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From YouTube: SharePoint Developer Monthly Community Call - April 2018

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SharePoint Developer (SP PnP) Community call recording from 10th of April 2018. Summary of the activities happened in the past month around SharePoint development guidance and annoucement of new Site Script actions with live demos.

Demos - Demonstration of new Site Design and Site Script actions which were announced in the monthly community call.

Detailed agenda an links to specific sections available from http://dev.office.com/blogs

You can download recurrent invite for the monthly SharePoint community calls from http://aka.ms/sppnp-call.

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So welcome everybody. This is Shep on deaf ecosystem, Shep and patterns and practices. Community call this is this: is the April 2018 and April 10th is the true science, precise timing, and so today, we'll kind of go. This is typical.

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Monthly community call so we'll go through what has happened within the last month and that will typically take like 15 to 20 minutes me having a presentation and few slides, and the discussion on the topics will kind of talk about the user voice update so what's happening there I'm going to mention a few user voice entries which we are currently working on so you'll know exactly where we are. We've done monthly summary as well and other details, then we'll have new announcements shown sparse. We just signed on this exact minute.

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It's gonna do some announcements around the new site: script, actions for site designs and side scripts, so we will not be waiting only for SBC making these things available for you, because we want to have them for you as fast as possible, then in SBC, meaning sharepoint conference in May with how we will have additional capabilities available plot post by the way again on that one will be coming right after this call when I get my access on the on the blocking platform.

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Now so we'll have a demo from some squares around the new site productions in practice. All of these all of what Sean will be demonstrating today is available for you to download from the key top by default. So you can really easily start using all of the stuff. What you will see today and then we'll have Yannick aptly named box, sorry for sorry for wrong pronunciation, most likely, but Yannick is going to do a really cool demo. A client-side web part built using SharePoint framework, which can be used to create site design.

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Definition on JSON files and Yannick is going to update on the latest status of that one as well. Is it already supporting the new stuff or not or which of them will be supporting, will say it's cool and then Q&A hopeful intents.

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That is absolutely an intention, but let's actually go through quickly few to become slides and just quickly explaining if your first time joining on the shipment community and cause and you're trying to figure out what is this all about and how would I align on the shape on deaf community now, there's multiple cycles and depending on availability, been depending on your interest, depending on your time which you can use on this one you can select. How do you engage?

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You can just use our community channels or use the SharePoint developer, krupin, the max of tech community. You can join on bi-weekly SharePoint framework community calls, and these are by really concentrating on SharePoint framework development and client-side technologies, so we'll cover office, 365, CLI, client-side development, using SharePoint framework, VM, PJs and all of that stuff. There's a second bi-weekly SharePoint general dev community call, which is also happening at the same time on thursdays, which is more around intern designs. So provisioning, PMP PowerShell see some designs, api gaps, kind of an intent.

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Let's say: scanners and solution designs in the general SharePoint, deaf community cause we've been going through stuff like let's say hub sites, and what does it mean for developers or printing, more and printing?

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How can you do that, and what are the limitations will be one of the topics in the future and then we'll have this monthly community cost, which are happening always on the second Tuesday of every single month, except on July's we've been taking July or worse off, we'll see if we will take July off from this year as well, boosting most likely not actually, but this monthly community calls we go through as a summary. What has happened within the last month?

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So if you haven't had a time to join on previous community engagements or this community calls, you can jump on this one or check the recording from our YouTube channel and you will be up-to-date on the latest and greatest on SharePoint now too quickly. On the let's say the SharePoint deaf community. This is just a if you're wondering how many people are actually working or accessing all of this information and the stuff. What we are releasing and using the YouTube videos are being watched, pretty quite a lot.

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So there was one hundred and sixty two thousand minutes of watch time in YouTube within a March github use its growing significantly.

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Sharepoint is by far the biggest hit hub organization, comparing office, deaf mic, so Graff one tribe and so on, and we have thirty-seven thousand unique visitors within past two weeks, which is pretty cool, with 191 thousand views on the doors of Microsoft that come to ship on dev documentation. We had eight hundred and thirty one thousand views and obviously that that's actually increasing quite technically on every single month and we will probably pray to 1 million views in the documentation. Pretty pretty soon, which is cool at the BMP, reusable components.

