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”
Category Archives: Blog Posts
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?”
Office Fabric icons not showing in SPFx web parts in Microsoft Teams
You built this beautiful new web part and it looks great in SharePoint. You click the Sync to Teams button to try it out there only to find that your icons are missing. You think it’s your issue because maybe your styles are wrong. It’s not. I tried all sorts of things, but it turnsContinue reading “Office Fabric icons not showing in SPFx web parts in Microsoft Teams”
How to: Use PnP.PowerShell to deploy SharePoint apps with Azure DevOps
Automating SPFx builds and deployment to your environments will save you tons of time after you get it built. I wrote the post How to: Setup CI / CD in Azure DevOps to walk you through step-by-step how to get it working. While this post is largely still valid, there are better ways to doContinue reading “How to: Use PnP.PowerShell to deploy SharePoint apps with Azure DevOps”
Switch to Ubuntu Agent Pools in Azure DevOps for faster SPFx build times
If you have taken the time to set up SPFx builds (CI / CD) in Azure DevOps pipelines, you should take a look at which agent pool you are using. I had always heard that Ubuntu was significantly faster and the rumors are in fact true. I found that Ubuntu cut my build times inContinue reading “Switch to Ubuntu Agent Pools in Azure DevOps for faster SPFx build times”
