There is now a “starter kit” available for your Office 365 SharePoint tenant (aka SharePoint Online or “SPO”). It’s not just a site template but rather, it’s an entire solution featuring Modern page templates (not Classic), 17 custom web parts, 7 SharePoint framework extensions, and several other components – all customizable and ready-to-go. Plus, it’s […]
I have a user who doesn’t want to make edits in the SharePoint list. He exports the list to Excel, makes his edits there, and then forces others to manually update the list with his edits. No more. I tried using F12 and writing CSS code to do the trick but it wasn’t working. As usual, […]
The Audit Log in Office 365 is disabled, by default, presumably to save disk space. To enable the audit log in your tenant, in the Office 365 Admin Portal browse to the Security & Compliance Admin Center -> Search & investigation -> Audit log search. Click Start recording user and admin activities then click Turn On. Or you […]
To edit a page in SharePoint 2013 that does not have Edit Page menu option available (pictured above), such as the Access Requests page, append the following bold text to the url (start with and include the ?): http://SharePoint/sites/YourSite/Access%20Requests/pendingreq.aspx?ToolPaneView=2 For my little task, I actually used the following url: http://SharePoint/sites/YourSite/Access%20Requests/pendingreq.aspx?ToolPaneView=2&pageview=personal I added the part about […]
For you Office 365 subscribers, as of today, the Azure Active Directory version 2 PowerShell module can be downloaded from the below site which also contains a full list of the cmdlets available. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azuread/v2/azureactivedirectory
I encountered the following error today in our SharePoint 2013 environment while simply trying to move a web part to another web part zone: A Web Part you attempted to change is either invalid or has been removed by another user Of course, I went to Google first and found several articles on the subject, […]
I’ve often used the Web Parts Maintenance page in working with SharePoint sites. To get there, simply add ?Contents=1 to the end of the URL. My other favorite “quick link” is for opening a page in Edit Mode when I cannot otherwise. This is achieved by adding ?ToolPaneView=2 to the end of the URL. Ahmed […]
In case you weren’t aware, Microsoft has provided a free, online PowerShell Command Builder utility: https://www.microsoft.com/resources/TechNet/en-us/Office/media/WindowsPowerShell/WindowsPowerShellCommandBuilder.html I recommend that you bookmark it and refer to it whenever you need to double-check the commands in your scripts. You may want to download the Getting Started Guide. Make sure that the first thing you do is to select the appropriate […]
Now that you’ve created a brilliant chart, graph or dashboard in Tableau you want to render it on a SharePoint site. Here are the steps to do this. Honestly, the step you’re probably not thinking about is Step 1 below. If you’re working with the Tableau client on your desktop, you can make awesome interactive […]
If you are using Tableau for reporting, you may want to connect to one or more lists in SharePoint. Here are the steps I take to do this. Step 1: Open a browser and navigate to the SharePoint list you would like to work with in Tableau. Make a point to identify the list name. […]
