Profile pictures allow you to easily identify users and on SharePoint there are a couple different ways to get it.
If you are developing SharePoint solutions and need to display profile pictures you can use one of the methods described below.
These methods are target for SharePoint online and they will not work for external users and for accounts without Exchange.
Favicons are associated to a website and are used to easily identify it from the address bar or bookmarks.
Changing the SharePoint default favicon on classic SharePoint usually involves a modification of the master page as explained here, this option is not available on modern sites but it’s still possible to modify it using an Application Customizer.
In this article you will find detailed instructions on how to create the application customizer as well as the final solution ready to be installed on your system.
Manage comments on modern page is not easy specially if you are monitoring a lot of pages, this is a lack of functionality that I’m sure Microsoft will address in future updates.
I was challenged a couple times to try to build a solution to get notifications on new comments in modern pages, after a few tries I was able to put together a solution that notifies the owner of the page when a new comment is posted.
The solution is composed by an SPFx extension that is used to trigger the check on new comments, a modified page library with two extra columns and a Flow that ultimately sends the email.
Today I’m revisiting one of the first articles and customizations I did for SharePoint, a couple years ago I wrote a custom script to personalize SharePoint menu with icons using Font Awesome.
My previous solution was not easy to setup and had a few dependencies that might not work for all users, to overcome this I’ve decided to write a new version that automates the entire process and provides interfaces to manage the icons.
Since the release of the first solution a lot changed on SharePoint and Microsoft provided its own front-end framework, with this in mind I decided to replace Font Awesome by Fabric UI Icons.
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.
Integrations are one of my favorite things on technology and today I’ll write about it again!
How to add Google Analytics to SharePoint without modifying the master page is on of the most read articles in this blog; Recently I was asked about sending user profile information from SharePoint to Google Analytics to build better reports and to understand who is using the portals.
In this article I’m explaining step by step how to modify the previous solution and how-to setup Google Analytics to receive the logged in user email or id.
The PnP provisioning engine is a framework that allows you to create templates based on pre-built SharePoint sites. The framework was not built to be a migration tool and when a template is generated it only saves the home page, although the schema supports multiple pages.
In this article you can find a PowerShell script that saves a modern SharePoint site as a template with all the included pages.
Knowing the SharePoint environment and if the page is edit mode will allow you to provide tailored web parts to enhance the user experience of your SharePoint solutions.
The code provided in this article gives you the ability to detect if your SPFx web part is running in the modern or classic SharePoint environment and if the page is in edit mode.
Having an analytics tool monitoring your intranet is essential to understand the engagement of the users and how they are interacting with the content that is published.
Google Analytics is widely used in the internet, it provides a concise analysis with reports of everything that happens in your site as well as real time reports, mostly targeted for public sites it also works on SharePoint intranets.
Earlier this year I wrote an article that explains step by step how to add Google Analytics to SharePoint without modifying the master page, while that solution is still valid for classic SharePoint it doesn’t work on the modern sites and libraries.
Asset packaging is an excellent feature for SPFx solutions, until now the manifest and script files had to be hosted in a CDN like Azure or Office 365 CDN. Handling the hosting was a problem to if you want to distribute or sell the solution, with the solution being recompiled to be used in different tenants.
With Asset Packaging the SPFx solution files are deployed to a central CDN without the need to manually specify the url in the solution source code.
The Asset Packaging was released along with the Site Collection App Catalog and both features combined provide the same type of functionality that was provided by the sand box solutions, with all the files included into one package and being able to be installed per site collection and not globally.
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