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Automate Email Generation with JSON Column Formatting in SharePoint

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As SharePoint developers, we are often asked to streamline processes for end users. One common task is providing a quick way to send prefilled emails with dynamic content straight from a SharePoint list. In this blog post, I will guide you through a simple JSON formatting solution that opens a new Outlook email window with … Continue reading Automate Email Generation with JSON Column Formatting in SharePoint

Displaying Theme Colors in a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Web Part

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Introduction As a SharePoint developer, you often need to work with themes and ensure that your customizations align with the current theme of the site. In this blog post, I will walk you through a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solution that displays the theme colors of the current theme on a SharePoint site. This web part … Continue reading Displaying Theme Colors in a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Web Part

Creating an RSS Feed Custom Data Source for PnP Search

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Introduction In this blog post, we will walk through the steps to create a custom data source for PnP Search that fetches data from RSS feeds. We will use the RssDataSource.ts file as our reference. Read more about how to create custom data sources for the PnP Search Web Part here: https://microsoft-search.github.io/pnp-modern-search/extensibility/custom_data_sources/ Prerequisites Basic understanding of TypeScript … Continue reading Creating an RSS Feed Custom Data Source for PnP Search

Building a Likes Web Component as a PnP Search Extension

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In this blog post, I will show an example of a LikesWebComponent as a search extension for the PnP Search Web Part. This component will allow users to like and unlike items for SharePoint items that are found and displayed in the PnP Search Web Part. The following image shows an example of the "Likes component" can … Continue reading Building a Likes Web Component as a PnP Search Extension

Copy file attachments from a SharePoint list item to another in Power Automate

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The Case We are using Power Automate to copy an item from one list to another. The original item might have file attachments, so, in addition to copy the fields, we need to also copy the attachments. This cannot be done in the regular Create Item SharePoint action, so we needed to find another way. … Continue reading Copy file attachments from a SharePoint list item to another in Power Automate