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These are kind of I, wouldn't say old-school, SharePoint, B&B or community stuff. But this is a pretty this been around for a few years and the PMP provisioning, BMP PowerShell, use it we're tracking their users pretty closely and the HTTP requests for these on online point: seven billion in a month and there's eleven thousand unique tenants wits are using them and you probably, if you're, looking if you're a new guy on the or a girl on the community, a SharePoint, dev community.

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You probably noticed that the SharePoint framework numbers are not mentioned on the slide and we still not yet have a clearance I'm showing them to you. But trust me. They look extremely good, as the most likely in SharePoint Conference will finally release some public numbers on the SharePoint framework adoption because that's going off the roof. To be honest, no few other things kind of general general announcements, something with some keeping in every single presentation. What we do so documentation and guidance. A game is SPF dogs or dogs that microsoft.com slash SharePoint.

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You will land into the ship official SharePoint, dev, documentation, MSDN will be shut down or completely not indexed pretty soon we are in progress. Moving all of our seasoned API documentation, schema XML, documentation, REST API, documentation on this side. All of the new stuff is already getting released on Doc's at microsoft.com, slash a point, and you can always find the latest and greatest from this side, and all of this stuff is in key top, so you can contribute if you fight a typo.

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If you find a mistake there, you can have a discussion with us in a key type issue list or in a key table, or you can such as change this on the documentation as well, which is absolutely brilliant. Now other things running into issues so really really making sure. Please do not send me emails, because still people do this and say that hey I found this potential buck in a season. Trust me I, do not scale or the individual engineers do not scale for those one-to-one questions or questions.

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So please PLEASE B's code to AKMs SP, dev issues. This is our key top issue list in SB. Dev docks with suite triage with multiple people in a week and there's multiple engineers and PMS who are actually then looking into these issues. Trying to help you figure out what's actually go strong, and this is the only way we can scale. We do not scale by people sending one-to-one questions for somebody else and there's a lot of benefits around getting your issue on this issue. List number one benefit.

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Other people will see that there's something wrong with sharepoint online or this potential bug, and that's a good thing. So the other people will know that it's not just them running into issues. Apparently it's a wider issue and Microsoft is looking into that. The second big thing is that whenever we answer that this year, data people will know the answer as well, so it's not just one to one discussion around some sort of an API or question around the API. So please please, please use this as much as possible.

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We are triaging that as much as possible and all of the comments from the shipment dev documentation are already getting created in this issue list, so we are then tracking them. As well now a few other things- this is something relatively new I think was it last week, I think this was last week as well. Time flies when you're having fun.

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We have a new SharePoint developer portal now available and with the latest news, videos and samples, and there is more than 300 samples available for you to search using the sample gallery, which is a great tool for you to find, what's relevant for you. So if you go to the AKMs, s/pdif and scroll down to the samples or click the samples, there is a great search tool for you to take advantage. For example, you can search like react and okay, so search for react or a search for any tools.

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You can easily find them from the new chef on dev portal and really really really great tool for making that happen. Now. What's other stuff, well, a few more new things before we go to the monthly summer and talk about the user voice. So one of the things what we released in this month also is to update a chip on developer community pages. So if you go a game, SSB BMP, you are no longer redirected to an old Bates in the deathbed of sukham, which is out of date, and this is now in dr.

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Mike stuff come and it will list all of the community calls all of open source initiative all of the projects. What are we doing all of the repository is, what are we doing and all of that stuff, so you are more up to date on what the SharePoint dev community is actually doing, and what are the opportunities for you to contribute, so we're trying to figure out and try to well.

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We do have a FAQ on those pages, so, if you're trying to figure out, if you want to contribute what with me the ways of contributing going into these betas and trying to figure out the answer on that one or asking asking a comment or question on the pages is much better once again than sending a email message to somebody having a one-to-one discussion.

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Good one more thing before we go to the monthly summary, so impact of asha access, control of retirement for shipment add-ins. This is something which went live last week as well in the dev tariffs that comes last blocks, just making sure for those who are not actually following up on the social media. That often that you are aware of this, so the ACS will be retired, but only partly so the actual ACS retirement does not impact chip and add-ins at all. So all of the SharePoint errands, endpoints and registration.

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Everything else will keep on support it and keep on moving at being alive in the future as well. The ACS for ACS for custom applications will be actually retired by November 7th. If I remember correctly, if you want to have more details on this, one go to dev tariff comes last blocks and look for this plot post and there we are then linking against the usher or to the azure documentation a way you have all the details around the SharePoint impact around this retirement.

