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From YouTube: General SharePoint Dev (CSOM, Provisioning, PnP) SIG - April 19th 2018

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Recording of the SIG from April 19th. Detailed agenda and covered topics are available via the MS Tech Community (http://aka.ms/spdev-community).

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Welcome everybody, this a shape and patterns and practices community called this is the general shape and development. A special interest group called this is been a community core which this meeting bi-weekly and in this particular call we always kind of talk about, or we are aligning this code to be more on a specific topic. So, as an example, few weeks back, we had a community call where we covered the hub sites into int. So what does it actually mean? What's the PowerShell support?

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What's the API support for that, and now we will have a kind of an intern story on the site, designs and side scripts as we've been evolving those lately as well, we did have covered those partly already in a monthly community call into April monthly community call, but as we we we ask feedback during that call around. Should we cover this stuff from a getting started perspective answer was yes, users actually do that, so Sean squares is joining right now on the call as well and we'll do the live demo on okay.

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How do I get started on the site, designs and side scripts, and then we walk around the thinking and the future roadmap of that one as well, and then in the end we have Yannick doing demo as well. So basically in the future, we are kind of a realigning. This.

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This particular special interest group called mod to be on specific, let's say areas and topics from two weeks from now we're looking into doing update on the PMP site, provisioning schema and we have quite a lot of new changes over there and also the the guidance around modernizing your existing classic sites and we'll talk about that one slightly later in the call as well.

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But basically we do have two different special interest group calls which are meeting bi-weekly, there's the SharePoint framework, one which concentrates on the client-side development and then there's this one, which is more around general shape on dev anything around provisioning, branding new capabilities. Now akms SP PMP community is a great tech community site, but you can actually question some people are helping you on those questions, hopefully, and then akms SP, dev Docs is the official documentation. Now what the opportunity is to participate in this community.

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So if you're interested on doing any, let's say additional stuff in the SharePoint deaf community and you can absolutely do a technical demo or show it to throw a solution or a technical pattern in this community course or in a monthly community call. So you can reach out for me or Patrick or Bert or whoever from the PMP team and say that actually want to volunteer for doing a demo.

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If you don't want to do a demo, you can still contribute on a key top or we had 340 in or I think 340 individual contributors already in SharePoint github organization, which is pretty big number, but you can basically do contributions on the documentation or samples. But if nothing else, please provide feedback so use our issue. Lists used our community channels to give us feedback on what works and what doesn't work and we're highly interested on fixing if you're running into issues or something isn't working properly for you.

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Let us know so we're able to fix that, rather than just smashing Microsoft and giving a feedback to somebody else, but if the feedback of Microsoft, so we can actually fix that cool. So today, I, like mentioned already I'm gonna, do a few slides on the general announcements. There's certain new things which we announced in the Twitter and social media. Just repeating ghost in this call and then we'll jump into the site designs inside scripts.

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So from a getting started perspective, so Sean squares is going to do kind of a quick intro from a slides perspective and also then live demos around. How would I get started? How do I create my first side design? How do I edit that and what is the anchors are experiencing and what are the options over there and then we'll have site designs during a studio demo. This is an open source project from a yannick yannick is has built. This awesome client-side web port.

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It is based on SharePoint framework, but we're not gonna deep dive on how it's actually being developed or implemented today more on the capabilities, but it's actually providing and how it can be used. But obviously it's also curious to see some level of a technical analysis on behind of the ass behind of those scenes as well, and then we should have time for Q&A. We promised to do have time for Q&A me many of these calls and then we always run out of time so hopefully we'll get to the Q&A today.

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If there's any questions, please use the ion window on this I'm window on the left side well, depending on which system you are using and at those questions over there and there's multiple BMP core team members in the core who can help on the questions as well. I will help on the questions as well and Sean will help on the questions as we can.

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Did Oh on the on the question with this sorry this this question is around language on the site, design from the Yannick. Let's come back on that one? Actually, when we have a demo with with the site designs panel, because I think Sean can more easily answer the question from that perspective, so throwback Thursday I showed this one for those who joined early on this call, but this is something which I run into earlier today, which is actually kind of cool.

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So this is a real screenshots of the material which I ran into earlier today, and this is material or a training package which I personally created when I was working as a consultant in MCS back in 2007.

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Now it's 2018 as though it's been kept in Omaha from this moment and but there's quite a lot of interesting things. What has luckily evolved from this time frame? So this is something which we saw 11 years ago and how we built custom portals. So basically, we use only XML. We used a SharePoint designer. There was no actual tooling. At the time we used make cap files, DDF files, manifest XML and all that stuff.

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Luckily, nowadays, when we are defining, for example, what needs to get provisioned, we don't need to get to this level we're only defining the additional capabilities as an example on the announcements and then we move into the Sean's slides and all that so, first of all documentation and guidance. Just a quick update on this one. Ok, MSSP, deaf dogs, official documentation in here. We now have new, updated welcome page.

