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Category Archives: Development
Read & Write MS Office custom properties with PowerShell
While working on automating Microsoft Word I needed to read and write custom properties in documents. I found several resources out there. Reading worked fine, but when writing custom properties they all crashed. I finally managed to fix it though, … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Tutorials
Tagged cmdlets, COM, microsoft excel, microsoft office, microsoft powerpoint, microsoft word, powershell
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If Word randomly crashes when opening SharePoint documents
I’ve been working on a PowerShell script that automates Microsoft Word to open all files in a SharePoint library, modify the header and other properties and then save it again. I ran the script against 4000 documents and everything went … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Tips
Tagged automation, cache, COM, docx, microsoft office, microsoft word, powershell, scripting, sharepoint online
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Excluding page templates in CAML queries
Typically, when requesting SharePoint pages we do not want to include templates, just normal pages. When saving a SharePoint page as a template, this is noted in a property called OData__SPSitePageFlags . With this information we can easily exclude templates by … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Tips
Tagged caml, modern sites, sharepoint online, sharepoint pages
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Where is “Tenant Wide Extensions” list when using Site Collection App Catalogs?
A fairly new feature in SharePoint Online is the ability to have Site Collection App Catalogs. Neat. Even “Tenant Wide” application customizers work (though they are of course scoped to only the site collection). Creating a Site Collection App Catalog … Continue reading
Transparent CSS borders with the inherited color
You can inherit CSS colors from parent elements using the inherit or currentColor keywords:
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.someClass { color: inherit } |
This works for border color too:
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.someClass { border-color: inherit } /* or using the shorthand: */ .someClass { border: 1px solid currentColor } |
But suppose you’d want to have a semi-transparent color. When setting colors normally you would simply use rgba() to specify the … Continue reading
Hacking DocX files to fix Quick Parts in Word Online
Microsoft Word documents can have Quick Parts connected to SharePoint fields, so that the value of the field is displayed inside the document. But Word Online (still) does not fully support this. It will display Quick Parts with a a … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Tips
Tagged microsoft word, powershell, quick parts, sharepoint online, word online, xml, zip
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Migrating data from Access to SQL Server
Suppose that you have a simple Microsoft Access database that you need to migrate to another database such as MS SQL Server. You model the tables and relationships in the new database, and now you need to export the actual … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Tutorials
Tagged access, csv, data migration, database, ms sql server, powershell, sql
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Applying SharePoint Retention Labels Programmatically
So you’ve created and published Retention Labels in Office 365 and now you want to apply labels by CSOM code. It’s not very well documented. The following (crude) code should help you get started applying labels to both individual items … Continue reading
Posted in Development
Tagged c#, compliance, csom, office 365, programming, retention, retention labels, retention policies, sharepoint, sharepoint online
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Popup opens as new browser window in Edge and Internet Explorer
Problem: Opening a popup with JavaScript in Edge or Internet Explorer results in a new browser window instead of a popup window. For example:
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var popup = window.open("https://www.duckduckgo.com/", "DDG", "height=640,width=960,toolbar=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,location=no,status=no"); |
Communication between the new window and originating site is not possible either, since both popup (above) … Continue reading
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Tagged development, edge, internet explorer, javascript, popups, programming
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Internet Explorer: ScriptImports is undefined
Today I spent way too much time on hunting down a bug that occurred in Internet Explorer 11 running our intranet solution on SharePoint Online / 2016. The problem showed itself by throwing the following error in the console: The … Continue reading
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Tagged html, internet explorer, javascript, sharepoint, sharepoint 2016, sharepoint online
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