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From YouTube: General SharePoint Dev (CSOM, Provisioning, PnP) SIG - January 11th 2018

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Recording of the SIG from January 11th. Detailed agenda and covered topics are available via the MS Tech Community (http://aka.ms/sppnp-community).

This SIG had some SP Dev news on latest capabilities followed by a deep dive on the Site Designs and Site Scripts which allow you to customize the site provisioning flow while still using the out-of-the-box native SharePoint user interface.

You can download the invite to the bi-weekly special interest group call from http://aka.ms/sppnp-core-sig-call.

A

Welcome everybody welcome to this general SharePoint development, special interest group, and today we have a slightly different set up. So your usual host is enjoying a nice sunny beach and that's why why the B&B, a European peacock team members are taking over this call, so my name is Beth Johnson I'm, a service engineer at Microsoft and I will be your walking you through the slides, whether that will be done faster than versa and comes to keeping timing slides.

A

If not, you guys did the judge afterwards, but the idea is to run through the slides and then have a demo, and the key topic for today will be around side, designs and side scripts because they just got released now as usual. There's always people that maybe joined the Ski schools for the first time. So what's this all about? What's this a general development special interest group all about- and this is a forum where we come together on a bi-weekly basis- to talk around- it's called everything which is not SharePoint framework or JavaScript related.

A

So all other SharePoint development mean besides core, beat the PowerShell any cool stuff that you did all these things, which are not directly related to SharePoint framework or JavaScript based developments are in scope. For this call, there is another call SharePoint framework, especially interest group, which runs on the other week so next week, Thursday there is that one where you can go and ask questions and get demos and get new cool stuff around SharePoint framework and JavaScript development.

A

So that's what we do and glad to have you guys here in the school.

A

So pimpy is all about sharepoint community vehicles, the sharepoint develop ecosystem, and we would like you to be part of that and you can be parts and contribute in different ways.

A

Typical one way would be to- and this may be something that we actually should truly encourage and because we we have this for the the JavaScript and SharePoint framework sick, but not really for this sick so where, if there is someone that has a pretty cool solution or something that they want to show that there's something nice and you want to kind of get get a spot here, get do with them or fight you build please reach out to us any one of the qualitative number you can reach to us.

A

We can get you a spot in this meeting like for next time, and you do your demo and show what you built. So that's that works pretty well for the SharePoint frameworks sake for this one. It's mostly us the core team talking and then wing, but we definitely would like to change that. So, if there's ideas please reach out another way to contribute, of course, is sharing meaning.

A

When you build content, when you build something, when you fix something, when you have questions, please use get up shared information with us work with us supply, pull requests, issues and kind of together. We further improve the community and the quality of the IP, and that also kind of the bag is all for PC. Also an important part. Any feedback is good feedback, sue.

A

I'm gonna mute as someone goes through some noise on the line. It's a little bit weird that everyone shows up as present in this call so I think different set up for this one compared to the other ones. But that's fine.

A

All right, so, what's the agenda of today. First of all, some quick general announcements are a bit around Asia upon development and then the key topic of the day will be around side scripts inside designs. So there will be a couple of slides introducing the capability talking about the feature, and then there is a live demo from Erin hoon and kind of showing you a really cool scenario.

A

You can use side scripts aside designs to a fully own and control the provisioning of your own sites.

A

Let me quickly check if our special guest isn't in the call- and yes, yes, so today we also have shown squires on the goal: Shawna's the PM, owning the these features, so any tough questions around site design, side scripts. We have the right person in the goal to help you with that. So thanks Sean for for being here.

B

Thank you, hi. Everyone, thanks for being, thank you for allowing me to be here.

A

Okay, so, and then we wrapped up with usual Q&A and I- think there should be some time for Q&A this this time, but we have set that before as well and typically we end up just one time. So, let's see where we end okay from an announcement perspective, there's a bit of repeat from last time, but it is important that we keep repeating this. So all our documentation or SharePoint developers related documentation as we moved and and centralized on box of Microsoft SharePoint or use the acheter MSSP ducks URL. So we have everything there.

A

The Shepard Fairey documentation a museum, documentation API documentation so that besides kpi's partial api's, all of that documentation has been moved over there and can be consumed via Doc's max becomes a SharePoint and can be edited by you guys. So you can make changes proposed changes, because when you start, when you edit a page you end up and get up, we can make a change, create a pull request and then we can process it will request and get your update into the documentation. So that's pretty cool and highly advise staff.