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So you can more easily find what's relevant for you, so you can find these nice links around setups getting started community links, and all of that, so you can much more efficiently find the content what's relevant for you there's certain areas where we still need to evolve the documentation quite hectically or update that update, but we're working on that one as well, and we had eight hundred and thirty thousand views in March. So apparently people are finding this, and that is that good news. That's that's! Always a if you're running into issues nature upon development.

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We I will keep on this slide on every single presentation. Please please, please go to SPD abducts issues, do not curse Microsoft by yourself, because we can't fix it. Unless you tell us what's wrong, so you should always report to your findings and please please, please submit an issue we'll get back to you. Go triage these twice a week at least, and then we hopefully sooner or later get your issue fixed. It might be a question. It might be an issue, it might be a buck. It might be anything on a shelf on development.

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Please use our relationship issue list for getting support on that now.

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Before I go there, Philip is always asking that the update on their on the extension part, and we have pro croissant that one it should be getting fixed. We did have a one version of sophix already available and unfortunately there was a small thing which we needed to fix on top of it, so it should be getting a fixed super super super soon I'll follow up on again on today on the latest.

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On that one one thing what we are and released this week actually was one tonnison, 100, 1000 500, additional articles of shape on schema, and this kind of relates on the on the throwback. Thursday, doesn't it which is slightly awkward and I'm looking into the slides. But basically what we've done here is to take the old classic of the future. Xml schema, XML, onat, xml documentation and that's now available in the SharePoint app Docs.

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So if you find a back, if you want to add a note for somebody, if you figure out that there's a hidden switch or attribute which or that repeat documentation is wrong now you can actually contribute. You are able to submit a change or poor request on this documentation, and that's really good. So please have a look on this one in the left menu. It says a schema documentation or something like that, where you can oh I, find all of the documentation for XML, because the shape and let's face it.

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Sharepoint is all about XML or force in the past, especially maybe not that much in the future, with modern sites and SharePoint framework.

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One more thing before we go to the actual demo section which, on squires modernizing your classic SharePoint sites guidance. First version of this one has half grown life actually a few days ago already, but we announced this one and it will be announced by office death at Twitter too. It's a slightly later today, so we will keep on evolving this guidance. This is to be one of the modernizing your classic SharePoint sites. To the modern experience is that we keep on adding additional guidance here.

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There is, for example, guidance around already content around the Krupa fication, whatever will be the official term or that operation. I know that I have an email which is defining what is the official term and it's not Krupa fine, it's something else, but that capability is not yet quite available in SharePoint Online, but you can already figure out what what is the support. There's guidance around batch Krupa fication, so you're able to Krupa find multiple sites and by executing on one PowerShell scripts and all of that, and we keep on I like that.

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We keep on evolving this one. So please, please, please give us feedback around this content as well. Each development support from one tribe and SharePoint multi tier capabilities is also available in the SharePoint abducts. So if you go to DIF stocks use the search, the black geo or multi geo you'll find the relevant documentation on this one. This actually has existed in our documentation for a while, but we didn't announce it because the multi geo capabilities were not announced publicly. Now they are fully popular fully well, they were announced, but they were not available publicly.

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Now they are available publicly, so the documentation might be relevant for you. This means that there are different API to figure out, for example, that are you in the maintenance or the secondary tenant in the multi geo deployment, because you can actually have multiple tenants kind of connected between each other in the multi tier away, so good documentation, mainly from versions and run these capabilities in the dev talks as well.

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It's quick update on the roadmaps just to keep this slide on the on this course as well. Not that much changes since the previous weeks. Obviously more scientists signs and size script actions went live, we could go, we could go Tuesday actually and shown is kind of covered. Those slightly later today in the call as well. The next one which will be available will be the Krupa Phi ap ice, so they will come to the preview relatively soon.

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There are some changes, for example, API tens days which are related on GPR TDP are so we're adding some capabilities to match the TDP our requirements more on those, for example, in the upcoming season release season. Maybe our release, which will go, live on next week's Friday and then there will be more news on SBC SBC, meaning the ship on conference 2018 in Las Vegas, which starts on 21st of May. So if you're curious on getting the latest news immediately go to that conference now on SBC, it's just available warning.

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Only if I understood correctly only the keynote and one or two other sessions will be streamed live. So the SBC in this time does not have live streaming, which is a pity which most likely will be evolved in the future things and yes, Christine Kent. There is a sharepoint conference. There is a sharepoint constant, so SBC 18 in las vegas on 21st of May, if you're interested on that- and this is kind of replacing about this- is replacing the sharepoint spring moment.

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So in the past for past two years we had a May moment within a sharepoint where we kind of announced with that release the videos and we announced new upcoming capabilities. Now we will do that in SharePoint, Conference SPC in Las Vegas. Obviously, we were really is blog post and documentation, everything what we announced. So you don't if you can't come to the Las Vegas or if you don't want to come, come to the Las Vegas fight personally hate loss, because so you can choose to also skip that.

