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From YouTube: SharePoint Dev Weekly - Episode 3 - 31st of August 2018

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SharePoint Dev Weekly is a weekly video chat where Vesa and Waldek are talking about the latest news and topics around SharePoint dev area. They typically concentrate on a few specific topics, but they can also have visitors or other surprises on the way. This time Erwin van Hunen dropped by virtually on Vesa's table.

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This video was recorded on Thursday 30th of August, 2018.

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Welcome everybody. This is Shep on dev weekly. This is episode. Three we've already done three sessions. Oh my god, like.

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Two more I will be on five.

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Anyway, so today is Thursday, yes, thirteen.

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We can actually talk about something which hopefully will happen later today, because the video goes out tomorrow.

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It happened or not exactly.

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But anyway, so we have few news related on ship on development from engineering side, we talked about the gang blog post and everything before we get there actually a Baltic anything. You want to pinpoint what you've been doing on this week. Oh yeah.

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Absolutely so recently, I found out that when you want a log stop in the things that you build in sp effects, so imagine that that you would use at insights to to keep track of your logs and usage exceptions right. It turns out you cannot. You will get exception, that app insights cannot log anything because there is a cross domain call because the bundles of yours script, your solutions, live on a different domain than your internet. So there is some work around that how you can do that and there's another thing.

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So once you get to this page, when you can log things which you get log is your minified code, so you get exception in line one column. Eighteen thousand five hundred sixty-nine.

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Now, over the last few days, I done some more on it and I found a way how to deal with that, but it would be cool if that would change over time, eventually yeah right.

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So that was one thing on which I spend some time and everything I've done is that, up until now, we offered you the ability to use the office 365 CLI to upgrade your SPF x project from one version to another and so far we look primarily at things like the the json configs dependencies, but it's not like what, if we had a verse that would require us to change a reference in code in typescript, so I'm doing some experiments around that like.

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How would we detect that supported, because there are a few ways around that and I'm really close to getting a robust way of doing that. So imagine that the next time you would use C like to upgrade a project from version X to Y. We will not only alert you to update dependencies, but also will give you, for example, hints like this line of code changes from this to that yeah. So that would make the upgrade steps are really really easier. I'm, so I.

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Really, I really think that the dark rating story between their text versions is the killer app for office 365 CLI. So people actually want to use that so well,.

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We don't really see that ourselves yet.

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Uses just anybody crowing, it's it's insane every single week. It just keeps on crowing enormous waster. If only I could share those. That's openly.

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Community call when you're watching this that happened yesterday so you're late.

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I see that you have a guest. Yes, we.

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Do have a case we promise to have guests in every.

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Urban coudn't actually come physically. Is the urban is here virtually hanging on my table? So that's PowerShell, because your life.

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Anyway, will get visitors on their sessions, definitely in the future for me shape and framework one power six coming out actually, hopefully today so watching the video and I'm crossing hey. We don't find anything on a last minute, but I'm going to walk through, what's included in 1.6 and the blog post right now. What else I've been working actually on getting ship on PowerShell to the powershot gallery, which is interesting thing completely, not really dev related, but it is separated as well.

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Powershell wonder.

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Why it was a scam for Microsoft its IT pros development.

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Development, modern transformation, all that stuff. So there's this plenty of stuff happening ignite is coming really soon. It's it's mind-blowing how many emails and everything is is flying around. So it is what it is anyway. So let's actually jump on the the actual screen and have a look on stuff which we wanna culture today. So what we wanted to start like mentioned, which one is that screen? It is literally zoom in the screens and urban. Obviously, um now you can hopefully save I'm sharing, yes excellent.

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So this is the the post which hopefully went live yesterday. If it didn't, it's gonna go live early next week.

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But basically, what will be in 1.6 is operational availability or for wave and craft API. So as your ad, the is and craft API- and this is always a huge. So now you can securely call those api's without additional a deltas and hdtb tricks and whatever sure we are actually encapsulating a Delta's inside of these classes, because that's the the only supported ways of doing that for ta. But it is what it is, but it makes your life easy and tough, the pink one.

