Learning SharePoint

Recently I was doing some testing with a background PowerShell and encountered a weird error. “Identity client runtime library (IDCRL) did not get a response from the login server”. The error that you might encounter while working with PowerShell. This error is very misleading when it comes to identifying what could go wrong. After doing quite a good amount of research below are the probable causes for the error. Invalid Credentials MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) Manage security defaults. Solutions Invalid Credentials Check if your credentials are wrong. Especially if you are using variables. MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) Check if MFA is enabled on the account which you are using. These only affect you badly if you are developing PowerShell for a background Job. Go to Microsoft 365 admin center Users -> Active users -> Select the user -> Manage multifactor authentication -> Select the user -> Disable multi-factor authentication. M

T his week we would be looking into our first web UI flow demo on how to create UI flows using Power Automate Desktop. Just in case if you are not aware about UI Flows/ Power automate desktop flows. Please refer my previous blogs. Introduction to UI Flows UI Flow Triggers Creating first UI Flow To create a web UI flow you will have to download Power Automate addin for the browser you are using. Note: Supported browsers Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer. Today we will create UI flow for web, Our case study today will be simple. We will launch browser and record actions that we perform. Open Power automate desktop app. Click on New Flow First action to be dragged will be Launch Chrome.       Click on Save. Not click on web recorder from top left corner and click on web recorder.   You should now see a popup, select Chrome from there. Open the URL you added in Launch chrome action. Click on start recording button from recorder screen. Perform actions you want to and then

I n continuation to my previous blog post today we will see what are different options to trigger a UI flow. Deciding the nature of triggers may depend on the nature of the flow(UI Flow) that you created. Attended Mode: To run an attended UI flow, you need to have an active Windows user session that matches the name of the user configured for your connection. The session must not be locked. Unattended Mode: To run unattended UI flows, the target machine needs to be available with all users signed out. Prerequisites You need the  on-premises data gateway  for your device to have the UI flow triggered by Power Automate. A work or school account. You can run UI flow from Power Automate flows. Triggering these flows can be done using  from an event, button, schedule, or business process flow. Sign in to  Power Automate . Select  My flows  in the left navigation pane. Select  New , and then select  your desired type of flow . Give your flow a name in the  Flow name  box. Select  Create ,

W e can create Team Sites using Power automate. Use “Send HTTP Request to SharePoint” action for creating team site. To create Modern Team Site (No Group) We need to make a call to “/_api/SPSiteManager/create” end point. SiteDesignID parameter is optional. Your call should look like below when action is created.     Modern Team Site (Linked to a Group) We need to make a call to “_api/GroupSiteManager/CreateGroupEx” end point. Ensure to pass implicit formula parameter something like below. ["implicit_formula_292aa8a00786498a87a5ca52d9f4214a_7c13ef32-45f0-4282-a3c7-2d05ff0a9189"] Your call should look like below when action is created.   Thanks, Keyur Pandya

  H ope you are doing fine and safe in this pandemic situation. I recently came up with an opportunity to work with SharePoint Site Designs. SharePoint Site templates are now replaced with Site designs in Modern Sites.   SharePoint allows us to create JSON schema to apply our custom options that we want to add. Below are the things we can apply using site script. Create a new SharePoint list Define a new site column Define a new content type Add a navigation link Remove a navigation link Apply a theme Set branding properties Set a site logo Join a hub site Install an add-in or solution Register an extension Activate a Feature Trigger a flow Configure regional settings Add users (principals) to SharePoint Groups Manage guest access Let us assume we have a JSON schema created. I am taking below sample from MS documentation for reference.   We will now be adding above JSON schema to SharePoint as Site Script. Below is the command we execute. $site_script = ‘{   "$schema"