A

Look at that when it comes to issues when you have an issue, there are some some interrupt in the past, maybe around. What do I lock an issue and how do I proceed and what we would recommend you if you have an issue around API surround native products. Functionality develop oriented like if you have a SharePoint framework issue, but also, if you have an issue with ALM API, so example, or with the site design size size scripts that we just released, use a clot.

A

Ms / s, P D F issues to lock an issue, because this list is being triaged on a weekly basis by engineering, and this way is an easy way actually often as a faster way doing it like this. Compared to, for example, when you have a premier spot contract going that route. Obviously you can choose both ways, but please Robert in here as well, because that then it has direct engineering visibility, which is important because you want to ensure proper quality of worship.

A

Okay, looking at the questions, no questions so far, so it is good. So, let's dive into the topic of today site, designs and side scripts. What what is it? Why did we do with essentially side designs? Side? Scripts is a feature that allows you to use out-of-the-box site, publishing, infrastructure or oxide provisioning. Ui. Like you see on screen, you see that the the creator site, which is where you can create a collaboration site or a communication site.

A

We allow you to use that infrastructure that user interface, but if the flexibility to change the created site, so you can combine of the Box UI with around custom site designs and configuring a site can be as simple as maybe applying a team. So you won't have consistent evening across all the greater sides, but it can go really far like rating library subsides, lots of other things that you custom pages, this anything is kind of possible. So but this features the site, designs and side scripts enable you to do this.

A

So what are typical use cases first. Use case is kind of doing some basic additional of content inside so addition of libraries or lists, for example, which you can do, control e configure and define in a site scripting. We talked about side script pretty soon.

A

Second, category is more around branding applying a team and there is a an action to apply a team to a site, and the third category is the one that we will demo today later on in school and that's more around okay, I want to fully customize and own that site.

A

Provisioning and I want to control what gets created in my site, so for that site, script, seven cents ready to call out to Microsoft low, which at that point, once you are inside Microsoft flow, you can do anything that flow can do for you so start business processes it kick something off on the other side, etc. So I will talk a bit more about that in the coming slides.

A

Now, let's have a look at: how does it work, what do you see and as a user and what's the plumbing underneath? So what you see here is this communication site, actually the wizard crater site and you go to the complications, I click on a drop-down and you see those new entries, the contoso explorers program and control sacral legal case book. These are.

A

So someone new to the audience with it also muted me so I'm back so as talking around about these two side, designs, which are custom side designs edit by by us, but I decide design functionality when you click on one of those in the user interface. What will happen is we start creating the site, in this case the communication sites and we create a property back entry telling which the site design needs to be applied to recreate a communication site.

A

This property back entry triggers the site, design to run the site, design will run one or more side scripts and the side scripts on their turn, will change the site, like adding library, applying a theme calling out to Microsoft flow.

A

What else you have like, adding something to the navigation for example, or joining a website service? The Maruf supported actions inside scripts today and over Alice later on, about which other ones, but these start running and if you navigate to the site, you will see at a right side. Is a panel popping up showing you the progress of the individual sites, Chris being running and site actions being fired on the side. So you can see that the site is being created while recreating it.

A

We lock the site from user user perspective, so the user can all South fiddling with the site. So, yes, we didn't told the site design as finished at that point, he has a customized site and can start using the site and continuing having continuing doing out of her customizations that he or she wants to do.

A

All right, no questions good, so we talked about side, scripts and side designs. Site design is a collection of one or more side scripts, and you might wonder like. Why is there is? Why isn't the site, design or suicide script? And why isn't this just one concept, but are you behind? You said you can have multiple side scripts, so you can have a side script. That applies a team. You can have a side script. That applies a set of standard document, libraries or lists.

A

You have a kind of a side script that calls out a particular flow and- and you can then combine these individual side scripts into multiple side designs. So this gives you more flexibility on kind of maintaining and your your side scripts, your custom side, provisioning, essentially our side script is this kind of JavaScript with JSON insight.

A

If you look at the JSON, what you see is it, of course it starts this actions, so you see the actions, and this case the sample has two actions. One action is called this: dot create or open the other want to see, multiply and then each action, depending on the type of action as additional options.

A

So in this case we're going to create a customer tracking list, which is just a plain SharePoint list type 100. So here we are we're using SharePoint list types like I've been there for like ages, I would say so. Then there is verbs being applied on the action. So it is a set description, verb and as field, if not exists. So when I add a customer name, field of type text, etc. So you can fully configure this.

A

The other one. Your an action team apply, is slightly more simple because it's just telling you which team to apply- and this team is like a new modern team. So it's not a classic team. So these need to be the new modern teams which are defined at that level.