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Also, in the plot point, we are referencing the shipments targets which has like what is it nine web parts which are using the graph KPIs and which we just before. This call realize that we need to update that's.

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Or during the weekend or whatever, and the second thing, and obviously the admin API has to manage the permissions and that should be now working properly for GA. The second big thing.

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Actually, it isn't really that well right now in the blog post, it might be that I need to still ask marketing to do some adjustments on this one we'll see, but it's the town, wide deployment of extensions or don't mind activation of extension, so you're able to basically have folders and X fooders headers and push them, for example, to all of your team signs from one single location, and that's huge, that's!

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Finally, it is so you don't have to activate you, don't have to install the solution, one by one to a site or activated that by running a code or anything like that. You have one location right now in the catalog, it's a technical location for now, but it's it's! It works, so you can actually go there and manipulate width of your extensions are available across the whole tenet and that's absolutely great, so more documentation on that.

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One has been already released, hopefully yesterday as well when I was in the video well depending when you're watching the video. What's this video on Monday, then it's going to be the last just gets complicated.

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Now, let's actually jump on the let's say community big. So last week on episode, 2, we talked about changing the modern page on the rude side of the tenon that this has actually started an interesting discussion also internally. So thank you Mark for pushing this forward, so we're now making announcements and statements in our official dethklok's. What are the things which are available or supported related on the modernization of the route side? So, first of all, there are two big things which happen now document that so, first of all, you are nuts.

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It is not supported to delete and recreate your to route side of your site. Collection does.

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That do that it's kind of pray to you eventually and if you're saying well I believe yesterday and it's still working, it might work and unfortunately, that option is not at least yet available.

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We will announce when there are additional things and direction available, and the thing what you can do is that you are able to activate the home page home base layer in the route side of your tenon, so which basically means that you can create similar kind of page as communication of site welcome page, so you can achieve almost like a communication site in the root side of your tenant, even though it is a classic theme site because you're using the modernized experience so from an interesting perspective, doesn't really it's completely seamless and and in the long run, we're looking there with this massive amount of thinking mess in one of discussions and planning going on on what do we want to do with the route sign which unfortunately, I cannot share so on ignite?

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There will be more details on this one in four weeks, three weeks, three and a half weeks whatever, and but there will be more and more, let's say information around these options now other stuff, so one at the pinpoints Laura's laura has a crate plot, which is actually really detailed, blog posts around sharepoint online development, also powershell scripts. So, for example, my used most used powershell scripts for managing sharepoint, online and also craft stuff, and these are really really good. Stuff.

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They're, really detailed, really well-written and laura- has a a twitter trades, obviously an account as well. So I can easily follow her and to stay up to date when there's a new article coming from her now under stuff, which one which has happened, kind of kind of since the last episode slightly depending on how do we evolve this and the view formatting documentation went life, so the documentation went, live I. Don't think why?

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Today, depending again on timings, the official announcement that this is now available as a tech community plug post has gone wild, but this is the documentation is life. You are also able to already see plenty of these three formatting samples which are available in the SPD released formatting repository, so.

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For folks who do not know what it is, can you say, like few words sentence like what it is sure.

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I think this is ways to show stuff, so the the view formatting basically means the code. Formatting means that you're modifying the rendering of a column. So if we go back on the ribbon here, we're kind of a modifying the rendering of the column without a script. So it's it's styling and am certain actions, because this doesn't support scripting, because that would be a script injection.

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And if you need scripting, that's why you have SharePoint framework now the view Soundview form of the examples are slightly more. Let's say complicated, well, I wouldn't say complicated, but you can actually do do much.

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Probably good way of pointing at so conduct card format, dissipates looks boring, but if I scroll down, you can actually see that the list contact list, rendering the view rendering of the core default view. Rendering of a contact list has been modified to take the information from a contact list, but percent that in a different way, and so basically you're overriding the whole list, rendering option and that's huge because now the classic, even though the modern SharePoint list and document our prayers are pretty cool and they're fluent.

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But every now and then you want to have that exposed for your entry person. They say.

