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From YouTube: PnP Monthly Community Call - December 2017

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SharePoint PnP Community call recording from 12th of December, 2017. Summary of the activities happened in the past month around SharePoint development guidance and 3 specific demos around SharePoint development topics.

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Cute so welcome everybody. This is SharePoint developer, developing ecosystems, a SharePoint BMP community called- and this is the December 2017 edition. So within these monthly community calls will go through what has happened within the SharePoint development site, from a guidance and sample and community perspective within the last month. So it's quite a lot of actually again the culture during this month, because there has been a lot of lot of changes and improvements in our documentation and videos and samples, and all of them will also have three different demos today.

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So let me actually jump into the attendance line, so we have three different demos like, like typically within the community, calls we'll start with a let's say, fifteen to twenty minute summary and what has happened within the November 2017 and if there's any questions comments during the call, please use the I am window. The chat window in the Skype, so I would ask that people would keep themselves unmuted or sorry muted during the call.

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And then, if you have any questions, let's use time window for having a discussion now quickly walking through the summary on the November 2017 released. Let's start with a November 2017 and numbers, so we did have a 148 thousand watch minutes in YouTube channel, so we're seeing increased interest on the videos around the SharePoint development, which is a good thing. So people are finding the YouTube channel and the more and more will link these videos to the guidance in the docs that Microsoft that come. We say more uptake on the views as well.

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If there's something missing by the way, for example, from a video perspective, just please let us know using two social media channels and we can figure out how to get stuff recorded for you. We had twenty four thousand views in YouTube, so twenty four thousand divided one hundred and forty-eight divided twenty fours will give you the average watch minute on a one video. We had 43 at thirty-four thousand unique visitors and github, and six hundred and twenty five thousand views in Docs of microsoft.com so which is actually significantly from the previous month. So undoctored microsoft.

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That comes that sharepoint and deaf section we're seeing a massive increase of views on that side. Do reasons or another, which is a good thing now on the BMP, reusable components usage. So, if you think about the the BMP, while few years back, it only meant BMP, PowerShell and PNP core we've been always tracking. The usage of these components and these components are now used in 5.5 row generated 5.5 billion requests during last month and they were used in 8100 tenants.

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Obviously, if we think about SharePoint framework or shape and add-ins, though some used in a much wider spectrum, but those numbers are not actually public, so we can't actually share all those details and the most-used capability from a open source community perspective was again the provisioning engine so using that either using the PNP PowerShell or using the C some core. As the platform.

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Now few announcements and few things before we go through kind of a summary on the monthly changes and what actually has happened, a few things which I'm repeating in every single monthly call, so all of our documentation has been already moved. All of the active documentation has been already moved to a kms s. Pdf dogs defer this is redirecting to the dogs that my stuff, that comes to us SharePoint as Dave, where we have then guidance on the SharePoint framework. Rest API is chef, Ontarians web hooks and all that.

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So this is the location where we keep on updating the documentation and if there's any issues or challenges to run the documentation, for example, you some some document, you don't like that document. You can absolutely contribute back by submitting a poor request and to the kid son or alternatively, please use our issue list to AKMs.

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Sp dev issues will land you on the SP dev dogs issue list, and this is really meant to be a way for you to let SharePoint engineering directly in Redmond to know that there's an issue either on the documentation or there's a potential issue in SharePoint framework, so for example, or in any other things in, for example, in SharePoint Online. So if you're running in the random unexpected situations and SharePoint framework, can you have potentially think that there might be a buck within a sharepoint framework?

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Please use this issue list rather than comment section in the spdm. Sorry in the door stirred my system, so we get things tracked and in the tutorials, for example, in our documentation, we have now added a guidance that please please, please, if you find any issues in the documentation, go to this SPF docs issue list in github and submit an issue with the repro details, so we can actually know what wasn't working and what should be resolved- and this is also a great location to suggest- also change this.

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So if you have, for example, if you have, for example, suggestions on improvements of a documentation or or any other things, this would be the potential location for that. Where would we discrete question from Christian? Where should we report issues with the site collection of catalog? This is the location running any issues in SharePoint, Online or development platform. A kms SPD of issues, issue list in espied abducts. Please submit an issue there tell me, will tell us what's wrong, not just me. There's other people behind of this as well.

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Tell us what's wrong and also to reproduce both tips, and we can help you as fast as possible, so absolutely a viable solution and in the case of site collection, up catalog.

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The super curious on unknowing, if there's some issues or potential issues and with that one which Christiaan is pointing out in the window, cool cute other things, so a few different things which I wanted to race or race for the discussion and increase the awareness within the monthly community called perspective before we go to the demo sign during a November released office, 365 CLI for those who haven't actually seen this live or haven't seen the blog post in the Twitter or Facebook, which we post a few weeks ago.

