With the transition to ESLint with SPFx 1.15, the migration has been challenging to say the least. While new ESLint rules have found some legitimate issues in my code, they have required me to touch almost every file in my projects. Recently, when I finished all of my changes and had everything building successfully locally,Continue reading “Failed to load plugin ‘@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin’ declared in ‘.eslintrc.js with SPFx 1.15 and Azure DevOps Pipeline”
Category Archives: Office 365
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)”
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”
Image resizing on Modern SharePoint pages
Through the use of image renditions, Modern SharePoint pages actually do a pretty good job of rendering an image without much manual adjustment. I have had many people ask me what size to make an image and more often than not, it’s the aspect ratio that means more than anything. Microsoft has updated their guidanceContinue reading “Image resizing on Modern SharePoint pages”
Managing multiple identities with the new Edge browser
If you are a consultant, you probably have a lot of Microsoft identities in Azure Active Directory that you use to access resources like Office 365. I, myself, have at least 10 that are active right now and an uncountable number that I’m not using any more. If you use a single browser to accessContinue reading “Managing multiple identities with the new Edge browser”
Microsoft Forms Web Part error: “This is not a valid form link.”
Last week, I was building some simple request forms using Microsoft Forms and I wanted to embed one on a modern SharePoint Page. I created, the form, added the Microsoft Forms web part, but when I pasted the link to the form, I got the following error: This is not a valid form link. PleaseContinue reading “Microsoft Forms Web Part error: “This is not a valid form link.””
SPFx Basics: Opening a link in a new tab
It turns out opening a link to a new tab is now in your SPFx web part in SharePoint is not as simple as you would think. You would think that simply adding target=”_blank” or target=”_new” would do the trick. It does not. It works for external links but link to other SharePoint pages willContinue reading “SPFx Basics: Opening a link in a new tab”
How to: Provision Lookup Columns and Projected Fields using PnP PowerShell
If there is anything that is hard to work with in SharePoint, it’s lookup columns. While it’s so easy and simple to create them through the SharePoint user interface (well the classic interface), they are incredibly complex to provision programmatically. I remember struggles behind provisioning lookup columns going back as far as 2007 if notContinue reading “How to: Provision Lookup Columns and Projected Fields using PnP PowerShell”
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