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Yeah prettiest in theory, easier to Don, then build whole SP effects or build a standalone app, as the effects add to do exactly that. Right. Do that, as as, as a part.

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Anybody who has manage permissions do list, so it's.

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Don't have to be a developer yeah, it's the what's. The right term come on and power user.

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Producer information yeah so so.

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Don't want yes, so if you have a column for matter as well, will this override column format the format or can you choose whether you want to override it or will just ignore it.

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So to be limiting what it means is that you basically say for the view. So this is for SP view or well. You don't actually see their debut object. It has a column formatting a moment, her property and basically say. Let me take care of the rendering of this view, and then you define the chase, so you are ignoring any column format.

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And golfer's, okay, I say whatever.

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Did there is my Jason is taking care of rendering the sample? That's what it means. Oh sweet and more details on this one coming up all the time, but related on this one. So Christine has been super helpful on the documentation and example. He has created something this one was actually pretty and it's like.

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This is really cool.

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Yeah, that's never actually thought about that one. So yeah, : formatting is around formatting column, so you basically have a column value, and then you define how do you format the : carrier? So in this case that the progress has been this nice- let's say a blue thing in there, but then Chris has played around with this and kind of a thought about.

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Well what if you just want to actually have a button, but if you want to have something which actually isn't a value based or you don't actually even have a editing experience for that column? You don't want to expose that column for edit operation and the beauty of that one is. This is actually an ingenious thing and add a column which is a calculated column. Calculated columns are not visible in the eating experience, so.

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As you can, because the value is calculated Correll other.

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Fields and then you set the column settings to be empty and is font. You can then go and modify the column, column, formatting definition for that column to be whatever you want, so you actually have a column column in your list which isn't visible in the properties. You can't edit that, but it actually provides an action, so create crazy. It's like well, of course, make sense, but I don't think that many people, like so I've, thought about this option and it's pretty cool yeah yeah.

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And I guess that's also an interesting thing right. So when you would use this versus when would you use a ListView command said that activates on single item, true.

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Confirm thing and ListView formatting I know that if people are not really deep dive on what this are and what is the SharePoint framework list, your command set and view format a field formatter, you might be like. Well, these things make those obsolete. That answer is actually no, so the listed formatting and column formatting does not support running script. So you cannot actually in that script. Here you cannot run JavaScript.

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You cannot do a dialog and pop-ups and and complex scenarios that it's not supported, because these are citizen developer capabilities, so anybody can actually modify as long as you have a modified permission to the list, you can actually modify the rendering off the list, but you can't inject script because that's righti a script section security preach and we can allow that now. That's why we have SharePoint framework.

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A framework gives you the capability of attaching scripts to the lists by using a field formatter or a list view command set or application customizers and those can actually have any script work day, one because they are being governed by the tenant administrator. When they're approving the solution be running in your tenant, using right right.

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Right, so, in the end, depending what you want to achieve, you might need to use one or the other might be an option as well. Absolutely.

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Absolutely one thing to consider in here so in many cases and this good topic actually and to talk about and sort of spending, a lot of time on it, but- and one thing to consider is also the fact that the conformed English formatting can't be modified by the ancestors so many times, maybe IT or they say, HR department wants to have customizations, but they want to make sure that infusers can't accidentally break those except those customization.

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That's when you use SharePoint framework because, as an end user, you can't get rid of the fear one framework component from a site unless it's explicitly instantly the site, which is one of the options, but it's only just one of the options now column. For my thing anybody can modify now you can go and get rid of the Chaisson definition and okay, no, it doesn't look like it's working last night, I, don't know what I did now it's broken so.

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Cool Joe rototilled, what risk at which weakest this is a blog post itself is relative. This short, this is her own framework with the visual JavaScript API, but there's a nice example now available in the PMP or SharePoint github repository with Joel Rodriguez has provided, which is now showing them how to use the Visio JavaScript API to get a bit shape and framework application, or about what so really cool stuff as well. If you're looking into making that happen so now we have a reference example.

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So thank you all for that and that's available and in DES the dev FX webparts, and this is relatively well known, because we already have 746 work, switches, Trinities and 504 stars. That's extra critical!