A

So, but this way you can fully configure and kind of create your side scripts. You might wonder, like do. I need to write this myself like this. Do we have a a designer's tool for this, and the current answer is at this point in time: that's not the case, so you have to write these things manually using a text editor.

A

Maybe someone like unity will pick it up and start creating some designer tool for this, but I think once things while this evolves over time, we'll get more features and more capabilities inside these side scripts, and maybe at that point, there's also more options to more flexibility around how to create those sites crypts. But today it is a manual thing.

A

Let's see at the bottom right and you see like a rest request to create a side, design and I have we highlighted some of the interesting attributes, the things that you are pretty visible for you once you apply the side design. So the title is: that's the string that will be visible in the drop-down. Remember the Wizards, where we show the drop-down. So that's this case. That's the contours, a careful legal case, book description as well is visible and then script. Goods is an array.

A

You see that the brackets is an array of script IDs, so a side design can have multiple scripts to being concatenated together and executed in order, this default is very important property as well. So when you look at modern sites, you have two smaller and group sites model team sites, which is a group connect.

A

The site and such a site can be creative started from SharePoint one way, but you can also go to a create one via exchange, because at that point the shopping site will be a backfill to issue policy after you created the exchange mailbox example, so there's different ways to trigger the creation of a SharePoint site if it's a group connected site and if a site design is a default one. At that point, the the site design will be applied regardless of what was the entry point on creating the actual actual site.

A

But we came by a change where you came by SharePoint. In both cases the site design will be applied and then what template 68?

A

That makes maybe not so much sense for most people, but that's the numeric value of the web template in SharePoint. In this case this web template for communication site so communication side, 68, a regular, modern team site, is a 64, a typical question. We get and we applied these side scripts to other templates. Like SDS found zero classic game site and the answer is no: these side scripts only work on communication sites and modern and modern team sites. So a group connected team sites.

A

Ok, as promised a list of the supported functionality and support the site actions actually inside script, so you can create lists and libraries with some of the settings, so you can see description. You can create columns in there. You can connect a content type. You can control the side. Navigation, add some add a link in the side navigation. You can apply a theme, a modern, a tenant's, co-tenant scope team. So you can control the logo so set a new site logo.

A

You can join a hub site now we didn't yet lease hub sites, the concept of web sites, but the site scripts already supported so ready for the future what's coming up and, lastly, but definite, not least, is trading logic apps in this case using Microsoft, because this is your way to do more than what the side scripts can do today.

A

Now, what's coming up, what's something where we're looking in looking into a adding support for modern pages and adding a new customized model home page declarative, formatting, applying it at the formatting to your columns, it's confirmation of external access, site classification, etc, and you see more features welcomed over time.

A

B

Shown are called.

A

B

Yeah I'm, just gonna, say guys: I, think the the declarative, formatting on a column should work now I think we have some samples out there, so you can largely just embed the same JSON into your site: script to format those columns when you're in the create list and set column actions, so rights take a look at the documentation. Yeah thank.

A

You for the clarification.

B

Sean, that's good news, yeah and then I know some folks have been asking about things like external last access and setting site classification labels, there's definitely more actions to come, and you know frankly your guys's input. You know in terms of just what are the ones that you're really pining for those that'll help us prioritize that list. We know that there's a lot to do to catch up with many years of product, so we're trying to prioritize the ones that people are really asking for an eating.

B

So let me know let Bert know that personnel letter window yeah.

A

Yeah, you used to be communication channels to reach out to us and let us know what was top of your mind when it comes to site design, the site scripts.

A

Let's move to the slide: okay, so remember the three categories: one just adding basic site team setting site in adding a this library cetera. Then we talked around team surfing, so it sightless library, then team, and then the third walk was around fully custom provisioning, and this slide gives a bit more detail on what does it mean?

A

How can you achieve this fully custom provisioning based on site, designs and side scripts, so still leveraging the altar box user interface, which is a key important thing in my mind, because in the past you had to write your own user interface for your own site, custom site provisioning that it's not needed anymore. You can just leverage what we have so there's no need to develop that no need to host that somewhere on air, for example.

A

So that really simplifies the work for you as a consultant or as a partner as a customer to implement this capability. Okay. So let's assume we went to a wizard which like to create new communication side, we chose our custom site design at that point. The side scripts there's one side script in here. That starts to run the side script as one action which says all to this Microsoft flow instance.

A

When you call flow you can provide parameters so in this case we're going on also long the site URL, so Flo gets being initiated. It does now recite URL and at that point it's up to you to decide what you can do in flow there's throw as many many many extension points, so you can kind three processes, business processes based on flow, but our case.