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Quick, look on the roadmap, so we do have a burst. We don't have them. We've been having a lot of progress has since ignite. So this has been human under stuff happening after ignite, and there is a small new, let's say a step forward in here, which is more site design actions so deploy SPSS practices, site :, content of creation, regional settings EDC will go through the list of these things in a second.

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These will be available for you today, actually in production, tenants which is super cool and the plot post and the documentation for those will go live immediately after this monthly community call. So within, like 10 past of next hour, the documentation will be absolutely up-to-date for you today, Trenton and super super cool stuff, Krupa Phi API still scheduled for this quarter.

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Let's see if it's early this quarter or late, this quarter we'll see how fast we can actually get that one out, and then there will be more printing options as well when we'll see, but this has been already announced that we are working on that one yeah.

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More branding stuff definitely about sharing conference. Yes and.

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Like mentioned on the slide, the next peak announcements are within SBC 218 and that's on 21st of May in Las Vegas. So if you're interested on getting the latest and greatest on SharePoint sharepoint development and also other stuff on sharepoint, please join us on the sharepoint conference in las vegas. It's three days from Monday to wednesday, from 21st to 24th of May.

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So, and it is our spring event, none of those sessions, unfortunately, will be recorded with City, but also we will have a blog post announcements and documentation updates scheduled to go live as part of the announcements which will happen in SBC, good cool few points on the on the user voice and a few notes on here before we go to the actual, more detailed on site, designs and size. Script I wanted to pinpoint here a few items. So, first of all, the managed metadata term store REST API, getting a lot of additional boats.

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We do know that this is the critical thing for a lot of you and we need to get it at rest. It is now tentatively the in schedule we to start working within a month or so within upcoming months. We cannot give you an ETA when and what will be available and we look to solve all of your business scenarios, but we're absolutely looking into getting that happen now on a SharePoint framework site, adding support for single base application in SharePoint framework we're looking into this one.

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We cannot actually again give you an exact, yes or no or the timeline of that one, but we're closely looking into that one as well super support for dotnet score core with season. We are actively actually working on this one, but to be precise, we're not looking into having a dotnet core support. We're looking into have dotnet standard support, so that code will be then working within a dotnet four point, seven and also in a dotnet core.

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So that will be an include season extension for dotnet standard, which will be then available for you at some point again we're actively looking into that to happen at support for library packages in SharePoint framework and gaining a lot of additional traction as well. Absolutely in our roadmap looking and making that happened, field customized evolution forms quick, edit and mode.

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This is more around making sure that the field customizer is active on the list, views and also on the Edit forms, which is completely understandable request, because today's link was actually working on those as well and can't actually provide again any details and timelines for that one. But we are actively actively looking into and doing development on the list side as well, and maybe one note on the REST API citizens it we are looking into now.

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We've been kind of a circling around different options of getting our REST API document that we've been now starting to add more and more earth API documentation, one by one to do official, dev Doc's. We are also looking into starting to trade as backer files for the REST API documentation. That's, unfortunately, though, something which we need to do manually to numerius reasons, so that will still take a while to get fully clarified and but we're looking into making that happen. One of the challenges around it item number nine! Is that it's it it's not.

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Actually, it's so wide issue, so wide use of our century that it's not actionable because it requires like okay, rest api citizens, it of which of the things and which of the api is all of the APS and reality is that all of the laborers will never ever ever be documented. It's just realities of life. We want to give you as much as documentation guidance as possible, but there are also resource constraints around these things cool a few more things, April 2018 release.

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You can go to the decadence that comes ass box for all of the details. What was included in a for 2018 release? I'm, not gonna, mention all of this stuff in here. This is basically what has happened within a ship, our development, open source and community site and development guidance videos within the last month. So if you go to the after dose that comes last blocks and April 2018 update, you can have a full list of things.

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What has happens, and that is a lot, there's a lot of activities happening, because also, if we wanna, if we have a look on all of the people, who've been contributing from the community side, the people, the number of people is just keeps on growing and growing, so it's humongous amount of people are helping us on this journey. So thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you for being part of this open source and community urban thinking and helping each other of the community with your contributions, this SharePoint community would not be as strong as it is without us, helping each other and helping others to succeed by using the community channels. Now, on the company side, these are the companies who've, given their employees, the missions to contribute to the open source and spend time on the open source initiatives to be fair.