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If you don't want to go, and you will get the right information as well I, don't quite feel comfortable in Las Vegas for reason so another it's, it's somehow magically feels fake, I, don't know what is it in any way? So, let's actually get to the demo and topics and I'll shown will do you want me to flip the slides or you can take over the thanks Terry who it is actually fake. I always thought that the Venetian and did the never mind so sure.

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So if you click the button, it's just easier that way that, because then you you will be leading the discussion. I will.

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Jumping in and asking questions that need it, I can typically.

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Perfect, so I can.

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Just use the slides and then we can jump over to my screens where I text up going on wonderful good morning. Everybody Sean Squires here, so thank you guys so I wanted to take the time. Beth and I were talking. You thought be great too. You know with a lot of the recent updates and the site, design and site script space, as I mentioned last week at the monthly def call.

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We covered a lot of these new capabilities and script actions, but what we wanted to do today is you know, take a little bit of a step back a little bit higher step up, I, guess and just sort of provide another broader overview for folks who aren't familiar with the site, design and script feature set and kind of go through. Some of the you know more: the soup to nuts I'm not going to actually construct all the JSON files for you.

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We will rapidly run out of time and I do not want to do what happened last time, which is we ran out of time Vienna to demo this very cool tool, so want to make sure that we're doing time for that. So some of you have probably seen some of these things, but hopefully this is some new material here, for you guys.

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So let's talk real quickly about what they are, what the framing, and why do we build these things so side, scripts and site designs, oftentimes best not refer to it as sort of the future of site templating, and it really borrows heavily from a lot of the patterns and practices that we've established over the years and PNP in the last couple years, as we've rolled out modern and fast site creation, the next obvious response from the community was well. This is great, but how do I extend these templates?

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How do I make my own templates and one of the things we wanted to avoid? Was you know over the history of SharePoint? We have made site definitions and templates, and things like this about four or five six. A hundred times- and we want to make sure that we're learning from those past efforts and approaches and really building on that model and one of the things that was very intentional, was when we built the new site templates, the group connected team site template and the communication site template.

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We want to make sure that we were able to continue to update those in a meaningful way and for folks to take advantage of those new benefits and capabilities, which is something that's really lacking in the old save site, is template model and something that PNP addressed very well with the remote site provisioning model. But we also want you to take advantage of and not have to build these full apps that cover the suit.

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That's creation, you know from the collection of the information to the creation and configuration of the site, so we wanted to be able to provide you a way to plug into our existing provisioning flow that we released oh gosh about a year ago, and so we wanted to make sure that you could take advantage of that and plug into that.

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And so let me I'll jump to slides and other some demos in a second, but what you can see here is we really want to make sure that we were giving you a way to build on top of those templates and the way we wanted to do that was really borrowing from the remote provisioning practice by doing post creation configuration on the sites? Ok and not theirs, and that's that we still have a lot of innovations in here.

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That's cool, ok, what's happening here is for those of you who are or are not familiar with our new site. Provisioning flow you'll see this in a second in the panel when you select a team site or communication site.

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We have a couple of out of box site packages for communication sites, this topic showcase and blank, but with team you don't have that picker, because we really only provide one option, but what you can do with site designs is when you publish them to your tenant, that gets stored in a central location and are then available for all of your users in self-service site creation flow as an option to select, and then that configuration that site design rather has a script associated with it and that script will be executed after the site has been created.

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Ok and you'll actually see that we actually bring out a panel and enumerate those steps and we're just anticipate a question. We've had some feedback from folks saying: hey: how do I find out what designs have been applied to my site?

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What actions have been run and we are working on ways to be able to pull that information back up because it actually is being stored with the site after creation and in fact the flexibility of these things is we want to make sure that they adhere to certain principles that allow us to really tell a better story about updating and upgrading.

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So you can imagine that I can make changes to a site, design and I want to be able to push that change out or make it available, rather to all the sites that are using that or have that site design applied. I also want to be able to maybe make changes in terms of who can see them. One of the things we introduced with this is the ability to scope these site designs.

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So if you wanted to build a site design that was specific for your HR department, obviously you don't want folks in finance or legal inadvertently or intentionally using that site design, because it maybe makes a list or sets a theme or brand or does something else with the site. That's only relevant to the HR department. You can go ahead and scope that site design so that it actually only shows up for those users and right now we support mail, enabled security groups of individual users, we're also adding support for o365 groups as well.

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So what else happens here? I think I jumped ahead of myself yeah and so then the further the progress panel jumps out. Those changes actually get applied there. So what does a site? Script?

