem) { var $elem = $(elem); var value = $elem.
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SP.UI.Notify in Modal Dialog
If you open a custom page (not a list item form) in a modal dialog, your notification won’t be shown. The reason is that the notification area (#notificationArea) is inside a hidden div (#s4-ribbonrow). To show this notificationArea we must display the notification area:
var $ribbon = jQuery("#s4-ribbonrow"); if ($ribbon.is(":hidden")) { $ribbon.css({"min-height": 0, "height": "0px"}) .show().children().hide() .filter("#notificationArea").show() } Comments from Wordpress.com Jens Malmberg - Jan 3, 2013
Thanks a bunch again, your solution was the only good information i found quickly.
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private variables in javascript
Found a nice post about private variables and “methods” in javascript. Consider this example:
function Pizza() { var price = 0; this.setPrice = function(p) { price = p; }; this.getPrice = function() { return price; }; } ```Every variable and function inside the main function is private unless it is appended to "this".
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javascript: Umbrella pattern
There are two great patterns for organizing javascript code: Prototype and Module pattern. More about them later in this post. But in reality I still see much of spagghetti Just an example: SharePoint 101 code samples. They are indeed very simple and isolated examples. And many projects use this simple way in mind when they begin. But when javascript code grows, it becomes a monster. Have you seen this biest? How is this monster created?
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Hello world in node.js
I know, node.js has been present for a while. But I actually had no time to try it. I was surprised that now it is very straight forward to start with node.js. Allright, everything begins with Hello world. Eventhough it is available for allmost all combinations of operating systems and servers, the easiest way to test it was actually Ubuntu. To install just run:
sudo apt-get install nodejs ```Then make a new directory and create the hello.
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New functions in jQuery 1.7+ on and off
A simpler interface for event handling in jQuery. Just read Dan Wahlin’s blog.
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cross browser console.log
console.log is the best tool for debugging javascript. In Firefox Firebug and Chrome Dev Tools you can even log objects which are represented as tree nodes of properties. If Firebug or Dev Tools in Chrome and IE9 are not opened, all these messages are ignored. But IE8 doesn’t understand console (if Dev Tools are closed) and raises an error: To avoid these errors, just declare an empty function just for IE8–:
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javascript: passing arguments from popup to main window
To show a popup, we just have to invoke “window.open”, and provide some options to prevent opening this in a new tab:
var wnd = window.open('', '\_blank', 'width=750, height=400, location=no, resizable=1, menubar=0, scrollbars=0'); wnd.document.write(''); wnd.document.close(); wnd.document.close(); wnd.focus(); To communicate between parent and child we can refer to parent as window.opener. We can even invoke a function from parent window. Let’s create the most useful function:
foo = function() { console.log("foo"); } ```Then just click on "hej" in the popup, and see the console.
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javascript: serialize as xml
Why should we need to serialize javascript objects as XML. I don’t know. It is of course more a server side need. And there actually a need for javascript serialization as xml in node.js. To serialize as json is very simple: JSON.stringify(myobjects). I was just curious if there was a tool for xml serialization in javascript. There is a nice javascript tool called XMLWriter, developed by Ariel Flesler. Consider you have articles and want to serialize them as xml, let’s create a function for serializing:
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Enable Save in IE9 mode
Wouldn’t it be nice to use html5 and css3 in SharePoint? No problems, there is actually v5 master out there, created by Kyle Schaefer. Or just use h5ml5 and css3 right away in your webparts and pages. But there is a big problem. It doesn’t work in IE9–. One of the issues (even listed by Kyle) is that “save” doesn’t work in modal dialogs where Rich Text Editor is used. Especialy it is for modal dialogs.
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$().SPServices is best for SOAP
SPServices is a great tool, really nice work, Marc Anderson (@sympmarc). It has been there all the time I have developed for SharePoint. But the fact that you work with XML and you must parse the attributes (!) was the reason why I prefered listdata.svc and Client Object Model, where you get objects in JSON or you have a nice API to get objects and their properties. But there is an area where SPServices are really the best tool: SharePoint Web Services which only understand SOAP like SocialDataService.
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$ and jQuery in SharePoint
Do you still use $ for jQuery? Well, don’t. If your code with $ resides with a SharePoint Images webpart, it will stop working. You’ll get errors like
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'empty' of null The reason is that SharePoint uses $ in its own javascript code: CMSSiteManager.js function $() {ULSjlC:; var elements=new Array(); for (var i=0; i < arguments.length; i++) { var element=arguments\[i\]; if (typeof element=='string') element=document.getElementById(element); if (arguments.
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onchange isn't firing in IE
I don’t know why, but (not always, just sometimes) IE doesn’t fire the onchange event (which is added as an attribute on an html element). A better “workaround” is to add an eventlistener in javascript. Or a lazy workaround is to use the onclick event even for checkboxes.
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ScriptResx.ashx in SharePoint
In my previous post I showed a little proof-of-concept for an httphandler which I want to use to dynamically get the localization resources from SharePoint as javascript object. But wait a moment. How does SharePoint handle localization on client? When you look in Script tab in Chrome dev tools, you’ll find:
ScriptResource.axd It is added to the server when deployed. See a good introduction to WebResource.axd and ScriptResource.axd by Brian Chavez.
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Custom HttpHandler in SharePoint for getting dynamic javascript code
Sometimes I want to add some dynamic javascript code. E.g. I had an idea to get javascript code for localization dynamically. Kirk Evan provides a very clean approach to add ASP.NET HttpHandler to SharePoint. This is just a little lab: Create a SharePoint empty project. I call it Jerkelle. Create a class called Resx2JsHandler and implement the IHttpHandler interface Add the mapped folder Layouts and create Jerkelle.ashx file Here is the project.
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XMLHttpRequest the hard way
$.ajax is great, it hides much of the complexity. But sometimes we need to work with “raw” javascript :) So let’s look behind the scenes. The XMLHttpRequest (or just XHR) is used to open a connection to a server without a page reload. Internet Explorer calls it ActiveXObject and it differs in IE versions. Wikipedia article gives a good example how to create one constructor for all browsers: [sourcecode language=“javascript”]if (typeof XMLHttpRequest == “undefined”) XMLHttpRequest = function () { try { return new ActiveXObject(“Msxml2.
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Loading notification
When you load some data with ajax, you will probably want to show the users in some way, that data is loading. To show the text “loading…” would be enough. Another, very common way to do it to show a spinner, a rotating image. In sharepoint we can use the built-in gif which can be found in /_layouts/images/loading16.gif. Well, it is actually not so good, because this image is not so beautiful.
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javascript trim()
String.trim() is quite useful in many situations. Unfortunately not all browsers have this function on String prototype (e.g. IE8): I see many people use jQuery.trim(), but isn’t it better to just use String.trim and provide a backup function if it is not implemented, like we did with Date.toISOString:
if(!String.prototype.trim) { String.prototype.trim = function() { return this.replace(/^\\s+|\\s+$/g, ""); } } ```EDIT: [found this solution on SO](http://stackoverflow.com/a/8522376/632117). Did we think the same?
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Push a copy of Resources to client in javascript
In one of my previous posts I told about pushing a copy of an object into client. Now I’ll try to copy my resource values into client. The problem is often that we must create multiple localization resources: first as resx-file. If we use much ajax and client side rendering, we must provide some localization there, too. If they are different subsets of localization resources, it isn’t a problem. But when you get overlapping, it becomes more difficult to manage and sync them.
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Simple select unselect all
I have a simple html table, every row in tbody has a checkbox. thead has a checkbox. When it is checked/unchecked, all checkboxes have to be selected/ unselected. Here is a very simple javascript to achieve this:
$("#mytable thead :checkbox").live({ change: function () { var checked = $(this).is(":checked"); $("#mytable tbody :checkbox").attr("checked", checked); } });
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Nested templates in jQuery.tmpl
I have used jQuery tmpl for a while and it is really awesome. Now I want to use some nested templates. And the thing is: it is very simple to do it: Here is the code to achieve this:
<div onclick="doo()">test</div> <div id="container"></div> <script id="parent-template" type="text/html"> <li> {{tmpl t }} </li> </script> <script id="red" type="text/html"> <span style="color:red">{{= title}}</span> </script> <script id="green" type="text/html"> <span style="color:green">{{= title}}</span> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var d = \[\]; d.
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jQuery: select elements with a specific text
There are situations when you want to select only dom elements which only have a specific content. jQuery provides a beautiful selector :contains:
$("a:contains(Pages)") ```But what if it isn't enough to just get all the elements which contain some word? Let's check what we get if we traverse all anchors on http://sv.wikipedia.org containing "wiki": $(“a:contains(wiki)”).each(function(i) { console.log($(this).text()); });
[](https://sharepointkunskap.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/jquery-contains-wiki.png) There is another, a generic way, to filter out elements, and it is called "filter".
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Knockout.js!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnhGqcKEPiM&w=640&h=360] See an example what you can with it SharePoint, written by Thorsten Hans.
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Parameterize a javascript object and create url
If you want to add some parameters to an url which you want to open, you can use jQuery.param function:
var url = "some\_url"; var params = { name: "Setner", email: "setner@narspi.name", mobile: "123456789" }; var search = "?" + $.param(p); url += search; ```It is handy, indeed. In an environment without jQuery (are there some?:) ) you can just iterate an object and join properties: var url = “some_url”; var params = { name: “Setner”, email: “setner@narspi.
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Save an excel sheet as a clean table
To save an excel sheet as a html table is very easy. Just select the needed area, then go to Save as and check the selection and choose html as output format. It works fine. It even looks like it did in Excel. But what if you don’t want all this junk, you want only the plain html table (e.g. for pasting into WP). When I saved my permission levels to html, I used this javascript code.
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Datetime in ASP.NET javascript and $.ajax
In one of my previous blogs I wrote about serializing of javascript objects. You can do it with JSON.stringify or Sys.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer.serialize. Both methods work fine… almost. There is a big difference when it comes to datetime objects. MS treats dates a little bit different (like RegEx and much more). Let’s try this one:
var writer = { name: "Ajgi", birthdate: new Date(1934, 8-1, 21) }; var json = JSON.stringify(writer); var msjson = Sys.
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Simple stopwatch in javascript
If some javascript code takes too much time to execute, you probably want to see what time your code or a part of the code takes to run. I found an idea in Dave Cranes Ajax in Action. The book is a little bit old and the code provided below has been changed and simplified:
var stopwatch = {}; stopwatch.watches = \[\]; stopwatch.getWatch = function(id, startNow) { var watch = stopwatch.
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Get url parameters with javascript
There is a question in Stackoverflow and this one, too. There is a fine solution for jQuery. The only thing we need is window.location.search. Say we have http://domain.com?q=hello&a=good#home, then it takes only ?q=hello&a=good, and leaves #home and the main url. Anchors can be retrieved with hash. Here are all properties of window.location: Google Chrome provides a fine function: window.location.getParameter: I like the name of this function. So why not to use it or create this one if a browser doesn’t have it?
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Reload page in js: RefreshPage
There are many ways to reload / refresh a page in javascript. One of them is as in discoveringsharepoint.wordpress.com describes:
window.location.reload() ```Today I found some tools which are shipped with ASP.NET/SharePoint to reload a page. The big advantage of them they are designed to work with SharePoint and take all possible aspects of page life cycle into account. The javascript function to refresh a page is just called, guess..: **RefreshPage** and it resides in init.
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Run javascript code except it is inside a modal dialog
Want to run some javascript code everywhere, but not in a modal dialog. Because errors are occured, or this code is unnecessary i dialogs. Well here is a solution I have found after some experiments:
$(document).ready(function() { if (!window.location.href.match(/isdlg=1/i)) { onDocumentReadyExceptItIsInDialog(); } }); function onDocumentReadyExceptItIsInDialog() {} ```This code checks with Regular Expressions if the url of the parent window contains IsDlg=1, if so nothing happens. In the usual case (not inside a dialog), the javascript code runs.
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Simplifying jQuery tmpl interface
In one of my previous posts I showed a simple example how to retrieve data from a web service and render it with jQuery tmpl. To render this I used an id for a template and the container:
<script id="contactTemplate" type="text/html"> <div> Name: {{= Name }} <br> Phone: {{= Phone }} </div> </script> <div id="contactContainer"></div> ```To render we select the template and container with jQuery selectors: function onSuccess(data) { $("#contactTemplate").tmpl(data.d.results).appendTo("#contactContainer"); }
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listdata.svc vs CSOM for retrieving and manipulation of list items
What is better and where and when… I’ll try to find out.. This post will be updated soon. Take a look at this so far: http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/23209/sharepoint-2010-javascript-client-object-model-cross-site-collections
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String.format for javascript
sprintf is actually the best javascript implementation of sprintf (string.format). But wait, shouldn’t it be some more .NET-like stuff in SharePoint environment? Indeed there is! (Well, not only in SP, but ASP.NET) String.format(“Hello {0}”, “world”) does exactly the same thing as on server side. Wow, it opens for many opportunities, e.g. in jQuery tmpl: String.format validates arguments, and if all is OK, it invokes another function String._toFormattedString:
function String$\_toFormattedString(useLocale, args) { var result = ''; var format = args\[0\]; for (var i=0;;) { var open = format.
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Batch remove
To add items to a list in bulk, or remove them in bulk. Well to do that you can use SPLinq, Server Object Model and … web.ProcessBatchData, which is the most effective. I did an experiment today. I created 1000 tasks in my task list three times and removed all items in three different ways and took time. First I put 1000 items with ajax and listdata.svc:
function pad(n) { if (n >= 10000) return n; if (n >= 1000) return '0' + n; if (n >= 100) return '00' + n; if (n >= 10) return '000' + n; return '0000' + n; } var s; var counter = 0; var title = "task " function foo() { counter++; if (counter > 10000) { window.
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use two different versions of jQuery on the same page
jQuery is very popular. The chance that you’ll get two or more jQuery files loaded on the same page is very high. As long as it doesn’t conflict, it is fine. But what if there are differences, and another version of jQuery destroys your functionality. To solve it we can ensure that we invoke “our”, the right version of jQuery. To do so, create a pointer to your jQuery:
var myJq = jQuery.
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this.data in jQuery tmpl
In jQuery tmpl we can render properties with {{= SomeProperty }}. Here is an example:
<script type="text/javascript"> Writer = function (firstName, lastName) { this.firstName = firstName; this.lastName = lastName; }; Writer.prototype = { getFullName: function () { return this.firstName + " " + this.lastName; } }; $(document).ready(function () { var writers = \[\]; writers.push(new Writer("Gennady", "Ajgi")); writers.push(new Writer("Mišši", "Şeşpĕl")); writers.push(new Writer("Ille", "Tuktaš")); writers.push(new Writer("Kĕştenttin", "Ivanov")); $("#tmpl").tmpl(writers).appendTo("#writers"); }); </script> <script id="tmpl" type="text/html"> <li> {{= firstName }} {{= lastName }} </li> </script> <div id="writers"></div> ```It will render like: * Gennady Ajgi * Mišši Şeşpĕl * Ille Tuktaš * Kĕştenttin Ivanov But what if we want to access the object itself, not one of the properties.
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format javascript date in ISO 8601
There is a solution in StackOverflow:
/\* use a function for the exact format desired... \*/ function ISODateString(d){ function pad(n){return n<10 ? '0'+n : n} return d.getUTCFullYear()+'-' + pad(d.getUTCMonth()+1)+'-' + pad(d.getUTCDate())+'T' + pad(d.getUTCHours())+':' + pad(d.getUTCMinutes())+':' + pad(d.getUTCSeconds())+'Z'} var d = new Date(); print(ISODateString(d)); // prints something like 2009-09-28T19:03:12Z ```But there is already a function for this: toISOString, it came with ecmascript 5. [Unfortunately, not all browsers support this](http://kangax.github.com/es5-compat-table/ "See the best comparision for ecmascript 5 support"), to solve this problem, we can provide our own prototype function for Date if it doesn't exist: if (!
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javascript Module pattern
Want organize your js code in a kind of namespaces, or modules, then use the module pattern. I’ll take the dummy example for getting the current anchor. Let’s look how it would be if the prototype based approach is used:
var Contoso.Utils = function() {}; Contoso.Utils.prototype = { getCurrentAnchor: function() { var url = window.location; var anchor=url.hash; //anchor with the # character var anchor2=url.hash.substring(1); //anchor without the # character return anchor2; } }; var util = new Contoso.
