Quick list of use software for SPFx development as of 2024 Requires a license for commercial use (but is worth it): Snagit – Awesome tool for capturing and marking-up screenshots – https://www.techsmith.com/store/snagit Beyond Compare – Tool for comparing file contents – https://www.scootersoftware.com/shop Teracopy Pro – Tool for copying files quickly, copies tons of small file […]
Posts Categorized: SharePoint
SharePoint displaying HTML tags when rendering Enhanced Rich Text field
I came across an issue where a “Multiline Text Field”, originally created as “Plain Text” but later updated to be “Enhanced Rich Text” was improperly rendering in Display Mode by showing the HTML tags instead of rendering them (in other words, it was escaping the HTML, rather than rendering it). I found one post on […]
Using Google Chrome for More than Two Sessions at Once
Introduction In web development it’s very common to use Chrome’s Incognito mode as a “2nd browser” so that you can sign in using different credentials or sign in to a different tenant for things like SharePoint Online or Office 365 in general. The Chrome dev tools are the best available, so Chrome is the browser […]
Application Insights and Power BI – Expand dynamic customDimensions JSON object into new columns automatically
(Note: If you’re already familiar with importing Application Insights data into Power BI, and just want to skip to the solution for dynamically expanding the customDimensions JSON object into columns, skip to Solution 2) When using Application Insights, there are a number of additional attributes you might wish to track. One common example when tracking […]
SharePoint Hyperlink URL returning comma in comma separated string
Scenario Using JavaScript to call the SharePoint search REST API, to return items matching a certain query and display them on the page. If one of the fields you’re displaying is a Hyperlink field, it gets returned in the format: “http://url/path/here, Description Text Here” In order to display this link, you’d probably write some code […]
Special Characters in RefinementFilter
When attempting to use a refiner with values containing special characters (hyphen, dash, backslash, etc) you’ll run into an issue where the refinementfilters=’property:equals(“value-name”)’ doesn’t return any results (despite the refiner indicating that it has results matching this value). There is a technet discussion around this issue, but the suggested resolution loses the precision of the “:equals” […]
Bulk uploading images to a Picture Library with meta data… sort of.
In SharePoint, Picture Libraries are some mythical special creature, unlike any other list or library. It’s the only place you can get the Image column… and the views are severely limited. There are also issues around “Upload multiple files” not working… I’ve seen posts that suggest you need to install the Microsoft Office Picture Manager, […]
Making SharePoint Show “Real Errors”
Mostly writing this so I have somewhere to point people who ask me how to do this… 1. Browse to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\ 2. Locate any web applications you are interested in (Central Admin can be identified by the port number) 3. Edit the web.config files with the following: a. Find the “CallStack” attribute and set it […]
Styling and Scripting SharePoint based on Web Template
Often times when styling SharePoint you’ll come across some odd exception where the styling that works everywhere else has some weird side effect on a particular type of site, or you’ll want to limit some jQuery functionality to a specific site template. Here’s a neat little trick I came up with for splitting the styling […]
JavaScript Event That Fires When SharePoint Page Has Finished Loading
If you’ve ever had an issue with JavaScript running before the element you’re trying to manipulate on a SharePoint page has loaded, this post is for you. Rather than momentarily considering using something terrible like a setTimeout to delay execution, we can instead use an event that will let us know when the “body” of […]