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Manage SPFx extensions from macOS with Office 365 CLI

SPFx extensions are used to customize the modern SharePoint user experience, built using script frameworks they can be built using any operating system.

Currently there is no graphical interface to manage the extensions and all the operations need to be done from the command line using PowerShell.

Well it use to be like that but not anymore, with the Office 365 CLI you no longer need to use PowerShell and Windows to manage the extensions if you are a macOS or Linux user you can do it directly from your native operating system.

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By João Ferreira Feb 11, 2018 Office 365 1 Comment

How to add Google Analytics to the Modern SharePoint

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.

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By João Ferreira Dec 21, 2017 Development, Office 365 73 Comments

Asset Packaging and the goodies from SharePoint Framework 1.4

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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By João Ferreira Dec 11, 2017 Development, Office 365 2 Comments

Column Formatting VS SPFx Field Customizer

If there is something that SharePoint cannot be accused of is to be a static platform, new features are released weekly and sometimes it’s hard to keep up with all the new functionalities.

With so many new features seem that some of them are doing the same thing as the Column Formatting and the SPFx Customizer.

Both features were released this year and both are used to format data in SharePoint lists and even though the result might be similar the purpose of each one is different.

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By João Ferreira Nov 23, 2017 Development, Office 365 2 Comments

Build a breadcrumb using SPFx extensions

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.

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By João Ferreira Oct 11, 2017 Branding, Development, Office 365 8 Comments