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Look like in a nutshell: it's a JSON file, but we're starting to bend the rules with that a little bit, because in order to make it in order to get you the capability that you need to build the types of configurations that you require for your business scenarios, we are supporting things like setting views using camel using field XML for some of the more complex column data types, so you can actually plug those into your site script, but as you'll see a site, script is really just a JSON file of a bunch of actions and those actions really are just defining all the configuration elements that you want to be able to do to that site.

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If my be defining sight, columns, adding those sight, columns or defining a content, type defining a list or a library, and we have the ability for you to actually go and update the outer box, one that gets created with the template, so you don't have to create your own document. Library.

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If you don't need to, you, can just go ahead and modify the one that comes with the template and then you can actually go in a pile and then what you do with that site script is, you can then go and reference it with a site design and we provide both rest and PowerShell for the doing these actions.

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We have not built a UX for this yet, but don't worry, that is on the radar to make it easier for maybe 10 and admins once they publish something for site owners to either select or modify these things themselves will even create themselves for locally scoped groups. Like let's say the HR department wants to make a modification.

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We recognize that we need to provide more UX and maybe even a couple or remove some of that dependency on the tenant administrator to manage these processes, but one step of the client we're trying to move as quickly as we can in providing all the capabilities that you guys are requiring and asking for one question that we've gotten recently, just while I'm on this slide is you'll see in that upper without what is that I'm? Still on my first cup of coffee right, my right side is no set of limits.

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We have put some limits on the scripts and the site designs. One real, quick question: if it wasn't apparent from the fact that there is both a site script, which is the JSON file and the site design, which is the thing that materializes in the US, so we decouple these intentionally, you can imagine the possibility here is I can build a site script. Let's say the one for HR, but I still have to do some other things. Maybe I want to reuse some of those elements in that site script.

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Maybe I want to have a list. That's shared across different departments: I could conceivably have a site design that invokes that list site script, plus some HR specific stuff, but then I can we use that list site strip in the finance site design. So the idea is that they're decoupled, so that you can actually reuse or reassociate a size fit with different site designs.

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But given that there are limits, we you'll see that number 100, which might be to be a surprise, the besa. In response to some recent feedback that we've been discussing, we are bumping the limit on the number of site scripts and the number of site designs. You can have per tenet those.

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Know they last week right yeah.

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Correct yeah I was 30 site scripts of the 20 site designs last week, and we just implemented a change to bump those to 100. We feel a bit more comfortable about making that change. The one that we're still working through is the next to the 30 cumulative actions or the 30,000 character limit per site. Design is somewhat that's one that we have. We did that intentionally guys.

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It was largely to make sure that we weren't over burdening the web front-ends and one of the things that we're doing is we want to make sure that, in the execution of these things we don't slow or compromise performance, and so we are looking at some more intelligent ways to offload some actions to asynchronous and and/or do some things where we can optimize the execution of these things, and we recognized it was great feedback that, like wow, guys you're, giving us all these great new actions, but then you're still restricting what we can do.

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So we recognize that and we are working actively on some approaches that will allow us to really relieve and increase those limits without compromising the performance of your environment. Now.

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Before you go to the next slide, okay, let's stay on this line, there's quite a good set of questions on the on the call. So, let's.

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So, first of all, beam sense has a interesting idea. This is quite advanced in area, but I do understand.

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Where he's coming from, and probably you do as well, so could do you somehow in future, potentially pre run provisioning post steps as in the site, designer site script on a tank site, and then he used that whenever you define your default collaboration, side or communication side, the whole point would be to take benefit out of the potentially on the fast provisioning, because if it would copy the excess things which already has the configurations and then we'll just.

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Right right, so the idea there would be that there would be a bunch of stuff that would be consistent, that you would want just reply to all the sites in general yep yeah, that's! Actually. We are looking at ways right now, where we can just sort of like I, said offload some of those baggage like steps and see if there are ways yeah I'm really didn't thinking about free running, but that's an interesting idea. I'll make note that feedback that.

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Would be kind of a having the let's say that the clean default site templates option for every single tenant, so you can actually go and modify. What is the default option for me and then that would be always the thing. But what's the starting point so.

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Then a yonas has a good questions, a classic question. Actually, when can I select a template which is getting applied when I'm creating the croup from Outlook planner teams and streams, and so on, yeah.

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Great question so when we are actually actively working with the other workload partners, specifically Outlook in teams and why you asked Sean, because that's actually, if you cumulatively look at team's, Outlook and SharePoint that accounts for like ninety-five percent plus of self-service site creation, so we want to make sure that we're going after those. But then in a nutshell, what the plan is as we are working to you know: III, don't think I'm telling you guys anything surprising! It's like my gosh.

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You know when my users, if I, enable self-service site creation or group creation in my tenant every entry point where every work load is different and we get that. That's because we're all different teams- and that's not your guys's problem- that's ours. So we are trying to rationalize that one of the ways for rational that were nationalised and that is looking at ways that we can have shared controls so that we can ensure that things like site designs are available from those other entry points. One asterisk to that, I will add.