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These are the companies also which we have a mission to show the logo as the persons who contributed have also given us the permissions to show the logo in our communications. Thank you for being, let's say, forward-thinking, because the open source and the community, when thinking is absolutely the theme in the industry. More and more people are people are looking into doing open source and community driven work, so we can be more successful together rather than fighting between each other. So super super cool, and thank you very much on that.

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Now on the Microsoft side, kind of a typical list of people they're sitting on new persons here, like Bob, Sherman and Bob Sherman, is going to do a cool demo on this Thursday and SharePoint framework community call cool demo around how to use the same SharePoint framework solution, the code base in a both SharePoint framework solution or in the classic customization and super cool demo. But that's coming up on Thursday now. That's it for quick summary on things and should I or should you Sean do two quick intros before we go to the new actions.

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Why don't you start it I'll jump in because I'm trying to fix one thing: super quick.

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So, let's actually making sure that everybody's up to date on what are we talking? So it's 90 silent side, scripts. What are they and what are the new actions so so, first of all on the site creation, we've done significant investments on the modern side creation in SharePoint Online again. This is in SharePoint Online for now potential in SharePoint 2019, but we can't sign that right now in this call and we've done significant investments of making the site collection provisioning extremely fast.

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This is now 4 to 5 seconds, which is humongous improvement, as it was 15 minutes in the past, and also one of the key points here is that you aren't able to configure what kind of sites are getting actually created, so you're no longer just limited on a office, 365 group related side or communication site. You can actually define the behavior and look and feel and lists and libraries and all of that within these sites by using JSON based configuration and that's really really cool.

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Now, how does it actually work? Absolutely let me get in here and you whenever you create a site from the native artwork SharePoint Welcome page. If you go to the SharePoint, welcome page, create a click, create a site collection. You will be shown by the selection of an office, 365 group associated sign or communication site and after that, you're able to then select the site design. So what site designer you actually are going to use for, creating the site and that site design then can contain script actions.

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Basically, whenever we create a site, will first create the site collection using the out-of-the-box, just the basic, let's say the communication sign, but then the site design is defining. What are the additional actions to be performed for that? Just created sign, so you can actually apply a theme. You can add a navigation, you can trigger flow, you can create a list and all of that stuff. This is the old set of actions, nothing new there yet and then you'll get a site which is more refined based on your business requirements.

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Now they're easily set up a relative is, let's say, limited set of actions when we went live first. So there is the trigger flow option which will give you the opportunity, for example, for Corinne as your function, but we also want to make sure that we do will have additional more and more side script. Actions in the future, which you can take advantage and that's shown squares responsibilities on squares, owns this capability right on Sean sure.

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To underscore how important what you just showed on that last slide is because the advantage here guys lesson I've been talking about this from years, but we're borrowing from that remote provisioning model that has become so prevalent in the community, and this is so powerful because it allows us to continue to evolve the base template while still giving you the flexibility to build these configuration scripts on top of them. Work that we're continuing to update so really I think is evolving. The whole template II model in a great way.

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Absolutely there was a question from Mike quickly: can you apply a site design to a new sub-site? The answer is right. Now, no site designs are for the route site and site collection provisioning. Anything where you want out there have shown on that question.

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You know just I will say technically folks, there's nothing really preventing us from allowing the application of site designs to things like sub sites, and other templates and I know that folks have. Let me know that they would be interested in that capability being unlocked where we are looking into it. There's just a lot of testing there that we want to make sure that we're validating. So we don't enable that capability and put folks in a bad spot. Yeah.

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Excellent now, one final slide before we go through one other new action, so anatomy of a side script, so side script is basically a JSON file. So what happens here is that we create a always the new site using the default out of the box site definition technically on behind the scenes. But then you are able to create the side script which is associated to the side, design where you define what kind of lists and libraries start getting actually created to, and these aren't basically chasing definitions and you define basically using the JSON structure.

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What are the actions to be performed for just create at site? And that's basically, what is the side script.

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But you wanna add they're shown I.

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Talked about saying that the flexibility here is that you can essentially create a side script and then use it for different site designs. So we because intentionally.

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You could have a one side: script for printing voice, that's one side script for libraries and list, and then you can bundle them or not, bundle them and that's really their thinking behind of the behind of the scenes now. Do you want to take over the presentation or I can go? I can be your click, truth, assistance.

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When I take over I can just jump.

