Showing posts with label howto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label howto. Show all posts
Monday, July 8, 2024

One small step for SharePoint intranets, one giant leap for news roll-up

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..well, not really, but it’s an improvement which makes news roll-up match multiple information architecture scenarios. I’ll leave it up t...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Search nugget: The beauty of SharePoint Site Columns

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The scenario I’m sharing is not a new one, but (somewhat) recent changes to SharePoint indexing of items may make the scenario easier to s...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

Easier editing of Microsoft Search verticals in SharePoint sites (finally fixed!)

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This is perhaps a tiny one, but for the longest time search verticals in a SharePoint site or SharePoint hub site has been a bit of a myster...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Demystifying Author properties on files in SharePoint and search

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For as long as I have been doing SharePoint, figuring out what properties to use when filtering or displaying search results in regards to p...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

How to paginate large results sets for SharePoint items using the Microsoft Graph Search API

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If you want to paginate over a large set of results for some reason using the Microsoft Graph Search API, you can employ the logic mentione...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Filter on managed properties in search with or without values

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Back in 2014 I wrote the post How To: Search up items which don’t have a value set , which covers how to write keyword query syntax (KQL) fi...
Monday, January 4, 2021

Microsoft Graph: Encoding and decoding the drive id

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If you have worked with the Microsoft Graph API and SharePoint items you might have encountered URL’s which include a drive id. Where you ...
Friday, November 13, 2020

Mapping or clearing crawled property to managed property mappings using PowerShell (or code)

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Mapping a crawled property to a managed property in SharePoint Online is usually done via the user interface. A somewhat cumbersome task ...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Search and modern multilingual pages in SharePoint Online

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The ability to create SharePoint pages in multiple languages was/is a popular feature for classic SharePoint publishing pages. If you work i...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Searching within Office 365 Groups or Teams content

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There are at least three ways to limit the search results within a group or a team using the keyword query language (KQL). These are cases w...
Friday, March 20, 2020

I finally found a use case for the Surface Pen (after 4 years)

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I’ve been using Surface Pro’s since the Pro 3 and I know have a Pro 6. I have always liked the form factor of it and each one of them came w...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Approve a document in Teams using Adaptive Cards and Flow

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Co-incidentally the same scenarios often appear simultaneously from different people at the same time, and this is one of them. I’ve been ...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

A no-nonsense solution to implement cascading dropdowns using PowerApps as a custom form in SharePoint

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Search for “powerapps cascading dropdowns sharepoint” on the interwebs and you will find a bunch of ways to get this to work, but I dare to ...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Workaround for removing a deep folder structure in SharePoint

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I had a client which were not able to delete a deep folder structure from SharePoint which I’m guessing was synced in via OneDrive. The ...
Monday, September 10, 2018

An approach to search for a URL within a page or document in SharePoint

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The Search Explained Yammer network is a great place to ask the weird and quirky search questions. Unfortunately it’s not indexed by Goog...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Modifying terms using app-only tokens in SharePoint – undocumented work-around

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Photo by Alekzan Powell at Unsplash In a rage of fits yesterday where I was running a PowerShell script against SharePoint Online wi...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

How to get the list item from a file URL using PnP PowerShell

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Photo by Karly Santiago at Unsplash This is one of the snippets I always forget, but which is very handy in cases where you have the ...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Alternative way to solve the issue where a SPFx v1.4.0 web part don’t show when upgrading.

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In SPFx v1.4.1 there was an important bug fix which was introduced in SPFx v1.4.0. If you created a web part which was manually installed on...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

How to properly use the “Get Manager” Flow action with a SharePoint list

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Photo by Olu Eletu at Unsplash. This is a short one and quite easy. When you create an item in SharePoint the unique identifier for a...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Validating a number format in SharePoint – divide and conquer formulas

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Photo by Oliver Thomas Klein at Unsplash. Validating input in SharePoint is nothing new, but I haven’t dug much into this over the year...