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This is really around enabling you, for example, to manipulate tenant office, 365, tenant, CDN options using an on Microsoft platform, so the powershell sharepoint online, powershell, ship and online Richmond show is targeted for windows platform and that Pocho doesn't work in in the Mac or in the Linux platform. Now there's quite a lot of developers who only have a Mac or they have a Linux. So the office 365 CLA is really there to enable those people who don't have a Windows to manipulate these settings in a tenant level or if your are a Windows user.

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You can use this tool to configure at your turnout level settings as well as long as you are obviously a tenant administrator, but using this kind of a tool you don't need to leave from the console experience if you prefer to be in the console experience and as as you move along or as you do, your development so AKMs office, 365 CLI will redirect you to the documentation page.

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We will explain what is it and how does it work and how to get to started with an office 365 CLI few other things which we wanted to pinpoint on the changes related on SharePoint ownership on development within the last month. This is isn't precisely on a ship on development, but it is heavily on a SharePoint development, so SharePoint publishing documentation has moved to the docks of Microsoft that come, and this is where we will find the open source. Sharepoint management, shell, shipment online and the BMP commented documentation.

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We are working on an improvements on this documentation as well, so we are absolutely aware that there are issues and challenges around the quality of the documentation in these comments. But now that we are already in the new and a much more flexible platform, we can make those changes in the future in a more reliable way.

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A kms SB SB PowerShell is an AMS Atris tool and there- and this is a great location- to find on-premises documentation, sharepoint online documentation and also BMP PowerShell documentation from one location and like that, we're working on documentation, improvements for all of those based on the feedback, what we are getting from the community as well. What else has has happened within the last month within the November time frame?

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So we did release quite a lot of new videos and and BMP webcast, so a kms, PSP BMP videos will lend you to our YouTube channel, so we did have four specific webcasts, so we did have a webcast around a land api's which was in the November. We did have a webcast around transforming your sharepoint online classic javascript customizations to modern shape on framework customizations. We did have a webcast around the asset packaging, which is the one which went live earlier this this this week. We also had few PMP short videos.

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You can find them from this location as well and and new cat videos to look at videos is the new thing which we're starting to do more and more in the future. So these some videos which are intended to be 30 seconds to 60 seconds and embedded on the article in the documentation. So the whole point of this new get video system. If somebody is looking into just to get resolved on, for example, how to get started in office, 365 CLI how to connect to your channel.

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That is the video which will show that and nothing more than that. So it's a super simplified video. We also released the new version and new setup of our tutorial videos, so there's a new version of the getting started SharePoint, which open framework tutorial videos which we have a written format in the ghost of microsoft.com. But then we have a video format in the in the YouTube channel now.

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Well, there's a good comment from Russell. Look at videos, I, don't know, get this dead. Didn't forget this. Definitely not in debt and look at is absolutely alive and feeling well in the managed code side, and we will still continue writing a managed code in Azure which is connecting to the sharepoint online so cute or mcnuggets. It's always a option.

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Now, on the most used samples in the November 2017, we are a number one sample was well sample, or most views was tracked last month, the PMP site score component, which is to see some extension on top of the sharepoint online system and then on right after that, one, the classic sharepoint you are responsive, which is transforming the classic seattle that master to be responsive, and we are luckily things slightly a less and less interest on that one, which means that people are correct, adapting also the modern ways of all the modern SharePoint sites and to be fair, the SharePoint you are responsive, Achatz, isn't 100 pullet proof 100% bulletproof either, but it shows how to make a CLO that master responsive.

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There was quite a lot of interest on the GDP, our activity hub, which is a great kick Connecticut for building SharePoint Online solutions using SharePoint framework, so done by Paulo, Pia Laura, Laura C, and it also shows the business case case around the TDP. Our European European Union TDP are legal changes which, by the way, is something which every single us-based company should have a quick look if they do any business with the European employees or European other companies, which is an interesting change which is going to be active during next year.

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Bmp tools and the search query tool for macaws Menston, absolutely good to say that one pretty high, the SharePoint croute is a great SP FX solution sample showing how to get started on the crew operations, so create read, update and delete operations which open framework with pods and I'm. Not gonna read all of these true that just to pinpoint some of this and p.m. BTS core, it's getting quite old nicely hits as well.

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Overall, we had ninety nine thousand views in our it up samples, so we're tracking these using this kind of a tracking in its solution. Till we understand how width of the samples are more popular than other ones. You can actually see, from the view count that there is a pretty long tail on the samples, because we do have like 300 samples, nickytom.

