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SharePoint List Form Customization: What to use when

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This post was created in collaboration with Syskit.

Managing documents and data in SharePoint is easy, but when it comes to form data, a challenge can lie in the user interface for data entry. By leveraging different Microsoft 365 (M365) functionality and adhering to a few user experience principles, we can streamline user interaction, decrease data entry errors, and increase our users’ satisfaction. The key is understanding which SharePoint list formatting customization method suits the purpose and when to implement it effectively.

Redirecting List Forms

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I recently encountered a situation with a client where I was working on setting up a list for a business process. The process required users to access a dedicated site to fill out a form, and we decided to embed the new form directly onto the site’s homepage. Additionally, we wanted to display a list of all the submitted items by users.

Site Design for Easy Site Page Management

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Does your site pages library look totally unmanageable? Have you had instances where you can see a news post that you created but someone else doesn’t? Is your content not showing up in search or highlighted content web parts? This happens all the time and it is generally an easy fix. I had the good fortune to work with Susan Hanley on a project recently. We were discussing creating a site design to automate some of the pieces of the site architecture she created. She mentioned to me a blog post she created, One simple view to improve SharePoint page and site management. In that post she proposes making minor modifications to the All Pages view to help alleviate some of these common issues and make it easier to manage site pages. She challenged me to create a site script that would replace or update the existing view to include the fields like promoted state to help better manage the contents of the site pages library.

Deploying Application Customizers with a Site Design

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Sometimes things are harder than they need to be. I have been working on Site Designs recently to automate the creation and deployment of different element in a site. For the most part things were pretty straight forward for what I needed to do, add a theme to a site, add site columns, and add content types. This time around I needed to deploy an SPFx Application Customizer that needed to be installed on individual sites. The official documentation on this is a little lacking. It doesn’t really explain what you need to do in order to make it work. I also looked at the PnP Site Design Samples which got me a little closer. It took me quite a while to figure out the right magic voodoo combination that got it to work.

Using Custom Color for Section Backgrounds and Page Headers

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Have you ever wondered where the background colors in SharePoint modern pages comes from? You know, the ones for section background colors and site headers? Have you ever wondered how to change them to your own custom colors?

I had a client that wanted to be able to set the background for the site headers to a specific color. Unfortunately, the color they wanted wasn’t one of the four colors available through the SharePoint UI.

Managing Office 365 Identities Made Easy

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000

A friend of a friend of a friend told about this thing that totally changed their life. It wasn’t exactly that convoluted but I was complaining to a friend the other day about constantly having to switch credentials for my office 365 tenants. He suggested a nifty trick that a friend of ours Beatrice Baciu wrote about. He showed me how to use Chrome Personas to manage my different office 365 accounts.