S harePoint Site templates are now replaced with Site designs in Modern Sites. We can create custom site designs using some json script(s). Site Design allows to create lists, create list views, apply theme, customize navigation, create content types, create site columns and so on. Click here to see JSON scheme reference for creating custom site design.  Endpoint to apply site design as a part of flow is as below. _api/Microsoft.Sharepoint.Utilities.WebTemplateExtensions.SiteScriptUtility.AddSiteDesignTaskToCurrentWeb We must use “Send Http Request to SharePoint” action to make an API call to SharePoint. SiteDesignId must be part if body, this is GUID of the SharePoint site design you need to apply. We can line up sequence of calls if we need to apply multiple site designs to a single site. We can now wait for few mins and all our sited designs will get applied or we can also check the status by making another API call with below endpoint. You just need to pass the Apply Design ta

Today I came across a requirement to upload file to SharePoint Document library. This task was to be done using SPFx. Pnp helped me with this. Here is the code i used. Below is the code for uploading file and meta data. private   UploadFile ():  void  {          let   input  = < HTMLInputElement >  document . getElementById ( "fileUpload" );          let   files  =  input . files ;          for  ( let   index  =  0 ;  index  <  files . length ;  index ++) {              const   file  =  files [ index ];              if  ( file . size <=  10485760 )    {      //upload small file in document library           pnp . sp . web . getFolderByServerRelativeUrl ( "/sites/Dummy/ProcessDocuments/" ). files . add ( file . name ,  file ,  true ). then ( f =>  {                   f . file . getItem (). then ( item   =>  {                      item . update ({ ProcessInformationIDId:   itemID }). then ( f   =>  {            

Today I came across a requirement to get outlook events to SharePoint custom webpart. Thanks to Graph API to ease the work. Here are the steps that we need to follow in order to get events. 1. Register a new app in Azure Active Directory . Here is the blog that i referred. 2. Now its time to get access token using generated client id and secret in previous step. Execute below code to get access token. $.ajax({     type: "POST",     crossDomain: true,     url:       "https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/https://login.microsoftonline.com/<Tenant ID>/oauth2/v2.0/token",     headers: {       "content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"     },     data: {       grant_type: "client_credentials",       client_id: "", //ClientId@TenantId       client_secret: "",//Client Secret       scope: "https://graph.microsoft.com/.default"     },     s

Lets try to make a SharePoint site responsive. Making a SharePoint site responsive is a two way process. Making Master page Responsive. Making SharePoint page layouts responsive. Making contents that is gonna load on the page responsive. Note : I would recommend to use Bootstrap in order to make site responsive. Lets now start with making a responsive master page. First of all you need to have a responsive HTML site. Take the portion that you want to add into master page and uploaded the derived portion with all necessary reference files into SharePoint master page gallery. Now  publish the master page and click on the gear icon on top right corner > Click on design manager > Under D esigner Manager click on Edit Master Pages option and then click on  Convert an HTML file to a SharePoint master page option Select your html file. You will now be redirected to Preview page. You can have a look at the page and resolve issues if you find any.  On the prev

For a few recent projects our customers had asked to change the behavior associated with clicking the site logo of a SharePoint 2013 site. By default, when a user clicks the site logo of a subsite, for example, then that user is redirected to that site’s home page. Instead, our customers wanted the behavior such that the redirect was to the  site collection  home page. Fortunately for us, someone else had dealt with a similar request and identified a simple solution. Many thanks to the I am Sam blog and specifically  this post , which explains how to update the  <SharePoint:SPSimpleSiteLink> element in your master page. This is a relatively painless workaround to a common request. Regards, Keyur Pandya

Wow.. I thought i won't be able to manage to write a blog this month. Hey guys today i am here with a something of that i have been planning since a long time. Some time back i tried to implement Angularjs with SharePoint. To be frank Angularjs is just awesome. You can have flawless feel while working with it. I don't know how will i manage to work with Angularjs in huge projects but i found it really really good to work with single page applications. Let's have a look to the classic definition of Angularjs that you find when you google for Angularjs. Angularjs "AngularJS is a structural framework for dynamic web apps. It lets you use HTML as your template language and lets you extend HTML's syntax to express your application's components clearly and succinctly. Angular's data binding and dependency injection eliminate much of the code you would otherwise have to write." SharePoint Apps SharePoint Apps, I personally found it more developer