Category: Microsoft SharePoint
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Get hubsite or site ID
This is perhaps the tinyest post I’ve made to date. I often need to find the GUID of a site for ny various search querys. There are many ways to acheive this, but the quickest to date is to use the API through the SharePoint URL in your browser: If your scope is the hubsite…
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Org chart with a twist
A customer really liked Microsoft’s Org chart web part in SharePoint. However, they needed to be able to display data from the manager-field as well as a custom field for line-manager combined in a single view. I also found great joy being able to create a menu for switching between the different departments without leaving…
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Related news in SharePoint
Quite a few customers have asked me for a solution for automatic linking of related articles on their modern SharePoint intranet. I’ve drummed together a solution using PnP Modern Search and Term store. This solution requires that each news article (or page) is tagged with a single metadata column. 2. The search query: 3. Create…
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Changing the Search scope in SharePoint
When a customer with tons of sites needs to change the search scope, there are several ways to approach this. One solution is to create a PnP PowerShell script. In this example we’ll change the search scope to tenant (Organization). Steps to success: Drink some coffee and enjoy your new search scope.
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Recreating Quick Links Tiles view with Microsoft Lists
My customers have often complained that the Tiles view in the QuickLinks web part isn’t pretty enough. Here is a recreation that uses the SharePoint theme’s colours. Create a new list with the following additional columns: Icon (Single line text)URL (Hyperlink)Sort (Number, no decimals)NewTab (Yes/No) For the icons, use friendly names from https://uifabricicons.azurewebsites.net/ Try it…