Anyone who’s done a reasonable amount of SharePoint administration will probably have come across services appearing to be stuck on a status Starting/Stopping. There can be many reasons for this, and this article aims to look at how to identify the cause and try to rectify it.
Microsoft 365’s PowerApps can be created based on a fixed layout for one of a portrait mobile device (i.e. phone) or landscape device (i.e. desktop or tablet) only. Given that most users will adopt a combination of devices when accessing apps, this either means you have to develop your PowerApps app twice or you have to try to get something not designed to have a responsive layout to be responsive.
There are going to be lots of occasions when you are going to want to merge the ULS logs from the individual SharePoint server instances that constitute your SharePoint farm. Fortunately, Microsoft provide a handy PowerShell command for just that purpose.
There can be times when a SharePoint Add-in instance just won’t install (or uninstall). You get the familiar “We’re adding your app” message on the new tile that has been added to the Site Contents page but nothing changes – it just stays like that.
Here’s a summary of some of the hints and tricks I’ve picked up while working with SharePoint Designer 2013 (SPD). Some are to fix issues that SPD introduces itself, and others are just things to make using the tool a little less painful.
The following method is a plain JavaScript function that is approximately equivalent to jQuery’s $(document).ready function, but can be used without the overhead of loading the entire jQuery library if you don’t need it.
There are many times when you want to display filtered views of SharePoint lists by default. Sure, you can create a custom view – and that is often the best approach – but what if you want a configurable query? Then this simple ‘hack’ can be perfect for the job.
There are times when you want to save a SharePoint (SP) site as a template but the option doesn’t appear in the Site Settings page.
To overcome this there are a few different things you can try.
When using MS Excel to provide reports from SharePoint (SP) data, a common problem is managing the size of the dataset being retrieved. SP sites are notoriously long-lived and data can grow and sprawl over time, with lists having 100,000s or even millions of items in them, and Excel reports linked to those lists can take so long to load they are all but unusable. Using an OData query can help get around these issues.
Although it is usually easier to explicitly add references to all your JavaScript file dependencies in the host web page (head section), sometimes this isn’t possible and the dependencies need to be programmatically loaded at runtime.