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Haven't started yourself, are you trying to say.

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You don't want to know how many emails I get from every single day from kids hop around. Would.

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You please, like my repo No.

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So- and this is from Ilya Ilya is really actively doing development because he's well. He works for well, our intranet and those guys are really pushing a development side of the story, but Elia luckily has time to share the learnings as well, and this is really nice story around handling navigation in SharePoint for applications customizer. So how do you actually deal with the navigation transitions and panels and everything else?

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If you have a complex customer, customization and good tune-up you to have this one available relatively each case or advanced case I feel really implementing these things, but either way is well. It is definitely addressed by so moving on on lists of things. So this is from search a really absolutely cute. Finding honest I saw this in fear like.

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Wow, why would you ever try that.

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Well now that I think of it, of course, that the works do because I knew means generally what happens there, but but never documented this, which is yeah, which is on us. So we as a Microsoft. We should get this document, but the whole point is that you can actually register your application and a secret to be never expires in answer ad. But then you can actually call use that in aspx to actually call that a I be and do the XML permission requests in SharePoint.

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So it's kind of a combination of a classic ship and adding plus saturate a application registration, and this one this one is already a brilliant, because this is basically means that your secret does not expire so typically by default as an exploration of a one a year or two years or depending on how to register them rebellion. Now these are even a really interesting discussion, well like quits, which didn't come to a conclusion. Yet we kind of actually spent a few hours today on investigating something really interesting.

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So, let's see if you can actually figure out what it is in social media before we go click on it and well.

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If they won't be able, because we have a head start on a day, that's.

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True, that's true: they can yeah well most likely this much smarter people than we are actually the social media. Oh.

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We thought that everybody knew that.

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People need to know, that's not all of the rest of the people know what you know so. So. Writing start. Writing. Simple stuff is actually super valuable for anybody, because then yeah search ends and available. Yeah.

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And if anything else, you might find yourself in a place where you will need that yourself, because you will forget about it, you will sighs.

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Oh I wrote about it myself three years back its.

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Countless of times when I, when I find the stuff from my my own blog post, I, haven't had a time to eight years anymore, unfortunately, but in my old blog post, related on XML, deep dives for future framework ASA. What was that one thing.

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Okay, cool few more things to go through and me calls. Let me come actually. This is good example of hey a kind of a reminder book bus. So a really good example. It doesn't have to be a long story on explaining something. This is a reminder on the fact that if you use an office, you have a quick react in in your react components. You don't want to use right now at the latest of office. You are react.

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Obviously, my fabric react because that's using react, 16 and shape and framework is using react 15, so you can't actually create use them cross. So you want to use the LPS version. Also, okay, I guess.

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Important piece, even if you write a short post, the important part is include a nice image.

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This post is around obviously a fabric react. So logically, you have a picture of a horse stable. Yes,.

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It's coming out is like it. Styling is the whole experience of you know going out and seeing the world like a brand experience, making.

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Sari makeup and actually today, I think this came out today. Yes, 29! No yesterday, it's when yesterday.

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Depends on timing zones and everything else different works pretty late quite often, and but this is around using about this new release of SPF xui fabric themes, which helps you to take advantage of of the modern themes within a customization so really cruel stuff helping you then basically adapt or make your whip mods to adapt on the color theme selected for the site, which is typically what you want to do well, yeah I, don't know that that's maybe a wrong way of putting out.

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It's no well, it is an option, but it still, while you.

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Lately exactly you might explicitly want to use their company brand as an ISP within the background. Everything regardless or select the thing, but.

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Then, in that say in in that state, I would say that you will have a theme that expresses your your company colors and then inherit them still in everything you build, because if they will change, you don't want to change everything in color.

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But if you're an ISV and my is be, color is pink and I want to make sure that my is be a bit. Parts are pink regardless women, yeah yeah.

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It's like I appreciate your pinkness, but why.

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Would it be pink, of course, it's orange so because ill I mean I.

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Appreciate your your urges, but if everything else is purple or whatever it will bite, you're Donna again.