A

What we are going to do in this example is essentially reaching from fro to Azure and if one way to do so is simply by adding a message in a storage queue, so we're gonna. We are called at message simply containing the site. Url in the storage queue once wrote, we are in Azure storage queue. You can use the goodness of asier as your web jobs or asha functions to kick up a null process. So in this case the function is watching the queue and something ends up in the queue.

A

This new message in the queue the function will see that it will pick up the message and will start running and that aja function can do whatever you want. Now. This is about site provisioning and obviously it's about the PNP community and we have our PNP side provisioning engine. What I use the firepower shell of from C sharp, but a logical next step would be to use the provisioning engine to apply additional confirmation to your site.

A

So this way in this model, you can do bridge the gap it so with what is supported after box in the side scripts today versus what what you need so over time, there will be more more actions appearing inside scripts and then will be maybe less on need to do this custom provisioning with PNP, but today the origination can do way more than the the side scripts.

A

So, but this way you have a nice combination of both essentially I think this is a really pretty cool scenario.

A

All right, so, let's summarize, and then we can jump in a demo, so you can apply a default site design to a template. So the default pile is important here, because those site designs are always running regardless of how the actual site is created. So whether it's fire, the SharePoint site, verify change or different perspective from different site, the site design will run if it's a default one. Obviously each template can have multiple site designs, relish out you and your eyes.

A

If you see here as well in the screen shoulders right side that for the steam site, there is two additional site, designs, Sacre flow and customer events, and you can have multiple something we didn't really talk about yet and which is an important asset and not sure if Evan will demo it, but you can control. Who is? We will see the actual site design. So in this drop-down you see now the three but assume we have like an HR site design or a legal site design.

A

You can scope the legal side, design to an ad group called legal, and only people inside that ad group legal will see this site design in the list. This is a way for you to control who sees the design know it. This has anything to do with actual permissions on the created site. So if you have a site design that that's only applicable for legal people, the crater site can still be applicable and usable by other people outside of legal.

A

Let's just share permission thing, but this is about who can see the site design in a drop-down urban. You were going to say something.

C

Yeah I was about to say that I will note that more than okay.

A

Thank you well that it's! If you got dogs, micro-massage sharepoint, there is a extensive documentation on site designs already inside scripts and how to configure the permissions is defined there as well explained there in much detail. So I think it's fairly easy to consume that side all right. What else we have talked about this and then finally, Microsoft flow important thing gives you the your custom extension of this model so with that I think done with the slides, so urban take it away for a demo on side, designs and side, scripts, yep, yep, yep,.

C

Let me take over the screen.

C

Screen you see right now and.

A

I see a big blue screen great, that's the only.

C

Blue screen in Windows.

C

Right so sorry, nice, what are you waste you for regional side designs here tenant. There are several ways of doing it. There is a see some API, you don't need to be in P extensions for that. It's just built into the tenant administration. Namespace in a tenant object that you can use, you can use the REST API and you can use PowerShell and the want to call them out of the box.

C

But if you use the office 365 management, shell, there are command, that's there for you to use to create and change side, designs and side scripts. So if I use the management shell, it's like it gets SPO site design will be turn on. My current site designs and currently have two side designs here in tooth, be called one is called create list site the other most called site with list. I will actually demo the second one notice that if you do not want for some reason, maybe you don't want to install the office.

C

365 management, shell, the PNP, powershell commandlets. We also they support the same they're, actually identical in functionality. They they render the data a tiny bit different, but the idea is absolutely the same. So here we have the site designs from the PDP power so and they were identical. So in order to create a site design, you need a side script and the side script as better already mentioned in the previous slides, is nothing but a piece of Jason. So I have a piece of Jason waiting here being the Craiglist design Jason from opening that pump.

C

And we'll have a brief look at what this one is doing effectively is creating a list. That's what we tell it to do here, create the list. I set the description. This has been called PD project contributors, it's based on the generic list or custom list; I, add the fields being the project name, I, add another field being contributors and then I add this list to my Creek launch. That's effectively what this template is doing, no rocket science, very simple, very straightforward.

C

Just when you create a site based on this site, design on a site design that has this site script associated with it, it will create that list for you. So let's create this this script and it's called the side script. So if I do get SPO side script, you see here such KP see already I, create a bummer, we'll just create a new one here, so I say at SPO site script now.

C

Well, let me first do one step before, but I need to do is put this script into a variable, so PowerShell can use it. So what I do is I usually select everything copy it ctrl C, go to PowerShell, say: script equals get report.

C

So if I look at what put in this variable right now, you will notice there is the the Jason is now in depth to get variable so now I can use it in PowerShell. So then I say at SPO site script, title. Let's call it it's Thursday and then the contents tense. My spirits, that's all there is to it I, press, ENTER and the side. Script has been created, so it gets SPO side script.