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Get the current anchor in javascript
To get the current anchor, we can use hash property::
var url = window.location; var anchor=url.hash; //anchor with the # character var anchor2=url.hash.substring(1); //anchor without the # character
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Pass arguments from/to Modal Dialog
To pass arguments from a ModalDialog is easy. Provide some buttons and invoke close function:
SP.UI.ModalDialog.commonModalDialogClose(SP.UI.DialogResult.OK, someValue); ```The first argument is result, [it is a enumeration with three alternatives](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff409060.aspx): cancel, invalid and OK. The value you pass back to the main window can be a simple string, or a complex javascript object. In this example I'll create a html element which is hidden (id="modal-form" [class="s4-die"](/2011/10/14/s4-die/)): Pass arguments to Modal Dialog and use it In options you pass to SP.
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Get current user and handle a success callback
In my previous post I needed the accound id of the current user for posting new list items. To retrieve the id, we can push this to the client from the code behind, or get the current user using Client Object Model. To provide a more generic way we can write a js function which get the current user. But we must even provide some callback functionality, otherwise we don’t know if the operation was successful or not.
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jQuery tmplItem and no ids
tmplItem() works even without ids. To get the current data:
$(this).tmplItem().data; ```If you want to remove, just invoke the ajax and remove with [$.parents](http://api.jquery.com/parents/): $(this).parents(“li”).remove();
##### Updating data inside tmplItems If you want to achieve some fancy dependency tracking, consider [knockout.js](http://knockoutjs.com/). But if you just want to update the data object inside a tmplItem, just change the object and call update: var t = $(this).tmplItem(); var obj = t.data; obj.Address = “hello avenue”; t.
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Update list items with listdata.svc
In one of my previous posts I showed how to retrieve data from listdata.svc with jQuery $.getJSON method. Getting data is very simple, listdata.svc provides a powerful restful interface with filtering, expanding and other features. Read the best and short introduction to listdata.svc by Suneet Sharma or a more detailed and technical article about filters, functions and operators by Mike Flasko at Microsoft with short examples here. Now back to listdata.
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The cleanest auto resize for a textarea
The cleanest way to auto-resize a textarea while typing (like wall post on Facebook) is George Papadakis solution. It uses only standard javascript and provides eventlisteners for IE (attachEvent) and other browsers (addEventListener): [sourcecode language=“javascript”] window.onload = function() { var t = document.getElementsByTagName(’textarea’)[0]; var offset= !window.opera ? (t.offsetHeight - t.clientHeight) : (t.offsetHeight + parseInt(window.getComputedStyle(t, null).getPropertyValue(‘border-top-width’))) ; var resize = function(t) { t.style.height = ‘auto’; t.style.height = (t.scrollHeight + offset ) + ‘px’; } t.
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javascript load callback for UpdatePanel
Using asp:UpdatePanel isn’t so easy with jQuery(document).ready() or jQuery(window).load(). The jQuery selectors can’t find elements which are not shown in the beginning. All other elements which are loaded dynamically are difficult to catch. I found a solution in forums.asp.net. A user called germanz creates an jQuery event listener AjaxReady, he uses the ASP.NET built-in PageRequestManager. If there only few usages of it it can be invoked directly from a PageRequestManager instance:
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jQuery UI Datepicker
As an alternative to asp:Calendar we can use the fancy jQuery UI Datepicker:
$(document).ready(function () { $.datepicker.setDefaults($.datepicker.regional\["sv"\]); $("#").datepicker({ changeMonth: true, changeYear: true, yearRange: "-120:+0" }); }); ```I found this a much simple and best solution for an [birthdate input](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/339956/whats-the-best-ui-for-entering-date-of-birth). We can set [international options](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1865091/jquery-datepicker-language-problem), [year range](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/269545/jquery-datepicker-years-shown), [year](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3164898/jquery-ui-datepicker-next-and-previous-year) and [month navigation](http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/dropdown-month-year.html). Other options I have tried are asp:Calendar, ajaxtoolkit:CalendarExtender and DateJs. jQuery UI is the most simple much more than datepicker and works smoothily with SharePoint.
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Push a copy of an object to client
To reduce postbacks and database calls, a copy of the current object(s) can be pushed down to the client in JSON format. Say a webpart renders information about a person, another webpart shows related information which is retrieved dynamically (like web services). Instead of getting the current person from the database in the second webpart again, we can reuse the same person object from the first webpart. To do so we must provide a DataContract for the Person class:
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json serializer in Sharepoint
There is a very handy JSON lib for serializing javascript objects. It is hosted on github under douglas crockford. Download json2.js and serialize with JSON.stringify function: EDIT: There is actually this function in core javascript. It exists since javascript 1.7 and ecmascript 5. So you don’t have to add anything to get this functionality:
var t = { name: "dev", city: "new york" }; JSON.stringify(t); ```There are actually built-in goodies for serializing javascript objects in [ASP.
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Load Profile Image with javascript
See a great post in “Learning Sharepoint” with an example how to get a picture of user with Client Object Model and javascript.
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jQuery timeago and the localization
If you have used SPUtility.TimeDeltaAsString you must know how useful it is. There is also the jQuery plugin that can perform counting of time deltas and (!) translate it. jQuery timeago is available for many languages, Swedish among others:
// Swedish jQuery.timeago.settings.strings = { prefixAgo: "för", prefixFromNow: "om", suffixAgo: "sedan", suffixFromNow: "", seconds: "mindre än en minut", minute: "ungefär en minut", minutes: "%d minuter", hour: "ungefär en timme", hours: "ungefär %d timmar", day: "en dag", days: "%d dagar", month: "ungefär en månad", months: "%d månader", year: "ungefär ett år", years: "%d år" }; ```The code is hosted on [Github](https://github.
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Filtering in javascript
The simplest and the best way to filter an array is to extend the Array.prototype as described here:
if (!Array.prototype.filter) { Array.prototype.filter = function (func) { var len = this.length; if (typeof func != "function") throw new TypeError(); var res = new Array(); var thisp = arguments\[1\]; for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) { if (i in this) { var val = this\[i\]; if (func.call(thisp, val, i, this)) res.
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Extend an event in javascript
If you use jQuery, you don’t need it. But if you for some reason must use javascript you must beware of adding events. The most dangerous is window.onload. Consider this scenario:
function doSomethingGreat() {}; window.onload = doSomethingGreat; ```It works fine if you are the only person who writes window.onload handler. But on such platforms like SharePoint you can't know which events exist. And if you just write **window.onload = doSomethingGreat;** you override all other window.
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Sorting Dates in javascript
To sort an array in javascript, just run sort():
array = \["skåne", "blekinge", "halland"\]; array.sort(); ```To [perform a more intelligent sorting](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3859239/sort-json-by-date "See the original answer in stackoverflow") we can define our sorting logic. What if an array has objects with different properties? For example, an object has title and lastupdated. We want to sort on lastupdated. Just create a function for this with two parameters: function custom_sort(a, b) { return new Date(a.
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$.getJSON, jQuery.tmpl and _vti_bin
Javascript is very fast, responsive and unburdens the cpu at the server. Here I show a little example how to use jQuery.getJSON, jQuery.tmpl (wonderful plugin for rendering repeating data, repo hosted on Github) and REST-based service listdata.svc from /_layouts/_vti_bin/ folder. For this example I created a generic list “Contacts”, added two text fields Name and Phone. Add some phone numbers and try to go to /_vti_bin/ListData.svc/Contacts If you get 404-error, install a ADO.
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Remove links to user profiles on list with javascript
Well, if you need remove links to user profiles, you can iterate all td-elements with class ms-vb-user using jQuery each function and remove a elements. Here is a little script:
$(document).ready(function() { $(".ms-vb-user a").each(function() { var text = $(this).text(); var span = document.createElement("span"); var user = document.createTextNode(text); span.appendChild(user); var parent = $(this).parent()\[0\]; parent.removeChild(this); parent.appendChild(span); }); }); ```EDIT 2012-02-05 A much more better way to do it is [to use replaceWith in jQuery](http://stackoverflow.
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Reset favicon cache
Favicon is one of the hardest. Ctrl-F5 doesn’t help. You can of course see the source, find the location of the favicon, click on it (if you use Firefox or Chrome), otherwise copy the url and paste it in the address bar. When you load it separately, the favicon cache is renewed. It works. But if you want to make it easier for your users, set a version to your favicon file in the masterpage:
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Go back in javascript
Add link for “Go Back” in javascript (inspired by Webmasters tips):
<a href="javascript:location.href=document.referrer;">Back</a> ```If you have access to the code behind you can [do the same](http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-FAQ/Referrer-URL.aspx) with: Request.UrlReferrer.ToString() ```If you want to go to site collection root, it is simple, too: <SharePoint:SPLinkButton runat="server" NavigateUrl="<% $SPUrl:~SiteCollection/%>">Start</SharePoint:SPLinkButton>
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Auto-resize the main container in master page
If you have a master page with fixed size (perhaps in a centered layout). Here is a simplistic js-script to auto-resize:
$(window).load(function(){ $wider = false; $pagecontainer = $("#pagecontainer"); $elementsToCareAbout = $("#ctl00\_MSO\_ContentDiv > \*, #ctl00\_MSO\_ContentDiv table") $elementsToCareAbout.each(function(){ if($(this).width() > $pagecontainer.width()) { $wider = true; } }); if ($wider) $pagecontainer.width(1200); }); Any improvement ideas and suggestions are more than welcome.
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Check if an html element is hidden using jQuery
Well, sometimes we need to calculate width and so on. In my next post I will write about how to fix auto-resize on fixed sized master pages. But now: a very nice stuff: how to check if an element is hidden or not:
$("#s4-leftpanel").is(":visible") ```It is a pure poetry. It reminds me of the beauty of [symbols in Ruby](http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/ruby_symbols.html).
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MongoDB shell, learn directly in browser
Are you also curious about NoSQL databases. Well, MongoDB is one of the most known ones. MongoDB has a javascript syntax (json), I like it. Try out the interactive shell at the mongodb site. Quickstart on Ubuntu To test it on Ubuntu, just install an existing apt-package:
sudo apt-get install mongodb Create the default folder and change permissions:
sudo mkdir -p /data/db/ sudo chown \`id -u\` /data/db ```Then jump directly into mongo db shell: mongo
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Good pattern for javascript files
SP.js exists in two variants in debug mode and in modified. When you develop it is better to use debug mode. When it goes to production it is better to use minified files. The same you can do with your files. Wictor Wilen explains how to do minify your custom javascript files. I think it is a good pattern to create javascript files and call them something-something**.debug.js**. Then when you are done, run the custom tools to minify them.
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Show html in ModalDialog
We can use ModalDialogs to show not only pages, but some html:
var htmlElement = document.createElement('p'); var helloWorldNode = document.createTextNode('Hello world!'); htmlElement.appendChild(helloWorldNode); var options = { html: htmlElement, autoSize:true, allowMaximize:true, title: 'Test dialog', showClose: true, }; var dialog = SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options);
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Resize image with jQuery to fit the div
There are many interesting jQuery plugins for resizing and cropping of images. Among them are jrac and image scale. I have tested the latter: It works very fine
$(window).load(function() { var $imgContainer = $("#layout-news-image"); var $newsImg = $("#layout-news-image img\[rel!='sp\_DialogLinkIgnore'\]"); $imgContainer.css("width", $imgContainer.parent().width()); if ($newsImg.length > 0) { if ($newsImg.width() < $imgContainer.width()) { $imgContainer.width($newsImg.width()); } if ($newsImg.height() < $imgContainer.height()) { $imgContainer.height($newsImg.height()); } $newsImg.imgscale({ parent : '#layout-news-image', center: "true", scale: "fill" }); } }); ```This script checks if the original image is lesser than container div and doesn't resize if it is so.
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Show a presence bubble
There is no built-in sharepoint control for the presence bubble. If you want to add this functionality on your pages you have to add it as html. Here is a sample:
private static int \_COUNTER = 0; private const string PresenceBubble = "<a class='ms-imnlink' href='javascript:;'>" + "<img width='12' height='12' id='imn\_pawn\_{0}' onload=\\"IMNRC('{1}')\\" alt='My SID' " + "src='/\_layouts/images/imnoff.png' border='0' " + "showofflinepawn='1' sip='{2}'></a> {3}"; private static string FormatUser(SPUser user) { \_COUNTER++; return string.
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less.js
Det finns ett intressant projekt som kan hjälpa att strukturera css-filer. Du skriver regler i en kombination av css och javascript. Det omvandlas med hjälp av js till css. Projektet heter less.js, läs mer om detta på sharepointoverflow.
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window.onload
Sharepoint ger en annan lösning för window.onload och jQuery(document).ready(function() {}); _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push(‘gerdaRibbonInit’);"
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jQuery validation with asp.net
De kan var lite jobbigt att få till jQuery validate att funka ihop med aspnetForm…
$(document).ready(function () { newsLetterForm = $("#aspnetForm"); newsLetterForm.validate({ onsubmit: false, rules: { "<%= emailTextBox.UniqueID %>": { required: true, email: true } } }); $("#<%= sendButton.ClientID %>").live("click", function { var isValid = newsLetterForm.valid(); if (!isValid) { e.preventDefault(); } }); }); jQuery validate kräver name på elementen inuti formen. För att ta reda på name, måste man använda Control.
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Vänta tills sp.js laddats
Här är en funktion som man kan använda för att vänta till sp.js laddats och köra sin funktion:
ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(myjsfucntion, "sp.js"); Eftersom det kan vara så att sp.js laddas med lazy loading:
<SharePoint:ScriptLink Name="SP.js" runat="server" OnDemand="true" Localizable="false"
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Uppdatera web med js
Här är ett litet exempel:
function updateTitle() { var ctx = new SP.ClientContext.get\_current(); this.web = ctx.get\_web(); web.set\_title('Examensarbete 2011'); this.web.update(); ctx.executeQueryAsync( Function.createDelegate(this, this.onUpdate), Function.createDelegate(this, this.onFail)); } function onUpdate(sender, args) { alert('title updated'); } function onFail(sender, args) { alert('failed to update title. Error:'+args.get\_message()); }
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Registrera javascript i feature
Om det inte passar att javascript i masterpage eller egen webpart, registrera det som customaction och aktivera feature. Läs mer här. Här är ett exempel:
<CustomAction Location="ScriptLink" ScriptSrc="~sitecollection/\_layouts/MyProject/awesome.js" Sequence="101"> </CustomAction>
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Aktivera intellisense för javascript i VS
Det finns ett sätt att aktivera intellisense för javascript i VS: Klistra in det i ditt js-fil eller aspx:
/// <reference name="MicrosoftAjax.js" /> /// <reference path="file://C:/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Web Server Extensions/14/TEMPLATE/LAYOUTS/SP.core.debug.js" /> /// <reference path="file://C:/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Web Server Extensions/14/TEMPLATE/LAYOUTS/SP.debug.js" /> ```Men tyvärr [kommer det inte funka om du har installerat Resharper](http://devnet.jetbrains.net/thread/297493). Eller lägg till vanliga script-taggar som beskrivet i boken Sharepoint As Developer Platform: <asp:PlaceHolder ID=“PlaceHolder1” runat=“server” Visible=“false”> </asp:PlaceHolder>
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javascript API i Sharepoint
Det är supersmidigt. Här är ett exempel: function createAnnouncement(title, body) { var ctx = new SP.ClientContext.get\_current(); var list = ctx.get\_web().get\_lists().getByTitle('Meddelanden'); var itemCreationInfo = new SP.ListItemCreationInformation(); this.newListItem = list.addItem(itemCreationInfo); this.newListItem.set\_item("Title", title); this.newListItem.set\_item("Body", body); this.newListItem.update(); ctx.executeQueryAsync( Function.createDelegate(this, this.onSucceededCallback), Function.createDelegate(this, this.onFailedCallback)); } function onSucceededCallback(sender, args) { SP.UI.Status.addStatus("Info", "It worked!",true); } function onFailedCallback(sender, args) { SP.UI.Status.addStatus("Info", "It didn't work!",true); } Comments from Wordpress.com westerdaled - Feb 0, 2013
Thanks, I gather I can pass OnSucceedCallback as a delegate.
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Validera din form på klienten
Det finns ett mycket bra jQuery-tillägg som kan validera din data i en formulär på ett enkelt sätt. Se en demo. Referera till validate.js och ange rätt css-klasser på dina inputs: “required”, “error”, “url”, “valid”. Mycket smidigt.
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cloud9 web ide
Skapa javascript-appar i din webbläsare. Mycket smidigt. Direkt kontakt till github.
