A step-by-step guide to setup WSL2 for SPFx development.Enable and configure the main tools for a great and incredibly fast development experience
Setup WSL2 for SPFx development
Find SharePoint documents by file extension
This blog post contains a simple PowerShell script that you can use to find all SharePoint files from a certain file extension in a site and export to CSV
Find SharePoint documents by file type
This blog post contains a simple PowerShell script that you can use to find all SharePoint files from a certain file type in your tenant and export to CSV
File created or modified in SharePoint – broken trigger
You can find many problems when using Power Automate and Azure Logic Apps with complex SharePoint lists. This article will cover another one that cause triggers to break. If you use the "When a file is created or modified in SharePoint" trigger, keep reading.
No-code modern SharePoint site redirect
In classic SharePoint sites, it was possible to redirect users to a different site using a few different approaches. But modern SharePoint sites are more restrictive (for good) and offer different features that require different approaches. Fortunately, if you need to redirect users when they try to access the homepage of a specific site, this can be easily achieved using a simple no-code solution.
Export PnP reusable controls from SPFx library component
SharePoint Framework allows you to create a library component type of project that you can use to bundle all your shared resources and add as a dependency to your other projects. Once deployed, the other projects will consume the shared resources from the library component.
SPFx and modern SharePoint search page for searching the current location
Modern SharePoint sites on standard release will soon receive an update to add a search box to the top Office 365 bar. This allows you to search by default in the current location, like a site or a document library. You can then configure the site to redirect user's search queries to a custom search page and you can use the amazing PnP Modern Search web parts to create a great search experience. But what if you want to pass the context of the current location to the custom search page and keep searching only on that location by default?
Update metadata on SharePoint documents and folders
If you have SharePoint managed metadata terms being used in document libraries and you decide to rename the label of a term, you can easily do so in the term store and wait for the change to propagate to your documents. But what if you want to update all documents that use a specific term to a different term that already exists? The following script will to the job for you.
Trigger When a file is created or modified in SharePoint
Power Automate and Azure Logic Apps are great to use as automation tools for processes that include SharePoint data. Unfortunately, they also seem to suffer from some limitations on large lists/libraries which can be quite hard to troubleshoot. On this blog post, I describe the issue that I have recently experienced and how it can be quickly resolved.
Send items to second-stage SharePoint recycle bin
When a document or folder is deleted in SharePoint, it goes to the first-stage (site) recycle bin. After some time, it is moved to the second-stage recycle bin where it stays for another period before being completely deleted. If you are running a script to delete a very large number of documents, you may consider sending the items straight to the second-level recycle bin. This will prevent "flooding" the first-stage recycle bin with items, which would make the recycle bin hard to use for manually restoring deleted items.