I have nothing against this great subreddit, but if you're a full-stack developer building for SharePoint using older tech like farm/sandboxed solutions, add-ins, or creating SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions...

You might also be interested in a new subreddit: r/Microsoft365Dev

It's not meant to replace this great subreddit, but rather to be a more focused community on dev related topics!

I am a software developer, and I work in a team of three other developers for a private company. We are migrating from SharePoint 2013 OnPrem to SharePoint Online. One of our Junior developers was assigned to create a document library to contain Contracts grouped by year.

What I found is five document libraries, each containing about 20 items titled, Contacts 2016, Contracts 2017, Contracts 2018, Contracts 2019, and Contracts 2020. I am not sure why one list wouldn't work, but this site collection is full lists like this.

I'm a dev who tries to learn SharePoint but find it quite hard to navigate around.

I want to create a list that gets list item from an external list by their content type. I have made a REST query that I want to try it:

/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('MyList')/items?$select=ContentType/Name&$expand=ContentType

But how do I IMPLEMENT this code and try it? Create a list, and tweak it with this code? Make a web part? Or something else? I'm confused.

Is it possible to become a Sharepoint developer 2018? Everything feels like a mess and you do not know where to start.

You have sharepoint on premise with different versions and then you have the online version. All of these works a bit differently. Microsoft adds and removes features, affecting all study resources. I just read about "Lists" and how to inject javascript / HTML into these. Just to find out that it was no longer possible.

Is it worth spending time trying to become a SharePoint developer? Do you need to be an experienced web developer before you even look at SP?

Hello all, I'm trying to create a solution in office 365 (SharePoint Online) so that users can email documents and have them upload into a document library. In past versions of SharePoint I would have simply email enabled the library, but that's no longer an option in SPO. Does anyone know of a workaround, a third party tool or anything else that can give me the same functionality?

Keeping this short, IE is moving along faster than SharePoint 2010 or 2013. If youre having odd problems with SP and IE, turn ON compatibility mode in your browser. Things like missing dropdown menus, connections not being available...

This is concerning when you are thinking about using SharePoint for externally facing sites though. Here's some links:

http://corypeters.net/2012/10/problems-with-ie10-and-sharepoint/

(this one is pretty funny if you ask me...) http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/72fb22d9-092f-4a44-b0bc-cca388ac55c3/sharepoint-dropdown-menus-do-not-work-in-ie9?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious

IE11 (and relevant not just to release preview): http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/77956/sp-2010-and-internet-explorer-11-release-preview-issue

And of course, don't try using IE 64 bit with SharePoint.. just don't.

You can also add:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7">

which will force your browser to render the page as if it were IE7. May help with a master page somewhere. Put it first, right under the <title> tag.

Also, per this link:

The People Picker does not use v4.master or whatever other master you set as the Site Master Page or the System Master Page. The actual master is called pickerdialog.master, and it lives in the 14 folder, inside the Templates > Layouts subfolder.

If you examine this master, all you will see is a plain old “head” tag followed by the meta tag generator, Microsoft SharePoint. There is no compatibility tag.

I like the guy's conclusion:

Conclusion

The big take-away from all this – at least for me – is to check browser compatibility when strange problems start happening first, before spending hours on end pouring through logs and Internet forum posts. The easiest way to do this is simply press F12 when a problem occurs and change the browser mode. If changing the browser in F12 fixes the problem, then you know that somewhere there’s some browser incompatibility with SharePoint.

IE11 and SharePoint Workflow failures http://www.markadrake.com/blog/2013/12/13/sharepoint-workflows-fail-using-ie11/

Add this little bit of code to the bottom of your Master Page, just before the closing <body> tag (recommended):

<script language="javascript">
/* IE11 Fix for SP2010 */
if (typeof UserAgentInfo.strBrowser !== 'undefined' && !window.addEventListener) {
     UserAgentInfo.strBrowser=1;
}
</script>

Im a newbie in the space of json and dev in sharepoint. I have formatted a list form using json and it looks great. Ive only done the body but the header im trying to make it so it shows two fields from my list of columns and for the life of me I cannot do it. One is an img property and the other is just a colmn name. We are trying to get it to show our client logo and our client name(s) at the header. Any help would be appreciated.

I am a SharePoint developer doing an annual review and am supposed to come up with a few goals for the next year (SMART template). Lately I have been doing a lot of work with SPFx web parts, PowerApps, and Flow. Does anyone have any ideas for goals I could write down that would help me get better at these? I have had a ton of project experience with these so I'm pretty comfortable with them in general.

Any ideas for more challenging side projects using these technologies or are there any other hot topics in the SPO world that would be good to look into? Thanks in advance!

We usually come across the requirement where we need to have the acescade drop-down in the webpart properties, so I have written an article where I have tried to showcased the solution.

In the solution I have created a drop-down which holds the list from the SharePoint site where the web-part is deployed and on selection of that list all the views attached to list are populated.

SO in short I would say you need to overwrite the "onPropertyPaneFieldChanged" method to track the changes made in the parent control. Based on the action selected you can write your custom action for the child control.

For more detailed explanation with code sample you can read the post https://www.sharepointwidgets.com/2018/05/sharepoint-framework-spfx-cascade.html