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Quickly and so on, the community side, if you never been participating on the score- and there are multiple ways of engaging with the SharePoint dev ecosystem and the community work within the ship on development. So easiest way to get an answer potentially to your question, is to use the SharePoint developer group in the Microsoft tech community, so again, SSB BMP community or the long, a dress underneath Microsoft tech community, and that is a a really a simple forum. Where you can ask questions and then get answers or questions from the community side.

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Then we do have a five special interest. Group calls for shipment framework and JavaScript development is one and another. One is a for SharePoint and general development, and these are basically on meeting every single, a while by weekly on Thursdays, which means that since they are both bi-weekly, every single Thursday at 7:00 a.m. Pacific time, which is 3:00 p.m. GMT time in Europe. There is a community call where we will have a waste time for Q&A and a more open discussion.

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This monthly community cost, which is the last kind of area to engage, is more around us telling what has happened within the last month and the next monthly community calls obviously is in the second Tuesday of January 2018, which is the 9th of January. So in any case, if you download any of this in white, they are recurrent in which they will be recurrent until the end of June 2018 now quickly.

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What has happened in 29 to 2017 and December release or what has happened or what has included in the kit happen samples during past months, there's a lot of stuff here, I'm going to be super fast. We have like eight new client-side web part samples or five coins out web part samples and extensions which are showing different things as if multiple skype examples, there's a really cool web part. Examples which we've been demonstrating on the special interest groups as well on the tutorial site.

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There's a three new tutorials around how to transform your JavaScript SharePoint, Online, JavaScript customizations from a user custom action or chase link perspective to the modern ways of customizing SharePoint Online. So your customizations are supported also in the modern experiences cool stuff, which will help people to learn how to do that in the in the SharePoint Online on the sample site. There's reusable controls on the web part title is in the is new thing in a reusable controls: that's coming out relatively soon or will be released today or tomorrow.

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There's a five or six different column, formatting samples which are showing how to build column, formatting definitions using the SharePoint Online column for platform on the guidance site. There say there's a lot of new articles available around the different shipment online customization options on the core component and engine updates. There's a lot of changes on the core component. We will see a lot of these actually live in the Paolo's demo slightly later on.

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This call and same applies on the PowerShell side, so there's new commandlets related on the PM modern page modifications in the SharePoint sites, and this will make make, for example, enable you to create additional modern pages in SharePoint, using scripts or PowerShell scripts and then modify what's on those pages using the the latest capabilities in the BMP site's core component. We also introduced a preview version of the new provisioning engine template with the supporting alm the activities.

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So as part of this creation of a template, you can actually apply an Add, Ins or solutions to the side as well. You can also apply tenant level settings. You can also apply those new attributes for client, side, 80s and new attributes from navigation which are now supporting polar will, show some of these during his demo as well. So a lot of a lot of great improvements on the core and engine site on the CLI and javascriptcore site. Javascript coresight is evolving fast as well.

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So this additional support for shape on ALM api's, which went live earlier, December early November when office, 365, CLI side, we've already seen two different versions or additional versions around the a limit, API support as well, and also additional customization support there on the list of people who contributed I think we actually did a record list and this month. So this is like 40 45 50 community members who contributed during a November, and thank you for your contributions.

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This is Hawaii every single other everything other product or service, in which Microsoft company is envious about the SharePoint community, because we actually help each other by contributing and being active in the community site, so helping by providing components and samples and documentation, updates or helping by providing and having a discussion in a key table or in the tech community or in a social media. So thank you. Thank you. So much for your contributions on the company site.

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We absolutely had the largest company participant site as well, so if from the people on the previous page, these are the companies which we have a permission to show the logo, and this is the largest list of companies we never had in the BMPs side. So it's nice to see the interest of contributing to the open source area crowing month by month by month, which is a great thing and great thing to see. So, thank you.

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Thank you so much for allowing your employees to contribute on the open source initiative and making other people succeed as well, because that's how the SharePoint community will succeed and that's how the SharePoint business will keep on growing. Thank you for that. On Microsoft side, I wrote of the typical list of people, so we have a technical writers. We have PNP code, name, members, Splatt or SPF X engineering people participating on the on the journey as well.

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So thank you from a Microsoft people beside as well, but a lot of people have contributed on the on the key top and our tooling and within the past month now, finally getting to the demo site. This is getting more and more difficult every single month, because there's more and more stuff happening on the SharePoint development side now we'll start with a Aiden Elvis from a demo perspective and obviously during the demos and everything else feel free to use that window for questions and if you have any other questions related on.

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What we already went true feel free to use during Windows for those as well. I'll concentrate on that one as we move along to demo. So Daniel will start then we'll go to urban around the new PNP powershell commandlets on the modern page handling and then we'll go to paulo around the new schema and provisioning engine support. But Daniel we check the audio. It's fine for you already, yes, hi cool.

