Today i’m going to show you how to script Sharepoint through the GUI. Whilst in this example we’ll be running the code on server the same concepts and approach can be used to Script it from any machine that can hit the relevant website.
Dirty, but quite handy if you don’t have access to server-side scripting or deployment.
SPCAF | SharePoint Code Analysis Framework
Improve the quality of SharePoint code by detecting violations, creating inventory reports of all content in custom SharePoint solutions and analyzing dependencies between SharePoint elements.
Integrate OpenStreet Map with SharePoint 2013 Using REST and Leaflet.js
The client’s use case was as follows: they needed a way to be able to plot office locations on a map with contractually agreed to boundaries around them. These boundaries may be a specific radius around an office location or an irregularly shaped polygon. Once these are plotted on the map they required the ability to plot an address on the map to determine whether the address fell within any of the predefined boundaries.
Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit!
Micro-frameworks are definitely the pocketknives of the JavaScript library world: short, sweet, to the point. And at 5k and under, micro-frameworks are very very portable. A micro-framework does one thing and one thing only — and does it well. No cruft, no featuritis, no feature creep, no excess anywhere.
Changing Master Page through CSOM
This article explains how to change the Master Page through the Client-Side Object Model (JavaScript Object Model).
Designing intranet homepages that help employees do their jobs – Step Two Designs
There are many ways to make an intranet homepage completely useless to the people using it, and many reasons why this happens. Even with some great insights into what staff need, it can be a slow process to evolve an intranet and its homepage from useless to useful.
This article looks at a range of homepage examples through the lens of ‘usefulness’…
Social Intranet Strategy: Understanding Networks, Power & Politics
Power has been an underdeveloped concept in the rhetoric surrounding the use of social intranets. Expressions like “liberation” and “enhanced collaboration” and “empowerment” are common in marketing, but is this really the case? How does power really work in the social intranet? Who is in control? What are the opportunities of this new model? What are the risks?
Using ideas developed by communications scholar Manuel Castells and his work Communication Power, this post introduces how we can understand network power inside of organizations and contemplate its effects.
Build a Search Driven Solution with SharePoint 2013 – Part I
Why would you use Search Driven? Good question. Let’s ask “why not”? The answer is the index latency. Search Driven Solutions are based on the search index and that means that the data freshness depends on the index freshness.
How to: Learn to read and write to the social feed by using the REST service in SharePoint 2013
Create a SharePoint-hosted app that uses the REST service to publish a post and get the personal feed for the current user.
SP 2013: Searching in SharePoint 2013 using the REST new API’s
A simple example of how you can utilize the REST Search API’s in SharePoint 2013 to perform a search.