Tag Archives: sharepoint online

Excluding external users from search results in SharePoint Online

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Dan

Search in SharePoint Online returns both internal and external users by default. This may  not be desirable. Here’s how to exclude external users from the search results. External users have account names containing #ext# which makes them easy to filter … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer: ScriptImports is undefined

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Dan

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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Beware this limitation when using SharePoint Image Renditions

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Dan

With image renditions you can specify a pixel size when requesting an image, and SharePoint will deliver the image scaled down to this size for you. This is great, because you don’t have to worry about your users pulling full … Continue reading →

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Heads-up if you use ADAL.JS on a site added to the “Trusted Sites” zone

Posted on October 1, 2016 by Dan

When working on a SharePoint Online solution that is using the ADAL.JS library for authentication, a customer reported strange problems. In our solution, our site sends the client to the authentication authority (Azure AD), which authenticates the client and forwards … Continue reading →

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Downloading OneDrive documents as PDF

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Dan

As part of automating a build process I needed a way to download the product documentation from OneDrive and save as PDF files for shipping with product. The result is this PowerShell script with two cmdlets, one that takes an … Continue reading →

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Think twice before uploading assets to Sharepoint Online

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Dan

Here’s a heads up if you are uploading assets such as CSS files to SharePoint Online. In a solution I’m working on we have an “Alternate CSS” file that we upload to the master page gallery. It contains the following … Continue reading →

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Working with enterprise custom fields in Project Online

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Dan

I was tasked with with writing a utility for setting Enterprise Custom Fields on User Resources in Microsoft Project Online. The fields got their values from Lookup Tables. Since is was Project Online, the client side object model, CSOM, had … Continue reading →

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Parse Visio SVG drawings with Snap.svg

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Dan

This tutorial shows how to: Load and work with SVG files using the Snap.svg JavaScript library. Parse SVG drawings exported from Visio 2013 to read data and interact with the shapes. To help with this I have exported a simple … Continue reading →

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Why image renditions are slow in SharePoint Online

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Dan

Image renditions are supposed to be a great way to speed up SharePoint. But if you’ve ever tried to use them in SharePoint Online you have probably noticed that the images load very slow. It’s usually even faster to get … Continue reading →

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Fixing the ‘PRM_ParserErrorDetails’ problem for SharePoint Apps

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Dan

Today I finally solved a problem that I have been trying to hunt down for a long time. I haven’t been  able to find any good help on this elsewhere, so let me share how I solved it. This is … Continue reading →

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