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Ladda jQuery dynamiskt till din sida
Vill du ändra innehåll, testa olika javascript-funktioner på din sida, prova något direkt i webbläsaren (utan att behöva deploya om), så är DevTools i Chrome, eller Firebug i Firefox väldigt bra verktyg. Om du har jQuery på din sida, så är det ännu bättre. Men om du inte har det, så ladda det i efterhand genom att öppna konsolen (Ctrl-Shift-J i Chrome) och kör följande rader kod (klistra in dem på en gång, och tryck på Enter):
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Get coordinates from Google Maps
To get longitude and latitude can be tricky at the first time. There are many ways to do this, e.g. getlatlon.com. Good enough, but not so practical if you want to collect many coordinates. You can’t search after street names, you only can scroll and drag. Another way is to use javascript to show the longitude and latitude. See this example. This works in all web browsers.Just find your object in Google Maps and paste this javascript in URL bar: javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.
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Undvika postback i button
Äntligen har jag kommit på hur man kan skippa oönskad postback i button. Det finns många olika lösningar. Här är ett intressant inlägg på stackoverflow om det. Men det enklaste sättet är egentligen bara lägga till
return false; ```i onclick... Här är lösningen using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; … HtmlButton HtmlButtonSendMail; protected override void CreateChildControls() { … #region Configure Send Email HtmlButtonSendMail = new HtmlButton(); HtmlButtonSendMail.InnerText = “Send Email”; HtmlButtonSendMail.ID = “HtmlButtonSendMail”; string script = “”; script += “SP.
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JSFiddle
Vill du snabbt testa javascript, css och sånt, då är JSFiddle rätt för dig. Skapa ett konto där och njut.
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Polymorfi och javascript
En skräckscenario: du använder två javascript-bibliotek. Men de har var sin funktion som har samma namn. Det spelar även ingen roll om antalet inparametrar är olika. Så det blir samma sak som myfunc(param1, param2) och myfunc(param1). Grejen är att funktionen som laddas sist är den som kommer köras. Katastrof! Men det finns lösningar. Börja läsa här om hur man kan simulera polymorfi i javascript på about.com. Säg vi har en funktion som heter MoveToDate(strdate, ctxid) den ingår i init.
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Felsök på clientsidan med Chrome DevTools
Här är en väldigt bra video som berättar om nya devtools i Google Chrome 10. Den visar 12 tricks hur man kan underlätta felsökning av html, css och javascript. Att kunna ändra html,css och js on-the-fly är faktiskt häftigt. För mig som länge har använt Firebug i Firefox (som nu inte funkar på FF4 RC) känns devtools väldigt bra. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOEw9iiopwI&w=530&h=335]
Comments from Wordpress.com Ändra utseendet på sidan direkt i webbläsaren « Sharepoint.
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Använd inbyggd ModalDialog
Vill du visa någon formulär, eller längre information kan du använda en snygg (snygg och snygg?) ruta som är default i Sharepoint. Den är i alla fall användbar. Här är ett litet enkelt exempel, för att illustrera:
var options = { url: "http://sverigesradio.se", width: 800, height: 600, allowMaximize: false }; SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options); Det finns även möjlighet att ha OK-knappen, alltså som alert i javascript. Kolla den här länken.
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Visa en popup-ruta
Visst är det fint med en formulär eller ruta som dyker upp medan ursprungssidan blir mörklagd. I grunden så ändras opacity på hela sidan, blir mörkare. En iframe med högre z-index dyker upp. I den iframe finns en annan sida. Hur gör man för att ta fram den rutan? Här berättar jag lite om det:
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javascript i Webpart
Här är en bra länk hur man kan använda javascript: http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/JavaScript_with_ASP_NET_2_0_Pages_Part1.aspx
this.Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(), "ButtonSendMailConfirm\_Click", "alert('mail skickat!')", true);
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MagicMirror2 and Chuvash
This post is about my setup of the popular MagicMirror2 application. I show the steps needed to set it up on a Raspberry Pi Zero W and connect it to a TV set. As a bonus, I share my thoughts on the Chuvash localization work.
MagicMirror2 is a DIY project and an open-source application, voted to number one of the best Raspberry Pi Projects. In essence, it shows information of your choice (weather, calendar, news) on a screen that is embedded in a mirror.
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Working with resx files in Visual Studio
Today I found a nice Visual Studio Extension for working with localization and resx files: Resx Resource Manager. This extension provides an additional view in your project and scans all the resx files. I would recommend it to all projects where you have to translate your interface. Here is how it looks in my project: It can also assist with some machine translation from Bing and MyMemory: Another good thing is the Export and Import to and from Excel.
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On Windows keyboard layouts for minority languages in Russia
I can’t write in Chuvash in Windows 8 (and all the previous Windows releases). Chuvash is a minority language in Russian Federation. In this blog post I want to summarize the status of the keyboard layout support of the minority languages of Russia and find a way to improve this situation.
Languages and Microsoft There are thousands of languages. Of course it is hard to support them all. As per 2012-02-21 Windows 8 supports 109 (!
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JavaScript Localization in SharePoint
Yesterday Waldek Mastykarz published a cool post: Globalizing JavaScript in SharePoint 2013. This is a very cool technique to localize your client code in javascript and reuse your resx files in Server Side and Client Side. This is actually not new for SharePoint 2013 despite it has become more needed with the huge client focus in the new SharePoint. I have used this in SharePoint 2010 for a long time. In my blog post: ScriptResx.
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Chuvash localization of moment.js
For three months ago I added Chuvash localization of moment.js. For 16 days ago moment.js 1.7.0 was officially released which included the Chuvash translation.
Wait a sec… What is moment.js? moment.js is the best datetime tool for javascript. It supports many languages (now even Chuvash) for displaying date and time. Another very handy functionality is showing relative time which has a simple interface: fromNow(). Here is a simple example from a web browser console:
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Chuvash translation of Wikipedia Mobile
The official Wikipedia mobile app is now translated into Chuvash language and available to use: What does Chuvash mean? I am Chuvash. Chuvash is the name of an ethnicity which counts up to 2 milions peoply (mostly in Russia). Chuvashes talk the Chuvash language which is also an official language in Chuvash Republic (besides Russian). Chuvash language is a Turkic language and has a status “Vulnerable” in the UNESCO list of languages in danger.
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ResxCrunch: Localization tool
If your solution has two or more languages to support, I can recommend an open source tool ResxCrunch. Btw, you can even use ResxCrunch for localization of Android applications.
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ScriptResx.ashx in SharePoint
In my previous post I showed a little proof-of-concept for an httphandler which I want to use to dynamically get the localization resources from SharePoint as javascript object. But wait a moment. How does SharePoint handle localization on client? When you look in Script tab in Chrome dev tools, you’ll find:
ScriptResource.axd It is added to the server when deployed. See a good introduction to WebResource.axd and ScriptResource.axd by Brian Chavez.
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Push a copy of Resources to client in javascript
In one of my previous posts I told about pushing a copy of an object into client. Now I’ll try to copy my resource values into client. The problem is often that we must create multiple localization resources: first as resx-file. If we use much ajax and client side rendering, we must provide some localization there, too. If they are different subsets of localization resources, it isn’t a problem. But when you get overlapping, it becomes more difficult to manage and sync them.
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Hämta lokaliserad sträng från App_GlobalResources
Om man har en sträng i App_GlobalResources som man vill hämta ifrån koden, kör:
string text = HttpContext.GetGlobalResourceObject("MyProject\_Global", "submit\_label") as string;
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Version 0.2.0: Swedish localization
Well, it is time to localize. The first language has been added: Swedish, of course. To localize is pretty simple in Android. All you have to do is to create a new folder /res/values-xx where xx is the language code. sv is Swedish. In this folder create an xml file called strings.xml and copy all the content from /res/values/strings.xml. Replace all the strings from your default language into the language you want to localize to.
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MagicMirror2 and Chuvash
This post is about my setup of the popular MagicMirror2 application. I show the steps needed to set it up on a Raspberry Pi Zero W and connect it to a TV set. As a bonus, I share my thoughts on the Chuvash localization work.
MagicMirror2 is a DIY project and an open-source application, voted to number one of the best Raspberry Pi Projects. In essence, it shows information of your choice (weather, calendar, news) on a screen that is embedded in a mirror.
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MagicMirror2 and Chuvash
This post is about my setup of the popular MagicMirror2 application. I show the steps needed to set it up on a Raspberry Pi Zero W and connect it to a TV set. As a bonus, I share my thoughts on the Chuvash localization work.
MagicMirror2 is a DIY project and an open-source application, voted to number one of the best Raspberry Pi Projects. In essence, it shows information of your choice (weather, calendar, news) on a screen that is embedded in a mirror.
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nodeunit and SharePoint: unit tests in javascript
nodeunit is a (relatively) new test framework for javascript, mainly for node, but it can be run in a browser as well. The most popular framework for testing javascript is Qunit, but I’ll lab with it another time. I found nodeunit tests in moment.js - the best date handling framework for javascript and it worked very well. So first of all, why should we test? The best answer is actually: Life is to short for manual testing (it was actually the slogan at the Google London Test Automation Conference 2007.
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Hello world in node.js
I know, node.js has been present for a while. But I actually had no time to try it. I was surprised that now it is very straight forward to start with node.js. Allright, everything begins with Hello world. Eventhough it is available for allmost all combinations of operating systems and servers, the easiest way to test it was actually Ubuntu. To install just run:
sudo apt-get install nodejs ```Then make a new directory and create the hello.
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MagicMirror2 and Chuvash
This post is about my setup of the popular MagicMirror2 application. I show the steps needed to set it up on a Raspberry Pi Zero W and connect it to a TV set. As a bonus, I share my thoughts on the Chuvash localization work.
MagicMirror2 is a DIY project and an open-source application, voted to number one of the best Raspberry Pi Projects. In essence, it shows information of your choice (weather, calendar, news) on a screen that is embedded in a mirror.
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Mass remove live photo videos
While importing images from my iPhone using Image Capture on my mac, I discovered that almost all pictures had corresponding videos. They had the same name, only the file extension was different:
IMG_2829.JPG IMG_2829.MOV For archiving I don’t to have live photo videos, that’s why I needed a script for that. I found a good start in an answer on SuperUser.stackexchange.com:
OSX Command line Find Duplicate Filenames with different extensions I altered it a bit to remove the corresponding .
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Re-discovering Github
Github has changed a lot. While working mostly in Azure DevOps I haven’t followed all the development on Github. Now when I look at that, I am really amazed.
Private Repos for Free accounts Well, for me it is not as interesting, because with my free account, I don’t see any harm having my labs public. But I know, some people used bitbucket for their smaller private repos.
Github Project I suppose it is the Azure DevOps Project concept that was copied to Github, a place for planning and having multiple connected repos.
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Update LocaleId and TimeZone with PnP
If you get an error while trying to update Regional Settings on your SharePoint Online Site, then PowerShell combination of PnP and CSOM are to the rescue.
The issue I got was that indexed columns were there. You can try to remove indexed columns and re-add them. But it is not the best solution. In my scenario, it was an indexed column that I couldn’t remove.
The reason why I use a combination of PnP and CSOM (Load, Update, ExecuteQuery), is that I have not found a way of updating RegionalSettings in PnP.
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Svenska i Office 365 Admin
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
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SPFx Samples
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.
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SwiftKey from the Chuvash point of view
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).
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Solpanelexperimentet
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.
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Setting up Raspberry Pi2 for a Dashboard Monitor
I have set up Raspberry Pi as a Dashboard Monitor a couple of times. Here I want to summarize my steps. In fact, it is nothing special, a raspberry pi that is used as a browser showing a web based dashboard in full screen, but there are some important configuration steps needed to make it as good as possible.
Install Raspbian Raspbian is the best operating system for Raspberry Pi. Just stick with that.
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Chuvash Keyboard Layout for Mac
I’ve got a Mac and one of my first questions was: How can I write in Chuvash on my Mac, obviously :) In this post I am going to tell how I created Chuvash Keyboard Layout. The solution and installation instructions are on Github: Chuvash Keyboard Layout for Mac What the heck is Chuvash? For those who don’t know yet: Chuvash are people who live in Chuvash Republic in Russian Federation, and abroad, as me.
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Androidapp som pratar med SharePoint
Idag har vi kompetensdag på Bool: #booldevday. I min grupp ska vi utveckla en mobilapp för Android. Vi har hittat på ett följande case: Case Ett fiktivt företag Takana är oberoende bostadsinspektörer. De inspekterar bostäder när någon flyttar ut… Varje inspektion är kopplad till en bostadsadress. Den stämplas med dagens datum och inloggade användaren (från Azure AD). En inspektion innehåller en bedömning (kommentar) och kan innehålla anmärkningar. Varje anmärkning har en beskrivning och en bild (ej obligatoriskt).
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Update multi-value lookup column values in SharePoint 2010 using managed CSOM
Reblogging this useful code sample for updating multi-value lookup columns using CSOM in C# in SharePoint 2010, but also valid for SharePoint 2013.
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AngularJS Performance Tuning for Long Lists
This is a must-read for all SharePoint Developers who use Angular.
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How to reference nested class or struct etc, in PowerShell
Comments from Wordpress.com Anatoly Mironov - May 3, 2014
Thank you Hugh! It explains the syntax!
It happens because it is using .net and reflection Type.GetType(“ParentClass+NestedClass”)
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IntelliJ Keyboard Shortcuts
I want to use shortcuts. I prefer the IntelliJ keyboard scheme. Which do you use?
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The CDN concept in SharePoint
How many instances of jquery are there in your SharePoint farm? [sourcecode language=“powershell”] Get-SPWebApplication http://dev ` | Select -Expand Sites ` | Select -Expand AllWebs ` | Select -Expand Lists ` | Select -Expand Items ` | ? { $_.Url -match “jquery.*.js” } ` | select Name, Url [/sourcecode] Have you more than two (jquery and jquery-ui), then you have too much. You can save much place and performance by using Content Delivery Network (CDN) links for the resources like javascript, css, fonts and icons.
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Run Hyper-V and VirtualBox on the same machine
This applies to the combination Hyper-V and VMWare as well. Really good stuff. [code language=powershell] #disable, needs computer restart bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off #enable, needs computer restart bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto [/code]
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Making the Newsfeed web part available outside of My Sites in SharePoint 2013
Easy to add a newsfeeed to a web other than My Site.
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JQuery 2.0 - Notes About the Official Release
jQuery 2.0 leaves behind the older Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 browsers. In return it is smaller, faster.
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Knas på Swedbanks mobilsida
Försökte ladda mitt kontantkort idag via Swedbanks mobilsida. Det gick inte. Och det berodde inte på iPhone som jag först trodde. Orsaken var ett knasigt användande av ett html5-attribut i en annars html4-hemsida: input type=“number”: Att skriva en nolla i telefonnumret var helt omöjligt trots att sidan spottade ut fel och krävde en nolla. Med lite handpåläggning gick det! Tur att man bara kunde rader type=“number” och att sånt knasigt fel inte låg i code-behind.
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Simple autocomplete in jQuery UI
Thanks to Justin Cooney and jsfiddle. Here is a simple autocomplete example:
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The new interface of wp.com is great.
The new interface of wp.com is great. For a while I had some considerations to migrate to tumblr, now I definitivly stay with wp. Now wp takes the best from itself, tumblr and twitter.
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Vertically align input text in IE
Well, input and IE aren’t friends, are they? I found a solution: not defining input height. The only shortcoming of this solution is…, well the solution itself, sometimes you need to define the input height. However, don’t set height, just define, font-size for text inside and padding, and it will be aligned:
input { font-size:20pt; padding: 10px; } Do you know some better ways to do it, Tell me.
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Playing with play!
play! framework Inspired by ComputerSweden I played with Play! Here I’ll just put some commands to create and deploy a Play! web application, actually more for myself, to remember the steps to get started quickly. It would be great of course, if someone else finds it useful. The code for this little simple app. Play! is a java based framework for web applications. It reminds the rails framework and provides many useful features as CRUD, REST and more out of the box.
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css3 transform
See Richards Bradshaw’s page with explanations and examples of css3 transform and transitions. His code is also available for forking on Github.
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Extend an event in javascript
If you use jQuery, you don’t need it. But if you for some reason must use javascript you must beware of adding events. The most dangerous is window.onload. Consider this scenario:
function doSomethingGreat() {}; window.onload = doSomethingGreat; ```It works fine if you are the only person who writes window.onload handler. But on such platforms like SharePoint you can't know which events exist. And if you just write **window.onload = doSomethingGreat;** you override all other window.
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Sorting Dates in javascript
To sort an array in javascript, just run sort():
array = \["skåne", "blekinge", "halland"\]; array.sort(); ```To [perform a more intelligent sorting](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3859239/sort-json-by-date "See the original answer in stackoverflow") we can define our sorting logic. What if an array has objects with different properties? For example, an object has title and lastupdated. We want to sort on lastupdated. Just create a function for this with two parameters: function custom_sort(a, b) { return new Date(a.
