Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
This is a quick article to show you how you can open the edit page experience from your SharePoint Framework solution. Such a trigger could be useful so that you can trigger the page its edit mode from within your web part, footer, … Nothing more to say about it, so here is the code:
Read moreUPDATE: Beginning of April 2018, Microsoft announced a new feature which allows custom metadata integration with modern pages and news (Office 365 Roadmap ID: 27251). Show image Custom metadata integration with modern SharePoint Online pages and news One of the key things in the content creation process is metadata. This important for various reasons, which I not going to discuss in this article.
Read moreI published another extension for your SharePoint Framework solution to check your scripts and correctly reference the external JavaScript libraries in your solutions. The extension is powered by the same APIs of the SharePoint Framework Script Check that was built by Waldek Mastykarz from Rencore. Check out the VSCode extension: SPFx Script Check
Read moreDepending on the solution you are creating, you might want to know on which type of site your SharePoint Framework solution is currently running. This could be useful to enable or disable certain functionalities the solution you are creating depending on the type of site. For example: enable some extra collaboration features in your solution when used on a team site, and disable the features when used on a communication site.
Read moreToday I published a new Visual Studio Code extension that gives you some handy SharePoint Framework code snippets. The first version of the extension only contains a handful snippets but will grow over time. VSCode extension: SPFx snippets Show image SPFx snippets demo Try it out and let me know if you like it.
Read moreWhat a year! This year passed by so quickly, probably because a lot has happened this year personally and business-wise. Some career changes U2U and Valo Intranet (Blue Meteorite) The first article I wrote this year was about announcing that I was quitting my job as a consultant and start working as a trainer for U2U (Change is on the way) as of February 2017.
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