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)”

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”

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?”

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”