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But announcing basically I Pro 2018, release for side scripts and side designs, and this is more site actions for you to take advantage in your site, design, land, side script, and this is absolutely great I'm going to move on the following slide shown and you can explain what are the all the new goodies which will be available starting today. Yes,.

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Yes, so this is this: is the money shot right here? So what we want to share with you guys today, I got some samples that I can demonstrate here, for you today is just a bunch of new script. Actions were largely once that we have that have been in the backlog, ones that you guys have been telling us hey. We need I, know that I'm probably going to hear what about this. What about this I saw one about webparts on pages. We are working to enable webparts.

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I will say this, the one that's a little bit further out, just as a full disclosure is being able to configure modern site pages and then populate those with the appropriate webparts. There's just still some more work to do on the page API before we can enable script actions for those, but definitely something that is on the roadmap. We hear you loud and clear and words excited and eager to get that to you as you are to have it real quickly.

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I tried to break up some.

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Of the work that we've done in the last couple months here just to sort of help, you get your head around the variety of changes. Frankly and the types of things you can do with site script actions. So there's things like settings. We have a new action that allows you to set regional settings. We are also working on adding the ability to select a language to the site provisioning flow, so you can actually do that at creation time.

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We had to be couple those because language is actually one of those interesting immutable properties of a site. So we have to designate and set that site language at the time of creation. But after creation we can go ahead and run a script and set those regional settings. We've also added an action to support external sharing, so that is pretty cool.

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If you want to independent of the tenant set things which will always trump anything you do depending on how its configured in admin center, you can actually set the external sharing capability of a site, a bunch of lists and library, actions, I think the big one here is.

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We now have site column support and we also have the ability to create your own content types as well as create your own custom views now, I will say: there's definitely some more work to do in a couple of these areas, but I think you'll be pretty excited with where these new actions are going. We definitely wanted to give you the ability with the content-type right now. The action is more declarative, so you have to define that content type in the script.

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We are looking at supporting referential content types, so if you've already got something say defined on another site collection or even in the enterprise content, type of you would be able to reference and use that absent solutions best if you might have some more to add here at Vesta, was instrumental in helping me kind of frame these up.

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But we have a number of actions that are available today and some that are coming very very soon to enable installing or registering rather deployed solutions from your app catalog, as well as applying extensions that are also telescope quickly.

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On that one, a tester clarifying, so the install is bf X solution actually includes also she abandons. So what it means is that you are physically explicitly installing upon adding or SP FX solution from tenant, app catalog to the site. So right now it does not support site collection, app catalog, which would be more useful in the sub-sites scenarios, but that's a different discussion. So let's not even stop that discussion, but it will basically install the site or the solution to the site as part of the site design a site script.

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The second thing, which is mentioned there extension support coming soon. This is more for SharePoint framework extensions which could be deployed or might be deployed using the tenant scoped option. So basically the extension would be available for site collection, but you still need to associate the extension to be active as a adding a user custom action and so on, and that's what we're now building well. Sean is responsible building based on the thinking on the SPF Xtreme site,.

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I couldn't figure out what to do with so just a couple of miscellaneous updates: we've I, don't know Patrick's on the call, but I've gotten some great feedback from folks saying: hey, love the trigger flow action really wish. You guys would do two things. One allow a little bit more site information through and also give us the ability to write back so that we can communicate better when we're running our own custom solutions when they're at chillie done so working backwards. That latter aspect we have a plan in mind and we are working on it.

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Unfortunately, there's some security implications. We have to work through with the api's so that one's a little bit further out, but rest assured, your feedback has been heard as far as the additional properties I'll show you a quick example of that.

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Essentially, what we've done is added some additional properties that will allow you to collect things like the creation time that could you, the creator's email, the name if it's available, even the site description and then the idea that the thing that's cool about that is because that's coming through when you use a trigger flow action, you can actually collect that data and then write it back to a SharePoint list. So I can show you a quick example of that. We fixed a couple things with some of the existing actions like join hub.

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We were saying you're joined a hub, but we didn't tell you which one so we added a name parameter. So you can specify that in your script and then just a quick reminder just in case it missed anybody's radar back in February. In the that release, we actually included a new new support for a PowerShell command.

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The rest api is for applying a site design to an existing site collection, so very cool kind of unlocks, a bunch of those other scenarios outside of the provisioning flow when you create a new site and then, finally, just as a little quick aside, some folks, we've got some feedback, it's like, if you aren't required to provide a preview image.