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Let's say that the screen-sharing hopefully versus crossing fingers.

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Works out, let's see it starts loading three dots.

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Okay and here we go and we can see screen sharing. Okay, so you know please take it away great thanks.

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Annalise I'm CTO at Sky, Bowl and I've, been like the father of our day, be enriched forms, which is got a rich ones now, so I've got a lot of interest in SharePoint foreign stuff and of course it was a great opportunity to try out and see how to implement the new modern forms in a webpart SharePoint SP fix webparts using react, so I'll just go through a short demo to show you what the web part does it's all in the sample and should help now, so anybody can get the codes and have a look after it as well.

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We'll look at the code afterwards in detail. So if I'm on a page, not like a nice web part for adding some items, for example, I'll get my new left form webparts and we can configure it say, share your idea and can select which list this year, our old SharePoint list, like ideas, for example, and what type we have new this way edits in SharePoint will know what they mean and we even have a chance to set a URL which will be visiting after saving this form.

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So what we have here is actually a webpart that renders the whole list form generically just by the information it gets from the list and it doesn't stop there. We can even move around field delete fields if we don't need it and it's just showing the form and modern page use. So let's try it out so I'll just publish that and see what happens so crazy idea.

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Just yeah, we even have lookups, for example, and state.

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Category can live without, as you can see, it's been saved, it's a normal, updated list. It's added it to the list, I've redirected to a second pages, what I actually configured in the redirect URL and passed in the ID of the newly created. So there you have the different form.

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If we look at it, it's just basic content up here, and this is again a list form which is configured to show that edit type of this form so I guess you can make the nice workflows for editing ideas or adding tickets or whatever you'll have tons of ideas, but the main part actually was just to find out how we can handle this custom forms in SharePoint framework web parts using react. So let's have a look at the background wall.

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So if we look at the codes.

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Actually, fairly standard stuff, you have you'll have the web parts here, so we have the list form web part, and this is more or less what we have in all our samples with a find web parts rendering react. So this list form web part is just based, client-side web parts and it handles the property pane. It handles the configuration everything we can see. The fields here are also shown, depending, for example, on the control mode. So this is where you actually configure all the property pane stuff.

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Now it has the properties, as we know it, and as we've seen in the in here, for example- and it has one extra field configuration- this is where the whole ordering and which fields are shown is actually stored. So this is actually in the web part in the configuration now moving down. The list form web part will render up here will actually the core is that it will render a list form and the list form is where all the magic happens.

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So if we look at the list form in the components directory in here, this is actually the central part where the state is held where the schema is loaded. The data is loaded and all the fields are rendered. So if we look at the render, I won't go in too deep because there's a lot of things like notifications, errors here that are rendered, but the main point is actually the field rendering and here for each field, the appropriate components are rendered.

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So we have a SP form field, control, a component source or react component that is being rendered depending on. If we are in the design mode, we will wrap it in a draggable component so that the director book component is actually what is available here. So if we have that this is in design mode, if we look at the runtime mode, you won't have the dragging anymore, because it's only designer, so that's main part for the whole list form atom.

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Central parts for the fields is actually the SP form field which controls which components depending on the field type we are going to render. So we have here like an array where we list which field type will generate, which form I, which field component and saying here for display and for edit and the rendering is actually done in SPO form a form fields run in a component stateless component.

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So all the state is really kept in the list form outside, but this will just render which one we need. So if we have, for example, this platforms, they will get the display field type, mappings and use interpreter control. Now there is one special rapper called form field which will actually render all the label and the description which is more or less on every field. So all the stuff around here, a title or even when we have the error message. Stuff like this- will be rendered here.

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So this form field was the label and just the past in input field will be reused, so yeah everything's, you are fabric, the dragging the draggable is implemented with react. D&Amp;D, so do you have fabric is for all the components. The controls you see. The draggable component is implemented using react, D&D, which is probably the most widespread drag-and-drop.

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Library and react space, so these were all here. You can definitely use it. Also in are any other areas, it's quite nice, maybe if we go into the fields itself when the inputs are rendered. So this is what the field form fields will be doing. Let's take, for example, the fields text. So this is just a UI fabric text field, it's rendering, so it looks office style all that's handled by your fabric.

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One thing we have to note is that if we in react, when working with forms, it's actually suggested to have controls components instead of uncontrolled components, uncontrolled components are components that will keep it States in the dorms or so actually like a normal input field. Has this value and you only if you're not using react, you'll wait until the Save button is done and then off it goes getting the value from the Dom element itself now react.

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We use controlled components, or at least that's suggested, which means that we we only pass the props into these components and we never keep the state inside the field itself. So if we have like an input field like text field, we always pass the value from top and anything. That's changed is actually propagated to the list form in this case, and the state is kept in the list form and only ever updated down through the properties into the text field through the values.

