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In this article, we are going to learn H ow to provision SharePoint  assets with SPFx  and  How to provision multiple instance of assets with SharePoint Framework Solution(SPFx) . SharePoint Framework tool chain allows us to package and deploy SharePoint items with SPFx solution. We can  also  provision multiple list instances with SharePoint Framework solution. Follow the steps mentioned below to provision list instance with the SharePoint framework solution: 1. Once you are ready with your SharePoint Framework solution. 2. Create folders for the SharePoint assets:      A.  Create folder with  " sharepoint"  name  to the root of the solution.        B. Create folder with "assets" name inside the " sharepoint " folder.    3.   To provision SharePoint assets to sites with SharePoint Framework(SPFx), we need to create the required xml files.    ...

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,...

In this article we are going to discuss custom permissions in SharePoint online and "How to create custom permission level in SharePoint online".  We will also explore usage of the custom permission and scenarios where custom permissions are useful. SharePoint have some default permission levels like full control, design, edit, contribute, view, read and view only. Every permission level defined the accessibility of user on the items. Permission level plays important role in SharePoint security. For an example: In some scenarios you need to assign a permission to user for add and edit the item but you do not want to allow user to delete the item. For such types of scenarios there is no default permission level is available, to fulfill your requirement you need to create custom permission level. How to create custom permission level in SharePoint : 1 Navigate to S ite settings.  2. Click on  Site permissions  and you will redirect to the permission page. 3. Click on t...

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...

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...

In this article, we are going to learn how to register an app/add-in in SharePoint online. If you have created a Sharepoint provider-hosted add-in or other SharePoint solution and to access the SharePoint site or list using the app/add-in you need to register the add-in on SharePoint and to grant permission. Register app in SharePoint 1. Login into SharePoint and Navigate to register an app page. Use the URL mentioned below:          [Sitecollection URL]/_layouts/15/appregnew.aspx 2.  Once you navigate to the Register app page, a form will open. You need to fill all the fields on the form. Client Id and Client Secret  generated when we click on the generate button available next to the fields.  Title : Name of the add-in which you want to give. App Domain : Where your domain is hosted, for the local environment you can place             "www.localhost.com". Do not include HTTP or HTTPS...

In this article, we are going to learn, How to get the user permission on the site using csom or how to get the user permission programmatically, to get the permission of the user on a particular site we use GetUserEffectivePermissions() method in csom. In the SharePoint, user requires permission to perform any operation, when we work with provider-hosted add-ins and in some scenarios, we need to check the permission of user we use the GetUserEffectivePermissions() method and by passing the user name we get its effective permission on the site.  In this example, We have created a console application to check whether the user have edit person or not on site.  Pass the context of the site and email of the user into a method to check the permission of the user on the site. You must ensure users on the web before checking permission.  using System;   using System.Security;   using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;   namespace PracticeC...

In this article, we are going to learn "How to check the permissions of user on SharePoint list using csom " or permissions of user using code. In provider-hosted SharePoint Add-ins, we use the csom code and to check the permission of the user on a particular list, once we get the effective permission of particular user on the SharePoint list and then by using that permission we can check the particular kind of permission like Addlistitem, Editelistitem, etc. In this example, we have created a console application to check whether the user has edit permission on the list or not.  Pass the client context, email of the user and list name on which you want to check the permission of the user. using System; using System.Security; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client; namespace PracticeCsom {     class Program     {         static void Main(string[] args)         {            s...

In this article we are going to learn  “how to get the sharepoint internal field name using the display name” of field. To perform any operation on the field. First we need to get field collections, every SharePoint list have fields and we can get it as FieldCollection . By iterating the field collection we can get information about all the fields. Call the method and pass the context , name of the list from which you want to get data and display name.  GetInternalFieldName( ClientContext clientContext ,string listName, string fieldDisplayName){        string fieldInternalName= " ";        var web = clientContext.Web;       clientContext.Load(web);       List listEventSource = web.Lists.GetByTitle(listName);       FieldCollection fields = listEventSource.Fields;       IEnumerable<Field> fieldsColl = clientContext.LoadQuery(fields); ...

In this article, we are going to learn how to create a list from list template or using(.stp) file or we can say create list from existing list. Once you save the list as a template, It appears into List template option under the web designer gallery on site setting page. Steps to create list from list template: 1 Move to the site setting section where you have saved the list template. 2. When you click on the List templates, you will redirect to the List template gallery and from the list template gallery. 3. Now click on the File in ribbon and click on the upload document. 4. Browse the location where your list template is downloaded. I am uploading the template of an address list. 5.  After browsing the template, now you can give the name what you want to give to the list template and click on save. 6. Now the list template file appears into the list template gallery. Now click on the gear  icon and click on the Add an app. 7. On clicking add...