I recently created a custom SharePoint Framework (SPFx) web part that had some text fields in the property pane with character limits. I wanted the page authors to have some feedback as they typed so they knew how many characters were left, so I used the description property with some string concatenation to make it…
I recently helped a client create a COVID-19 page on their intranet, which is still using on-premises SharePoint 2013. To add some visual flair to the page, I used emojis in the web part titles. It’s funny, I haven’t done a lot of work on SharePoint Classic pages in years, and back then emojis were…
The other day I needed to change the embed code for a video in a publishing site’s “Images” library that was using the video content type in SharePoint 2013. This content type–based on the document set I believe–allows you to either upload a video file, provide a URL to a video file, or paste in…
In my current SharePoint Online intranet project, one of the requirements is to have a web part similar to the five-tile grid “Hero” web part that displays a comment count (if linking to a modern news page) in addition to the title text. For the web part, I wanted to make it as easy as…
I’ve been working on a new intranet project that uses modern communication sites in SharePoint Online, and we’re using the new Quick Links web part in two places; one to display links to important intranet pages using the “compact” view, and another to display links to external news articles using the “filmstrip” view. We needed…