RSS feeds are a great way to keep updated with everything being posted in the sites you are following. SharePoint has a native integration for this feature but the layout is not that good, and it lacks the support for all the modern features the platform has been receiving.
In this article I’ll explain step by step how you can reuse the out of the box SharePoint news web part to create your own RSS reader web part.
One of the main features of SharePoint these days is the possibility to create News that are easily available to everyone in the tenant.
News can be created directly on SharePoint manually or can be created as news links. News links create a new post on SharePoint pointing to an external resource like a newspaper or your third-party news service.
jQuery is a JavaScript library that helped to shape the internet we all know today, even though it’s first release was 13 years ago and despite the fact we now have access to other powerful libraries like React and Angular, jQuery is still used by 80% of the top 1M sites in the web.
With SharePoint framework you can use pretty much any JavaScript library to build your application however you will need to know how to make them available in the solution.
In this article I’ll explain you how to add jQuery to your SPFx solutions using 2 different methods.
Modern SharePoint lists just received the option to include a Tile view to display data on a modern and good-looking layout.
The Tile view is available on document libraries for a long time but the one released for lists is a bit different. While on libraries the layout is pre built by Microsoft on the lists you will have to build your own using the list view formatting feature.
If you are new to the list View Formatting, I strongly recommend you start by reading the official documentation here and here to get familiar with the JSON schema.
List view templates are JSON structures that allow you to customize the views on SharePoint lists creating HTML components that represent each item.
The SharePoint community has been sharing a lot of this templates on GitHub but if you want to try them on your own environment you will need create the lists with the same exact column names, add data to the lists and then apply the JSON to format the view.
With more than 20 templates available this can easily take a few hours to build all the lists and add all the templates.
SharePoint Online has a service to generate and return links to media thumbnails stored in the libraries, It works great for a lot of formats but mp4 videos are no longer supported.
This article describes an alternative process to retrieve the thumbnails for the videos you have stored in the libraries using Microsoft Graph.
When creating groups or teams using Microsoft Graph and PowerShell the SharePoint site collection URL can be randomly generated if a site collection with the name of the group already exists.
If you need to get the URL of the site collection right after the creation of the group, you can use Microsoft Graph to retrieve it.
This can be extremely helpfully for scenarios where you have the need to deploy artifacts to the site automatically, like applying a PnP Template.
Right after the group creation use do the request bellow using the group ID.
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.
Hub sites brig a set of common functions to all sites that belong the hub, but extensions are not propagated to all sites automatically.
With PnP PowerShell is possible to automate the installation of Application Customizers through the sites, the script below search for all sites associated with hub and apply the custom action to all of them.
Before running the script, you will need to have PnP PowerShell installed, the latest version can be installed from here.
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.
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