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Bootstrap and Sharepoint
Twitter Bootstrap is awesome, based on less.js, ust add this line in your html code:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/1.3.0/bootstrap.min.css"> And your page looks already good. If you use css classes like btn label warning danger and much more, you get a right design directly out of the box. Now I want to test it in Sharepoint. Will it work? What do you think? jQuery Theme Roller. Another interesting resources are jQuery ThemeRoller.
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New types of inputs in html5
html5 provides more types of inputs than the classic submit and text and a few more. Here you can see an example on fiddle
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.gitignore for .net
At appharbor there is a simple .gitignore file for .net applications. If you use Resharper, you may find the extended version of .gitignore useful. A most comprehensive .gitignore can be found on gitextensions website. (Thanks to Vasiliy Aksyonov for the comment):
#ignore thumbnails created by windows Thumbs.db #Ignore files build by Visual Studio \*.obj \*.exe \*.pdb \*.user \*.aps \*.pch \*.vspscc \*\_i.c \*\_p.c \*.ncb \*.suo \*.tlb \*.tlh \*.bak \*.cache \*.ilk \*.log \[Bb\]in \[Dd\]ebug\*/ \*.
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s4-die
s4-die is a funny stuff. Now I realized the purpose of it. Everything that has to be hidden, Microsoft wraps in an element with class=“s4-die”. In corev4.css it is defined with display:none. Not so bad. Another approach is to create a invisible panel like Randy Drisgill has done. But with s4-die you don’t need to move your stuff around, just add the class s4-die.
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Increase responsivity of a virtual machine in VMWare
Sometimes a virtual machine can freeze, just add these lines to vmx:
MemTrimRate=0 sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE" mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE" prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100"
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Change the layout of Search Box without custom delegate control
The surest way to customize Search box in Sharepoint is to create a delegate control. In Sharepoint.Stackexchange there are many links to resources about this. But if you don’t have access to server or can’t deploy, the easiest way to do it is to style it with css. Thanks Steve Ottenad. .s4-search .ms-sbgo a { background:url(../images/search\_btn.png) no-repeat; width:27px; height:22px; display:block; } .s4-search .srch-gosearchimg, .s4-search .ms-sbgo span { display:none; } First we hide the the default image and then we add our image for search button as background.
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Automated tests for Sharepoint
[slideshare id=7671059&doc=obriendev203introducingautomatedbuildsanduitestingwithscreenshots-13031986159416-phpapp02]
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Provisioning multiple pages with one source file
I found an easy way to provision multiple pages. Create a module. Add an aspx.file (e.g. default.aspx). In the elements file define nodes for every page. Path should be the same for all pages, but the Url should be your destination page. The “default.aspx” (name doesn’t matter) can contain content, or just one @Page directive if Publishing feature is available:
<%@ Page Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.TemplateRedirectionPage,Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing,Version=14.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> ```In the Element.xml define all your pages: [!
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Team Explorer
Until now I have only worked with svn and git. So I am very curious about the Team Foundation Server and Team Explorer which all talk much about. The best thing is the integration with the issue tracking. I can see all work item, or just my work items. Another fine feature, at leat if you use codeplex, is the Team Explorer Everywhere.
The Team Explorer Everywhere client works on Windows, Linux, Mac, or Solaris.
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Good pattern for javascript files
SP.js exists in two variants in debug mode and in modified. When you develop it is better to use debug mode. When it goes to production it is better to use minified files. The same you can do with your files. Wictor Wilen explains how to do minify your custom javascript files. I think it is a good pattern to create javascript files and call them something-something**.debug.js**. Then when you are done, run the custom tools to minify them.
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Show html in ModalDialog
We can use ModalDialogs to show not only pages, but some html:
var htmlElement = document.createElement('p'); var helloWorldNode = document.createTextNode('Hello world!'); htmlElement.appendChild(helloWorldNode); var options = { html: htmlElement, autoSize:true, allowMaximize:true, title: 'Test dialog', showClose: true, }; var dialog = SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options);
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Custom PlaceHolder
You want some custom content in your site and it is different from page to page. Well, I wrote how to achieve this with delegate controls. Another approach is to use PlaceHolders. Maybe you can use some existing placeholders. There are so many unused placeholders in v4.master. Like PlaceHolderLeftActions. If you use starter master pages from Randy Drisgill, you must move these from invisible panel. To create custom placeholder is very easy: Just copy an existing placeholder in the master page and name it som appropriate like:
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Create your own search box
It is very simple. Create a new module: SearchArea. Delete Sample.txt and Elements.xml. Create a new file: SearchArea.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> <Control Id="ContosoSearchAreaBox" Sequence="15" ControlClass="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.SearchBoxEx" ControlAssembly="Microsoft.Office.Server.Search, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"> <Property Name="GoImageUrl">/\_layouts/images/Contoso/searchbutton.png</Property> <Property Name="GoImageUrlRTL">/\_layouts/images/Contoso/searchbutton.png</Property> <Property Name="GoImageActiveUrl">/\_layouts/images/Contoso/searchbutton.png</Property> <Property Name="GoImageActiveUrlRTL">/\_layouts/images/Contoso/searchbutton.png</Property> <Property Name="DropDownMode">HideDD\_useDefaultScope</Property> <Property Name="FrameType">None</Property> <Property Name="UseSiteDefaults">false</Property> </Control> </Elements> Next add your searcharea module to a site scoped feature.
In the masterpage locate this:
<SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="SmallSearchInputBox" Version="4" /> and replace with your brand new search area:
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Link to Home on Top Navigation Bar
If you have a custom site definition and want to have a link to RootWeb, just add NavBarPage to your module:
<Module Name="OrklaRootBlank" Url="" Path=""> <File Url="default.aspx"> <NavBarPage Name="$Resources:core,nav\_Home;" Url="~site" ID="1002" Position="Start" /> </File> </Module>
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Add local admin in cmd
Just run this in cmd, or powershell:
net localgroup Administrators /add domainname\\users
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Check if a file exists
var imgName = "hello.jpg"; var folder = web.GetFolder("PublishingImages"); var img = web.GetFile(folder.ServerRelativeUrl + "/" + imgName); if (img.Exists) { doSomething(); }
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Todolist in VS
A really nice feature is a task list. Just write //TODO something something in your code and it appears in the task list which can be shown through View - Task List in Visual Studio.
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Resize image with jQuery to fit the div
There are many interesting jQuery plugins for resizing and cropping of images. Among them are jrac and image scale. I have tested the latter: It works very fine
$(window).load(function() { var $imgContainer = $("#layout-news-image"); var $newsImg = $("#layout-news-image img\[rel!='sp\_DialogLinkIgnore'\]"); $imgContainer.css("width", $imgContainer.parent().width()); if ($newsImg.length > 0) { if ($newsImg.width() < $imgContainer.width()) { $imgContainer.width($newsImg.width()); } if ($newsImg.height() < $imgContainer.height()) { $imgContainer.height($newsImg.height()); } $newsImg.imgscale({ parent : '#layout-news-image', center: "true", scale: "fill" }); } }); ```This script checks if the original image is lesser than container div and doesn't resize if it is so.
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ListUrl on EventReceiver
When you create an eventreceiver, you get the ListTemplateId attribute. It works fine. But if you want the eventreceiver to trigger on one particular list, just replace ListTemplateId attribute with ListUrl. For Pages you can use:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> <Receivers **ListUrl="$Resources:cmscore,List\_Pages\_UrlName;"**\> <Receiver> <Name>NewsPageEventReceiverItemUpdated</Name> <Type>ItemUpdated</Type> <Assembly>$SharePoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$</Assembly> <Class>Contoso.EventReceivers.NewsPageEventReceiver.NewsPageEventReceiver</Class> <SequenceNumber>1000</SequenceNumber> </Receiver> </Receivers> </Elements>
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Change CA port number
In order to change port number for the Central Administration site, run this cmdlet:
Set-SPCentralAdministration -Port 1337 You can set any number between 1023 and 32767 except 443.
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Create own delegate control
In this post I’ll show how to create a simple (but own) delegate control. A short intro and links on delegate controls can be found on sharepointoverflow. Take a look on master page. There are already many delegate controls. The delegate control with id AdditionalPageHead can be used for adding your script or jQuery library.:
<SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="AdditionalPageHead" AllowMultipleControls="true"/> You can also override existing controls like searchbox. But what if you want to add some content in the master page where no delegate controls are present.
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SiteLogoImage to RootWeb
If you click on the site logo, as default you go to the current spweb’s default.aspx page. If you want to override this, locate:
<SharePoint:SPLinkButton runat="server" NavigateUrl="~site/" id="onetidProjectPropertyTitleGraphic" > ```Change ~site to ~sitecollection: <SharePoint:SPLinkButton runat=“server” NavigateUrl="~sitecollection/" id=“onetidProjectPropertyTitleGraphic” >
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Hide Site Actions
The easiest way to hide Site Actions for a specific audience is to wrap this into a SPSecuritityTrimmingControl. Locate in your master page. Paste this before span element:
<SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl runat="server" Permissions="ManageLists"> Find the ending element and paste:
</SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl>
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Get all comments
If you try to get comments quantity for a url, you may wonder, why there is only quantity of the comments which the current user has posted:
public int GetNumberOfNewsPageComments (SPSite currentSite, string pageUrl, int max) { var serviceContext = SPServiceContext.GetContext(currentSite); var socialCommentManager = new SocialCommentManager(serviceContext); var comments = socialCommentManager .GetComments(new Uri(pageUrl), max); if (comments != null) { return comments.Length; } return -1; } ```The solution is to impersonate the SPSite object with an account who has the rights to manage social data.
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Custom favicon
It is easy to use a custom favicon, put a ico image into a mapped folder Images and then locate this line in your master page:
<SharePoint:SPShortcutIcon runat="server" IconUrl="/\_layouts/images/favicon.ico" /> ```And replace it with your ico: <SharePoint:SPShortcutIcon runat=“server” IconUrl="/_layouts/images/CONTOSO/favicon.ico" />
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Increase performance while retrieving data with LINQ to SP
If you are just intrested in getting data, not writing to the source like SubmitChange, you can disable ObjectTracking and increase the performance.
context.ObjectTrackingEnabled = false; ```I found this tip on page 248 in the book "[Sharepoint 2010 as a development platform](http://www.apress.com/9781430227069)"
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Do an unsafe update in a unified manner
Recently I talked about a WithWeb-pattern as described in Jonas Nilssons blog where you can isolate the disposal logic in one place. Another thing is to isolate unsafe updates:
public static class SPWebExtension { public static void UnsafeUpdate(this SPWeb web, Action<SPWeb> action) { try { Log.Info("Trying to do an unsafe update on a web: " + web.Title); web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true; action(web); } catch (Exception e) { Log.Error(e); } finally { web.
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Show Title on Page
If you want to show the page title in another part than defined in your master page just add this tag to your page layout.
<SharePoint:ProjectProperty Property="Title" runat="server" /> ```It must be within <asp:Content> tag
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Show a presence bubble
There is no built-in sharepoint control for the presence bubble. If you want to add this functionality on your pages you have to add it as html. Here is a sample:
private static int \_COUNTER = 0; private const string PresenceBubble = "<a class='ms-imnlink' href='javascript:;'>" + "<img width='12' height='12' id='imn\_pawn\_{0}' onload=\\"IMNRC('{1}')\\" alt='My SID' " + "src='/\_layouts/images/imnoff.png' border='0' " + "showofflinepawn='1' sip='{2}'></a> {3}"; private static string FormatUser(SPUser user) { \_COUNTER++; return string.
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Get role assignments of a web or a list
In Powershell you can easily get the permissions in a web or in a list:
$web = get-spweb http://contoso.com $web.Groups | select Name, Roles > .\\Desktop\\webgroups.txt $list = $web.Lists.TryGetList("Assets"); $list.RoleAssignments | select Member, RoleDefinitionBindings > .\\Desktop\\assets-roleassignements.txt ```To get all users in all groups run: $web.Groups | Foreach { Write $_.Name; Write “————-”; $_.Users | Select Name; Write “”; Write "" }
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Windows 8 preview
I have tested the Windows 8 developer preview. VMWare player 3 didn’t manage it, so I installed VirtualBox and it ran very well. One thing I did was to enable full screen on VirtualBox. Here is the list of features you get if you install the developer preview:
Windows SDK for Metro style apps Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview 28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app
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1DayLater.com - the best time tracking
I discovered a great tool for time tracking: 1DayLater. So far I am very pleased. You can add activities, write hash tagged descriptions, get an overview over you consultant hours and much more
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My favorite tools
When you code, you can save a lot of time and nerves if you have good tools. Here are my favorites: Programmer’s notepad ULS Log Viewer Resharper t4toolbox HTML5 and CSS3 standards
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Webpart in a reusable user control
In my previous post I wrote about using IgnoreIfAlreadyExists=“True” for preventing of adding webparts multiple times. It works fine until you redeploy your project. Another approach is to use a user control with you webpart. Add mapped folder CONTROLTEMPLATES. Create a new user control, add you assembly and your webpart. Then you can add this user control wherever you need it.
<%@ Register tagprefix="SPSWC" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <SPSWC:SocialCommentWebPart runat="server" AllowEdit="True" AllowConnect="True" ConnectionID="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" Title="Note Board" IsIncluded="True" Dir="Default" PartImageLarge="" IsVisible="True" AllowMinimize="True" ZoneID="" ID="g\_5937b022\_83bb\_40cb\_b68f\_bd565bf96885" FrameState="Normal" ExportMode="All" TitleLocIdNum="0" AllowHide="True" SuppressWebPartChrome="False" DetailLink="" ChromeType="None" DescriptionLocId="Null" TitleLocId="Null" MissingAssembly="Cannot import this Web Part.
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Sharepoint repos on github
You may think all interesting open source Sharepoint projects on codeplex. Well it is true, but there are some interesting projects on github as well. There are 17 projects for now. From a matrix to RichControls.
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Webparts on a layoutpage which is provisioned several times
It is pretty easy to add webparts to a layout page. Just define the webparts in the corresponding Elements.xml file. Like you do in onet.xml. It works fine if you provision just a single page with this layout on a web. If you have multiple pages that use the same page layout (e.g. in WCM). The trick is to use the attribute IgnoreIfAlreadyExists in the File tag:
IgnoreIfAlreadyExists="True" Comments from Wordpress.
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TryGetList
How do we get a list? Perhaps like that:
var list = web.Lists\[listname"\]; ```But we must be aware of exceptions that can appear and we must handle them. A better way to get a list is to use [TryGetList](http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/18035/custom-webpart-being-rendered-twice-on-layout-page): var list = web.Lists.TryGetList(listname);
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WithWeb-pattern of Jonas Nilsson
Jonas Nilsson shows an interesting approach for working with SPSite and SPWeb which must be disposed. Create a helper method WithWeb and send an Action parameter:
public void WithWeb(string uri, Action<SPWeb> action) { using (SPSite site = new SPSite(uri)) { using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) { action(web); } } } ```Here is my implementation of this pattern: public static class DisposalService { public static void WithWeb(string uri, Action action) { using (var site = new SPSite(uri)) { using (var web = site.
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Compare two TimeSpan objects
var TimeToIgnore = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 60); var created = (DateTime)properties.ListItem[SPBuiltInFieldId.Created]; var now = DateTime.Now; var span = now.Subtract(created); return span.CompareTo(this.TimeToIgnore) < 0;
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Server Relative Url of an SPListItem
The easiest way to get the server relative url of an SPListItem is to retrieve the property “ServerUrl”.
SPListItem item... var url = item\["ServerUrl"\];
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Check if user is in group
Use LINQ to check if user is in a group. Create an extension method.
public static bool InGroup(this SPUser user, SPGroup group) { return user.Groups.Cast<SPGroup>() .Any(g => g.ID == group.ID); } ```EDIT 2011-01-22: There is a shortcoming of this method. You won't get a user which is in group through a AD group. You'll get only users and ad groups. [But there is another method to check if a user is inside an AD group](/2012/01/16/check-if-a-user-is-in-a-ou/ "See my post about how to retrieve users from AD groups with PrincipalSearcher").
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PublishingRollupImage
The internal name of Rollup Image or Upplyft bild is PublishingRollupImage
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Content Type Id for Image, Audio and Video
After debugging I have found the Content Type Ids for Image, Audio and Video in the assets library. These content type ids are not present in SPBuiltInContentTypeId.
public class SPBuiltInContentTypeIdExtension { public static SPContentTypeId Video = new SPContentTypeId ("0x0101009148F5A04DDD49CBA7127AADA5FB792B00291D173ECE694D56B19D111489C4369D"); public static SPContentTypeId Audio = new SPContentTypeId ("0x0101009148F5A04DDD49CBA7127AADA5FB792B006973ACD696DC4858A76371B2FB2F439A"); public static SPContentTypeId Image = new SPContentTypeId ("0x0101009148F5A04DDD49CBA7127AADA5FB792B00AADE34325A8B49CDA8BB4DB53328F214"); } These three asset content types inherit from Document CT (“0x0101”) and have “0x0101009148F5A04DDD49CBA7127AADA5FB792B” in common, which is the content type id for multimedia content type.
