SharePoint Online

SharePoint Navigation switcher

SharePoint Navigation has received lot of attention in the past couple of year when compared to how users had to deal with navigation in SharePoint 2010 & 2013 On-prem days. Here is the latest of the improvements, SharePoint navigation switcher. This feature was made Generally available in Dec 2021. By the time of this writing […]

Missing a column in SharePoint list/library filter pane

Missing a column in SharePoint list/library filter pane? It is normal. Not all columns are available in the filter pane by default. What is filter pane? Filter pane is available in the top right hand corner in list or library page. It is available by clicking on the funnel icon. Filters available are based on […]

Managing global navigation in SharePoint online

Options to manage global navigation in SharePoint online keeps getting better and better. We have come a long way from custom apps, using managed metadata navigation to hub navigation & the shiny SharePoint app bar. SharePoint app bar: SharePoint app bar brings together global navigation and user personalized resources (Sites, News & Files) to every […]

Cannot enable the site collection app catalog feature

Cannot enable the site collection app catalog feature in this site collection because it has not been approved by the tenant admin. If you have setup site collection app catalog in a SharePoint online site using PowerShell or PnP cmdlet’s explained in this article and run into this issue - Don’t Panic! Give it some […]

SharePoint Online site collection app catalog

Using SharePoint Online site collection app catalog functionality SharePoint framework solutions and add-ins can now be deployed only to a particular site collection. This approach is way flexible compared to deploying all solutions in a centralized app catalog. Centrally deploying solution is visible and available on all site collections. With this new functionality apps or […]

Team connected SharePoint sites default external sharing setting

Noticed a strange behavior where Team connected SharePoint sites are all defaulting to Existing guests external sharing setting. After spending some time on Internet and working with Microsoft, it is determined that this is happening because of SharePoint & OneDrive’s external sharing setting. Kind of obvious! Duh! Here is how external sharing settings for SharePoint […]

Edit in grid view option missing in a Modern SharePoint view

Edit in grid view option will not show up in a Modern SharePoint view, if the view display Style is anything other than Default.

SharePoint Site Scripts & Site designs

What is a site design? A site design is a group for predefined commands or actions that gets executed after a SharePoint Site is created. Some of the actions which can be executed as a site design are setting site logo, join the site to a hub, set default theme, create lists & libraries with […]

SharePoint site default access groups

When a new SharePoint Online site is created it comes with 3 default permission groups. Owners - Full control permission Members - Edit permission Visitors - Read permission These are setup as default permission groups. Users in Owners group have the ability to receive and approve/reject access requests. This can be setup through ‘Access Request […]

Add a Calendar webpart to a Modern SharePoint site page

Adding a calendar to a modern SharePoint site page is not a straight forward task. It took a bit of playing around before i figured out how to do it. Most of the people working with SharePoint by this time already know that Calendar is a list in the backend. In a Modern page when […]