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How to find app catalog site URL in SharePoint Online

SharePoint App Catalog is a special site collection that holds all custom solutions, apps. App catalog is used to deploy the custom solution like SPFx solution package or SharePoint add in app package or other solutions. But, when you have  large number of sites in your sharepoint environment and user do not know the url of  app catalog site then question will came in mind of user, How do I find the app catalog in sharepoint online , How do i get url of app catalog site in sharepoint  etc. We will provide you the ways to easily locate app catalog site in sharepoint online. Option 1: 1 Sign into Office 365   as a global or sharepoint admin. 2 Go to the apps and select Admin .  3 Now under the Admin Centers click on the SharePoint admin center . 4 In SharePoint admin center, go to the Active sites. 5 Now go to the right section where all the sites are listed and filter by template with " App Catalog Site ". 6 Once you apply the filter SharePoint App catalog site...

Site Assets Library missing in SharePoint Online

 In SharePoint online when you create a communication site and you go to Site contents and search for  SiteAssets, you will not find  SiteAssets Library.  It will get created when you set a site logo or when you enable site feature. This article will answer your questions like  Site assets missing in sharepoint online? or Site assets library missing in communication sites? There is several options available to get the  SiteAssets  library.  To get the SiteAssets library back by this options: Option 1 : 1. Click on the gear icon and then Change the look option. 2. Then move to the Header section and set the Site Logo . Once you set the site logo.  SiteAssets  library will get created. Option 2 : By enabling the site collection features, we can achieve it. 1.  Go to your Site collection  and  click on “Site Information”.   2. Go to Site Settings   and  click on “ Site Collection Features ” under the Manage ...

"Append Changes to Existing Text " in SharePoint document library

You want to add a multi line text field in document library, which allows to append changes to existing text. When you create a multi line of text field in library and there is no option available to do this. In this post you will also get answer for the question "Append Changes to Existing Text" option is missing in SharePoint document library. There is no option available for "Append Changes to Existing Text " in SharePoint document library but this option is available in the List. But, you can get the append able column in SharePoint document library by following the steps mentioned below: Create a site column: 1 Go the Site Settings and click on the " Site columns " under "Web Designer Galleries" . 2 Click on the Create . 3 Give the name to the field and select "Multiple lines of text" and " Append Changes to Existing Text " to  Yes.  Add site column to document library: 1 Go to the Library Settings and Click on the ...

Everything you want to know about sharepoint groups

SharePoint group is collection of users. SharePoint group is useful when you want to assign a common permission to multiple users at once instead of assigning permission to one user  at a time. How to create a group in SharePoint?  To create a group in SharePoint, follow the steps mentioned below: 1 Navigate to your site and click on gear icon. 2 Click on the Site information and one section will appear. 3 From site information section, click on the “View all site settings” 4. You will be redirect to the Site settings page. Now move to the click on “ People and groups ” under the “Users and Permissions” section. 5 You will be redirect to the People and Groups page. Click on the “Groups” option available on top of the left panel and you will be redirect to the groups page. 6  Now click on the “New” option.   7. Now you are at Create group page. Type the name in textbox next to the “Name” field and choose the appropriate permission as per your ...

Issue while embedding content using iframe in SharePoint

In this blog post, we'll explore the necessary settings required prior to embedding code within a SharePoint page. Failing to configure these settings correctly may result in issues when utilizing the embed code.  The HTML field security setting is useful to allow or restrict the ability to embed content on SharePoint pages if you use external images in JSON formatting.  Common issue like: External Icon/Image URLs not working in JSON Formatting. Embedding content from this website isn't allowed. "Embedding content from this website isn't allowed, but your admin can change this setting. They will need to add 'www.techrobbers.com' to the list of sites that are allowed." This issue came when you try to add embed code from the site which is not added into the "Allow iframes from this domain". To embed the content from the site you need to add the site in the  HTML Field Security . To resolve this issue, follow steps mentioned below: 1. Click ...

Utilize the out of the box web parts and add social media feeds on modern pages SharePoint online

In this article, we are going to learn, how to add social media feeds. There are several web parts available out of the box to add social media on the modern page. Those web parts are quite useful in building the intranet. Add social media feeds to the SharePoint page. To add twitter feeds to on the page, follow the steps mentioned below: 1. Edit the page and click on the add icon for adding the web part. 2. Search for the twitter web part and add it. 3.  Now go to the web part properties and add the twitter handle you want to add.  You can also change the theme color and the numbers tweets to show on-page. 4. Once you done all the settings. Republish the page. You can embed Facebook public feeds on your site by following these steps:  First, we need to get embed code from  Facebook page plugin .  Now paste the Facebook page URL and set the height - width.          3.  Now click on the get code. Select IFrame and copy the code. ...

How to create sharepoint list using excel

List is important part of SharePoint. Feature to create list from spreadsheet is very useful. User can create the list using spreadsheet/excel using add list option in site content. Create a SharePoint List from Excel: 1. Log in to your tenant and move to the site . 2. Now navigate to the Site content and click on the New option and select List .   3. Select the From Excel option and Upload file or you can choose file from site also.   4. File you uploaded, if it's not in the table format, you need to do that.   Click on the link Go to file in this example it is Expense Info.xlsx, present above to the Refresh option.  Select the cells and Click on the Format as table.  Refresh it. 5. Once you refresh it, Give the name to the list and check the column type, if it's not appropriate you can change this from column type drop down. Now click on Create . 6. Now your list is created. Note: In this example I used date in one column but when I imported that excel,...

SharePoint URLs to navigate quickly

At some point you want to navigate to other page on SharePoint like Site setting page or Site content page but you forgot the navigation path or you want to navigate quickly at that time these URLs will be very useful. You can navigate to particular page using these URLs without navigating through site. Change the tenant name and appropriate site URL and paste the it into address bar. These are some useful url's for SharePoint. You can navigate in SharePoint without using site navigation but   for this you must have required permission otherwise you will get “Access denied”. Some useful URL's for Microsoft Office 365/SharePoint  Users. Useful url's to navigate under the Microsoft 365 admin center (For this Admin Access is required): 1.  URL to check all the active users on sharepoint site. You can have option to add users, to delete users, to imply multi factor authentication etc. https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal/Home?source=applauncher#/users 2...

Add and edit user profile properties in SharePoint

You can manage the user profiles from the Office 365 admin center. if you want to create new user profile properties you can do it from user profile properties. you can update the user profile properties by accessing user profiles from the SharePoint admin center. (Admin level permission required to perform this) 1. Open  Microsoft 365 admin center and navigate to SharePoint admin center.  2. On SharePoint admin center , Click on More features 3. Now click on the open , under the User profiles section. 4. Now you are at manage profile page, Click on Manage User Properties 5. Click on New Property and it will redirect you to another page. Add caption 6.   In the Property Settings  section, In the Name box, type the name of property, this name is used        by services, In the Display Name box, type the name, this name will be displayed at user profiles to all users. In the User Description sectio...