When developers first started building solutions for SharePoint years ago, the ecosystem was heavily tied to server-side deployments, farm solutions, and risky customizations that often caused upgrade headaches. Then came modern SharePoint and the rise of the SharePoint Framework, more commonly known as SPFx. Fast forward, and many organizations are now asking an important question: […]
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Power Automate is deceptively easy to start with — drag a few actions together, connect some services, and you have a working process without writing much code. That’s exactly why it gets adopted fast, and also why its rough edges tend to surface late: a flow that works perfectly with 10 test records can start
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KQL (Keyword Query Language) is what SharePoint and Microsoft Search actually parse behind a search box — keywords, managed properties, and operators that let you ask for exactly what you mean instead of hoping full-text matching gets there on its own. In this post: What KQL actually does · Where you’ll actually write it ·
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CSOM, JSOM, and the REST API all interact with SharePoint data from outside server-side code — the real question is which one fits a given project, not which one is “best.” Here’s what each actually is, working code for all three doing the same operation, and how they compare. In this post: What each one
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Four ways to update a term in the SharePoint Term Store programmatically — SharePoint’s own REST API, Microsoft Graph, plain JavaScript, and PnPjs — and what actually differs between them beyond “which one is easiest.” In this post: Option 1: SharePoint REST API · Option 2: Microsoft Graph · Option 3: plain JavaScript · Option
If you’ve ever had to juggle separate APIs for Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, and Azure AD just to build one integration, Microsoft Graph is the fix for that specific headache. One endpoint, one auth model, most of Microsoft 365 behind it. Here’s what it actually covers, how to authenticate against it properly, and where people usually
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Deleting a file in SharePoint isn’t a single action — you’re choosing between sending it to the Recycle Bin (recoverable) or removing it permanently (not, without a backup). Which one you should reach for, and how to do either one through the REST API, is what this post covers. In this post: Delete vs recycle:
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SharePoint stores dates in UTC and displays them based on the site’s regional settings — get that mismatched, and you get list items showing the wrong time, or a Power Automate flow firing at the wrong hour. In this post: Why this happens · The “Date Only” field gotcha · Fixing list view display ·
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Worth flagging directly before anything else: neither of the two role-assignment examples that usually accompany this topic will actually run against a fresh list or library — both skip breaking permission inheritance first, which SharePoint requires before it accepts a role assignment at all. This post covers the built-in roles, the real numeric IDs behind
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SharePoint attachments — files uploaded directly onto a list item, not into a document library — are common in forms and ticketing-style lists. Here’s how to create, read, and delete them with plain JavaScript against the REST API, no PnPjs required. In this post: Uploading an attachment · Reading attachments · Downloading the actual file
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