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So it's important to make sure that these controls your fabric, sort of react. If value isn't set, it will say: ok, this is an uncontrolled component to make it control to always set the value anyway, one big areas, always of course, how do we get the data and we have the services here so and the list form actually calls this.

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This form service gets the schemas from there. The data firm for the form. There is no data item in the create item, so the list form actually has the service to call, and in here we're using REST API and what I've actually done is just checked.

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What out of box mother and jam points forums are doing so this is more or less exactly the methods that are called there and the great thing is you get all the information you need so they'll be like some of the schema will contain even the fields that the lookup values, so you don't have to re query just to get the lookup values all that stuff. So we have to render this data stream used for getting this email now.

A

Explicitly on that one so that that's sorry for jumping on this one this this is such a classic requirement. So, let's reiterate on what you're saying so? Can you go to this site and show the look of what you have in practice and then you again come back on this one because for you, I know that you're super familiar of the stuff but I think people don't necessarily really understand. What are we talking here? That list of product is not actually a choice field. It is a look of it right. That's.

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A lookup field, so it's actually from the products list, so these items are rendered into this drop down your fabric field and I can show you in the color. It looks so when I have the look of fields itself.

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So if we look at the s page, you could look up at it here. You can see it gets the options now the options are actually already in the field scheme, I'm betting and this field. Schemas, is what I'm retrieving, not just by getting the normal fields scheme of you just iterate through the field of a list. It's actually using the list form service render list they extreme exact.

B

Yes and I never prepared the query there, but or the response, but in that response, you'll have a list of choices, so you don't have to do anything to just get this here and.

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The reason why I'm jumping on this one, one of the, for example, in user voice and in the social media, quite often people are asking. Why can't we? Why don't you help us on resolving the lookup field? Values on the lists will actually be doing. That is as long as you use that REST API, we are actually giving you and the lookup values as well for your code, and that is a great great great thing to actually cover within this call, because I don't think people are aware of that. Rest API endpoint.

B

Yeah definitely very useful and I mean the way to find out how SharePoint does it is just run it in your browser and go into the developer, pane and check the network and that's how I found out what it's going going on there. So this is actually not very well documented, but then easily you can find out what is doing it's doing it. Yep yep.

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So how this phone services, the important part where you can see how we're getting the data and also the validate, update this documents for the update and it's using the add, validate update list action using path or creating an item.

B

So, let's ramp up this thing about forums in react is that we have a different concept and normally with data binding, we're passing everything down from from the top keeping the state high up and passing into all fields at the same time, so actually a good example to see this, as if I just add a extra field. Here, you haven't shown you activate matter field multiple times here. So if I add this field here, you can see this isn't done by some data binding magic.

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It's actually just this control reporting fiddle its form, the fields that have changed and the properties are always passed down the same for each field, so it looks as if they are connected to each other, but actually it's just a list form. So this is really nice concept, in fact, and definitely worth to keep these controlled components.

B

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And I'm Daniel Chester, Conover you're so easily just running through the whole thing, but just explaining the value of this wave part is it's a such a typical requirement that hey I want to request some feedback from I ain't users and I: don't need to have a forum and then I need to be able to have a redirection forum. There we go. That's that's what this way part is suing.

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Yeah and this sample is, of course, a great place to also check how you could do a custom form which probably doesn't just render flat and you reuse these component. 3. Is this structure and there's a lot there already, so you can yeah do any form sharepoint form. You want yep.

A

Absolutely absolutely great stuff, great stuff, it's too bad that we have running our always low on time on this course that we can't actually deed dial on there on the more on this one, but super super polished and and a crate, crate, crate experience, but thank you Daniel for this one now I think we were planning to have urban next. On the on the demo side, urban can you're here.

C

Yep, yes, I can.

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My screen flip on your screen and thank you Danielle for a crate, crate, crate demo I think super super available for showing how to how to make that happen. You're.

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C

You should be able to see it.

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It's loading and we got it Stockholm surprise right so.

C

I want to do first, a little housekeeping, cool or topic when it comes to the pouch.

C

The we had to change the certificate now I will spare you all the details that we had to go through for signing the certificate we used to sign the the commandlets, but also the NuGet packages with, but it means that if you upgrade, if you used until now, I will switch to PowerShell to show you if you use the upgrades module to like say name SharePoint, PMP PowerShell online, and you execute this. You might run into an error message stating that the certificate is different and that's correct.

C

The old certificate was different from the one we are using right now, so the weight forward here is to first uninstall PowerShell, so uninstall them are you install module in the install module and it's important that you specify all versions, because if you do upgrades will actually install just a new version side-by-side. So if you do all versions, it will remove the full PowerShell module from your system, and then you install the module again and then you will use the new certificates and you will not get the error message that yeah certificate is different.