C

There's my script I keep track of this quit because that's what I will need when I create the site design so now I, add a new site designer. We'll also call that one Thursday.

C

Title first, a web template remember that Beth mentioned 64 stands for team side. 68 stands for communication site, so 64 side scripts and this one says take that quit as an input. This is an array, so you can actually specify multiple grids here. If you want to and then PowerShell is very simple, just separated when a coma and that multiple grids- and now you associate multiple quits. That is interesting. For instance, if you create a side script that adds a list that you want to be able to for all side designs.

C

You just get one side: script associate that side, design that side script with that with all the side designs, and then you have specific side scripts that may be applied to like marketing sites or project sites whatever. So you can actually sort of partition your side scripts into functionality and use them throughout your site, designs, I, press ENTER and my side design. Is there now so now we see here Thursday and this side scripts has been associated with it.

C

So if we go to the site to my SharePoint tenants and I click create site and I. Take a team site: there is my site, design and I say: first, a demo, one click Next I'm, not a user there, it's creating the site modern site. So it's really fast to click finish.

C

And now the slide out pops up and it creates a list. It's doing that right now.

B

It's actually slow. Why is that so slow or one yeah.

C

And we also have never seen the progress bar here in.

B

Isaac, because it's so fast, usually yeah.

C

For people interested in this, we are actually will we already recorded a specific video about this whole process. So well, of course, being the video that we published from this special intergroup interested group meeting, but we've also post another video specifically about site designs.

B

I'll, add to that when Aaron invested demo and myself demo Pacific night and ESP see, we have a much fuller script that runs, that does a whole bunch of stuff with the in product actions, doing lists and adding an app and then calling out to via a flow too, as your function that Aaron's gonna show in a little bit, and all of that was taking less than 10 seconds. It was a pretty pretty remarkable. We're excited about this.

C

See what happens if I take close the list? Is there it's actually in so maybe it's just a UI hiccup. There could very well be because the list has been created. It has been added to my click on share to okay.

B

Okay, yeah so I'm noting that we'll take a look know.

C

So this'll be created, you see in my two fields here. The project name in the contributors are all there, so it was an relatively smooth operation, very simple for me to create I'm the first to admit that I'm, not the first to admit but I'm, one of the people's admit that the Jason structure is not the most intuitive one, but you'll get the hang of it in the end, it's not rocket. Science just understand a bit home.

C

What kind of verbs you can use and how to put the parameters in there- and you will totally okay, so site designs- are currently very, is a very easy way to do it to do things in your site, but your you can't do everything. So if you want to go one step beyond what slide designs, allow you to do, there is the ability, then you step into like how do I extend side designs.

C

How do I go beyond the whole concept of the side design and that is by triggering a flow, and that is a very powerful function. So there is a verb. If we look here in this side, design that I have here, this is again a side script, coated design, design, it's a side script, and this one triggers a flow. This URL, you can figure out pretty easily yourself by creating a flow and there's a URL.

C

You can copy from this flow if you want to figure out how to do that, you can just follow the documentation that we have available. I think some are linked already to it in the chat, but in the documentation we describe step-by-step on okay, how to create a flow, find the URL copy data routes and and paste it into the right location into your script. So this is the flow the light trigger and if we have a look at the flow, if I go here, this is what the flow looks like.

C

So it is a flow that is triggered when an HTTP request is incoming, so the sharepoint online will send an HTTP request to your flow and what it will send to you is the URL of the slides you just created and what I will do with it. Url, which is down here, is our well put it on an azure queue. That's the only thing this flow does. You can obviously do way more things all right, so some people are asking. Can we ask for more metadata?

C

Well, you could maybe build it with flow. I mean this is the moment something is happening, but you could do anything. You could just say: okay, create a list item in SharePoint sent out an email. However, user fill in the form and the form has been filled in then take a next step, and that could be to create a site or go crazy. There I mean the sky is pretty much. The limit and flow is growing and growing in its connectors to and the functionality that flow has.

C

So it's a really nice way of extending the site designs. So, as I said, this flow does nothing but just put the URL of the site on the queue now. What happens then? This queue in Azure is it's configured here is standard queue, nothing, nothing specific there and then I created a function and that function is a queue trigger. So the moment, an item ends up in depth as your queue. This function will be triggered and it's a PowerShell function. So what this function will do? It's like. You see it's total rocket science effectively.

