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.

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).

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.
• Only licensed users within your organization will be shown that choice. No external users or users without a license.
• And the most important part: if any site owner selects “Don’t show me again” it will stop popping up for all other site owners. If you happen to have a manual step in the group creation process, then you can just click it away.

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:

1. Inability to filter items based on multivalued taxonomy fields
2. Inability to filter items based on user fields where user is added through a group, rather than directly, e.g. AssignedTo=[Me] combined with a SharePoint group.
3. …

In such situations I was forced to use CSOM. Until yesterday. Yesterday I learned that we can actually use CAML queries in REST requests.   This enables using REST in all situations. The REST API is still developed and many features are added. Maybe a particular operation that needs a CAML query today, can be supported in the core REST API and can be easily refactored then. But until then, we can use CAML queries in REST requests. Here are the important things about it:

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. The guy who asked the question did as it stood in the examples. But sometimes solutions for SharePoint need some small adjustments :) Here is the simplest code to create an attachment in plain text for a list item 1 in the list called List1 in the root web. That’s it. But it works: [sourcecode language=“javascript”] var content = “Hello, this text is inside the file created with REST API”; var digest = $("#__REQUESTDIGEST").val(); var composedUrl = “/_api/web/lists/GetByTitle(‘List1’)/items(1)/AttachmentFiles/add(FileName=‘readme.txt’)”; $.ajax({ url: composedUrl, type: “POST”, data: content, headers: { “X-RequestDigest”: digest } }) [/sourcecode] This example is of course just for demonstration. It uses only hard-coded values. But it shows how simple it is to create a list item attachment using SharePoint 2013 REST API and “upload” plain text asynchronously to the server.

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);
}

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westerdaled - Feb 0, 2013