One of the most important PowerApps updates so far Code formatting! Such a frustration in the past that it deserves its own blog post. I consider this a milestone in the products life and shows that its being taken seriusly from MS.
spfx Provisioning SPFX Client Web Parts - Content Rollup & Events Background The Modern UI in SharePoint is getting better and better. We have passed the point in time where we create the sites using the classic version of SharePoint and this means we
SharePoint Document Sets 101 (Part 2 of 2) In part one (link to part 1) of our 3 part series on document sets we learned about what a document set is and what sets them apart from a boring old folder
Document Sets 101 (Part 1 of 2) What is a document set? Document sets are a great way to group files that are related to each other in a way that gives you much more power and versatility than a
Office365 Trouble Shooting Errors Exporting to Excel Exporting a SharePoint list to excel is one of the many great functions of office 365. Whether you just want to save a snapshot of your list for archival purposes, or you just
git Oh no, I forcefully deleted the wrong local branch in git Have you ever done this when cleaning up your local branches? Only to realize that this was actually your work in progress branch that wasn't pushed to a remote? Never fear, the reflog
From intern to Junior developer When I first started my internship last June, I walked into the office with a years worth of intensive SharePoint development specific education, a pocket full of dreams and immeasurable optimism.... Oh to
SharePoint SharePoint People Search - to Sort or Not to Sort People Search - People Search - People Search. There are some flaws in SharePoint's current People Search, both regarding functionality, the algorithms used for the "phonetic" search, the query suggestions, but
Office365 The SharePoint "Site Mailbox" - (Special) Character Assassination Maybe you have seen it, the Site Mailbox functionality offered in SharePoint? Here is the description directly from Microsoft: "A site mailbox is a central email and document sharing account that is
SharePoint SharePoint Search - what does the Author filter mean? If you have ever used SharePoint Search chances are that you have seen and used the "Author" filter. Author - we all know what that means, right? Well, not really. Author
SharePoint SharePoint Online get's a new document library experience A new user exerience is rolling out to Office 365 customers across the globe. This might be welcome news for some and cause some issues for others, especially if yo have created a
logic-apps Automated Information Flow using Office add-in, Office 365, Trello and Azure Logic Apps Background At Cognit we use Harvest for time reporting. In this system you can also create invoices based on these time reports. When the invoices are created we can send them with a
git Let Kudu change your API endpoints in Angular when deploying to Azure Webs with Gulp The problem Have you ever manually changed the API endpoint in your JavaScript from https://localhost:23434 to https://prodenv.azurewebsites.net before pushing that deploy button? Have you ever forgotten to do
Office365 The Taxonomy Picker Battle: PnP vs SharePoint So you are building a new super cool app that will utilize the PnP taxonomy picker. Your customer thinks that is great, but what they don't know is that a taxonomy picker is
ssug Recap of Swedish SharePoint Usergroup Gothenburg 2015-11-24 Getting people interested in SharePoint/Office 365 together for a meetup is always a rewarding experience. Experiences are shared, contacts are made and laughs are had by all. This time around we got
ssug Recap of Swedish SharePoint Usergroup Gothenburg 2015-09-16 Another successful meetup with SSUG Gothenburg is done. This time DQC has the honour of hosting, and I must say they did it with splendour. With hosts like these it's really easy organizing
PnP How to build a simple provisioning application using the PnP provisioning engine This is a sample that I used to demonstrate the provisioning engine during the SSUG (Swedish SharePoint User Group) in Gothenburg at the 3rd of June 2015 (slides can be found here). It
Office365 In Office 365 we have groups, in SharePoint we have teamsites I was reading an interesting article on Zappos radical switch to self-organization today and it got me thinking about the direction that Office 365 is moving. As a traditional SharePoint consultant (enveloping the
OneDrive Quick Tip: OneDrive for Business - how to make sense of synced libraries Problem When syncing libraries using OneDrive for Business a common problem is that the naming of the "folders" are not always explanatory. It's a concatenation of the parent web title and
Search SharePoint Search - A better way to exclude folders Background There are many things that needs to be done in order to make the SharePoint search experience good (or any search technology for that matter). One of these things are to filter
git Pull a web app created from Azure Web Apps gallery to your local machine, and deploy it back to Azure The web apps gallery in Azure is awesome to get up and running quickly. But how do you continue to develop a site after it has been deployed? Let's walk through the steps
git How to search your git history for accidentally committed SharePoint app ClientId/ClientSecret Nowadays I prefer to store production credentials as settings in Azure Websites and only commit development Id/Secret combos. But that was not always the case. Seeing how often we tend to forget
git Hardcore PnP git part 2: From new feature idea to pull request Scenario: You just finished reading my previous blog post on how to do hardcore-git for PnP development. You now realize that you have a great feature you want to add to PnP. And
git Getting started with git for OfficeDev/PnP - The more hardcore way The OfficeDev patterns and practices project is a really great timesaver for any organization doing Office 365 development. It contains loads of code samples, solutions, components and a really terrific core project (extensions