Category: Special Interest Group Call

SharePoint PnP JavaScript SIG October 12

PnP JS Core Update – 7:19

 

SharePoint Framework Latest – 10:09

Demo

Next Meeting October 26th

PnP Core/PowerShell/Provisioning SIG October 19, 2017

Announcements

  • Column Formatting http://aka.ms/spdoc-column-formatting
  • Coming soon to dev preview
  • Enables simple UI level configurations on specific column

  • Already available in provisioning engine just have to wait for functionality to be released to your Tenant

ALM APIs

  • Preview – weeks than months
  • Application Lifecycle Management APIs

GDPR Activity Hub

  • Makes it easier to manage GDPR Rules
  • Allows tracking of events and happenings in your site
  • Includes Dashboard for summary
  • Sample workflows and web parts
  • Automated setup and provisioning
  • Asking for feedback

Q&A

Office PnP SPFx/JS SIG October 26

SharePoint Framework Latest – 6:23

  • SharePoint Development documentation moved to https://aka.ms/spdev-docs
  • Reusable controls for SharePoint Framework Solutions http://aka.ms/spfx-controls
    • Announced at Ignite
  • Visual Studio Extension for SharePoint Framework http://aka.ms/spfx-vs-extensions
    • Demo presented by Vesa – 12:22
    • Automates yeoman commands
  • Roadmap – SharePoint Development
    • Just shipped – Week of Ignite
      • SPFx On-Premises (client-side web parts on classic pages)
      • Easily deploy Web Parts and extensions across your enterprise
      • Yeoman Generator 1.3 that understands On-premise and Cloud
      • SPFx Extensions General availability
      • Tenant Properties, you can store and manage for your SPFx components
      • Modern custom themes
    • Coming Soon
      • Office UI Fabric Core support
      • More MS-Graph support
      • ALM APIs for scripted deployment of SPFx components – Preview recorded in October 19 SIG
      • Assets included in deployment packages
      • Site specific App Catalog to allow for scoped deployment
      • Site designs with extensibility point

Demos

Q&A – 58:56

  • To call azure functions from SPFX is the iframe pattern still recommended? – Yes, to not have to expose an anonymous function

Next Meeting November 9th.

OfficeDev PnP SIG October 5, 2017

Miscellaneous Announcements – 2:22

  • Recordings should be now available – https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos
    • BRK2250
    • BRK3066 – Advancing the SharePoint Developer Community
    • BRK3267 – Let’s build with SharePoint
    • BRK4031 – Building the modern SharePoint experience: Best practices from the Microsoft for developing with SPFx
  • Documentation moved to docs.microsoft.com http://aka.ms/spdev-docs
  • SharePoint Development Roadmap

  • Looks like all the coming soon should be out by the end of the calendar year

Modern themes and Site Designs – provisioning PREVIEW – 10:37

  • Site scripts define what happens to the out of the box site after the site is created
  • Anatomy of a site script

  • Site scripts can be applied on top of existing sites as well
  • Site scripts can also be targeted to certain groups and people in AD
  • Supported at release

Demo – 31:26

  • Demo of site designs with site scripts and flow trigger
  • Currently add Site designs through REST and can call multiple site scripts
  • “save-module -Name SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline -Path <yourpath>” to save needed PowerShell files for Azure Function

Q&A – 53:38

  • Possible to apply recipe if site is created via REST API? – Yes, will be endpoint available to apply site script

PnP Core/PowerShell SIG September 7, 2017

Miscellaneous Announcements – 3:40

SPFx and JavaSript SIG August 31, 2017

Pnp JS Core Update – 5:41

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PnP Sites Core and PowerShell SIG August 24, 2017

This is the first PnP Core call since the invite reset. If you need the new invite get it here http://aka.ms/sppnp-core-sig-call. Also the PnP Core and PowerShell calls have been moved to Thursday so there will be a SPFx/JS call one week and the next week will be PnP Sites Core/PowerShell. So there will be a call every Thursday.