C

Just a little remark here. So what I will show today is a couple of new commandlets. That's that we released, which help you to manipulate modern pages and I've set up a very simple demo page here with a web map, then being map on it's pointing to my hometown and I'll. Show you a bit, but you can do with you with these new commandlets, so we have a command that allows you to retrieve all the command lists order the webparts and we call it components because it's not only applying to webparts.

C

There's also is like a text component. You can add to a page, so it's gets PNP, client-side components and they'll. Ask you for the page will list you all the web parts or text components on the on the page right now you see, there's only one web part in here and I will add any webparts, P and P well text in this case client side text on the page demo and the text will be hello, nothing else, and if we go to the page and reload this space, there's my hello there.

C

So if I retrieve this.

C

Hates demo there you see the two components on the page, and you see that the textbook component is now located in the second position of that page. So if I want to move that one up to the first position, I can say: move PP find site component page demo instance ID. This is this ID and then I, say position and move to the first position.

C

Similar thing I could do is to move this client-side web part and, at the same time, copy this and I can actually move it to, for instance, the second column.

C

So now my page should be completely reordered, so this text should be up there and the code, the web. The map should be at the right side. Reloads page there we go I moved the text up here, I moved it up to the right. It's very simple, now to move components around on your page and change. The ordering of those components on your page by.

A

The way urban while you're doing that sorry for interrupting just to make sure that I understand all of these capabilities are available for code as well. So this is not just PowerShell. So if you're a developer and you're like Nana I, don't want to say polish on no know that all of this is capable- and you can do this for using code as well. Yeah.

C

This works purely because we enable this functionality in PNP core yeah. So if you use PP core, you can do this from code to is identical. So sometimes I ask the question popping up so every now and then we would like to set the title of the web part, and that's this title. The challenge with with nowhere parties or that FPF X solutions is that the title is not the standard property. It is something that the web part provides. Unlike the classic web parts with all had a title property.

C

Modern web press won't necessarily have that some of those um do sometimes. So, where is this information stored? This information is stored in the properties of the web part itself and, if I show you how to set in this case for the map, the value there so if I say, gets PNP client-side component page demo instance ID and we're going for the web part here. So we're copying this. Let me copy it's completely and put this in a variable.

C

So now I have the web part, and here is a properties, jason string- and here you see the title there. So, if I copy this whole Jason block here, launch notepad paste it in change the title to hello. Stockholm copy this again to my clipboard, then I put it into a variable properties.

C

So you see, if I have a look in here. There is my new Jason here. Is he the hello spoken text in there for the title now I can say: set PP client-side web part, page demo, identity and that's again, this ID properties, Jason properties, presenter. If we go to the page and there we have set the title of the specific web part, we have similar Commandments for removing web parts. We have commanders already for adding sections and that's Anna kind of stuff.

C

So that's all there, but these new ones allow you to easily move from left to right, up and down within the column, etc, etc, etc, and, as I said, this is available for code too. So, if you want a pure seasoned solution or a c-sharp solution, it's there for you to consume.

C

Now another last thing: the last thing before I hand over to Paulo is.

A

There's one more thing: this.

C

Is the one more thing is not the demo I'm? Sorry, it's just a sad story. We found an issue with the current Obama release that we released yesterday. We found an issue there we'll be able to coming.

C

If you are a developer and you have users to you and everything installed, you will not notice this issue, but if you run is completely stands alone, you will run into this issue and for that reason we will introduce a dot two, which means we have to go through the signing process again, and that is a very complex process. It's not as easy as it used to be so it will take a bit, but there will be it does too. So if you've run into that issue revert to the previous version, yeah.

A

So, even to be fair, you understood the one more thing in in the wrong way, because typically one more thing is like. Oh.

C

A

So on the PowerShell sign, we have identified a book and we'll address that back later today, early tomorrow on our timeframe, so there will be a new version of the of the BMP powershell for december and obviously, if we found out any critical box during december with a weapon new version still and the next version is then in january, sign up an unfortunate thing. This relates on the on the signing and we do the fact that we signed our stuff slightly differently now.

A

So in this month we had a small conflict complications with this, but okay should be changed. Apollo then yeah thanks, okay and and thank serving great great cake demand. Hopefully, people understand the power of that one, because you can standardize the the wet parts and pages in your sites easily now remotely and that's a great great great thing as well, but now Paulo I think you have the one more thing: yeah.

D

Yeah, of course, welcome and hello.

B

D

From break up just because Herod was welcoming people from Stockholm.