C

There are two and I have lines of code that do something else. Call this a half line of code, because this line of code basically picks up that URL from the queue and puts it into this variable called in. That's the only thing that bind us, then those familiar with peeping PowerShell might recognize this I say: connect to the site than I do and have only authentication in this case and I get the app ID in the app secret from the variables that I set on this function.

C

App, so I don't have to specify them in this script, meaning that I would have to update all the scripts. If these values changed now, I can just change those variables in the settings and all my scripts will continue to work and then the URL is then that same URL that I retreat from the queue so effectively we're connecting back to the side that we just created between B PowerShell and then what we do is we apply a provisioning template and this Perficient templated over is available over here. Here we have to flow demo template.

C

If you look at this a standard template and what this template actually does is create that same list, PNP project contributors with the fields in there and everything. So it's a standard, PNP provisioning template nothing there in order. If you want to figure out how to set up this function. So how will this Azure PowerShell function be able to call the PNP commandlets again in the in the documentation? We have a step through by safety commanders.

C

There upload them like this, and then you can reference them here and they're actually located here in this modules folder there we have all the assemblies that are make up the powershell time place. So this is the list of function, nothing in there as I said it's a very simple way of calling.

C

We look at this time here again, so it's just a few lines of code that and then the P&P provisioning engine behind the scenes does the rest. If we go to my site again and if I go to SharePoint and I create a site, that's a bug I've seen too. Sometimes you have to create site multiple times there we go, then we have create site, at least- and this is a site design that has a side script associated with this. That calls that flow. So it's a first day demo to next.

C

Creating the sites.

C

There we go, this was much faster, so you only trigger the flow, but flow is obviously asynchronous and it triggers the answer queue. It adds two identities are queued and behind-the-scenes. It applies to P in P provisioning templates. So if I look here and if we're lucky, we saw that yesterday it was actually really fast. No, in this case, it's not really have to wait a bit there we go here is the list, so in this case actually took a few seconds.

C

It cools the flow, the full flow and it's an item to the azure queue and from there Q be triggered in PowerShell function. The powerful function, PowerShell function, connected back to the side, with PP powershell and apply to PP provisioning templates, and the result is that it created this list. Sky's the limit with this functionality. You can, you don't have to cope in P PowerShell.

C

You can put anything in that as your function, whatever you want to do, you can put in there and connect back to the site and do something with the site or if you want to create a site map or an overview of owners of a site in a specific list. Let's see it's, it's all up to you, so it's really powerful functionality so.

A

You can this is more creating a modern client-side pages like a new modern homepage, with new web, this overpass on the third-party web parts configured yeah. All these things are possible just by conferring them in the pn PSI template essentially, and something every powerful and.

C

It's it's. If we go back to the flow, then if we go to the monitor here so.

B

Yeah I would understand that yeah the the PNP piece got here. Guys I mean it's. You know, as you could see, from what Bert showed earlier. I mean there's only a limited set of in product actions, but using the flow and calling that, as your function, just kind of opens everything up, and we saw that as a way to really close that gap or you know for now, while we obviously build more stuff in the product, yeah.

C

So you you see the the log effectively of the of the azure function. You see here the incoming requests for this side, so you can log everything here. You want to keep track of what's happening and then we just wrote connecting to the sides now with the flow. If we look at the flow itself, then you see here then two minutes ago and apprentice, so that's it less than a second to run. This flow very powerful, very simple, to use.

C

If you look at the walk through, don't let that scare you away, it looks way more complex than this. It's just a very simple steps. At the moment you get you've done it once it. It becomes very easy and it's very simple to setup. So this was my demo for today.

A

Thank you, Robin really, really cool demo I think it's a super super powerful scenario as well: creating sites in a matter of seconds using after books, user interface, but fully customized cygnets. Let's keep our enterprise. Customers actually fall customers. So let me flip back to the slides.

A

They are loading now.

A

So we can wrap up.

A

C

One thing one thing: I'm sure all.

A

C

Just a little promo for PNP power show where you have to specify 64 or 68 in the Sheppard online management, shell in PP PowerShell. You can just write theme, site or communication site, it's a drop-down, oh that's, and that makes a huge difference.

B

A

Righty righty, okay, yeah 15 minutes doesn't have to be about site design, side scripts, anything a SharePoint developers late. It's actually.

B

Hey guys I will make a quick documentation plug just because I've seen a couple comments. I think I replied at the top of the hour, go check out aka ms SP site designs and that will take you to a bunch of documentation, including the JSON schema, the PowerShell, the rest calls and then there's also on github, similar to the column, format, stuff and obviously, all the PMP samples there's another github repo in there for site, designs and scripts.