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SPFx and JavaScript SIG August 17, 2017

PnP JS Core Component – 6:13

  • 2.0.8 released August 16, 2017
    • Fixes and additions
    • Cached expiration handling
  • Graph is next focus
  • Discussions around taxonomy support
  • 2.0.9 target release date September 20, 2017

SharePoint Framework Latest News – 8:31

  • Tenant-wide deployment option for SharePoint Framework Solutions
  • SharePoint Framework Extension Release Candidate coming soon.
    • Breaking changes in API, so preview extensions will not work in RC
    • Will be available in developer tenants
    • Not ready for production use
    • Provide feedback – https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/issues
    • No ETA for General Availability at this point
  • SP Engineering Working On
    • SPFx Extensions(preview)
    • Site Collection app catalog
    • On-Premises support SP2016
    • GraphHttp client(preview)
    • Dialog Control(preview)

Demos

  • SP-PnP-JS Updates – Patrick – 20:18
    • Check out the developer guide
    • Cache expiration added
    • Caching available on local storage and session storage
    • Call deleteExpired to remove expired cache items
    • Can turn on in setup
      • enableCacheExpiration
      • cachExpirationIntervalMilliseconds
    • Use caching by using usingCache
    • Uses setTimeout to clear the cache
  • Creating your own Yeoman Generator – Ryan Schouten – 27:55
    • Guide for Creating Custom Yeoman Generator – http://yeoman.io/authoring/index.html
    • Project must be named generator-(name)
    • Must have index.js file in generators/app folder for default generator
    • Can use token replacements in template files
    • Lifcecycle functions exist
      • initializing
      • prompting
      • configuring
      • default
      • writing
      • conflicts
      • install
      • end

Open Discussion – 41:14

  • Where is SPFx generator code? – Hidden at the moment

Next Meeting August 31st

August 2017 Monthly PnP Call

Monthly Highlights – 2:18

  • Unique tenants – 5,921
  • Http Requests – 3.5 Billion
  • GitHub Unique visitors (2 week avg) – 26,866
  • Github Views (2 week avg) – 127,919
  • Most Used Feature – Provisioning Engine, 1,492 tenants
  • Top 5 Countries by tenant
    • United States        –
    • United Kingdom    –
    • Netherlands    –
    • Australia        ↑
    • Germany        ↓
  • Top 5 Countries by requests
    • United States        –
    • Netherlands        ↑
    • Norway            ↓
    • United Kingdom    –
    • Germany        ↑

PnP Webcasts and Videos – 4:40

Most Viewed Samples – 5:51

Key Links – 7:36

August 2017 – Release – 9:14

  • 9 new SPFx web part samples
  • 14 new SPFx extension samples
  • Updated samples
    • Portal.DataAccessLayer
    • Provisioning.ModernPages
  • New PnP Shorts video series – currently 7 in series
  • Preview release of support for new Provisioning Schema available

Demos – 14:44

  • New Tenant Wide Deployment Option with SPFx Solutions – Vesa Juvonen – 16:07

    • Included in Yeoman template option
    • Can add the setting in package-solution.json for existing projects.
      • “skipFeautreDeployment”: true
    • If used, solution cannot deploy any assets through the feature framework
      • For extensions, the extension is available and can be assigned through CSOM or Provisioning Engine
  • Using New 201705 Preview Schema – Bert Jansen – 25:10
    • Only works with command-let version 2.17.1708.1 or newer
    • Since in Preview you must pass in schema value to use -Schema V201705 for PowerShell or for Core pass in XMLConstants.PROVISIONING_SCHEMA_NAMESPACE_2017_05
    • Will be default with September release
  • Application customizer for late tasks – Alex Terentiev – 33:07
  • React Content By Query Client-Side Web Part – Simon-Pierre Plante – 38:10

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