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Rensa text från html-taggar
Ett bra exempel finns här.
using System.Text.RegularExpressions; ... const string HTML\_TAG\_PATTERN = "<.\*?>"; static string StripHTML (string inputString) { return Regex.Replace(inputString, HTML\_TAG\_PATTERN, string.Empty); }
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lästips om sharepoint-licenser
Känns licenser för Sharepoint är ett djungel. Läs det här bloginlägget.
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less.js
Det finns ett intressant projekt som kan hjälpa att strukturera css-filer. Du skriver regler i en kombination av css och javascript. Det omvandlas med hjälp av js till css. Projektet heter less.js, läs mer om detta på sharepointoverflow.
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Se om det är en tråd eller inlägg i diskussionsforum
Diskussioner sparas i en vanlig lista. En ny tråd sparas som en folder. Alla svar sparas som SPListItem i den foldern. En folder är så klart också en SPListItem, fast har en annan typ. För att se om det är en tråd, kan man jämföra ett fält som har ett guid som man kommer åt via SPBuiltInFieldId.FSObjType. var item = properties.ListItem; var type = Convert.ToInt32(item\[SPBuiltInFieldId.FSObjType\]); var foldertype = (int) SPFileSystemObjectType.Folder; if (type == foldertype) { //Yes, this is the thread head var body = item\["Body"\].
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AfterProperties kräver InternalName
AfterProperties kommer inte leda till Exception, men de kommer returnera bara null, om du använder DisplayName. Man måste ha InternalName. Här är ett litet exempel på hur man kan få ut värden före och efter uppdateringen. Exemplet har testats i ItemUpdated-eventreceiver.
var before = properties.BeforeProperties; var after = properties.AfterProperties; var contentDisplayName = "News Content"; var list = properties.List; var contentInternalName = list.Fields\[contentDisplayName\].InternalName; var contentBefore = before\[contentInternalName\]; var contentAfter = after\[contentInternalName\];
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window.onload
Sharepoint ger en annan lösning för window.onload och jQuery(document).ready(function() {}); _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push(‘gerdaRibbonInit’);"
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ViewState
Om du vill behålla dina värden på variabler mellan postbacks, använd ViewState:
if (ViewState\["MaxNumberOfArticles"\] != null) { MaxNumberOfArticles = (int) ViewState\["MaxNumberOfArticles"\]; } MaxNumberOfArticles += 10; ViewState.Add("MaxNumberOfArticles", MaxNumberOfArticles); RenderNews();
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Webpart Livscykel
http://nishantrana.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/understanding-web-part-life-cycle/ OnInit – Configuration values set using WebBrowsable properties and those in web part task pane are loaded into the web part. LoadViewState – The view state of the web part is populated over here. CreateChildControls – All the controls specified are created and added to controls collection. When the page is being rendered for the first time the method generally occurs after the OnLoad() event. In case of postback, it is called before the OnLoad() event.
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Kontrollera om SPView finns
För att se kör:
bool exists = splist.Views.Cast().Any(view => string.Equals(view.Title, viewName));
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Lägg till en sida
Här är ett litet exempel på hur man kan lägga till sidor:
private void PublishNews(SPWeb web, string spamnewsname) { PublishingSite pSite = new PublishingSite(web.Site); SPContentType ctype = pSite.ContentTypes\["NewsPageContentType"\]; PageLayoutCollection pageLayouts = pSite.GetPageLayouts(ctype, true); PageLayout pageLayout = pageLayouts\["/\_catalogs/masterpage/MyNewsLayout.aspx"\]; PublishingWeb pWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(web); PublishingPageCollection pPages = pWeb.GetPublishingPages(); PublishingPage pPage = pPages.Add(spamnewsname, pageLayout); SPListItem newpage = pPage.ListItem; newpage\["Title"\] = "Page added programmatically"; newpage\["NewsContent"\] = lorem; newpage.Update(); newpage.File.CheckIn("all looks good"); newpage.File.Publish("all looks good"); }
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formatera int
Här finns en lista över formateringsmöjligheter med C# string.Format
String.Format("{0:00000}", 15); // "00015"
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resharper
Bara att rekommendera. Dagens: Ctrl-Shift-Backspace: Go to last edit. http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/webhelp/Reference__Keyboard_Shortcuts.html http://blog.drorhelper.com/2009/05/15-resharper-keyboard-shortcuts-you.html
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commaseparatedaccounts
om du lägger till commaseparatedaccounts i PeopleEditor, använd ett komma, inte semikolon, som man kan tro…
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jQuery validation with asp.net
De kan var lite jobbigt att få till jQuery validate att funka ihop med aspnetForm…
$(document).ready(function () { newsLetterForm = $("#aspnetForm"); newsLetterForm.validate({ onsubmit: false, rules: { "<%= emailTextBox.UniqueID %>": { required: true, email: true } } }); $("#<%= sendButton.ClientID %>").live("click", function { var isValid = newsLetterForm.valid(); if (!isValid) { e.preventDefault(); } }); }); jQuery validate kräver name på elementen inuti formen. För att ta reda på name, måste man använda Control.
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webpart för att uppdatera title och description av web
<%@ Assembly Name="$SharePoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$" %> <%@ Assembly Name="Microsoft.Web.CommandUI, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="Utilities" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="asp" Namespace="System.Web.UI" Assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" %> <%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %> <%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="WelcomeTextUserControl.ascx.cs" Inherits="MyProject.WelcomeTextUserControl" %> <style type="text/css"> #welcome-text-wp-input-title { font-size: 2em; } .welcome-text-wp-edit-mode, #welcome-text-wp-updateImage { display: none; } </style> <img src="/\_layouts/Images/homepageSamplePhoto.
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pause in Powershell
Om man högerklickar och väljer “Run With Powershell”, är det bra om fönstret inte försvinner… Det hade varit bra med en funktion som pause… Här kommer väl till pass en egen pause.:
function Pause ($Message="Press any key to continue...") { Write-Host -NoNewLine $Message $null = $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown") Write-Host "" }
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powershell.exe -Command
man kan skapa en .bat-fil med olika powershell-anrop:
powershell.exe -Command "& {.\\Script1.ps1}"
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Vilka rättigheter står bakom olika roller
Här är en lista. För att få fram den listan kan man köra kod: StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://wss")) { using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) { SPRoleDefinitionCollection roleDefinitions = web.RoleDefinitions; foreach (SPRoleDefinition roleDefinition in roleDefinitions) { sb.Append(System.Environment.NewLine + System.Environment.NewLine + "Role Definition: " + roleDefinition.Name + System.Environment.NewLine + "==================================================" + System.Environment.NewLine); XmlDocument xmldoc = new XmlDocument(); xmldoc.LoadXml(roleDefinition.Xml); XmlNode nodes = xmldoc.DocumentElement; sb.Append(nodes.Attributes\["BasePermissions"\].Value); } textBox1.Text = sb.
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Vänta tills sp.js laddats
Här är en funktion som man kan använda för att vänta till sp.js laddats och köra sin funktion:
ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(myjsfucntion, "sp.js"); Eftersom det kan vara så att sp.js laddas med lazy loading:
<SharePoint:ScriptLink Name="SP.js" runat="server" OnDemand="true" Localizable="false"
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Uppdatera web med js
Här är ett litet exempel:
function updateTitle() { var ctx = new SP.ClientContext.get\_current(); this.web = ctx.get\_web(); web.set\_title('Examensarbete 2011'); this.web.update(); ctx.executeQueryAsync( Function.createDelegate(this, this.onUpdate), Function.createDelegate(this, this.onFail)); } function onUpdate(sender, args) { alert('title updated'); } function onFail(sender, args) { alert('failed to update title. Error:'+args.get\_message()); }
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Sharepoint Manager 2010
Ett ytterligare grym verktyg från codeplex-lägret: Sharepoint Manager.
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jQuery hide
Jag har alltid använt hide-funktionen i jQuery för att gömma vissa element som inte behövs i början. Det kan resultera att användaren ser skymningen av dem i laddningen av sidan. Vilket inte är så bra. Men det har visat sig, att hide behöver inte köras av jQuery. Bara göm dem med hjälp av css. jQuery show kommer funka ändå.
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spribbon fluent
Ett mycket intressant projekt för att skapa ribbon-anpassningar. Som så här:
new ButtonDefinition() { Id = "New", Title = "Start new game", CommandJavaScript = "window.location.reload();", Image = new ImageDefinition() { Url16 = "/\_layouts/images/ChessWebPart/new16.png", Url32 = "/\_layouts/images/ChessWebPart/new32.png" } } ```Så blir resultatet: 
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Viss hjälpinnehåll
Om det strular med att visa hjälpinnehåll, följ denna beskrivning för att lösa det. Du måste ge rättigheter på procedure som heter proc_EnumResourcesAtScope på Sharepoint-AdminContent-databasen:
GRANT EXECUTE ON " proc\_EnumResourcesAtScope" TO "contoso\\SP\_Apppool"
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Registrera javascript i feature
Om det inte passar att javascript i masterpage eller egen webpart, registrera det som customaction och aktivera feature. Läs mer här. Här är ett exempel:
<CustomAction Location="ScriptLink" ScriptSrc="~sitecollection/\_layouts/MyProject/awesome.js" Sequence="101"> </CustomAction>
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Hämta innehåll på något element i contentEditorWebpart
Här
string content = welcomeWebpart.Content.InnerText; //get heading string heading = string.Empty; Match m = Regex.Match(content, @"( .\*? ==== )", RegexOptions.Singleline); if (m.Success) { heading = m.Groups\[1\].Value; } heading = Regex.Replace(heading, @"( | = )", "", RegexOptions.Singleline); welcomeValues.Add("#HEADING#", heading);
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Hämta lokaliserad sträng från App_GlobalResources
Om man har en sträng i App_GlobalResources som man vill hämta ifrån koden, kör:
string text = HttpContext.GetGlobalResourceObject("MyProject\_Global", "submit\_label") as string;
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Rättigheter på CustomAction
Om man vill begränsa vem so kan se kan man lägga till “Rights”-attribut på CustomAction. Ett exempel: Hela listan finns på msdn.
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Ändra content i ContentEditorWebPart
Det finns ett exempel här.
//defaultAspx är sidan (SPListItem i Sidor) //måste checkas ut först //mgr är WebPartManager //wp är contentEditorWebPart web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true; XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument(); XmlElement xmlElement = xmlDoc.CreateElement("Content"); xmlElement.InnerText = ((Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ContentEditorWebPart)wp).Content.InnerText.ToString(); xmlElement.InnerText = xmlElement.InnerText.ToString().Replace("#HEADING#", "Welcome for welcome"); wp.Content = xmlElement; mgr.SaveChanges(wp); defaultAspx.File.CheckIn(""); defaultAspx.File.Publish(""); web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false; ```Man måste skapa nytt XmlDocument och XmlElement, om man försöker skriva direkt till wp.Content.InnerText kommer det inte uppdateras. I det här fallet, byter vi ut #HEADING# mot något mer passande.
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styra css för modaldialog
Säg du har application page med samma master page som resten av portalen. Men vad göra om du vill ändra css bara om den är i modal dialog. Overrida dina css-regler genom att lägga till .ms-dialog. .ms-dialog är css-klassen som läggs på html-taggen om sidan laddas i modaldialog:
html.ms-dialog body { background-color:white; }
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Ge andra rättigheter på default.aspx
Om man inte vill medlemmarna på SPWeb rättighet att redigera första sidan hur som helst, måste man bryta arvet på Sidor/default.aspx. Lätt att göra det manuellt (Site Actions - Show all Content - Pages - default.aspx - dokumenträttigheter). I koden kan man göra det så här:
//first find SPListItem defaultAspx //then find SPGroup members (perhaps via web.AssociatedMemberGroup defaultAspx.BreakRoleInheritance(true); defaultAspx.RoleAssignments.RemoveFromCurrentScopeOnly(members); SPRoleAssignment roles = new SPRoleAssignment(members); SPRoleDefinition perms = web.RoleDefinitions.GetByType(SPRoleType.Reader); roles.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add(perms); defaultAspx.RoleAssignments.Add(roles);
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Sök på hela SPSite
När man skapar en egen searchbox, kan det vara lite meckigt att få till söken rätt. För att kunna söka på hela SPSite, oberoende var man är (subsite), ange property:
<Property Name="DropDownMode">**HideDD\_useDefaultScope**</Property> Det kan hända att du måste skapa en egen scope.
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PeopleEditor med ifyllt värde
I vissa fall är det bra att ha ett ifyllt värde i PeoplePicker, till exempel, namn på personen som kör koden. Det finns olika beskrivningar om hur man gör det. Allmänt, och mer specifikt för webparts. Jag har även testat kod från boken Sharepoint 2010 as a Development Platform:
private PeopleEditor peopleEditor; private void EnsureChildControls() { peopleEditor = new PeopleEditor(); peopleEditor.AutoPostBack = true; peopleEditor.ID = "MyPeopleEditor"; peopleEditor.AllowEmpty = false; peopleEditor.MultiSelect = true; peopleEditor.
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~masterurl/default.master & ~masterurl/custom.master
Läser “SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform”. Kan verkligen rekommendera den. Idag har jag förståt vad default.master och custom.master innebär. De pekar på de master-filer som är inställda på web-nivå. Så det är ingen idé att ändra DynamicMasterUrl i @Page-direktivet till sin egen (om du inte vill ha någon helt annan master än i resten av portalen).
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Flaggor i powershellfunktioner
Har länge letat efter möjligheten att skriva funktioner med egna flaggor på ett enkelt sätt. “Flaggor” (flags) är namngivna parametrar. Följande kommando har flaggor: -Identity, -WebApplication och -GACDeployment.
Install-SPSolution -Identity contoso.portal.wsp -WebApplication http://contoso -GACDeployment ```Låt oss titta på ett gammalt exempel: function hello($firstname, $lastname) { Write “Hello $firstname $lastname” }
hello -firstname Gregor -lastname Samsa
hello -lastname Samsa -firstname Gregor
function helloInColor($firstname, $lastname, [switch]$red = $false, [switch]$green = $false) { $greeting = “Hello, $firstname $lastname” if($red) { Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red $greeting } if($green) { Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green $greeting } }
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Lägg till en annan administrator på site collection
Man kan göra det i CA (Application Mgmnt - Change Site Cltn Admins). Det kan man också snabbt göra med powershell:
Set-SPSite http://contoso -SecondaryOwnerAlias contoso\\admin2
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defaultvärde på parametern i powershellfunktioner
Läser ett intressant inlägg om deployskript i powershell. Har upptäckt att man kan stoppa in ett defaultvärde i funktionens parameter. Så i stället för
function hello($name) { Write-Host $name } Kan man köra:
function hello($name = "Gregor") { Write-Host $name } ```Mycket smidigt.
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Videokurs om Web Content Management
På microsoft.com finns en ny videokurs om web content management. Där kan du lära dig om hur man implementerar cms-funktionalitet med sharepoint, bl.a.: content types, page layouts med mera. Tack för tipset, deutschsprachige Sharepoint-Community.
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Autocomplete för sökruta i Sharepoint
Ett mycket trevligt projekt: Search As You Type på Codeplex. Ladda ner textfilen och lägg till javascript och css från den filen till masterpage. Så enkelt är det. Jag har testat det genom att direkt stoppa in koden i Chrome Console.
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uls logger
Det finns ett intressant projekt på codeplex: ULS Logger. Är absolut värt att testa.
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SPSecurityTrimmedControl
Ett mycket bra inlägg från Tom Puleos blogg om SPSecurityTrimmedControl. Måste absolut testa det.
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parametrar i powershell-funktioner
Man kan skapa funktioner med parametrar som påminner mycket om i C#. Så i stället för:
function Just-Test { Write-Host $args\[0\] } ```Skriv: function Just-Test($param) { Write-Host $param }
if($site -ne $null -and $url -ne $null) {“Url OR Site can be given”; return}
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powershell_ise
Powershell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) är ett bra verktyg för att skriva powershell-skript med färgmarkering och möjligheten att testköra det. Synd bara att det inte är aktiverat ifrån början i Server 2008. För att [aktivera](Import-Module ServerManager 2 Add-Windowsfeature PowerShell-ISE ) kör följande kommandon i powershell:
Import-Module ServerManager Add-Windowsfeature PowerShell-ISE För att sedan starta powershell kör:
powershell\_ise
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Lägga till Företagsnyckelord
Det är enkelt att lägga till kolumnen företagsnyckelord. Skapa egen contenttype och lägg till fieldref.