D

About the new capabilities that we introduced in the PNP provisioning engine, first of all, from a schema perspective and later from a engines perspective, so this Martha we released the 1801 schema version. We are forward thinkers, so we are already in January now, but we released the new schema, which is right now under preview.

D

In fact, if you go to the repo of the PNP provision in schema, you would be able to see that we have the current default implemented version, which is 210 1705, which is the one we are using since I think was July this year and we have the current approved version, which is the 2018 zero one, which will be the upcoming one for the next month. Right now, if you use the provisioning engine, we are using code in dotnet or using PowerShell.

D

You can use the the upcoming new version of the schema, but you will have to make an explicit choice to use it. Otherwise you will fall back on the default, one which is still the 2000 1705.

D

So let me try to explain you what we introduced in the new schema version, and so I will go to the visual studio project in which I have the schema and first of all, I want to share with all of you, one I think really useful information. Since the 2000 1705 schema I started using as additional metadata information in the schema so that you can recognize what is new for every single schema version.

D

So, for example, if I search in the xsv file of the latest schema the annotation, the X is the up info, which will state this has been added with the schema 2000 1801.

D

You will see that, for example, we added the tenant element at the provisioning level at the provisioning template level, or we added some other new elements and attributes, and whenever we have a new element or a new attribute, we have these metadata annotation to make it clear that this is a new capability, a new feature introduced, and so you can use this kind of metadata information to figure out what are the new elements and the new information so now from the facilities.

D

One perspective, the first addition we made and let me switch to an XML sample instead of using the access D, which is I, think a little bit more complex than needed, but from a provisioning, XML provisioning file perspective. We have a new PNP tenant element in which we do support the BMP up catalog element through this one.

D

We can define any package from a SharePoint framer perspective or from a SharePoint that in perspective that you want to deploy on the tenant wide up catalog of your tenant and as you can see, you can provide the source file of the package that want to upload and publish, for example, or you can just upload the new item and maybe later on, you will publish it. You can even remove an item if you wanna just do some maintenance and remove a package that you read installed.

D

If you upload other and eventually publish an item, you will have to reference the package file path on your side. If you are removing or just publishing, you will need to reference the package ID. Moreover, when you do the upload and publish you can select, if you want to have this Kippur feature, skip feature deployment and or not, and if you want to override any already existing item.

D

Moreover, we have the content delivery network session still in the tenant element, a child of a talent element, and through this element you will be able not now, but in the very near future, you will be able to automate the provisioning of the content delivery network and of any origin in the public or in the private CDN of your tenant. This is an upcoming feature. It is already defined in the schema and it will be most likely next month available in the engine as well.

D

Those are the main changes together with the application lifecycle management. So let me search for it: application lifecycle management, the provisioning template level. We introduce the application lifecycle management element through which the gain we have a placeholder right now, just a placeholder for the site, collection catalog right now. We do not have support for this capability at the ALM api's level. So we right now just have the schema, which is ready and as soon as the ALM API is in SharePoint Online will be ready to.

D

We will add this functionality to the engine, but we have the absurd element, which is again a child of the application lifecycle management through which we can install update or uninstall a package a so a sharpen framework package or a SharePoint at in solution into the target set collection. So basically using a provisioning template. You are able and you will be able to not only do the provisioning of the classic.

D

Let me say classic artifacts like lists, filter, side, columns, content types and so on so forth, but you will also be able to upload a package and to enable that package in the targets, I collection, so that you will be able to fully automate the provisioning of a site collection or of a site, including any custom, Edina or SharePoint framework package, that you will need that, for example, in your custom pages. So let me show you: how use these capabilities using the engine and to make it easier for you to follow the topic. I?

D

Will use one more time PowerShell and some common words in PowerShell, but again you can do almost the same stuff, just using dotnet code in your minutes code based applications. So let me go to my target folder and let me connect to my target environment. First of all, because I wanna show you that you can use the PDMP provisioning template comment later and you can specify that you want to use the 2000 1801 schema version. By doing that, you will extract a template which will be already in the new schema format.

D

Let me stress this information right now. If you don't specify the schema argument, you will get 2000 1705, but if you want to start playing with a new schema, just use this schema argument and you will be ready to play with it because it is already available at the engine level. It is not the default one. That's the difference. Moreover. I want to create a new modern site using the new PNP side, comment: light that we released the I think was last month if I'm, not mistaken and I will use this new modern site.

D

That I will create that I'm going to create right now to do some provisioning. So while this comment, let is doing the provisioning of the side, which usually takes just a few seconds. Let me show you a provision in template that I'm going to apply to this site, so I will show you what's inside the demo 0-1 file. Here we have a very simple provisioning template in which we have at the tenant level the provisioning of a package which will be a package of a customer hello world.

