Using the Workflow Definition Language in Microsoft Flow 30 June 2017 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem Flow I’ve been playing with Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow since the first time it was introduced. And I must admit, I really love the way you can create mobile apps and flows in just a couple of minutes. I agree, once you really get in there, you bump into things that are still missing. But hey,... [More]
Watch out with calculated DateTime fields in CSOM 25 April 2017 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem SharePoint Development var localDateOnlyValue = ctx.Web.RegionalSettings.TimeZone.UTCToLocalTime((DateTime)item.FieldValues["DateOnly"]); ctx.ExecuteQuery(); I recently came across a baffling issue when using CSOM to connect to a SharePoint Online list to retrieve values from a Date and Time field and another field ca... [More]
Applying JSLink on a Dashboard page 01 July 2016 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem In this article I will discuss the issues I came across with when trying to apply jslink on a SharePoint dashboard page. For me, a dashboard page is a page on which you put multiple web parts, in order to get a global overview on a certain entity. In order to demonstrate this, consider that you kee... [More]
What’s new in SharePoint 2016 CSOM (DocumentSets) 11 March 2016 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem SharePoint 2016, SharePoint Development With SharePoint 2016 RC available, it’s interesting to see what new additions we have in CSOM and/or REST APIs. Doing some research in the differences between the SharePoint 2013 RTM CSOM and SharePoint 2016 RC CSOM, I noticed several differences. This post will describe the differences related to D... [More]
Announcing the SharePoint Add-in “Export to Word” 04 February 2016 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem Office 365, Office, Office Development, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Today, we’re glad to announce the FREE SharePoint Add-in “Export to Word”, developed by the team at U2U. This add-in fixes one of those issues that you’ll probably will have come across with in SharePoint, namely generating Word documents based on SharePoint list items. A bit like a mail merge for l... [More]
An Office 365 App for Site Collection Provisioning in SharePoint Online 20 February 2015 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem Office 365, SharePoint Online Continuing on my previous post, I decided to create a new Office 365 app that would be able to manage site collections in SharePoint Online. When deciding to build an app that does site collection provisioning, you could chose to do this as a SharePoint App, but SharePoint Apps are typically contex... [More]
Consuming SharePoint CSOM from an Office 365 app 18 February 2015 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem Office 365, SharePoint I’ve been a C# developer for more than five years now. When SharePoint 2013 was released, I started doing development for SharePoint 2013 and later also SharePoint Online. My focus was on developing web services (in combination with the SharePoint App model), native client and mobile applications us... [More]