<FieldRef ID="{23f27201-bee3-471e-b2e7-b64fd8b7ca38}"/> Funkar utmärkt t.ex. om du ärver ContentTypen från Announcements. Lite svårare är det med Dokument. I själva verket läggs till fler kolumner för att det ska fungera. I Announcements finns de redan. Men i dokument måste du lägga till dem extra:
<!-- Enterprise Keywords--> <FieldRef ID="{23f27201-bee3-471e-b2e7-b64fd8b7ca38}"/> <!-- in order keywords to work, two additional fields have to be created--> <!
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Länkar på quicklaunchen
Det är en skum grej: Länkar (listor och bibliotek, kalender och dylikt) visas inte. När jag har ändrat Navigation properties i min konfiguration i onet.xml, då funkar det:
<WebFeatures> ... <!-- Navigation Properties --> <Feature ID="541F5F57-C847-4e16-B59A-B31E90E6F9EA"> <Properties xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> <Property Key="InheritGlobalNavigation" Value="true"/> **<Property Key="ShowSiblings" Value="false"/>** <Property Key="IncludeSubSites" Value="true" /> <Property Key="IncludePages" Value="false" /> </Properties> </Feature> </WebFeatures>
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Sharepoint CSS Chart
Mycket bra resurs om olika css-klasser och id i standard Sharepoint. Bara att börja designa… http://sharepointexperience.com/csschart/csschart.html
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masterpage i application page
Om det inte funkar att ändra masterpage genom DynamicMasterPageFile:
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="CreateNews.aspx.cs" Inherits="MyProject.Layouts.MyProject.CreateNews" DynamicMasterPageFile="~masterurl/default.master" %> Kör det här
<script type="text/C#" runat="server"> protected override void OnPreInit(EventArgs e) { base.OnPreInit(e); this.MasterPageFile = "/\_catalogs/masterpage/my-custom.master"; } </script>
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field type
Här är en hel lista över olika typer som Field kan få i Content Type. Type=“File” motsvarar SPFieldFile
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Visa i hur länge sedan något hänt
Säg du vill visa när något har skapats. Att visa datum funkar. Ännu bättre är att visa det i stil: “För tre dagar sedan” eller så. Det finns en bra metod i SPUtility:
SPUtility.TimeDeltaAsString(Published, DateTime.Now);
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ID på befintliga kolumner
Det finns en fin lista över id på kolumner som man kan lägga till. Här är ett exempel hur man kan använda det. Här är ett exempel på två extra kolumner i contenttype:
<FieldRefs> <FieldRef ID="{23f27201-bee3-471e-b2e7-b64fd8b7ca38}"/> <!-- Enterprise Keywords--> <FieldRef ID="{3de94b06-4120-41a5-b907-88773e493458}"/> <!-- PublishingImage--> </FieldRefs>
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javascript API i Sharepoint
Det är supersmidigt. Här är ett exempel: function createAnnouncement(title, body) { var ctx = new SP.ClientContext.get\_current(); var list = ctx.get\_web().get\_lists().getByTitle('Meddelanden'); var itemCreationInfo = new SP.ListItemCreationInformation(); this.newListItem = list.addItem(itemCreationInfo); this.newListItem.set\_item("Title", title); this.newListItem.set\_item("Body", body); this.newListItem.update(); ctx.executeQueryAsync( Function.createDelegate(this, this.onSucceededCallback), Function.createDelegate(this, this.onFailedCallback)); } function onSucceededCallback(sender, args) { SP.UI.Status.addStatus("Info", "It worked!",true); } function onFailedCallback(sender, args) { SP.UI.Status.addStatus("Info", "It didn't work!",true); } Comments from Wordpress.com westerdaled - Feb 0, 2013
Thanks, I gather I can pass OnSucceedCallback as a delegate.
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Validera din form på klienten
Det finns ett mycket bra jQuery-tillägg som kan validera din data i en formulär på ett enkelt sätt. Se en demo. Referera till validate.js och ange rätt css-klasser på dina inputs: “required”, “error”, “url”, “valid”. Mycket smidigt.
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cloud9 web ide
Skapa javascript-appar i din webbläsare. Mycket smidigt. Direkt kontakt till github.
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favicon
För att använda egen favicon, lägg till följande rad i din masterpage (inom head):
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/\_layouts/images/YOUR.PROJECT/favicon.ico" /> ```Skapa en ikon och lägg den i mapped folder Images.
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Använd egen logo på feature
För att använda en egen logo på feature, lägg till en bild på 31x22px i mapped image folder, och referera till den i your-feature.Template.xml: ImageUrl=“YOUR_PROJECT/mylogo.gif” (/_layouts/images/ behövs inte i sökvägen)
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Gratis webparts från Amrein
Finns gratis webparts från Amrein Engineering. Fått tips från sharepoint.stackexchange.com. Testat AELightBox. Men det är rätt så krångligt med inställningar. Den kräver att man skriver in vilken vy och så vidare. Vyn ska ha “title” och den kräver även kolumner så som ImageWidth och ImageHeight. Detta känns lite mindre användbart eftersom de här värdena kunde man hämta från bilden själv och anpassa till skärmens upplösning. [caption id=“attachment_405” align=“aligncenter” width=“291” caption=“Amrein Lightbox”][/caption]
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Delegate Control
Just nu håller jag på med ribbon och en teknik jag precis upptäckt som är bra för att få igenom kod för alla sites i en site collection är Delegate Control. Jag tänkte tippsa om länkarna här då det är något som alla utvecklare kan behöva lära sig för eller senare. http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2007/06/using-delegate-control.html http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/36628
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Hämta en lokaliserad sträng
Om du använder olika språk så lär du använda Sharepoints lokaliseringsverktyg ($Resources…) Här är ett sätt att hämta generiskt ett värde:
string res = "$Resources:ContosoPortal, List\_Products"; string listName = SPUtility.GetLocalizedString(res, "Produkter", (uint)CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.LCID); ```I andra rader stoppar vi in även default-värde
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TreeNode
Ibland vill man visa data i TreeView. Här är ett litet exempel på koden:
using (SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web) { foreach (SPWeb topWeb in web.GetSubwebsForCurrentUser()) { TreeNode tn = new TreeNode(topWeb.Name); tn.NavigateUrl = topWeb.ServerRelativeUrl; this.treeviewProjects.Nodes.Add(tn); if (topWeb.Webs.Count > 0) { foreach (SPWeb subWeb in topWeb.GetSubwebsForCurrentUser()) { TreeNode childNode = new TreeNode(subWeb.Name); childNode.NavigateUrl = subWeb.ServerRelativeUrl; tn.ChildNodes.Add(childNode); subWeb.Dispose(); } } topWeb.Dispose(); } }
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ForEach-metod i List
En intressant variant av foreach är ForEach-metoden i List. Titta på det lilla exemplet:
private static void SavePlacesToDB(SQLiteConnection cnn, List<dynamic> places) { places.ForEach(obj => SavePlaceToDB(obj, cnn)); } ```Här används även det nya objektet [dynamic](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264736.aspx) som har kommit i Visual Studio 2010, samt en [lambda expression (=>)](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397687.aspx).
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Chuvash Keyboard for Android
Now there is a Chuvash keyboard for Android. The little program uses AnySoftKeyboard application, gives the ability to write in Cyrillic and Latin. All kinds of feedback are appreciated. Chuvash Keyboard for Android is open source like AnySoftKeyboard.
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Uppföljning till automatisk installation av Sharepoint utvecklingsmiljö på Windows 7
I mitt förra inlägg skrev jag kort om några intressanta länkar kring poweshell-skriptbaserad installation av allt som behövs på in utvecklingsmaskin för Sharepoint 2010 lösningar. Nu har jag testat installera skriptet på en ny installation Windows 7 64-bit på en rad olika sätt. Till en början testade jag skriptet på en nyisntallerad Windows 7 virtuell VMPlayer maskin. Det fungerade bra, utan krångel. Sedan installerade jag Windows 7 på en virtuell VHD maskin, som jag bootade native från.
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Förenkla skapandet av utvecklingsmiljön till SharePoint 2010
Jag är fortfarande i mitt sökande efter den perfekta (för mig) utvecklingsmiljön för SharePoint 2010. Fram tills nu har jag arbetat med en virtuell (VMware) maskin som kollegor till mig har konfigurerat. Men jag vill ha kunskapen att göra det själv. Än så länge har jag bara stött på procedurer som är relativt långdragna, fram tills idag. Se på videon på sidan jag länkat nedan. Jag ska testa det och sen förhoppningsvis komma med resultat här.
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Bobusos. Rövarspråk translator
I have published my old app “Rövarspråksöversättare”, an assignment on the android course. Rövarspråket is the Swedish language game. Of course Bobusos (“bus” - en:prank in Rövarspråket) is open source and can be found on Github.
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.gitignore for android
.gitignore is very important. This file tells git which files not to care about. I found a good template for android .gitignore: .metadata tmp/** .DS_Store *.tmp *.bak tmp/**/* *.swp *~.nib Thumbs.db Desktop.ini *~ *.apk bin gen local.properties *.jar **.classpath** The only thing I have added is the last row: .classpath.
Comments from Wordpress.com J. Pablo Fernández - Apr 2, 2011
Thanks for pointing to the missing .classpath, it’s now fixed on gitignore.
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Good beginners' tutorial on android, eclipse and git
Smashing magazine has a pretty good tutorial how to start programming for android using git, github, eclipse and datastorage. I recommend: Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse, Reloaded
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Update from git
So if you have an existing copy of the project, just type: git pull origin master Or in Egit in Eclipse, right-click on repo and run “Fetch from upstream”.
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New files in Eclipse
If there are new classes or files in the project (say you have got the latest version from github into existing workspace in Eclipse). In order for Eclipse to see them, right click on the package and press “Refresh”.
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Get coordinates from Google Maps
To get longitude and latitude can be tricky at the first time. There are many ways to do this, e.g. getlatlon.com. Good enough, but not so practical if you want to collect many coordinates. You can’t search after street names, you only can scroll and drag. Another way is to use javascript to show the longitude and latitude. See this example. This works in all web browsers.Just find your object in Google Maps and paste this javascript in URL bar: javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.
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Undvika postback i button
Äntligen har jag kommit på hur man kan skippa oönskad postback i button. Det finns många olika lösningar. Här är ett intressant inlägg på stackoverflow om det. Men det enklaste sättet är egentligen bara lägga till
return false; ```i onclick... Här är lösningen using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; … HtmlButton HtmlButtonSendMail; protected override void CreateChildControls() { … #region Configure Send Email HtmlButtonSendMail = new HtmlButton(); HtmlButtonSendMail.InnerText = “Send Email”; HtmlButtonSendMail.ID = “HtmlButtonSendMail”; string script = “”; script += “SP.
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Ny skribent
Jag är mycket glad att det finns en ny skribent på den här bloggen: timswe. Det här är en kille som har mycket att berätta om Sharepoint och om andra tekniker.
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Programmers notepad
De flesta känner nog till Notepad++. Det finns en annan väldigt duktig textredigerare: Programmers notepad. Den är väldigt bra. code highlighting, filnavigering direkt i programmet mm. Testa gärna.
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Powershell med tysk precision
Master Powershell ebookDe som har missat Powershell, läser nog andra sorts bloggar än denna. Så rak på sak: det finns en lovande ebook om Powershell, skriven av Tobias Weltner. Ska absolut läsa den. Ni som har läst, vad tycker ni om den? Master-PowerShell | With Dr. Tobias Weltner i html
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Få alla items i Telerik Radgrid
Jag har haft följande problem: I Telerik Radgrid var Paging aktiverat. I varje Page visades 15 items, alltså när jag försökte hämta Items, så fick jag bara 15. Jag ville dock ta ut alla för att kunna skicka värden till en annan funktion på hemsidan (ModalDialog - om det i ett annat inlägg). Efter mycket googlande har jag hittat en lösning:
grid.MasterTableView.AllowPaging = false; grid.MasterTableView.Rebind(); ```Observera att man det måste vara grid.
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.NET HtmlControls
ASP.NET WebControls är en vanligt använd klass inom Sharepoint-utveckling. Den ger tillång till asp controllers som används mycket inom WebForms. Men allt för ofta glöms det bort att man programmatiskt kan skapa Html element/controllers programatiskt, utan att använda (missbruka) literals. Genom att använda inbyggda classer blir koden renare, mer lättläst och lättare att bygga ut (intelisense m.m.). För att läsa mer om HtmlContols klicka på länken nedan. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.htmlcontrols.htmlcontrol.aspx
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JSFiddle
Vill du snabbt testa javascript, css och sånt, då är JSFiddle rätt för dig. Skapa ett konto där och njut.
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Ctrl-Shift-J is the shit
devtools i google chrome underlättar så enormt. Lägg Ctrl-Shift-J på minnet. För då kommer du direkt till konsolen i devtools och kan testa.
Om man till exempel bara vill omdefiniera en funktion så kan man göra det direkt i webbläsarens addressruta: Inled det med javascript:function till exempel: javascript:function shout_out(greeting) {alert(greeting);};
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Polymorfi och javascript
En skräckscenario: du använder två javascript-bibliotek. Men de har var sin funktion som har samma namn. Det spelar även ingen roll om antalet inparametrar är olika. Så det blir samma sak som myfunc(param1, param2) och myfunc(param1). Grejen är att funktionen som laddas sist är den som kommer köras. Katastrof! Men det finns lösningar. Börja läsa här om hur man kan simulera polymorfi i javascript på about.com. Säg vi har en funktion som heter MoveToDate(strdate, ctxid) den ingår i init.
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migrera svn till git
Ja, hur gör man om man vill migrera till git? Låt oss säga, man vill använda github. Jag ska berätta hur man kan göra det. Jag gör det i Linux, förmodar samma gäller Mac. Det finns en bra manual om hur man migrerar svn till git. Vi ska gå igenom steg för steg. Skapa en fil som heter users.txt på ditt Skrivbord:
jmaddox = Jon Maddox <jon@gmail.com> bigpappa = Brian Biggs <bigpappa@gmail.
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Ändra utseendet på sidan direkt i webbläsaren
I förra inlägget har jag berättat om devtools i Google Chrome. Ett ytterligare tips för att hålla på med klient-delen är att använda Optimizely.com. Det är väldigt smidigt. Gå in på optimizely.com och skriv in adressen till din sharepoint-applikation. Eller se denna video. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S0IrbwpfzE&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3]
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Felsök på clientsidan med Chrome DevTools
Här är en väldigt bra video som berättar om nya devtools i Google Chrome 10. Den visar 12 tricks hur man kan underlätta felsökning av html, css och javascript. Att kunna ändra html,css och js on-the-fly är faktiskt häftigt. För mig som länge har använt Firebug i Firefox (som nu inte funkar på FF4 RC) känns devtools väldigt bra. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOEw9iiopwI&w=530&h=335]
Comments from Wordpress.com Ändra utseendet på sidan direkt i webbläsaren « Sharepoint.
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Använd inbyggd ModalDialog
Vill du visa någon formulär, eller längre information kan du använda en snygg (snygg och snygg?) ruta som är default i Sharepoint. Den är i alla fall användbar. Här är ett litet enkelt exempel, för att illustrera:
var options = { url: "http://sverigesradio.se", width: 800, height: 600, allowMaximize: false }; SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options); Det finns även möjlighet att ha OK-knappen, alltså som alert i javascript. Kolla den här länken.
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Visa en snygg och konsistent notifikation
Det finns ett fint sätt att visa någon information med hjälp av Sharpoints javascript-bibliotek.
SP.UI.Notify.addNotification(\\"Loading..\\", false); Det används i själva Sharepoint. Det ger en högre grad av consistency och folk slipper klicka på “OK” i vanliga alert-rutan.
Comments from Wordpress.com Tim - Mar 5, 2011
Duktigt, nu kommer vi aldrig glömma :) Jag har glömt hur man får fram den där långa feedbackrutan som hamnar under navigationen, vet du hur man får fram den, är en SP.
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Formatera export xml av wordpress
Ville spara min blogg som en dagbok för utskrift. Exporterade hela bloggen som xml. Inga problem. Sedan var det dock nästan omöjligt att enkelt skriva in det i Word / OpenOffice. Jag har skrivit en liten css-fil som formaterar det lite så att man kan skriva ut. Lägg till:
<?xml-stylesheet type = "text/css" href="wordpress.css"?> direkt efter:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> Lägg filen “wordpress.com” i samma mapp. Här är wordpress.css
channel title { font-size:3em; } channel description { color:green; margin-bottom:1em; } item title { font-size:2em; font-family:Arial; margin-top:1em; } creator { color:green; } creator:before { content:"Skrivet av: "; color:black; font-style:italic; font-size:0.
