Office 365 – SharePoint – Display Error: The display template had an error.
Today in one of my new tenants I got the following errors in my search result web part: Sorry, something went wrong. SHOW DETAILS HIDE DETAILS When I opened up the error I got the following details:...
View ArticleSharePoint – important JavaScript frameworks overview
With the new SharePoint on the way there are a lot of new frameworks that SharePoint developers need to learn. This is an overview of the major ones: TypeScript TypeScript starts from the same syntax...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – The new SharePoint Home
Today the new SharePoint Home has arrived. Well at least for me it has. The link Sites the top of page has now turned into SharePoint When you click on SharePoint you first get a nice welcome...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint creating sites with the name ‘teams’
Today I tried to create a new site. That’s easy! No blog needed for that When I clicked on Ok I got: Sorry, something went wrong “teams” cannot be used as a site name. Site names cannot contain...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – Creating a publishing portal site collection
I’ve created a new tenant today and when I look at my site I’ve got a team site at my https://mytenant.sharepoint.com url. I would like this to be a publishing portal. So I first delete my site...
View ArticleOffice 365 – What’s New: April 2016
A lot has happened in April and many updates have come through. Collaboration got a big boost this month with the initial release of: Skype for Business for Mac Preview sharing and messaging updates to...
View ArticleOffice 365 – Sharing just got easier
Do you recognise the situation, you understand the fundamental ideas of SharePoint. You don’t send attachments in emails internally, but they do. You send a link to a document to a colleague and they...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – Content Search web part not displaying any data on...
Today a bit of a strange issue. I’ve got a Content Search web part with custom display templates. I’ve split my Control and Item display templates into separate folders. My web parts are all working...
View ArticleOffice 365 – New features and updates in week 23 2016
Three updates so far this week. Document Library experiences are to be updated Advanced Security Management alerting Microsoft Planner has gone GA Office 365 admin center updates 8 June 2016 Updated...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – Creating the Records Center
Introduction In this series I will look at Creating a records center All the elements of the records center Manage the Record Center Creating the record center To create a records centre in Office 365...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – The Records Center – All the different elements
Introduction In my previous post I mentioned how to create the records centre. Now I will look at the different elements in the record center. In this series I will look at Creating a records center...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – Views in the new document libraries and quite a bit...
Today I had a play with the new document libraries. I had a look at the different options within the views. The following options are available: List Tiles View in File Explorer List View This is...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – Manage the Record Center
Introduction In my previous post I mentioned how to create the record center. Then I looked at the different elements in the record center. Now the final part of this series will look at how to manage...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – Team Site or Team Site – SharePoint Online...
In the good old days of SharePoint 2007 site templates were the common way to deploy your intranet solutions. And even if you didn’t use farm solution to provision your site you could still create new...
View ArticleOffice 365 – New features and updates in week 24 2016
16 May 2016 Temporarily rolling back feature: New Alert email design for OneDrive for Business and SharePoint We are temporarily rolling back updates we made to alert emails, for OneDrive for Business...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – The New Site Contents – A Complete Overview
So the new Site Contents page has arrived. In this post I’m going through the options. Left hand Navigation The Left hand navigation space is used by the search box and the Recycle bin (Also available...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint – The new Document Library look and feel – A complete...
After yesterday’s post about the new site contents in Office 365, today the new document library look and feel. It has been around for a little longer now and I’m starting to get used to it a little...
View ArticleOffice 365 – New features and updates in week 25 2016
22 May 2016 Updated feature: SharePoint Document Library Experiences As previously announced, Modern libraries were rolled out to First Release tenants on June 7. As of today, and continuing over the...
View ArticleSharePoint – Has the world gone completely mad?
Today Microsoft announced that the new SharePoint mobile app for iOS is available today in the App Store. Remember the Future of SharePoint event? 4th May seem to be quite a while back. Since then we...
View ArticleOffice 365 – Making the title field sortable in Content Search and Search...
I’m not going to introduce the Search web parts in SharePoint in this article. I’m sure there are plenty of articles about that. Today I’m looking at the managed properties in Office 365 as this is...
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