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If you upload a site, that's on it, you can we support that in the site design schema, but if you don't, we at least differentiate that image from the other out of box templates, so just to give some visual difference between your site design and the outer box ones. All right. That's I think you had one more slide or was that the last one.

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This is more around design side script to akms. As a scientist, science is a kms actress, actually Edie's in the docs of myself that comes upon div, declarative, customization of site design. So if you go there and use the search, you can easily find that we also have an open first site script- samples these are currently built by me and Sean, but we would love to have also community contributions here, but they are already now at this moment, demonstrating the future capability. So Sean is going to demonstrate some of those during his demos.

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Now, let's actually start by Sean, and then we have we'll have also called Emma from Yannick right after Sean's demo on how to create this without knowing how to do chaser. But Sean thanks.

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A great Segway on those samples, because I actually have a couple of those I'd like to show you guys and I apologize, there's, probably a ton of questions so hopefully we'll take a few minute break before we get to the end of the hour and touch on some of those. That's a Maya presenter. Yes,.

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Yeah I'm super moved once all right one. Second, let's do its thing. Let me know when you guys can see the stage. Let's go to the stage loading.

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Treetops nice get Funimation.

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Okay, let me know when you see a anima codes or a json super.

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It alright, so real quickly excited to share with you some of these actions. Just to let you know what I was thinking. I review is show you some of the script details just to highlight some of the new actions and properties that are available as soon as this talk is over invested, I, put publish on all that stuff. You mentioned earlier.

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Before you say that, guess what recommendation just went live when we were chatting on the previous minute, so.

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All this stuff is there and actually a lot of the scripts that I'm illustrating for you today are available to you. So if check them out, these are ones that deficit I put together. It is totally did illustrate a lot of these new actions, just a great place to start with and get familiar with. All the various actions and their properties I've already gone ahead and put these on my environment.

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So what I did was I built a bunch of scripts and then just build some site design, wrappers, and so those are already installed we're not going to through that there's some great taunts previously that show how to take the side, script and actually upload it to your tenant and then reference it and the site design so that it shows up in the UI, and you should definitely go check out those talks there's also some in that same documentation set that best appointed you guys to.

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There is details on how to do all of that as well. So I'm going to sort of fast-track that in the interest of time and say, let's look at the site scripts and then look at the output of those sites. That's not the actual uploading of them. Okay, first one as you can see a cycle and so very excited to enable side columns. This has been a long requested site action since we started previewing some scripts with you guys last fall.

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So thank you for that excited to share this with you, you'll see that we have a couple of different actions. The model is probably the best. You can comment on this, probably not too dissimilar from some of the other declarative models here. But what you do is you create your site column and then, once you create your site column, you can then go and create a content type and here's the create content, type action, and then you can go ahead and add those columns to essentially build that declarative content. Type.

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Okay and a couple things I will point out here. This is very cool. We've also added some additional properties to these actions, so you'll see that we now have internal and display name properties. So you can distinguish your internal name from your display name and we've also added a property to a group, your custom columns, so these will show up in your site, column gallery and then we're also adding additional field properties. Things like enforcing unique, so some of these properties are they're all documented in the out on the document library.

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But essentially these give you a lot more flexibility in the designation and settings of your columns. So you'll see we have creating a site column. Then I can go ahead and create a content. Type I can designate what its parent name is. In this case, it's going to be item and then I can start adding those sub actions where I'm, adding those site columns and then once I have that content type.

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Now I can go ahead and create a list and you'll see here that I'm just creating a list and notice what I'm doing here is I'm referencing documents. So what I'm doing here is I'm actually not creating a new list.

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I'm actually updating and modifying the out of box, one that gets created when the site gets created, with a site template so I'm, taking the document library modify in its description, adding that content type, adding an additional site column just to show that you can also add site columns directly to the library outside of a content. Type I can even add a list field. So I can add that here and then you'll see a couple things I'm doing. I also have enough property to add to the default view.

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Another new thing that an action that we're introducing with this release is the ability to add your own custom views. Now the custom views are using Hamel. So what you have to do is you have to actually give your view a name designate, what the view fields are and then you have to go ahead and include in the query property.

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What your camel query is and for those you who are familiar with camel you'll see that what we're doing here is I'm actually ordering by the title and then I'm ordering by sight column one text which was that project summary in descending order here and I also have you can even add a where clause where I can say where the effort is greater than five, so essentially, I just have that kind of flexibility to modify the view.