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Sharepoint + OpenSource = Sant
Om man söker på Sharepoint i codeplex.com får man 729 projekt som är alltså öppna. Det är inte illa. Bland dem finns till exempel Sharepoint Log Viewer. Till det kommer 713 öppna projekt som är taggade ASP.NET som kan användas väldigt mycket i Sharepoint-utveckling. Bland ASP.NET-taggade finns smidiga Telerik Extensions. Powershell är också absolut en tag som man ska söka på i codeplex. codeplex.com är Microsofts officiella OpenSource-portal. Det måste finnas andra sidor där öppna projekt inom Sharepoint och ASP.
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Sharepoint Log Viewer
Mycket bra verktyg för att debugga din sharepoint applikation är Sharepoint Log Viewer som är Open Source och finns att hämta på codeplex.com Det går att öppna en logg-fil, det går att köra live monitoring och att exportera. Det sköna är att det är lätt att söka efter correlations-id. Rekommenderar verktyget!
Comments from Wordpress.com Sharepoint + OpenSource = Sant « Sharepoint. Kunskap. Upptäckter på resan. - Mar 3, 2011
[…] får man 729 projekt som är alltså öppna.
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Skapa en egen gadget i Google för att lägga till i Sharepoint
Ibland vill man visa saker som kommer utifrån din sharepoint-installation. Du vill kanske sortera det, ändra det. Man får jättegärna använda javascript. Använd gärna GGE (Google Gadget Editor)
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Sharepoint Overflow
Alla känner nog till stackoverflow.com. Det finns även sådant för enbart Sharepoint Overflow. Värt att testa.
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Interna fältnamn i SPList
Här är en väldigt bra lista över fältnamn, eller denna lista, till och med bättre i SPList, både Display Name, Internal Name och GUID. En annan bra länk är förklaringen om hur interna fältnamn är uppbyggda av Marc Anderson. För att se interna namnet kan man klicka på kolumnrubriken (för att sortera) så ser man det i URL:en. EDIT: den här tyckte jag mycket om.
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Använda gmail smtp i Sharepoint
Användbart om man vill test mail-funktioner. Skapa gmail-konto eller använd ett befintligt. Aktivera POP i gmail-konto Aktivera smtp i features i Server Manager Klicka på Add Feature. Välj SMTP-Server Klicka OK på “Install required server roles” Öppna IIS Manager (IIS 6.0 Manager) Fortsättning följer
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Köra debug
Det är mycket enklare att köra debug i SP 2010. Högerklicka på projektet -> Debug -> Add new instance. Resten är som vanligt.
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Radera en sajt ifrån Powershell
Att radera en sajt ifrån Powershell är väldigt enkelt. Skriv bara:
Remove-SPWeb [http://sharepoint/test](http://sharepoint/test)
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Aktivera PowerShell för Sharepoint
Som standard så är snap-in i Powershell för Sharepoint inte aktiverat. Gå in på Powershell och aktivera det genom att skriva in: Enable PowerShell Sharepoint:
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell ```Se mer på [social.technet.microsoft](http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010setup/thread/81392f4c-549c-4c4b-a158-99ab8ef8e114).
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Browsa från din host
Visst är det skönt att slippa gå in på sidan på Internet Explorer på den virtuella maskinen. Kolla upp ip-adressen på den virtuella maskinen och på din riktiga maskinen: Start -> Skriv cmd -> ipconfig Hitta adresser som har samma tre tal i början, typ 192.168.10.1 och 192.168.10.147 Om den virtuella har 192.168.10.147, ändra hosts filen så att namnet på din sharepoint-applikation pekar på den adressen. Hosts låter sig inte uppdateras med ett vanligt konto.
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Återgå till en tidigare version i SVN
Tänk om du vill återgå till en tidigare version. Vill strunta i de sista ändringarna, eller lägga dem på is så länge. Att uppdatera till en tidigare version hjälper inte så mycket eftersom det kommer inte gå att commita vidare ändringar. För att det ska funka måste man reverta till en specifik version, commita direkt, göra ändringar och commita igen. Högercklicka på filen i Visual Studio -> Subversion -> Show history -> Högerklicka på en revision som du vill återskapa -> Revert to this revision.
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Merge en fil i taget
Om man vill testa någonting, så är det bra att isolera det till en branch. En branch kan inte skapas för en fil. Det måste vara en mapp. Hitta den minimala mappen, så att man inte branchar hela projektet. Högerklicka -> Subversion -> Branch. Sedan måste man byta till sin branch. Högerklicka på samma mapp -> Subversion -> Switch. Välj din mapp i branches. Det gör ingenting om mappen inte heter samma.
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Visa en popup-ruta
Visst är det fint med en formulär eller ruta som dyker upp medan ursprungssidan blir mörklagd. I grunden så ändras opacity på hela sidan, blir mörkare. En iframe med högre z-index dyker upp. I den iframe finns en annan sida. Hur gör man för att ta fram den rutan? Här berättar jag lite om det:
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javascript i Webpart
Här är en bra länk hur man kan använda javascript: http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/JavaScript_with_ASP_NET_2_0_Pages_Part1.aspx
this.Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(), "ButtonSendMailConfirm\_Click", "alert('mail skickat!')", true);
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Problem med Sharepoint efter installation av SQL Server
Jag installerade Sharepoint först vilket skapade nödvändiga databaser. Sedan installerade jag SQL Server och angav det som default instance. Efter det gick det inte att använda Sharepoint. Felmeddelandet som spottades ut var “Cannot connect to the configuration database”. Alla försök att starta SQL Server med instansen “Sharepoint” var verkningslösa. Den enda lösningen var att avinstallera Sharepoint, alla Web Sites (i IIS administration) och installera Sharepoint på nytt, ange den nya SQL Server som standard för denna Sharepoint-installation.
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Återskapa koppling till login i DB efter restore
Om du har kört restore på en databas, så kan det hända att det inte går att ändra rättigheter, och den login du använt inte kan se databasen. SQL Server spottar ut felmeddelandet med kod 15023:
The database is not accessible. (Object Explorer)
Om det är WebService som i sin tur anropar databasen, kan det komma ett sådant felmeddelande:
The underlying provider failed on Open.
Lösningen är att uppdatera kopplingen. Hämtat från denna blog.
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Installera viktiga program på Windows Server
Nu när vi kommit så långt med installationen, så kan vi installera viktiga program.
Alcohol 52 för att mounta .iso-filer. Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. Klicka på “Custom” under installationen och välj bort komponenter man inte intresserad av. Jag valde bort Visual Basic, C++, F#, SQL Server Express. SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 TortoiseSVN, klienten för Subversion AnkhSVN, plugin till Visual Studio för versionhantering. Comments from Wordpress.
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Installera Sharepoint Server
Nu när du installerat Windows Server, så kan du installera Sharepoint Server. 1. Skaffa Sharepoint. Som student kan du få licensnyckeln från MSDNAA på ditt universitet. Ladda ner Sharepoint Server (Trial Version). Som version, välj “Enterprise Client Access License features”.
Läs i min serie om server installation:
Installera Windows Server Konfigurera backup Installera Sharepoint Server 2. Kör den nerladdade SharePointServer.exe-filen. Klicka på “Install software prerequisites”. Tar en stund (10 för mig).
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Windows Server Backup
Följ denna instruktion för att köra backup. Lägg till Feature: Windows Server Backup. När det är installerat expandera Storage under Server Manager. Klicka på Backup Once till höger. Välj helst Full Server (då sparas hela hårddisken). Destinationshårddisken ska vara formaterad som NTFS.
Restore Har inte provat köra restore än. Så fort jag kört det kommer jag rapportera om det.
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Omvandla en partition till VHD
Som nämnts tidigare så kan man omvandla en fysisk hårddiskpartition till VHD. Använd Disk2VHD. [caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“313” caption=“Taget från Disk2VHDs hemsida.”] “disk2vhd screenshot”[/caption] Problemet med detta är att det inte går att köra vhd:n. “Missing operating system” spottar VirtualPC ut. Medan den fysiska ikopplad, går det inte heller att mounta vhd:n. Även om man valt bara en partition så syns alla partitioner (som nu blir tomma). Partitionens alla filer är dock på plats och är åtkomliga.
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Partitionera hårddisk
Det bästa och det snabbaste sättet jag kommit fram till är att använda Ubuntu LiveCD och dess inbyggda GParted. Hög nivå av affordance. Det behövs egentligen inte några förklaringar.
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Konvertera vmdk till vhd
VMWare har massor med fördelar som jag inte går in på här. VMDK:s (VMWares hårddisk-filändelse) Windows Virtual PC:s motsvarighet heter VHD. VHD har en stor fördel att den är integrerad med Windows. Det går bland annat att mounta VHD-avbildning som en extra disk och se och kopiera filer. Det går att boota direkt till VHD. Det går att skapa varianter av VHD där bara ändringar sparas i nya och på det sättet sparas plats.
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Installera Windows Server på fysisk hårddisk
Det bästa är att installera Windows Server och Sharepoint på en virtuell hårddisk. Följ denna instruktion och installera det. Men om man har en äldre dator (som är mitt fall) och ändå vill testa saker och kunna utveckla, så är det lönt att installera på en riktig hårddisk. Det bästa är att använda en SSD-hårddisk. Sedan är det möjligt att installera Windows Server på en VHD och boota från den (mer info kommer senare förhoppningsvis).
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Aktivera trådlöst i Windows Server
Om man installerat Windows Server på fysisk hårddisk på din bärbara så vill man säkert använda trådlöst nätverk. Här är en guide med bilder hur man aktiverar denna feature.
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Mounta VHD
Det kan vara ett helvete att köra en virtuell maskin på en slö dator. En lösning kan vara att boota direkt till VHD utan värdsystemet. Det enklaste sättet är att använda EasyBCD. Testa gärna med en färdig VHD. Edit 2010-12-10. EasyBCD funkar bara med Windows7-vhd för tillfället. Kolla mer om hur man får vhd att boota.
Comments from Wordpress.com Konvertera vmdk till vhd « Sharepoint. Huvudvärk och smärtstillande. - Dec 5, 2010
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out ref
Om en metod har en inparameter med out framför sig. så innebär det att man skickar en referens till ett objekt. Alltså om det är out string param, så kommer det inte funka att skicka “någonting” direkt. Utan man måste instansiera först. string hej = “någonting”; CallTheMethod(ref hej); http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t3c3bfhx(VS.80).aspx
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kort variant av if-else
Inget speciellt egentligen med detta men vill skriva upp det här för att jag brukar glömma det. Det är samma syntax som i många andra språk: bool value = "dit" == "dat" ? true : false; Motsvarar:
bool value; if ("dit" == "dat") { value = true; } else { value = false; }
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Ändra properties i efterhand
Ibland ändras vissa variabler. Man vill så klart inte kompilera varje gång man ändrar ApplicationName eller connectionString. I mitt förra inlägg har jag visat hur man använder app.config, hur man lägger till ett värde och hur man hämtar det i programmet. Nu vill jag visa hur man ändrar det efter kompileringen. I mappen var projektet finns gå in på bin -> Debug. Där finns både .exe-filen och en fil som heter samma som .
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app.config
app.config kan användas till mycket. Här är ett litet exempel hur man använder den. Så kan app.config se ut:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <appSettings> <add key="ApplicationName" value="SharePoint - 80" /> </appSettings> </configuration> ```Sedan i programmet måste vi importera: using System.Configuration
appName = ConfigurationSettings .AppSettings[“ApplicationName”] .ToString();
## Comments from Wordpress.com #### [Ändra properties i efterhand « Sharepoint. Huvudvärk och smärtstillande.](http://sharepointheadache.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/andra-properties-i-efterhand/ "") - <time datetime="2010-10-31 23:12:43">Oct 0, 2010</time> \[...\] Man vill så klart inte kompilera varje gång man ändrar ApplicationName eller connectionString.
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Komma åt andra tabeller via foreign keys i LINQ
I stället för att köra join-statements i LINQ som jag visat i ett av mina tidigare inlägg, kan man utnyttja inbyggda möjligheter att komma åt saker via foreign keys. Jfr de här två:
var q = from s in ctx.Staffs join si in context.StaffOnCourseInstances on s.uid equals si.uid where si.CourseInstanceId == 1435 select new { s.adAccount }; ```och var q = from c in context.StaffOnCourseInstances where c.CourseInstanceId == 1435 select new { c.
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Lägga till en användare i en grupp på sajten
I stället för att köra group.Users.Add(“adAccount”, “name”, “email”, “comment”) är det bättre att köra: SPUser user = web.EnsureUser(emp.adAccount); group.AddUser(user);
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Installera Subversion på klienten
För att komma igång med versionhanteringen när man utvecklar i Visual Studio, måste man installera tortoisesvn, sedan AnkhSVN. TortoiseSVN är själva klienten, medan VisualSVN är ett tillägg för Visual Studio. Gå in på C:\ i Windows. Högerklicka och välj SVN Checkout. Sedan ange din svn-server och mappen där du vill ha en working copy: [caption id=“attachment_97” align=“aligncenter” width=“300” caption=“subversion uppgifter”][/caption] Logga in [caption id=“attachment_99” align=“aligncenter” width=“300” caption=“subversion login”][/caption] AnkhSVN måhända inte syns direkt i Visual Studio.
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Bläddra i Sharepoint från Android
Det finns en app som heter Quick Browser för Android från SPElements. Med den kan man bläddra i olika bibliotek och listor i en sharepoint direkt från mobilen. Mycket smidigt. Den aktuella versionen är 0.2.8. Den uppdateras rätt så ofta och blir bättre och bättre. Den enda nackdelen jag tycker är att man får alla element i ett bibliotek bara som en lista. Om det är image library så måste man long-klicka på ett element för att “download and view”.
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Subversion mappstruktur
Subversion verkar väldigt smidigt och användbart när man jobbar flera stycken med samma projekt. Är det ett litet program hjälper Dropbox tillräckligt. Vill man ha kolla på alla ändringar och ha möjlighet att backa till äldre versioner är Subversion det bästa alternativet. Det kan underlätta mycket om man har en riktig mappstruktur ifrån början:
main trunk branches tags trunk används för löpande utveckling. Vill man testa saker eller lösa några buggar, används branches.
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join i LINQ
LINQ är ett kraftfullt verktyg. Det som kan vara lite krångligt är join. Men om man gör rätt blir det bra. Låt oss titta på det sql-exemplet:
SELECT s.adAccount FROM Staff s join StaffOnCourseInstance si ON s.uid = si.uid WHERE si.CourseInstanceId = 1435 För att köra motsvarande LINQ måste vi vara väldigt noga med on:
var testQuery = (from s in ctx.Staffs join si in ctx.StaffOnCourseInstances on s.uid equals si.uid where si.
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local dns
Hur gör man om man vill ha två olika internet-adresser för olika inloggningar. Om man har DNS inställt rätt - inga problem. Men hur gör man för att testa det på sin lokala maskin. Man kan ändra dns-information på sin maskin. För detta ska filen [hosts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_%28file% 29#Content_and_location) uppdateras. I Windows tryck på Start och i sökrutan skriv:
%SystemRoot%\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts Den här filen är raka motsvarigheten till /etc/hosts i Linux. I filen som öppnas lägg till följande rader som sist:
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HelpUrl i WebPart
Man kan lägga till HelpUrl i en WebPart, för att användare kan klicka och få instruktioner eller hjälp med just denna webpart. För att göra det manuellt, ska man klicka på pilen, välja “modify this web part”, och sedan i “Advanced” skriva url-länken i “HelpUrl”-fältet. För att lägga till HelpUrl ifrån början, när sajter skapas, måste man ange den egenskapen i onet.xml i Module för din sajt. Man måste hitta , och ändra den: <property name="HelpUrl" type="string">http://sr.
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Komma åt Title-kolumnen i SPList
Vad gör man om man vill lägga till Title-kolumnen till en ny vy? SPField fieldTitle = scheduleList.Fields["Title"]; Det kommer funka, men Title kommer vara bara text, utan en länk till SPListItem. Kolla på den koden: SPField fieldTitle = scheduleList.Fields[**SPBuiltInFieldId.LinkTitle**]; Här hämtar vi kolumnen som heter i Sharepoint “Title linked with item menu”. Det finns fler sådana “inbygda” kolumner.