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Debatable that might be the decision of the ISA anyway, I say with five developer, you can choose even when I use that the same colors or not. That's really. The key points for and Steffens additional packets in here is helping you to make that really easy easier for your devil. It's not super complex by default, but this helps you on adapting the right way of doing that yeah and by the way Stefan has really great stuff on the styling stuff on a stock post as well and Stefan is one of those guys.

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He needs to understand that not all of the people understand all the things for he understands so anything what he looks. It's actually super valuable. So please remember: sharing it's not about rocket science thing I'll be waiting now. I can write. No no.

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Now the final thing, what we wanted to go through kind of referencing, also ship on starter kits and boot from government Cameron, so this came out last week, but to be honest, I didn't notice this unfortunate council this week, but it's it's a huge story. You has been writing stuff around the share points. Shipment starter kit. Well, in his blog post is company and a starter kit. It was originally called shipments, a BMP starter kit.

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No, it's actually called sheriff's delegate, doesn't matter same repos and functionalities and same things, but this is around how the TAS report has been implemented, how it actually works in the in the portal and how you can modify that and start. A part is a really great example of a whip part which is available for you, including the source code from the shipment starter kit as a reference, and it even used this really really super cool collection editor.

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So it opens up a panel where you can modify the selection and the tiles in a cosmic port using this really cool editor, which you, which is actually reusable control as well, so the sharepoint PM, a reusable controls, is including this one, and this is going to speed up your development enormously, so quite sharp on a lien on the but great purpose from view and view has been really helping us on the issue list of shipments target and all of that, one in the step and start again and now that I'm mentioning the shipment started it all the time.

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Let me actually jump on his first blog post, which is around the hints and tips, and from here we can find a link to the github co-panelist SP starter kit is the location of the shipments target. It has source code, provisioning, automation, everything else. This is really end to end reference story on how to build a portal experience using the communication site. It has 15 custom web parts using craft using multiple things for you to take advantage in your code. Everything is free. Everything is open source.

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You can just to reuse everything what is available and buy ignite. We will have super cool announcements on this one as well stay tuned, I. Think! That's it a lot of stuff. A lot of talking a lot of thinking. Let me actually close to sharing. Let's get back on the screens and let's hope, this time the videos training actually works. Oh yes,.

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Or I guess is still there a little.

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Kisses here, yeah he's been like.

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You for your volume, yes,.

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Yes, somebody's always watching me behind my back he's surprisingly quiet. He isn't that quiet typically, but anyway we didn't touch scripting or PMP or seasonal.

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Powershell we killed it yeah now.

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Maybe test for credits for urban as urban urban Impala are building now a really nice evolution of the BMP provisioning engine, which will be in tint tenant level provision, so you're able to basically then have a one PNP file and which defines multiple site collections, I, design, side, scripts taxonomy is everything else and you basically say for an engine prohibition this to my tenant and it's going to make magical things happen. So that is in progress.

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There's always there's always some challenges, we'll get it done, hopefully by ignite, and that was the thing which I related on the shipments target and there will be other announcements available anytime. ah What is talking a lot of waving hands? Oh I think we actually been slightly longer today. 25 minutes roughly, but that's probably fine good stuff, great stuff great to see the the community.

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Sharing keep.

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Sharing keep walking area finding being asked to use the ship on dev weekly tackles in Twitter. So we know if you're writing, cool stuff or thing us on Twitter we're trying to get all of those things copied to our mail list of memory list or try. Post-It notes, that's high priority tasks.

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That's what this side.

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In the TV all right once.

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They are in finish right, so that's why it's.

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It's pretty sad, I'm desperate trying to get rid of them, but it's just I just want the ship.

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It's a bit it's done, rather than a click on something anyway good discussion, Thank You walnut for this one and we'll be back with the new weekly updates on from there's. No, yes, sir, thank you for watching. Please give us feedback if we're missing something. If you don't agree on something or you agree on something to start a discussion on social media on Twitter Facebook were more than happy to engage any details you want to have, or anything else, just open. Take community discussion on an Eskimo.

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Do some things we'll try to help you, but thank you for watching and we'll see.

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Next week, Saint that time but Channel yes.