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Accessible Colors in Microsoft List Formatting

We all know this during our daily work a customer wants to have different colors for his status field to highlight red for a critical status and a green status for everything is ok.
The new list formatting feature in Microsoft Lists is easy for an end-user to accomplish.

Possible colors in Microsoft List Formating

In my case, I create a project template with many lists and all different kinds of fields. The thing with my design background I struggled with was choosing the right colors in case of accessibility.

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Why and how to add multiple themes using Office 365 CLI

No matter what your preferred operating system or device is, you can develop and deploy for SharePoint whatever you want to use. Even for the deploy modern experience components for branding such as themes for the modern experience.

In my case, I work mostly on Mac occasionally on Windows, whatever serves its purpose best. Sometimes I write PowerShell Scripts to configure things on Office 365, but there is a new option other than PowerShell, but those configuration changes nowadays are even possible through classic bash scripts through the opportunities provided by the Office 365 CLI.

Enough said on the new possibility let’s look why it might make sense to have multiple different themes available.

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Use Microsoft Graph to evaluate SharePoint Urls

Recently I added a new sample to the PNP SharePoint Framework examples. The goal of this sample was to take text field input evaluate it against the Microsoft Graph and get information back information about a site collection, websites and list or libraries.

This blog post is no in-depth article on how to query the Microsoft Graph or how to make the code to work and authentication works. If you need to install microsoft visit https://softwaredepot.co/download-microsoft-office.html. Instead, I like to give you an overview of the ideas behind the implementations.

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How to define default header image for Events in Communication Site and a user story

Not every one of our users works in marketing or is an expert in storytelling. Storytelling is a skill for the future, but like every skill, it doesn’t come overnight and requires training. I assume, like for many of my customers, have problems to find an appropriate image for the header.

On the other hand, to communicate what is happening around you is beneficial for the rest of the company too. Let me show you a use case why you use default images for events in communication sites first and how to solve this on this kind of site templates.

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