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PowerShell
PowerShell är ett sätt att manipulera data och struktur i SharePoint-portalen. Samma uppgifter låter göras med konsoll-applikationer. Fördelen med PowerShell är att man kan skapa skript som är flexibla och kan köras med olika parametrar. PowerShell påminner starkt om shell-skript i Linux. För mig som egentligen kommer snarare från bash-världen. Där har Microsoft låtit sig inspireras starkt :). Det finns en bok om PowerShell, skriven av svenskar, som låter intressant. Man behöver inte heller uppfinna hjul på nytt: det finns färdiga skripts som man direkt.
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Hämta schema från en befintlig SPList
Ibland är det så att man vill ha en speciell mall för en SPList, man har redan skapat en mall manuellt på sajten. Då är det enklaste sättet att hämta schema.xml och Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools. När man installerat det så startar man Sharepoint Solution Generator 2008. Sedan måste man hitta sin lista, eller dokumentbiblioteket och exportera. Sedan är det bara att importera till sitt projekt i Visual Studio.
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Ändra query på en SPView i koden
När man vill ändra hur data ska visas i en SPView i SPList, då måste man ändra CAML-Query. Det enklaste sättet att skapa en CAML Query är att använda ett program som heter CAML Query Builder. Ta bara bort och för att de behövs inte. Sedan är det bara att loopa igenom alla vyer man behöver.
private void UpdateQueryInGroupViews(SPList list) { for (int i = 1; i < 11; i++) { string viewname = String.
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Radera en specifik sida i en site
Om man vill radera någon specifik sida som finns på flera siter, så måste man loopa igenom alla SPList objekt som finns i ett SPWeb objekt. På ett SPList som heter “Pages” ska man loopa igenom alla SPListItem och radera den som har Title som man är ute efter. Jag raderar alla sidor som heter “schedule.aspx”:
private void DeleteScheduleAspx(SPWeb web) { bool found = false; foreach (SPList list in web.Lists) { if (list.
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Two site logos?
We have had troubles updating site icons in SharePoint Online. It might be related to one of the following:
It occures only on hub sites The sites have a custom theme The error message:
We experienced a problem updating the icon. Please try again in a few minutes.
But what I found is that there are two places where you change the site icon. If the first does not work, try the second one, that was what worked for us:
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Two site logos?
We have had troubles updating site icons in SharePoint Online. It might be related to one of the following:
It occures only on hub sites The sites have a custom theme The error message:
We experienced a problem updating the icon. Please try again in a few minutes.
But what I found is that there are two places where you change the site icon. If the first does not work, try the second one, that was what worked for us:
Tag: troubleshooting
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Two site logos?
We have had troubles updating site icons in SharePoint Online. It might be related to one of the following:
It occures only on hub sites The sites have a custom theme The error message:
We experienced a problem updating the icon. Please try again in a few minutes.
But what I found is that there are two places where you change the site icon. If the first does not work, try the second one, that was what worked for us:
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Page Diagnostics for SharePoint
While trying to set up a new Home Site, I discovered that there is a tool (browser extension) called Page Diagnostics for SharePoint.
After running this, I tried that command again and it was smart enough to detect the problem the tool discovered.
Also Network Trace is available.
Network trace
Page Diagnostics Tool is defnitely a tool to have in the troubleshooting toolbelt for SharePoint.
Setting up a Home Site Here is the script:
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Troubleshooting Performance in SharePoint Online
This is my personal list of links and thoughts on troubleshooting performance in SharePoint Online.
Resources @MSFT365Status, a twitter flow on the incidents and resolutions connectivity service Service Status (open for all), Service Health (for admins) Health info in Response Headers Every response from SharePoint Online contains some health information:
Diagnosing performance issues with SharePoint Online (MSDocs) Troubleshooting SharePoint Performance Issues with F12 (blog post) Following Response Headers could reveal the health:
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Method "GetList" does not exist
I troubleshooted a piece of CSOM code in SharePoint 2013. I got the following error:
Method “GetList” does not exist
The reason was that the method GetList was not imlemented until March 2015 CU (15.0.4701.1001), and the SharePoint farm I had was SharePoint 2013 SP1 (15.0.4569.1000). So the solution is to install the Cumulative Update or use web.Lists.GetByTitle. GetByTitle has one aweful shortcoming: it doesn’t work in multilingual environments. So I have recommended to install the March 2015 CU.
Tag: workaround
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Two site logos?
We have had troubles updating site icons in SharePoint Online. It might be related to one of the following:
It occures only on hub sites The sites have a custom theme The error message:
We experienced a problem updating the icon. Please try again in a few minutes.
But what I found is that there are two places where you change the site icon. If the first does not work, try the second one, that was what worked for us:
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A user can only create 250 groups
A non-admin user can create no more than 250 resources in Azure AD. That is one of the many Azure AD service limits and restrictions. A “resource” can be an app registration, an Office 365 Group etc. But I would like to discuss Groups more in detail.
Imagine the following scenario: Your organization has disabled Office 365 Group Creation. Only IT can create new groups. A service account has been set up for creation of team sites.
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$ in cmssitemanager.js conflicts with $ in jQuery
In SharePoint 2010 if CMSSiteManager.js library is loaded besides jQuery, then much of stuff stops working. The reason is that the dollar sign ($) is used in cmssitemanager.js as well which conflicts with jQuery. Mostly it appears on pages where you load jQuery and have an image library with thumbnails. To avoid this, just replace all $ with jQuery in your custom scripts. A more crazy situation is when avoiding $ isn’t enough.
Tag: ikea
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DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
Tag: msgraph
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DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
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Using Sway as a simple static site builder
Sometimes all you need is just a simple static web page: instructions, a landing page, a collection of links. I think I have a perfect use case for Sway. Consider a scenario similar to what Laura Kokkarinen writes in her blog post:
How to build a guest user self-service registration for office 365 with azure An external user invitation needs an inviteRedirectUrl. Usually it is myapps.microsoft.com. In Laura’s case it was a given extranet url.
Tag: o365
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DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
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Is an M365 Group a Yammer Community
Nowadays a Yammer Community gets a corresponding Microsoft 365 Group (Office 365 Group, Unified Group). In your work as an SPO Admin, you might need to differentiate “ordinary” Modern Team Sites from those ones that were created for a Yammer Community.
They both have GROUP#0 as Template. On the actual SPO Site object, there is nothing that you can use to differentiate those. Neither you can use the Office 365 Group information.
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Deploying SPFx using Office 365 cli, custom AAD App and Azure Pipelines
In this post I would like to share some findings from setting a deployment of SPFx. In my work:
I need to deploy SPFx solutions using Azure Pipelines I need to use the least privileges/permissions I cannot use Legacy Authentication First of all, big thanks to @waldekm and the whole community of @office365cli and @m365pnp for the quick help, and that outside working hours.
Let’s take a look at the setup piece by piece
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DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
Tag: python3
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DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
Tag: status
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DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
Tag: tradfri
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DIY: Integrating Trådfri lights with Teams presence
It seems that Work from Home (WFH) is here to stay, it’s okay. I’d say, Work from a Smart Home is even more okay. To me, Home Automation (HA) and Work from Home (WFH) are really two peas in a pod.
Today’s “guest” is a tiny application that I’ve set up on my raspberry pi to listen to my presence (status) in Teams and show it with colors of my smart RGB light (IKEA Trådfri).
Tag: image
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Mass remove live photo videos
While importing images from my iPhone using Image Capture on my mac, I discovered that almost all pictures had corresponding videos. They had the same name, only the file extension was different:
IMG_2829.JPG IMG_2829.MOV For archiving I don’t to have live photo videos, that’s why I needed a script for that. I found a good start in an answer on SuperUser.stackexchange.com:
OSX Command line Find Duplicate Filenames with different extensions I altered it a bit to remove the corresponding .
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Drag and Drop Image using Client Side Rendering
I continue my series about Client Side Rendering (CSR) and jsgrid. Today I want to try a custom field where users can drag and drop images. The inspiration comes from:
AutoUpload field written by Anton Vishnyakov and Base64 Drag and drop written by oroboto What I want to achieve is:
A custom field that is rendered with jslink Users can drag and drop small pictures (thumbnails) into the field A base64 image representation is saved as the field value Optionally implement pasting images using Clipboard API Step 1 Create a field with a custom jslink Create a field of type Note.
Tag: iphone
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Mass remove live photo videos
While importing images from my iPhone using Image Capture on my mac, I discovered that almost all pictures had corresponding videos. They had the same name, only the file extension was different:
IMG_2829.JPG IMG_2829.MOV For archiving I don’t to have live photo videos, that’s why I needed a script for that. I found a good start in an answer on SuperUser.stackexchange.com:
OSX Command line Find Duplicate Filenames with different extensions I altered it a bit to remove the corresponding .
Tag: osx
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Mass remove live photo videos
While importing images from my iPhone using Image Capture on my mac, I discovered that almost all pictures had corresponding videos. They had the same name, only the file extension was different:
IMG_2829.JPG IMG_2829.MOV For archiving I don’t to have live photo videos, that’s why I needed a script for that. I found a good start in an answer on SuperUser.stackexchange.com:
OSX Command line Find Duplicate Filenames with different extensions I altered it a bit to remove the corresponding .
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Chuvash Keyboard Layout for Mac
I’ve got a Mac and one of my first questions was: How can I write in Chuvash on my Mac, obviously :) In this post I am going to tell how I created Chuvash Keyboard Layout. The solution and installation instructions are on Github: Chuvash Keyboard Layout for Mac What the heck is Chuvash? For those who don’t know yet: Chuvash are people who live in Chuvash Republic in Russian Federation, and abroad, as me.
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Mass remove live photo videos
While importing images from my iPhone using Image Capture on my mac, I discovered that almost all pictures had corresponding videos. They had the same name, only the file extension was different:
IMG_2829.JPG IMG_2829.MOV For archiving I don’t to have live photo videos, that’s why I needed a script for that. I found a good start in an answer on SuperUser.stackexchange.com:
OSX Command line Find Duplicate Filenames with different extensions I altered it a bit to remove the corresponding .
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
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Setting up a HelloWorld Azure Alert
Azure Alerts are awesome for monitoring of solutions in Azure. If you are about to set up your first Alert Rules in Azure, then it’s a guide for you. Configuring alert rules can be quite intimidating at first, with all the options, metrics, evaluation times, etc.
Here is a very very simple setup that can serve as a teaser and help you get started with the Azure Alerts.
I’ll use Teams as an easy way to set up notifications.
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javascript: Alert Me on a Page
Recently I needed to add an Alert Me link on Pages. Alert Me is a well known SharePoint functionality for notifying users about changes in list or list items. It is availabe in OOB SharePoint as a command in Ribbon if you go to a list view: When you click on this ribbon command, SharePoint opens a modal dialog and takes you to layouts page: SubNew.aspx. To open a modal dialog and load a page is not a rocket science.
Tag: gateway
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
Tag: homeautomation
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
Tag: lamp
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
Tag: light
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
Tag: ngrok
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
Tag: remote
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
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Run powershell remotely
To run powershell remotely is really easy. First enable it on the machine which will receive the remote commands:
Enable-PSRemoting Then go to another machine and connect to your host:
$cred = Get-Credential Enter-PSSession -Computername dev -Credential $cred If you want to know more about powershell remoting, I recommend “A layman’s guide…”. See even a detailed example on poshcode.
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
Tag: workfromhome
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Flashing Trådfri lights on Azure Alerts
What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds.
Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.
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Setting up a HelloWorld Azure Alert
Azure Alerts are awesome for monitoring of solutions in Azure. If you are about to set up your first Alert Rules in Azure, then it’s a guide for you. Configuring alert rules can be quite intimidating at first, with all the options, metrics, evaluation times, etc.
Here is a very very simple setup that can serve as a teaser and help you get started with the Azure Alerts.
I’ll use Teams as an easy way to set up notifications.
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Setting up a HelloWorld Azure Alert
Azure Alerts are awesome for monitoring of solutions in Azure. If you are about to set up your first Alert Rules in Azure, then it’s a guide for you. Configuring alert rules can be quite intimidating at first, with all the options, metrics, evaluation times, etc.
Here is a very very simple setup that can serve as a teaser and help you get started with the Azure Alerts.
I’ll use Teams as an easy way to set up notifications.
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Setting up a HelloWorld Azure Alert
Azure Alerts are awesome for monitoring of solutions in Azure. If you are about to set up your first Alert Rules in Azure, then it’s a guide for you. Configuring alert rules can be quite intimidating at first, with all the options, metrics, evaluation times, etc.
Here is a very very simple setup that can serve as a teaser and help you get started with the Azure Alerts.
I’ll use Teams as an easy way to set up notifications.
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Listing all renamed sites in SharePoint Online
When you rename a site, a new site is REDIRECTSITE#0, you can get all the sites of that type by running
Get-SPOSite -Template REDIRECTSITE#0
Please consider some caveats with renaming a site url
Effects of changing a site address, MSDocs
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Automatically detect new sites in SharePoint Online
Original image by William Warby. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/16414155179/in/photostream/
Sites in SharePoint are created all the time, not only for SharePoint, but also as storage for Yammer, Teams, Planner and other services in Microsoft 365. There are ways to keep track of them, but the ability to automatically detect a new site creation is quite appealing. Automatic detection means a trigger of a Power Automate (Flow) or a Logic App.
There are a few blog posts that exactly describe how you can detect when a new site is created in SharePoint Online:
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Automatically detect new sites in SharePoint Online
Original image by William Warby. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/16414155179/in/photostream/
Sites in SharePoint are created all the time, not only for SharePoint, but also as storage for Yammer, Teams, Planner and other services in Microsoft 365. There are ways to keep track of them, but the ability to automatically detect a new site creation is quite appealing. Automatic detection means a trigger of a Power Automate (Flow) or a Logic App.
There are a few blog posts that exactly describe how you can detect when a new site is created in SharePoint Online:
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Is an M365 Group a Yammer Community
Nowadays a Yammer Community gets a corresponding Microsoft 365 Group (Office 365 Group, Unified Group). In your work as an SPO Admin, you might need to differentiate “ordinary” Modern Team Sites from those ones that were created for a Yammer Community.
They both have GROUP#0 as Template. On the actual SPO Site object, there is nothing that you can use to differentiate those. Neither you can use the Office 365 Group information.
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Estimated Completion in Write-Progress in PowerShell
Have you also got many sites in your tenant? Write-Progress is the bare minimum in a script that goes through all sites. But there is also another nice way to make easier to see the progress - estimated completion time.
Although the idea comes from another blog post (My life is a message), I thought it could be worth sharing it again, especially in the cloud context.
Here is a bit simplified scenario: Getting information for every site.
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Kalendern i SharePoint
Dags för ett svenskt inlägg igen. Idag vill jag titta på kalenderfunktionaliteten i SharePoint Online.
Fortfarande gammalt (classic) utseende Tyvärr är det gammalt utseende som gäller och det finns inga planer från Microsoft att modernisera kalendern:
SharePoint UserVoice: Modern Calendars Jag förstår att det är väldigt mycket kod för att få till kalendervyn och att det inte är så lätt omvandla till ett modernt utseende, men det ställer till eftersom det upplevs som gammalt och inte användarvänligt ute i verksamheten.
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Renaming site urls
I saw a demo of it on the European SharePoint Conference in Copenhagen in 2018. Sebastian Fouillade, who showed this, compared this big change with brain surgery. All the urls, all the connections. But now it is possible. Today I have seen it even in my standard release tenant.
It is really appreciated. Soon it will be possible to rename misspelled sites, like “devlepment” to “development” etc.
To rename you need to go the SharePoint Admin, find your site among Active sites and click on “Edit” in the site url area.
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The CDN concept in SharePoint
How many instances of jquery are there in your SharePoint farm? [sourcecode language=“powershell”] Get-SPWebApplication http://dev ` | Select -Expand Sites ` | Select -Expand AllWebs ` | Select -Expand Lists ` | Select -Expand Items ` | ? { $_.Url -match “jquery.*.js” } ` | select Name, Url [/sourcecode] Have you more than two (jquery and jquery-ui), then you have too much. You can save much place and performance by using Content Delivery Network (CDN) links for the resources like javascript, css, fonts and icons.
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Re-discovering Github
Github has changed a lot. While working mostly in Azure DevOps I haven’t followed all the development on Github. Now when I look at that, I am really amazed.
Private Repos for Free accounts Well, for me it is not as interesting, because with my free account, I don’t see any harm having my labs public. But I know, some people used bitbucket for their smaller private repos.
Github Project I suppose it is the Azure DevOps Project concept that was copied to Github, a place for planning and having multiple connected repos.
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Azure Key Vault vs. Pipeline Variables
Using Azure Key Vault in a Pipeline is cool, but it is less secure.
The Key Vault setup
Have you tried the Key Vault Step in an Azure DevOps Pipeline? If you haven’t, please follow these awesome guides:
Azure