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If you don't know just because I want to be sensitive to the time here. There is an when you configure a site design you'll, actually see it on the screen there. It's that very last item it says is default. There's a parameter where, when you set a site design, you can actually set it as the default on either 64, which is the group connected team site or 68. The communication template and what that will do is it will then allow that site script any site scripts that are associated with that design to be run anytime.

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That default template is run. What this means is since, when you create something from planner or teens or whatever they're, effectively running that default template through the API call they're going to get that site design applied. So if there is a site design that you want applied, regardless of the entry point, that's sort of our in immediate way to at least get closer to that scenario. Yep.

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That that's really good to get covered is default. This is really the key point here to define site design getting applied. We can't less if the site is creating for the outlook or planner or teams. Just to repeat what Sean was just saying now: Christian has a question: can we somehow disabled artists, web site designs.

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Oh, you mean like I, don't want blank or showcase, or things like this yeah in the backlog. We've gotten the feedback. Currently, no.

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Candidly there's just some things that we need to change in order to enable that, but it's something actually I was tuning on when we were first designing the how we would plug into the provisioning flow and so something we still are keen to address. So thank you for that feedback. I'll make a note of that that it was asked again.

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Quickly running through a few questions, then we need to go to the demo, so Jana Casa has still some.

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Capability to not provision teams, sorry, not that one I think that's not just a general feed forum Cottam as ab annoyed. Would it be possible to select the manage bath where sites is getting created, team sites, such teams and communication sites as last sites? This is actually the default behavior. Isn't it.

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Well, no, actually, uh we only allow you to this is a trend in admin setting at self-service site creation, I've gotten feedback yeah. Unfortunately, in the interest of time, definitely hear the feedback. The current configuration is, you can only pick one managed path for self-service site creation, but we have gotten that feedback even from our own internal IT department, to say please let us do what you just said: comm sites under sites have teams under teams, so we are looking at doing that in the future.

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I just don't have an ETA of when we'll make those changes. It'll probably be something that will happen as we make it continue to make updates in the modern admin center experience. Good.

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And then Dennis has that question around. Can we attach the template to general co-creation and the answer is yes, that's this default option in the in the side designs. Now, at this point, let's, let's shown to go through the slide and then do a live demo and we'll should have time in the end for Q&A. So, okay.

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Super so, let's see real quickly, I'm not going to spend much time here, because there's lots of documentation about all this, but in general this is the set of the cumulative set of supported, site script actions, and you can see a lot of this in the JSON schema. The documentation is out there aka MSSP site designs. You could also get a whole bunch of other stuff, including tutorials links to samples, but really the script.

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Actions that we're going after are largely in response to what you guys are telling us what we need, what you need plus sort of the obvious things like. We know that having lots of capabilities to configure lists and libraries on the site are super important, being able to do things like branding and configuration of the information architecture super-important under the site settings. So we allow you to manipulate the site map, be able to apply themes, set logos, quick asteroids on set logo. There is an interesting caveat to that action.

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It only works on the communication template. This is largely because, with a group connected team site, the site logo is actually getting stored in exchange, and so we are working to dassault that so that the action will work on both templates. Sorry for that inconvenience regional settings that was one an external sharing capability. Those were some options: new script actions that we released last week and then find those last two super powerful trigger flow. All led best make the additional plug for this one.

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But the cool thing about that one is: it allows us, as many of you are familiar with for all the things that we don't necessarily support or yet support natively in the product or if you have custom solutions that you've already built or invested in and want to be able to still take advantage of trigger flows. Your friend, it allows you to take advantage of flow to actually call the manager function or do all those awesome things you can do in flow and there's definitely some more work.

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We want to do here because, right now, what we do and we've gotten this feedback is it's like hey great we've triggered the flow. We're done, but maybe your solution isn't done running and so we've gotten feedback to say: hey. Can you please give us a way to sort of pause that that action being completed or at least give us the ability to alert the site owner that there's still some other things happening, and we are looking at ways to make that possible. I'll probably have more to share in the next month on that.

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Finally, with hub sites rolling out, we do have an action where you can join a hub site and that's pretty cool too. You can actually have a site, get created and automatically join a pre created hub and then get all the benefits. That comes with that, like the application of a theme- and you know the association and all that so that's pretty cool and then finally we're doing a bunch of stuff in response to feedback that we've gotten largely from this community around really making SPF X solutions and extensions more readily available through site scripts.

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So, unfortunately, the best that I were really hoping to be able to demo one of the new extension of the sets of extension actions. But unfortunately, a little bit more testing is required on that one, so I hope to come back and share that with you in the next couple weeks or becak. You know makes you a super.

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Close so close, but we'll we'll show it in the how coming closest. Let some demos, because I think some.

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Of this is like that's for all this before we like Shawn, move on us as well. Let's see.

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Michonne, repeat: is the king for learning anything in technology repeat with.

