SharePoint Online Microsoft's Funny Errors on bad deployment

1. This screenshot I have taken from List's display form on 22-Dec-2016. What are these new irrelevant commands for list's display form? Everything is disabled including Edit Item link  !!!!! lol 2. This screenshot I have taken after clicking edit page from List's display...

SharePoint Online: JS Link not working

What is it? You might be wondered why your JS link stopped working today (22-Dec-2016). It was working well till yesterday. Maybe Microsoft broke with their usual untested code. Uuh! This is very bad. Microsoft breaks SharePoint Online at least >3 times in a month. Please Microsoft, we (IT) are getting blame from every business. My assumption is, Microsoft does not do Regression testing well. Coming...

SharePoint Online team news

Team news for SharePoint Online is a new features within Office 365 team sites. Rollout is planned for First Release customers through the month of October 2016 with worldwide rollout expected to complete by the end of November 2016. What does this mean ? Team news...

Microsoft Update: New capabilities in SharePoint Online team sites including integration with Office 365 Groups

Today Microsoft begin bringing SharePoint team sites to Office 365 Groups. Both existing and new groups will now get a SharePoint site. Within a group’s team site, this roll out brings a new home page, featuring the Quick links web part for showcasing links to important team resources, and the Activity web part for showing recently active content. It, too, brings modern pages. These are responsive...

SharePoint Online MobileExcelWebAccess Feature - Unable to create site using custom template

I am sure you would have got this error suddenly while creating sites using custom template in SharePoint Online. Error: MobileExcelWebAccess Feature e995e28b-9ba8-4668-9933-cf5c146d7a9f Not activated Microsoft is unsure about the issue but there is a fix.  Prerequisites: -...

SharePoint 2013 / SharePoint Online Create multiple Pages library

My requirement was to have separate Pages library for categories.  So, I took the Pages library template and tried to create a library using the template. SharePoint throws an error.  I contacted Microsoft Support team and they confirmed that a site cannot have more than one Pages library.  Today...

SharePoint 2013 / SharePoint Online Create OneNote document library

SharePoint provides very easy way to accomplish many business requirements. But we, developers, always think advanced solution that takes lots of effort. One of the example is Document library for OneNote. I started thinking to have content type with template and etc., And found out the easy way. 1....

AngularJS Filter Exact match / Filter Strict search

I wanted to get results with exact match using filter property in AngularJS. Let us assume I have JSON values; $scope.languages = [ {id:19, name:"German", available: false}, {id:119, name:"English", available: true}, {id:3, name:"French", available: false}, {id:4, name:"Italian", available: true}, {id:5, name:"Spanish", available: false} ]; I...

SharePoint Library settings is missing in new look and feel

I was introduced to new look and feel in SharePoint Online (SharePoint 2013 version) for document library on a Team site. At first I was like "Wow !" then it turned me down. I wanted to go to Library Settings. I thought it should be under the Ellipsis (3 dots) button. When I clicked on it, I was...

SharePoint 2013 CSS not working in custom html page layouts

I have been customizing a SharePoint 2013 site, not in SharePoint 2010 way where we just copy paste the aspx file and edit it. I use Design Manager feature for branding the Master pages and Page layouts. Once we create a page layout using Design Manager, a HTML file will be created....

SharePoint 2013 / SharePoint Online Search on custom columns

Requirement: SharePoint Online search results should display results even if user typed keyword matches custom column value. My Action: I told business users, "Yes, we can do it". All were happy. Once I implemented the solution, I could not see the results. :( Very bad. What I tried: - I went to Site settings, under Site Collection Administration -> Search Schema - I searched for managed properties...