This post covers the other half of getting a content type from a Content Type Hub onto a site: publishing it in the hub is only step one — a site collection also has to actually be subscribed to receive it. Everything below is the subscribing side. Worth a heads-up before diving in: configuring Content […]
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A Content Type Hub is the central place to manage and share content types across your entire SharePoint environment — create a custom content type once, publish it from the hub, and it becomes available to use anywhere in the tenant, instead of recreating the same content type in every site that needs it. In
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In this post: Overview · Expand with REST API · Property Internal Names · Expanding a multi-value Person field · Setting a Person field: the other direction · A missing email address breaks the expand · Expanding People metadata with PnP · Related reading Overview One of the very useful metadata types is People. Using
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In this post: Classic SharePoint Throwback · Why or when do we need a duplicate? · Why isn’t it available in modern SharePoint? · How to make it visible · The real cost of re-enabling it · Locking it back down afterward · Related reading Classic SharePoint Throwback Earlier versions of SharePoint — On-Premises 2010,
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We can’t avoid situations where we need to add items to a list dynamically. Most of the time the data comes from Excel, especially when it originates from other apps. To cut down the time spent adding it manually, it’s best to add it dynamically using Microsoft Power Automate. This post covers copying Excel records
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In this post: What is a SharePoint Content Type? · Types of Content Types · When do we use tenant wide content types? · When do we use local / site content types? · How inheritance actually makes specific content types work · Breakdown your content types as specific as possible! · Related reading What
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There was a time when I copied a page from one site to another. It was all good until I updated the page, and it would not let me save it. In this case, one possible reason is that the page content type changed from a Site Page to a Wiki Page. So, what can
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In this post: What is SharePoint PageContext? · How to access SharePoint PageContext? · SharePoint PageContext in Table · How useful is the SharePoint PageContext? · Turning the list into actual code · Related reading What is SharePoint PageContext? SharePoint PageContext provides standard definitions for SharePoint objects shared between client-side applications, web parts, and other
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Though there is an option to create an item using the existing flow action, there are times when you need to create an item dynamically. This post covers the best way to create an item using the ‘Send an HTTP Request to SharePoint‘ action. In this example, we’ll be creating an item in a custom
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