With the release of PnP JS 3.0.0, you’ll need to tweak a bit of code throughout your project. One particular case that has caused me issues in the migration is cases where you opened a Web or Site directly using it’s constructor such as the following: This syntax is no longer valid in PnP JSContinue reading “Connecting to other sites with PnP JS 3.0.0”
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Installing SPFx build tools on M1 Macs
With the latest release of MacBook Pros, I know a lot of SPFx developers are considering an upgrade. My previous MacBook Pro was showing its age, so I thought now was a good time. My new shiny MacBook Pro arrived last night and one of the first things I tried to do is get node.jsContinue reading “Installing SPFx build tools on M1 Macs”
Understanding Boost for SharePoint News
One of the features coming with Viva Connections is Boost. Boost allows you to prioritize content that shows up in the Feed for Viva Connections that you see in the web part or in the Teams mobile app. As Microsoft’s support article mentions, this feature is pretty new and more is coming allowing boosted newsContinue reading “Understanding Boost for SharePoint News”
How to get CSS styles to work in a Fluent UI React Panel control
Sometimes this should be obvious and they just aren’t. I use the Panel component in Fluent UI React / Office Fabric from time to time. I’ve always struggled to work with styles there coming out of my web part’s module.scss file. That’s because they simply aren’t being applied. Let’s look at this simple example webContinue reading “How to get CSS styles to work in a Fluent UI React Panel control”
7 Tips for upgrading to SPFx 1.13.0 (or any other version)
I’ve been testing Beta 13 of SPFx and wanted to share these tips. Welcome SPFx beta versions Upgrades to SPFx are usually painless, but sometimes (like in version 1.12.0), there are issues. The SPFx team now releases beta versions of each SPFx release giving us an opportunity to try our code with it before upgrading.Continue reading “7 Tips for upgrading to SPFx 1.13.0 (or any other version)”
Empty value column in customMetrics after upgrading Application Insights to Log Analytics Workspace
That’s a mouthful! Microsoft announced this year that all legacy Application Insights instances must be upgraded to use a Log Analytics Workspace. For the most part this is a good thing and provides you new features. The upgrade is rather simple and it’s supposed to be seamless. However, I have found a case in theContinue reading “Empty value column in customMetrics after upgrading Application Insights to Log Analytics Workspace”
A walkthrough of setting up Viva Topics
Once you have purchases one or more Viva Topics licenses, you need to complete a number of steps to have it analyze your content and suggest topics. While the setup process is relatively quick, it may take up to two weeks before you start seeing suggested topics. You heard that right, two weeks. That meansContinue reading “A walkthrough of setting up Viva Topics”
How to: Find the Viva Topic Center site using SPFx
Viva Topics is fresh right now and some of you might have already started looking at extensibility. One thing that is useful to know is to know where the Topic Center site is after you’ve created it. It turns out you can find this value pretty easily from any page in your tenant. If youContinue reading “How to: Find the Viva Topic Center site using SPFx”
Workaround for gulp deploy-azure-storage CDN issue with SPFx 1.12
If you use a CDN for your SPFx 1.12 projects, you might have noticed that when you build your SPFx package and try to deploy it to Azure no files are getting copied. You might see something similar when you try to run gulp deploy-azure-storage even though it worked fine in SPFx 1.11. This appearsContinue reading “Workaround for gulp deploy-azure-storage CDN issue with SPFx 1.12”
Viva Connections is coming. Are you ready?
Viva Connections is almost here. Microsoft has released some preliminary documentation which describes the steps to activate it once it becomes generally available. Reading the documentation, you will see that using Viva Connections is a completely opt-in experience and requires specific actions by a global administrator. According to published documentation, the PowerShell script will beContinue reading “Viva Connections is coming. Are you ready?”
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