Recording of the Microsoft 365 – General M365 development Special Interest Group (SIG) community call from April 16, 2020.
Call Summary
Latest news from Microsoft 365 & SharePoint engineering. PnP CSOM Core Library, PnP PowerShell, and Modernization tooling (and scanner) version updates were released on April 10. Highlights include: CSOM Core – create an App Catalog for a tenant using new extension method as well create modern team sites with app-only access token. PnP PowerShell – 5 new cmdlets, one of which is demoed today. Now General Availability for term mapping support in Modernization tooling. yo Teams update 2.13.0 released April 16, includes SSO tabs and switch from request to Axios npm modules. For each tool, capabilities targeted for completion this quarter were reviewed.
Three demos are delivered in this session.
- SharePoint Lists custom formatting – Hover cards – new functions that allow admins to define custom call outs (cards) for column and view formatting that can be commissioned on user defined actions like click or hover. Alternatively, when there is a default hover card, users can now have a profile card or file hover card on formatters as well.
- Intro to Taxonomy & Content Type REST APIs – a developer focused preview of new SharePoint REST APIs
for TermStore and Content Types services. 14 new Content Type SharePoint REST APIs work at both site and hub levels. APIs v2.1 and documentation will ship by end of May, then related Graph APIs will likely roll out by end of June. - Introduction to Initialize-PnPPowerShellAuthentication cmdlet – that greatly streamlines app registration. The new cmdlet available now, allows admins to authenticate towards their SharePoint tenants and Graph (and other scopes) with an
app only registration created in Azure AD. This cmdlet executes the entire registration/authentication process in 60 seconds.
The call was hosted by Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft). ACTION: Call attention to your great work by using the #PnPWeekly in Twitter.
Topics covered on April 16, 2020
- General community news – 3:13
- PnP CSOM Core library updates – Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com) – 5:00
- PnP PowerShell updates – Erwin van Hunen (Valo Intranet) – 7:00
- Modernization tooling updates – Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com) – 8:46
- yo Teams updates – Wictor Wilén (Avanade) – 10:35
- Demo: SharePoint Lists custom formatting – Hover cards | Niket Jain (Microsoft) – 12:45
- Demo: Intro to Taxonomy & Content Type REST APIs | Ramesh Kasturi (Microsoft) & Ravi Gopinath (Microsoft) – 19:50
- Demo: Introduction to Initialize-PnPPowerShellAuthentication cmdlet | Erwin van Hunen (Valo Intranet) – 37:05
- Q&A in chat throughout call.
Resources
Additional resources around the covered topics and links from the slides.
- Slides used in this community call
- Default hover cards – column samples
- Custom hover cards – column samples
- Default hover cards – view samples
- Custom hover cards – view samples
- Default card on hover via column formatting
- Help with GitHub? Sharing is Caring
- Parker’s Place
- Microsoft 365 & SharePoint community (PnP) videos | aka.ms/m365pnp-videos
- Open-source – SharePoint & Open-source PnP | github.com/sharepoint & github.com/pnp
- SharePoint Framework | aka.ms/spfx
SharePoint Framework samples – web parts & extensions | aka.ms/spfx-webparts, aka.ms/spfx-extensions - SharePoint Framework issues | aka.ms/spdev-issues
- SharePoint UserVoice | aka.ms/spdev-uservoice
- yo Teams | aka.ms/yoteams
- Video – Getting started using yo Teams | Wictor Wilén (Avanade)| @wictor
- Build a crisis management site to connect people and information
- Developer documentation | https://aka.ms/spdev-docs
- Non-developer documentation (Community)
- PnP Power Shell
- SharePoint look book
- Preparing for Page Transformation UI v1
- Support/Github site
- SharePoint Modernization Partner Guidance – Feedback welcome
- Install the latest version from NuGet
- Install the latest version from PowerShell Gallery
- Solution – Building a modern search experiences with SharePoint Framework web parts
- Page transformation guidance
- Page transformation videos
- Modernization scanner
- Office 365 developer program site – Need to become a Tenant Admin to test look book capabilities? Get a Microsoft 365 E5 developer subscription (free tenant for 90 days)
- SharePoint Provisioning Service – Easily provision look book designs to any tenant in the world
- SharePoint Provisioning templates on Github
- PnP Provisioning Tenant Templates documentation
- SharePoint Page Transformation webcast series
- PnP Power Shell
- SharePoint Modernization Tools
Next Meeting is April 30, 2020, see you there!
General SharePoint Dev Special Interest Group bi-weekly calls are targeted for anyone who’s interested in the general SharePoint development topics. This includes CSOM, REST, site provisioning, PnP PowerShell, PnP Sites Core, Site Designs, Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, Column Formatting, list formatting etc. topics. More details on the SharePoint development community from http://aka.ms/sppnp. We also welcome community demos, if you are interested in doing a live demo in these calls!
You can download recurrent invite from http://aka.ms/spdev-sig-call. Welcome and join in the discussion. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, feel free to provide your input as comments to this post as well. More details on the SharePoint development community and options to get involved are available from http://aka.ms/sppnp.
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SharePoint Team, Microsoft – 17th of April 2020
