Oct 11, 2021Exclude SharePoint online modern page templates from search resultsIn this short blog post we will look at how to exclude the modern page templates from search results in SharePoint online. Introduction Page template is a great feature in SharePoint online and helps users save a lot of time. In some scenarios, for example — rolling up site pages in…Sharepoint2 min readSharepoint2 min read
Aug 11, 2021GitHub Actions + Power Automate + TeamsIn this blog post we will look at how we can integrate GitHub Actions with Power Automate and Microsoft Teams. We will look at an example in which using GitHub Actions we post all the open issues (that are marked as important) on to a Teams channel and then send…Github6 min readGithub6 min read
Jul 7, 2021GitHub Actions — Create an Event with Microsoft Graph using MSALIn this post, we look at a GitHub Action that creates an event in a user’s Outlook calendar with Microsoft Graph using MSAL for Node. In a related post published previously, I have explained how we can do the same using PnP JS. …Microsoft4 min readMicrosoft4 min read
Jun 21, 2021VS code + SSH + Azure VM setup for remote SPFx developmentIn this blog post we will have a look at one of the setup options for remote SPFx related development which involves connecting to an Azure VM using the VS code “Remote-SSH” extension. Note: The details that we will see below are the ones that I tend to follow for…Vs Code6 min readVs Code6 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Jun 20, 2021Microsoft Graph API for taxonomy (beta) + SPFxIn this short post we will take a look at how to consume the Microsoft Graph API for taxonomy in SPFx web parts. This endpoint is currently in beta. Taxonomy Graph API The Microsoft Graph API for taxonomy helps us to perform CRUD operations on the taxonomy data present in our Microsoft 365…Microsoft Graph3 min readMicrosoft Graph3 min read
Jun 20, 2021Copy PnP search results web part settings easily across pagesIn this post we will have a look at how we can easily copy the settings of the PnP search results web part from one page to many pages with the help of PnP JS in an SPFx extension. PnP search web parts PnP search web parts are a set of modern web parts…Spfx4 min readSpfx4 min read
Apr 19, 2021Set modern page header author byline using PnP PowerShellIn this post we will look at a way to set the author byline (shown in the image below) of a modern SharePoint page using PnP PowerShell. The script The script to set the author byline in the header can be found here. _AuthorByline field Modern pages have a field called _AuthorByLine. When we…Authorbyline4 min readAuthorbyline4 min read
Apr 6, 2021Options for obtaining an access token with Azure application to application authenticationIn this post we will take a look at a few different options that we can use, to get an access token so that a daemon application (say client) can communicate with another application (say server). Both client and server applications can be developed as Azure app services and/or Azure…Azure7 min readAzure7 min read
Oct 9, 2020GitHub codespaces + SPFxIn this blog post we will have a look at how we can use GitHub codespaces to do development related to SPFx. The concepts that are mentioned in this blog post run in parallel with the details shared in this brilliant article on Visual Studio codespaces by Paul Schaeflein. In…Github6 min readGithub6 min read
Oct 9, 2020GitHub codespaces + Azure DevOpsIn part 1 of this series we saw how to create a GitHub codespace for SPFx development. In this part we will have a look at how to push the code from GitHub codespaces to Azure DevOps. …Github4 min readGithub4 min read