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So actually it's a great segue. That's that, because what I'm going to do is I'm going to repeat something that I have probably shown several of you before, but I think it's important, because it drives a lot of a capabilities home that we were just talking about in some of these new site script actions. So here I am on SharePoint home and you will see that there is when I go to create site. This is where those site designs start to show up. All of a sudden.

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There is a picker in the team site create site panel and you'll, see that there are a couple of new additions here and what's very cool is that these things are being defined, I've already defined the site scripts and created the site design so that they show up here in the purple for purposes of time, I'm just going to run from one or two of these. A couple of these then I'll show you some of the code, this custom site design. What's interesting about this one.

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Is it's actually using that trigger flow action to actually tweet out that I've created the thing and also write some data back to a SharePoint list that SharePoint list was pre created and you'll, see I, have it over here and so I have a list here. That's essentially a way for me to track how many people have used this site design and what they've created we've made some recent updates to the trigger flow action to pass along some additional site information.

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So we can get things like who it was created by their email description for the site if it was provided at a creation time. So let's go take a quick look at that and see what that looks like what is today. Let's, let's call this one line: TV just for the space yeah, because I don't have to clean all this up.

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Quite a few other people are using this day, my environment, that was part of a super fast again on site creation, good job on that one.

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Awesome all right so watch what happens. Oh nothing happens.

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You've are too fast, I was.

C

But what just happened I actually tried to even warm up some of this stuff, just to make sure that there was maybe changed a lot. What just happened, I.

A

Got this recorder? Ok, ok, but.

C

Again, for did I do be, no I did. Let's try see there, we go alright, so demo, custom site design, I.

C

Want you guys to see the progress panel here.

C

Wow well, this is this I, don't know. What's going on with this site, alright,.

A

Within two weeks, we'll have a new community call and we'll cover side to side.

C

Other environments, working a little bit better I, think I showed you what was happening here and then what you can see here is that what I was gonna show you was that actually I've got tweets being created, and you know so that's just taking advantage of a lot of those capabilities that you know what. Let's try. One more I want to just see if this is gonna work, I have a hub here and I. This hub actually has a predefined data.

C

Well, it has a theme: that's been assigned to it and you'll see that it's the contoso HR theme and when for those who are still learning about hubs, one of the cool things that we do with hubs is when you associate a site to a hub.

C

A couple things happen, but two things in particular is the Associated site gets the hub site nav, and it also inherits the hub sites theme so I've written an action here which will actually join the site to the hub after it's been created and now I'm feeling a bit dubious about this environment. I don't know what's going on here, so uh I just claimed as a side. Let's see joining work, okay, so I'm creating a site that the intent is its way to be joined at the hub.

A

Crossing fingers really.

A

You Pro get this idea, so this is I have to say this is not a normal production tenant. This is something completely different, but you clearly.

C

Okay, let's, let's, let's bag this environment, this one is not working for us all right. We're gonna, we're gonna move along here, let's actually be in the interest of because of time. I want to, because I only got a few more minutes here. I do want to show you guys what the script looks like and what the general process is of getting started. Is that's what we promised. We were going to show you today and then I'll show you what this stuff looks like.

C

So what I have here on the screen hope you can see this all right. It's just a really basic script file. That is doing a couple of things. What I'm doing is I'm, really just every other thing. I'm doing is I'm designating all my actions. What are the configuration steps that are going to occur here and everything is in sort of this? You know verb and parameter model, so you'd specify the sky, so I script action is a verb, and then you have a bunch of parameters or sub actions that you can associate with that.

C

So, in this case, I'm creating a list- and in this case it's gonna, be a custom list, I'm using template, type 100 and now I'm defining a bunch of sub actions in this case, I'm setting things like it's description, the fields and we have added you'll notice that here I'm defining just list level list fields, but we can now support the creation and addition of site columns and even content types and I'll show you what that looks like in a second, so I'm, defining this list, I'm, adding a bunch of fields to it of different data types.

C

You'll notice that we have certain parameters like I can set display names and I can even specify whether it's required. We have some other properties like enforcing unique values or adding to the default view. All these parameters are outlined are described and detailed in the JSON schema documentation. You'll also see here, I'm using template type 100 to create a library, in this case I'm not overriding the document, library that comes with the template, I'm, creating a new one, adding some additional fields and different data types notice.

C

Boolean note user number for some of the more complex data types. We will eventually support these with JSON, but for now you can use yield, xml and I'll show you an example of what that looks like and then I'm taking these two less than I'm, adding them to the site now and then I'm also applying a theme so before. Let me quickly show you what that apply.

C

Theme looks like if I go to one of my sites here, you'll see that in the change the look I've already uploaded a company theme, the apply theme action is intended to warp with company themes that have been uploaded to the gallery and are available for all tenants. So if you wanted to apply a SharePoint beat, you would actually have to take like this orange theme and upload it as a one of your company beans and then you'd be able to reference it from the script action.