D

What part built using the SharePoint framework and we have at the template level the provisioning in the apply lifecycle management of the same package in order to install the web part defining this package into the target site. As you can see here, we can play with tokens so I install this package in the App, Catalog and then I say, use the application package ID of that package to install it in the target set collection. So let me do that because my side now is ready and well created.

D

So let me get the URL of my site, so let me copy it to the clipboard I'm, so lazy when I do that, and let me show you the site in my browser visiting new site I've just created, let me go to the site. Content and I will I am already in the classic view, so back to PowerShell, I can connect to the site that I've, just created and I can apply the provisioning template that I showed you.

D

Let's do that, as you will see, there will be one section dedicated to the tenant settings pretty soon. It will show up and later on the application lifecycle management section. Here we are at the Senate Tennis ethics level. If I go back to my browser, while it is working here, I have my App Catalog and if I will refresh the content of my up Katoch here, you can see I have the new package which I have just installed using the provisioning engine. Moreover, if I go back now the application lifecycle management was working.

D

So let me go back to my site. Let me refresh the site content and, as you can see, the application package is under installation. So now we are installing the package in the target site collection. As soon as the packet will be ready. We can also install or use better use D, for example, the web part that I have defined in this package in a custom client side page.

D

So let me show you one more template here: I'm going to create a client side page, which will be the sample dot aspx file, in which I will use a canvas control to render a custom client side web part, which is exactly the one I have in this project, which is the one I deployed in the app catalog.

D

And if we go here, this is the ID that I'm using in the provision template so basically I'm, just creating a page with the clients that were part and I created inside of the sample page dot, aspx file, it is installed now. So let me go back to powershell and let me apply this template again, as you saw, I have to wait for the package to be fully installed in the site collection most likely the next month or the month later.

D

We will be ready to have a technique to define a sequence of steps so that we can wait for the package to be ready and we can create the page afterwards right now, I executed two different I used two different templates now I have my sample page and if I go there, I can see that I have my page with my custom web part which have been deployed using the provisioning engine.

D

Of course, you can even do the opposite, so you can use the get VMP up common common lat to get a reference to the package that we installed and you can use one more template to remove the package from the site. Let me show you the content of the template. Here. We say: okay get the top package with the ID equal to the parameter that we have in the template definition and just uninstall the package, and we can provide the parameter using the parameters. Argument of the apply pimpy provision template.

D

Moreover, once we have done that, we can also remove from the app catalog with the remove action. The full package in order to clean up the site collection of cattle I will not do that right now, just for the sake of saving some time, because we are running out of time. But basically you can use the provisioning engine to fully automate the ALM of your solutions.

D

And so now you can do a full provision on your site, including custom packages from sharpen framework or from the SharePoint adding model and I think it is really really cool. That's all for this short demo about the new ALM capabilities at the engine level, Mesa. So back to you.

A

You ball up Thank You Paula for that one and we are running low on time. Unfortunately, it's always the thing there's so many things to talk about. Maybe in the future we need to slightly adjust the intersection. And/Or then think about doing more detailed demos, always on the special interest group calls now Thank You Paula for super helpful demo around the upcoming changes and, like Paula, pointed out I'm gonna flip on the demo slide. So, like Paula pointed out, this is now the preview of the 1809 1801. So January 2018 schema template.

A

So it's not the default schema. What is being used? There was some few questions on the on the ion window, which I wanted to quickly address before we close up. So there was a question around. Where do we actually talk about this things and the upcoming provisioning schema changes, and all of that? The answer is typically in a special interest group cost also in the SharePoint at general development or the season or powershell special interest group call, so we always go through.

A

What are we planning to do and show the schema thinking and then take your input on it? We also collect the input through the github repository at the github repo specialist and all that, because, when I get people well, if I'm missing a functionality in the provisioning schema, we absolutely wanted to get it there.

A

After this latest changes, we are really running starting to run low on an ideas and what do we need to actually implement on the provisioning schema, so we're kind of a coverage we have a pretty high coverage on the on the web object level at least there's some things, maybe in a tenant about which we can still address, but really really a high level of coverage from a season perspective anyway. I think this is, and that's it for this monthly community call. Thank you for everybody for joining and thank you for watching.

A

Thank you for your contributions. Like I mentioned when, in the intro section, we had the record amount of contributors in the SharePoint, a deaf ecosystem site for this month, which is say a really really nice to see. So it's a growing interest around the community and open-source work, but please keep the feedback coming using the issue, lists and other social media channels.

A

Please please, please let us know if something is missing where you need help, we need assistance and to be successful with SharePoint development, but thank you, everybody and we'll be absolutely in touch in our coming days and weeks and see you hopefully latest on the January monthly community call. Thank you.