SharePoint Tips

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Office 365: Registry Entry to Open Office Documents

Required registry keys:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity\EnableADAL REG_DWORD 1
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity\Version REG_DWORD 1

Monday, January 1, 2018

Solution Architect



Primary role of solution architect is to understand business problems of client and provide him the correct solution.
 
A solution architect starts his day with meetings. Meeting with clients, meeting with project team. His work starts even before starting of the project. He works with sales team on new opportunities (RFPs, RFCs) to provide future solution, effort estimation and staffing plan with skill sets required to deliver solution.

During initial phase of project, he needs to create a high level architecture of solution based on his discussions with client and proposed solution. He also needs to come up with high level design of major components of solution by discussing it with development team technical leads and senior developers.

During project phase, he need to work with project team including development team, QA team and project manager. He need to review the solution/ code being developed with project team to make sure that it is according to project architecture and design. He needs to make sure that developed solution is as per architecture and design.

Sunday, December 31, 2017

SharePoint Framework (SPFx) : Mapping of Client to Server technology


The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a page and web part model that provides full support for client-side SharePoint development, easy integration with SharePoint data, and support for open source tooling. With the SharePoint Framework, you can use modern web technologies and tools in your preferred development environment to build productive experiences and apps that are responsive and mobile-ready from day one. The SharePoint Framework works for SharePoint Online and soon also for on-premises (SharePoint 2016 Feature Pack 2).

Below is the mapping of client technology used in SharePoint Framework with existing server technology for SharePoint development.

Client
Server
Node JS
IIS Express
NPM
NuGet
Gulp
MS Build
TypeScript
C#
Yeoman
VS Project Templates

Saturday, December 30, 2017

What is GitHub?

GitHub is an online; browser based distributed version control system for software developers using the Git revision control system. The service provides free public repositories, issue tracking, graphs, code review, downloads, wikis, collaborator management, and more. There are also social networking elements of the service including feeds, the ability to follow other users, and network related graphs.

Thursday, December 14, 2017

SharePoint 2013 Lifecycle : Support End date


Product SharePoint Server 2013
Lifecycle Start Date 1/9/2013
Mainstream Support End Date 4/10/2018
Extended Support End Date 4/11/2023

Thursday, December 7, 2017

SharePoint 2013 : Expand width of Column in List

To expand column width in any list or library, open the list, edit page and add a content editor web part in that page.

In source editor of content editor web part add below CSS:

<div class="ms-rtestate-read ms-rte-embedcode ms-rte-embedil ms-rtestate-notify s4-wpActive" contenteditable="false">​<style type="text/css">.ms-vh-div[DisplayName='Display Name of Column']{ width:550px;}</style></div>

Second Way



1.Go to the list you want to edit, and press F12. Then you will see the following tool.
2.Click the first arrow button and select the column you want to edit. Then you will see the column related codes.

 
3.Pay attention to the class=”XXXX”, and copy the XXXX. (Here is ms-vh2)
4.Add the following codes to the content edit web part.
<style type="text/css">
.XXXX {
width:50px; (you could change the number as you want)
}
</style>


Third Way


Replace Description with whatever the coulmn name is. And edit the width.
<style type='text/css'>.ms-vh-div[DisplayName='Description']{ width:250px;}</style>