C

If folks have feedback about hey, they wish that that worked. A little bit differently would love to hear about that, but largely that's. How the feature works right now, so you'll see that I've already uploaded a contoso Explorer theme to this tenant so now I'm able to reference that theme in this apply in action. So let's go ahead, I'm going to go ahead and grab all this data and let's jump over here and you'll, see that I've already little su. Let's get away from that.

C

I'm gonna go ahead and copy all this into a parameter, and now I'm gonna go and add this as a site as a site script, so I'm gonna go and use my PowerShell, add SPO site scripts, and for it's like for its title, the two that you required fields so I need a title. Oops I gotta be able to spell your recipe and then I need to pass into content. In this case. It's what I just put into that variable.

C

Okay, just like that I just created Asajj dripped on my tenon and you'll, see that I got an ID here. So now that I have that site script. I can go ahead and create a site design. Now the scientist right has a few different available parameters so real quickly, I'm gonna go ahead and add SPO site design and I'm gonna use. Let's leave her title so that a guy, because this is actually what shows up in the provisioning flow demo for 419 and then I need to give it a template of sources.

C

What am I doing? Sorry: okay, I need to give it the site script. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to pass in the idea that site script? The other thing I need to do is I need to specify what the template ID is and in this case, I want to apply it to the team site, template okay and that's all I'm going to do so.

C

All I'm doing is I'm, giving it a title, I'm associating it with that site, script that I just created and then I'm assigning it to the team site, template and now it's created. So let's go take a look. hmm So now, if I go back to my environment here and I open up this list, you'll see there it is it's been added. Okay, so let's go ahead and run this real, quick.

C

Let's see if we have any better luck with this, otherwise it's gonna be a complete, wash air with no progress panel and any my demos. That would be unfortunate.

C

Nasa I did I broke it somehow.

A

Okay, let's take the stage yeah, but now we know how to actually add the stuff in no idea what he done there yeah.

C

Everything we're just working like a few minutes ago here, boy yeah, what make sure Dalek has the time to show us his very cool tool here. So if you guys why why don't we turn the floor over Yannick and I'll see if I can go quickly refresh the.

A

Environment Yannick, you can just start sharing and take over the presentation.

A

And microphone works still great yeah. It works.

B

Okay, so I'm sharing my screen. If anyone can see me can say what is.

B

True, so my name is Nick Manto I'ma sharpen in the fist, a 65 consultant I am from Belgium and I work in the sandbox. You can reach me on Twitter on on my blog. Just that's it so I. Will this work father I built?

B

Actually it is a shippin framework web, but built was react that actually allows you to manage site design inside script without having to write jason, but you can do as well. We will see in a minute so here it is, and the first page of this webpart you have actually to select. If you want to manage the side, design on the side, script and under side designs, you see that I have listed the custom side, design that I have and my tenant, so I have three different design.

B

That I can edit the properties I, can change and update the title description and bind it to the template based on plate that I want I can delete one, for example, so regular credit provision and on the side is nice and I can create another one yeah. So let's call it P and P design for demo and I.

B

Associated with a team site and I can also just.

B

Link update the preview image.

B

If I go to the shopping, welcome page here, I should.

C

B

So that's the thing, and we also see that we can associate the scripts here. As Shannon said, you have decided, I mean you have to associate the side script to it, but we will see in a moment. So now we can see that we are able actually to also manage these and edit the properties etc. Of the side. Script and I can create a new one, and so let's call it Superman side script a demo here and hi.

B

If this web part that allows me actually to write decent on the rights or directly ad from a UI here. So I have a picker by the way, I will probably have to to implement some scrolling because the the the action that the number of action.

B

B

And you see that I have this graphical box yeah. That allows me to set the parameters for the action and, let's.

B

Yeah and you see, then, when I update the thing the Jason here on the right is actually updating, but the other way around I can do it directly in Jason and then will refresh the UI. So if I, when I start typing yeah, you see that actually, since the the Jason is not valid, the you I cannot be rendered.

B

So I can start typing verb and you see the intellisense promote proposed the the available choices, so I will do the same thing they had never linked and since I have selected, the verb I can have with the intellisense the appropriate argument as well and as soon as I have all the required properties the UI renders.

B

And so, if I update the URL here come, and here it is.

B

Yes, I can now save the side script and if I go back to the scripts page I see it, I can reopen it and we render okay.

B

Okay, I can add some obviously I can have every of the everyone reactions. Every available actions here and I can, for example, apply a team. Initially, the work part was meant to be fully generic, but since we are in a shared webpart, we have access to it and we have access to all the information we need. For example, the list of teams. The list of upside is zero, so I actually implemented a setting and.

B

For example, if I want to add a team, now, I can apply a team, and it will show me the available themes on my tent the same actually for the upside action, where I have the available websites and maintenance, and the same also for the newest, honest VFX solution for high of the available solutions that.

A

Was invented but released exactly.