B

So a few samples there may be stuff that you a spot for you to contribute from the community in the future, but go ahead and check that out, and it should get you up to speed, n', Erlin and FS and put together a great tutorial that just walks through all this that Urban's, referring to so go check that out.

A

Yep Thank You Sean thank.

C

B

A

Together on your side, designs and sharing a scurrying motto, you know all right, any other questions we sort of Shana Nicole. We don't have Esther today, so gonna try to answer them annual.

B

Vacation, what is that? Yeah yeah.

A

Why do we give people vacation.

A

And if there is no specific yet questions, we can just save a bit of time, I rap a bit earlier, but any sharepoint developer. Questions are fine, for the, for the school being doesn't have to be a site designed site script.

A

It's a lot of messages passing by in the shed. It's not really questions I think unless I have to scroll up.

B

Yeah, if you guys, if I, missed any questions or if you have any follow-up questions, obviously get either gender ectly through Twitter or the pnp channel, or just send them my way for a via Burton or an investor. So.

A

There's a question on the sub-sites showing what's the strategy: Dinka sub-sites, so side, designs, psy scripts; first, a subset, versioning yeah,.

B

So good question popular one, it seems so the the short story is this: we are looking to support it.

B

No details I can share yet in terms of timeline, but most of as you can tell from what we've shown and the demos and things like that, most the infrastructure is there, it's really just a matter of so a few things. We need to tweak in the API to support the call, but we're looking into it now. We're also, since folks are probably thinking or asking.

B

You saw all this stuff kind of happens in the flow of a new site being provisioned, and one of the things that we are looking at right now is being able to execute site designs on an existing site collections. So amending will probably see updates in the more working on PowerShell updates.

B

So you'll see that before you see anything in the you acts, that's gonna take a little bit more work, but you can imagine being able to have a new powershell command that allows you to effectively take a preloaded site design and just apply it to an existing site collection. So once we have that in place, really the next step is that we're pretty close to being able to do the sub site support so stay tuned.

A

There was another question around: do we validate the JSON site scripts when we send them to the tenant fire power show not.

B

Yet, no sorry about that, so we are putting some logic in place to help with the validation. But right now, you're gonna have to use your friendly JSON validator before you put stuff in there. The other thing we'll want feedback on as well. Is you can well imagine things can get a little bit scary if you upload a site script with like ten thousand actions, so there you'll see in the documentation. There is a limit. We've put the limit at thirty right now. That sounds to some people like fine.

B

Some people have said, while that seems really low. So let us know you know how that sits with you and the work that you're trying to do, because we obviously want to listen to the community and make adjustments there. But that's another thing to be aware of and yes Ralph you can't chain them via as I think or whenever mentioned earlier. You the way that the you you can reference via a site design more than one site script.

B

You can put together an array of them and that's where we think we might have to put a little bit more robust stuff limiting logic in there. But, yes, you can't chain them together, because you might, as I think Irwin mentioned in an example. You might have, for example, some generic site script, that you want to make sure provisions a list on every site collection, but then for marketing. You might want to have a also an additional site: script that only doesn't market specific lists or a market specific function, or something like that.

A

For a billet II to set site policies, yeah.

B

In the backlog Dean nothing yet we are looking at certainly supporting things like setting classification if it's provisioned, but we're also working closely with the security and compliance folks to see how we can leverage those policies as well so more I hope in the spring.

A

Right so good news.

B

Yeah laugh out loud backlog yeah, the backlog is huge, but that's good. It's good to have a backlog means I have about work to do so.

A

Can these reducing size I think that's something. That's also in a backlog being worked on yeah.

B

Oh yeah, that one's a that's been on our radar staff or started putting this together so right.

A

Garetty, that's again only running on one team sites or communication sites, yeah yeah, so I've seen for questions just to be on that.

B

Site, oh thanks, Bert yeah for sure, but anything that we do even with existing site collections. Guys is definitely gonna, be initially limited to just the modern group connected team and communication site templates. Please let your voice be heard. If you think that there's a critical need to really get the classic site support in there I mean we have you know. Technically it's feasible. It's really just a matter of.

B

We feel that there's more work that we need to do in order to be able to scope for certain actions that obviously won't work in classic sites and then there's a bunch of things that we won't be able to necessarily do yet and so we're sort of taking the tact that let's focus on the modern stuff first and then we can start looking at classic buddy. Let us know yeah so.

A

There's several questions running debugging, so us experiencer assumed that I uploaded a bad side script or if something goes wrong. All I but a good side script. So can people see what went which actions were fired? What's that come off the action? Is there some way for people to see more about with internals when it's running home, yeah.

