Hub sites were demonstrated for the first time during Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta last year and this week they were released worldwide to all SharePoint Online tenants.
Hub sites are the modern SharePoint approach to dynamic organizations, as business evolve content that lives with in evolves too and your intranet can be reorganized to reflect the organization structure.
Breadcrumb is one of the most requested features by SharePoint users but unfortunately Microsoft removed it with SharePoint 2013 and to this day it was never reintroduced.
Last year I did a solution to bring back the breadcrumb to SharePoint without modifying the master page and today I’m releasing its third version with new features implemented based on the feedback provided by the users.
The new version is configurable according to your needs, includes support for folders inside libraries and supports custom master pages.
With SharePoint Online modern sites the branding options that used to available with Classic sites were removed, however Microsoft introduced new alternatives to apply you company brand to SharePoint.
The new theming experience allow site owners to apply themes to all modern pages in the site collection, to deliver new engaging and familiar looks.
By default, there are 8 themes available but you as an Administrator can create and deploy your owns, in this article you will find instructions on how to achieve it.
Page layouts are essential on SharePoint publishing sites, they enable the creation of content with specific editable fields.
There are predefined content areas that can be reused however sometimes they are not enough to build the perfect layout.
In this article I’ll explain you how to create a basic custom page layout with multiple Page Content areas also known as Rich HTML Field.
SharePoint modern experience is available for Lists, Document Libraries and Pages and while it delivers new functionalities to the end users it lacks some of the customization options available in the classic SharePoint.
The modern experience is provided with a theme that is responsible to format the colors of the elements in the page. On modern site collections like group and communication sites there’s a native interface that allows the administrator to control the color theme, but on classic site collections things are a little bit different and the modern experience will receive a random color applied automatically.
A few months ago, I’ve built a solution to add the breadcrumb navigation to all SharePoint sites and pages. While that solution still works fine on SharePoint 2013, 2016 and on the classic experience of SharePoint online it no longer works for the modern sites.
In the previous solution I used a script link to add the breadcrumb globally to the site collection, this functionality was disabled by Microsoft in the modern experience and it was replaced by the SPFx Extensions.
Create and edit SharePoint files form Windows is simple with SharePoint Designer but if you are a Mac user, you are in though spot!
You can do pretty much everything from the browser but upload a file every time you want to change CSS is a tedious process.
In this article, I’ll explain how you can save time and how you can get access to all the files and folders needed to customize SharePoint sites from your Mac.
This article is a continuation of my previous article that explains how to save publishing sites as templates.
Per the feedback received some people was not able to access the sites created with the template, this happens with sites that include pages with custom page layouts.
Before getting into details about how to fix this please notice that the previous article is a hack to save the site as a template, save site as a template is disabled in all Publishing sites and other type of sites with publishing features active, this means that the hack may not work in all SharePoint scenarios.
This is a short article but it can save you precious time when you apply a custom banding to your SharePoint site.
After applying a custom master page to the site some pages or all of them may start displaying a 401 error, this happens on collaboration sites and system pages namely Team Sites where you have minimal download strategy feature activated.
Save your newly created SharePoint site as a template can save you a lot of time if you want to replicate it again in your environment.
Unfortunately if you used a Publishing Site or if you had to activate the Publishing Features in a Collaboration Site, save site as a template will not be available.
In this article I explain all the steps to bring back this feature to the publishing sites and also the extra steps you may need to activate all site features.
I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.
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