B

So here it is, there are numerous action the should be maybe and out the the ending of the of some action should probably be improve. For example, this one yeah you have to select the text for every every arguments, but it will probably come up in in the next week's.

B

So another useful thing is that you can actually just reorder the reaction directly from the UI here. You can collapse everything and expand everything and added the properties of the other side scripts as well.

B

Okay and another good thing that I think could be useful- is that maybe you want to start from an existing sample, so I could go here under on the PNP, get up sample repository and take this, for example, this one here the create the create formatted list copy paste the whole thing directly here everything is rendered or I can change thing notice. Maybe this one then, since it is a complex, J's and objects for the the field.

B

Custom formatter I will not do anything with this thing, probably go back to the Christians current form, add a webpart and just take the JSON and stick it in the Jason. Here.

B

Another thing is that, for example, I want to you notice that we have the create a list here and we have sub actions where you can set the title. The description field zero. So everything is working well, but it might be actually useful to start from an existing list. So that's that let's create a list of a list of heroes and.

B

Create and from the UI from the standard shape on you, I I can add new fields, hero, name, ok,.

B

B

Choice via with witness simple choice: yes, I.

B

Don't see multiple whatever ok, kryptonite.

B

Ok, so just save it actually, it is.

B

Settings that I implemented afterward so I will activate it.

B

From the cinnamon size, if I want to add lists or create lists, and then here I can select if I want to create an empty one power, an existing one and from here I can select my list of all of 0 list and say: okay, I have the action and the fields added to it as in as XML.

B

So we go, we have our scripts and hopefully it will work, but first of all we have to actually associated with uh with the site design, and ah he is here save it.

B

Hopefully, I will have the panel working.

A

Is doing that one just double-checking showing you need to drop on one minute right so and if you do webcasts around the side to sign so I can reference that in the video recording so.

C

Sorry about that guys, I thought the environment, refreshed I, don't know what happened there. My network hiccup, but I, think I would just the end, while Galax doing that is just yeah be sure to check out the documentation. If this is somewhat new to you, we try and keep it up-to-date and fresh with all the new actions and the samples that Yannick was just illustrating in his demonstration.

C

Thank you for the time yeah.

B

A

Fingers at the onyx team is working pro class. One.

B

I, don't know what.

B

C

You more error, checking when you're doing the jobs. The JSON before you publish to be put in your handling in the progress panel, but we're working on adding more log even near handling to the actual scripts themselves. But.

A

There were actual lists, however, was created, so that's that yeah yeah.

B

And the word parts doesn't work with the views currently but I plan to do it as well, but I have the euro named as Franz and the weaknesses with the choices nicely.

C

This is very cool man.

B

So there it is for me thank.

A

You Yannick and we did face on the key having to n8f the day as well, so we're not gonna move to Sean Sean needs to move to another call, but that's super super super cool demo, Thank You Yannick on that one, and please have a look on the on the implementation. It is in the s/pdif solutions, which is a key term preparatory where we have more polished and fine-tuned samples for shape and framework, and these are Yannick is evolving that web part directly underneath there.

A

So you probably want to go there and every now and then have a look on if Yannick is releasing a new version which is pretty cool and obviously, if you, if, if sorry.

C

Real quick thing before I drop, one thanks everybody and to VESA and I, put out a blog post last week with the spring updates. We added a bunch of answered some questions there. I would encourage folks to use that catch nudity post to leave us any other questions outside of just contacting us directly. So, yes,.

A

That's a good point: I'm gonna paste in that actually in here, rather than sending an email, because our inboxes do not, unfortunately scale, let me add a link to that blog post and then I think we unfortunately run out of time for additional Q&A.

A

So we seem to be having this theme, unfortunately, quite often, but if you have any questions which we didn't answer, please please please send those questions in this plot post in the tech community, underneath the SharePoint and we'll follow up on the on the question, we'll make sure that it's getting answered and the reason why we rather want you to add a comment on this article is that then the other people can see the answer as well and that skills, rather than answering on the questions one by one, which doesn't really scale and now Sean I, had to drop to another call, but I think that's it for this one.

A

We do apologize on on slightly going again late and we missed probably some of the questions. Please use the blog post a comment section for adding those questions there. We will absolutely follow up on those as well and please give us feedback around the documentation and if you find an issue scattered a shoe list as well and let us know- but thank you everybody for joining. Thank you for your contributions. Thank you, Yannick for absolutely brilliant work on the death web part.

A

If you really really cool stuff on top of all the other cool stuff, what Yannick has been doing also on the SharePoint framework sign if you're interested on a SharePoint framework that web part is by the way a super cool implementation as well. So the source code is available in the official SharePoint organization to have a look on that one as well so great work in general, but thank you. Everybody for joining video will be available in two YouTube channel within 24 hours. Thank you. Everybody have a great weekend.

A

We'll still have a Friday to go some modification whatever.