This is the final post in this mini series where we looked at the simplicity and easy of integrating within the Office 365 stack. Create a Form and have the data save directly in Excel Add the Form to Microsoft Teams Notify the Team a submission was made How does this look like on the... Continue Reading →
Integrating Forms into Teams, bringing it home with Microsoft Flow
This post is the third post in this mini series as we look at how easy the Office 365 stack integrates. In this series, we will: Create a Form and have the data save directly in Excel Add the Form to Microsoft Teams Notify the Team a submission was made (this post) How does this... Continue Reading →
Collect Survey Results Seamlessly in Microsoft Teams with Forms
This post is the the second post in this mini series as we look at how easy the Office 365 stack integrates. In this series, we will: Create a Form and have the data save directly in Excel Add the Form to Microsoft Teams (this post) Notify the Team a submission was made How does this... Continue Reading →
Use Microsoft Flow to remind the Team of due dates from Planner
This Flow I feel like should be unnecessary, but alas it is. The simple idea is to have tasks which are due tomorrow post to your team to help keep people up to date. Planner does offer email notifications which can do the same, they work great, BUT our users disable notifications because they are... Continue Reading →
Slides and Scripts for my session: Why care about Office Dev PnP?
I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at Boston Code Camp 28! My goal was to showcase the awesome work done over at the Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices initiative. This project provides real value to developers aiming to expand into the Office 365 space. We covered PowerShell and JavaScript libraries, reducing our development... Continue Reading →
PowerShell isn’t just for Developers, IT Pros can rock the awesomeness in Office 365
I had the pleasure to co-present PowerShell and Office 365: ITPro #Awesomesauce with my friend and colleague Mike Dixon at the Boston Office 365 User Group yesterday. It was a great session with a lot of good questions. It was recorded so I'll share the link to the video once it's available. Big thanks to Hitachi... Continue Reading →
How to work with large lists in Office 365 SharePoint Online
What's a large list? Anything over 5,000 items. Why is this such a low limit? Great question, and Microsoft does a good job explaining it in their help documents: To minimize database contention SQL Server, the back-end database for SharePoint, often uses row-level locking as a strategy to ensure accurate updates without adversely impacting other... Continue Reading →
Customizing SharePoint’s Modern Lists’ Forms
Ya know that awesome new interface we get in Office 365 called Modern Lists? Ya know how that's not editable, or customizable, or extensible? Well, ya know it right! It's not. However... Above is a typical modern list, in all of it's glory. Pretty right? But I want to add some of my own code... Continue Reading →
Embedding your JavaScript into a SharePoint page
A very typical approach for client side development in SharePoint is to throw the code onto the page where you need it. You can alternatively put into the master page, but generally speaking, most code doesn't need to run on each and every page. The following describes my preferred, tried and true, method of handling this.... Continue Reading →
Showing users’ profile pictures in a SharePoint list
Special thanks to Joann for the question! A common use case is to have a list of people in a list in SharePoint, maybe they're members of a project, contacts for a department, your favorite people to talk to, whatever it may be, you have a list. This example is a listing of my teammates: Now I'd... Continue Reading →