The second blog post in this series was pretty long. This time I keep it way shorter. This time I focus more on the user experience and the ideas behind the final web part that consumes the third party API. Like I promised the web part code itself contains only a single REST query against my Azure Function and that’s it.
Let’s first take at the typical behaviour of the first party video web part available on Office 365.
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.
Once a wise man cited a wiser woman with the following statement:
“My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. – Forest Gump”.
This quote can be applied to SharePoint in Office 365 nowadays too. When you have a provisioned classic site or even a modern site, then you never know what primary colour you get as your default theme.
Recently I stumbled in a new challenge I haven’t had for a long time. One of my customers wants to migrate users from Active Directory Domain A to Active Directory Domain B. The problem was that all the previously edited documents should get mapped to the new users.
I know the Feedback and Mobile App buttons are essential for Microsoft, but many of my customers ask me to remove it. There a mainly three reasons for that. The first is the location and loading behaviour of those buttons. It takes a while until those buttons are loaded and catch a lot of attention of the user once they are visible on the page.
The second reason is that the location sticky on the bottom of the page might not be the perfect spot for those buttons. I might be more useful to have them somewhere in the header or suite bar.
The most straightforward example to make you familiar with how to create a custom SPFx Yeoman generator is to use Yarn instead of NPM as your default package manager. The approach to change the default package manager is simple, and many people already use it as there default package managing solution.
So, instead of adding the ‘–skip-install’ option whenever you start a new project just add this option to a generator.
The first step is, as always, to create a new NPM package.
The modern experience is responsive by default, but it doesn’t mean that your web part will be. Especially with the new team sites and communication sites, the behaviour of web parts is as tricky as it ever was. Office UI Fabric doesn’t help you to achieve a significant user experience because it is out of their scope and offers only smaller components or full-page scoped methods, but nothing in between as needed as in web parts.
The surrounding design of a web part, for example, is defined by Office UI Fabric and even the grid system is provided by that toolkit.
When you write a web part, you might worry more about how the same web part behaves in different containers already defined by the overall page design in SharePoint.
Time to show you a trick how this container pages optimisation is possible in the SharePoint Framework and show the basics.
On the 11.11.2017 the first SharePoint Saturday will happen at the Microsoft Headquarters in Vienna. I’m pretty excited to announce that the registration is now open.
To see the lineup and program, you will find a complete listing of the sessions on our home page.
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Join our first SharePoint Saturday in Vienna and I hope to see you in November!
In Office 365 there is a great mechanism that allows you to implement a corporate wide branding on the suite bar. The customer can apply their logo and their corporate colors there.
On Monday I thought to myself what if I can make the suite bar less distracting than it is. The solid black and blue combination draw a lot of attention on every load while browsing the various portals and applications.
I customized my suite bar in the admin center to have a white background with the logo in the center of the page. All content pages in Office 365 so the white background, I thought, will seamlessly integrate the ribbon on the page instead of standing out.