B

Yeah, the console apps gonna tell you where the errors are and then we have error handling in the actions in the US. So the progress panel will report when an action fails or if there's something wrong with it. Okay,.

A

B

More robust logging that we need to do isn't there always so there's probably more work that we need to do there, but there is some basic logging for sure.

A

Dinah's a question: our actions before massage have shown in the security and compliance center ordered, looks at the noise in.

B

Suit shut up side, Dean I'm, not sure, I, understand that question or actions performed by.

B

B

But but they job gosh Dean and know that we're not doing anything with the security compliance under OtterBox at this time, but I'd love to understand more of what you're wanting to have happen there by patch tracking of who created the site. No, no. This is still happening through the same site, creation flow and, in fact, it'll be tied to the same, especially since obviously you're. Usually most of this is hooking into our existing self-service site creation experience and the admin center as well.

B

It will be using those same UX, affordances and so I think there was a question at the top of the hour and the chat window about how this would apply to the admin center.

B

We will honor those settings, so you know you can imagine that even if a user did not have the ability to create groups, because you had set that aad property or set that as well as set the SharePoint admin settings, then they're only going to be able to see and apply site designs on the comm site, template and another thing to check out my documentation. I haven't seen anyone asked about that system.

B

We do support scoping the site designs, so you can imagine that right now, the site design scoping only supports individual users and mail, enabled security groups or working on obviously expanding that. So we can support office 365 groups, but you can imagine Erwin, Bert and I are in a security group. Erwin creates a site design and sets it for that security group I mean that scopes it to that security group.

B

We will be the only ones in the ux who will be able to see and apply that site design, and you can read more about that in the documentation, including the powershell commandlets and rest, to set all that stuff up.

A

Do we have anything to share around a chef when 2019 versus mobile experiences for society science a script? So it's.

B

A

To share those details, no.

B

No, that's that's! Okay, I, don't know how much I can publicly disclose about that right now, I can say that we're looking into it, but it's unlikely just given where you guys all know that the on-prem stuff has to happen pretty early. So it's amazing that we're already kind of wrapping up the 2019 stuff, so I'm not sure if this stuff's gonna make it in there well group enabled sites be possible in 2019. No, because there's no group support on Prem.

A

Why do you mean with Excel and me Russell.

A

B

Awesome we love taxonomy it'll, be on Prem I mean. Are you talking about something specific I.

A

Think maybe smashing right.

A

Manish metadata field, not sure, oh yeah, so we estimate this feels supported to currently. Today, that's yeah.

B

We have exactly yep yeah thanks, Poe yeah check out the JSON schema article. It has a list of the supported list, type list field types and you will notice that managed metadata is not among them. Sorry about that that that one is too it's a complex field, there's a little bit more work. We need to do there who support that right.

A

But if there's critical functionality of critical requirement for you, you can use the float that we showed in the demo called an item axial-flow and then calling PNP and a PNP. You guess point you can provision those fields so Deus, there's always a row right now. Yeah.

B

That's why gosh the PNP stuff, guys it's it's powerful and you know it's been refined over the years and there you guys are staying on top of it with all the new stuff in the future. It's Mel so that you know obviously there's a lot more stuff. You can do there, so you know before you say: oh no, it's not available in go check out and you can probably still achieve your scenario with what's available there. All.

A

Right, there's a question that popped up also quite a few times, and when does the new SharePoint at the first at least I think soon.

B

A

This is a correct answer, but of course, I.

B

Actually, don't even own that Sebastian I think is said in the spring, so I believe that the if the pilot is active and closed right now and I believe it's going to start going more broadly later this spring. So when I say spring I mean March April, but gosh don't hold me to that soon.

A

Just to be clear on things, society design, size scripts are first released today, right, Sean they're, not yet in production. So this, if they're not need to be in first release to consume them.

B

Correct, yes, yeah, we we rotated the outside scripts inside designs, are 100% in first release, which is you know for all of us to change now. It's now known as target hit release. So when you hear me say that I'm meaning the same thing, so yes, and we will continue to monitor and process feedback from you guys and we're already kind of working on will probably rotate more broadly in February.

A

All right, writes orbits, hitting the hour and so I think we can slowly start to wrap up. So thanks. Everyone for being here I think was a really good session, also in three Tiffany lots of questions both of Ansel's as well, so I hope you enjoyed it and next week there is a new sick meeting.

A

In this case, it's the shape when framing stick on the 18 of January, but then the actual shape when developer sick like this one will be back in two weeks so on January, 25th and hope to see you there as well. So let's wrap up with the learn, reuse and share different things. You can reuse things and with that knowledge, please share what you've earned with us over the community, so we can I keep on growing. Thank you.