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The Easiest Way to Attach CSS or JavaScript to your Office 365 or SharePoint Site
Introduction I’m typically asked quite often on how I can attach global CSS or javascript like jQuery to my SharePoint / Office 365 site. [...]
Creating a Site Template (Web) using PnP-Powershell Provisioning
During my last project we were asked to create a fairly simple site template on Office 365. I typically cringe when I hear the word site definition / site template or web template. The reason goes way [...]
Built-in Helper Classes Inside Office 365 & SharePoint 2013
There are a number of already built in helper (or utility) classes in Office 365 and SharePoint 2013. These classes can be very useful when you are building new components. You can skip writing CSS for [...]
Hijack SharePoint’s Built-in Full Width Background Image
You may or may not already know that SharePoint has the ability to do full width background images. If you’ve ever applied one of those wacky composed looks then you would see that some of them have [...]
SharePoint Framework Developer Preview Release – Where do I begin?
This is an exciting time! The much anticipated SharePoint Framework Preview was released yesterday. And guess what … they are essentially Add-ins /Apps. Right now just the web parts piece is released [...]
Change Default SharePoint Site Logo CSS Trick – Great for Office 365!
I was just thinking about this issue one day and realized that I could just override the default image but if the user decides that they wanted to change it later via site settings they could. Why do I [...]
Hiding People from People Search
Introduction This all started as a request from a client to hide only certain users from the people search. I’ve decided on this route because the management interface already exists to update user [...]
Bootstrap Navigation for Office 365 & SharePoint 2013 using jQuery and REST
Introduction In my last post I talked about making the SharePoint navigation render in a Bootstrap friendly way. I suggested that you could do this by changing the markup of the navigation using an ASP:Repeater [...]
Office 365 Icons
Introduction I recently came across an interesting blog – http://www.n8d.at/blog/office-365-icon-font-documentation/ which mentions O365 icons. This was back in February so when I attempted to locate [...]
Working with SASS style sheets in Office 365 / SharePoint 2013
My new favorite thing is creating all my style sheets with SASS. SASS makes writing my style sheets faster, easier, cleaner, and more reusable. Don’t ask me why I chose SASS, but I liked it just a little [...]
Delete a Workflow on the Host Web from the App Web
Below is some sample code to delete a workflow on the host web from your app web. This would be useful in the event you want your App to remove a workflow that you have deployed to the host web. NOTE: [...]
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