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I have some additional properties I can set on the view, as well as make this the default so and then I have a trigger flow, which was actually just writing to the psych review. That was just something I was messing with, but if I go back to this guy, let's go and check this out real, quick. Let's see which environment was I on this, so you can kind of see what this looks like in action. So I have this example here, where I'm modifying the document, library.

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I'll go ahead and create that site I actually have my intended requiring me to add a secondary user. So let me go do that and by the time I add that the site is done. That's brilliant.

B

So now, when the site script runs whether again, what this one is doing is its modifying the Autobots Defoe library document library and I apologize I have noticed. This has been a little bit slow you'll notice that sometimes the actions get a little bit sleepy here, but you'll see that what I've done is I've added the side, columns, I'm now creating that content type and then I'm updating the document, library and then running that trigger flow. We'll give.

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This just one more second.

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If this doesn't run, I'm gonna go ahead and just close this and we'll refresh and see how much of it is there to see you can see what some of these capabilities are. Let's go ahead and just do that.

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So now, if I go to the document, library you'll see a couple of things. Oh good, a lot of those things already took effect notice that this document library doesn't look like data box, one because I have actually modified the view. So now, I have this new view, control projects by effort and if we go and edit that view you'll actually see that those settings have been applied. The title the project status and the effort. Okay.

B

And then you'll see that these other properties have been added and in fact, if we go and look to see, you believe some of these changes that are happening here.

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If we go into the side, columns oops on place, I'm, sorry, oh I did have that guy there there we go. Here's that contoso custom group that I created for that project, status, site, column and you'll also see under the site content types, there's that content type, that I created full alright.

B

So that is one let's go and look at another one. Here.

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The other one that we've done is a slight variation of this we've also added a new action called added SP field, XML support. What we realize is some of the more complex data types there really was some benefit to taking advantage of the old field, XML schema and just injecting that into our model. So you can actually so what this action is. Is it's more of a generic action that allows you to add field XML in this case, in order to create some of these more complex data types.

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So in this case, what I'm doing is I'm actually creating a choice field, and so, in this case, I'm creating the choice field here in main project category and you'll see that I'm just using field XML syntax to specify that as a drop-down choice field, that it has a default value of operations, and then it's got a bunch of choice, values, things like IT, legal engineering, etc, and then what I can do is I can add that field to a list here so I'm creating a list I've also created a sight column I'm now creating that list.

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I've added that side column I'm, adding this field just an FYI. This is where I one of the things that we're still working on is the add SP field. Xml action does not get support, it doesn't work with cite columns or adding to a content type. Yet so apologies for that we're working to get the rest of it there, but we thought it would be beneficial to get these actions out to you guys and then to continue to evolve them.

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So that's noted in the documentation and best and I will of course, keep everyone updated as we get those additional updates together, because I know it would be very powerful, available reference. This is the pegasi column or B just be able to add it to a content. Type so know that that's coming the other thing I'm doing here is I'm, adding an SP view, because I can do that to the list and I can also build that view and then check this out.

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I even have a verb to remove an SP view, so this is kind of powerful, because I can actually take that default. One that gets created. That's baked into the template and actually remove it. So I am essentially creating a custom list here, setting the new default view and then removing the one that was created with the template. So let's go take a hike. Hopefully this one will be a little bit more zippy here.

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I was able to get that name in before. To finish there we go okay,.

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Alright, so you see what this one did add at the site column then it created and this list where it added that side, column added that new choice, field using field XML and then added a new view and remove the default view, and then it also went ahead and added that list to the left now. So, if I go ahead and update, this you'll see that this items with this list has been added to the site. Nav, let's go take a look at it.

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You'll see that now we've got this custom view you'll notice, here's this contoso projects by category view and you'll notice that the all items view is gone because we've removed it and if I go ahead and create a new item here, you'll see there is my project, category cool. Alright, this.

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Is by the way, a really cool, because this is basically this works without even the content type. So you can just a charm, have kind of a configure your lists or custom lists based on this model, so you don't have to always start with the content type and associated that to the list under configurations. Okay, yes,.

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I want to make sure I'm sensitive, given our time to Ganic yeah I said so sorry, Fred guys. Let me do just one other quick thing. I think there's a couple other ones, absolutely, let's, let's wrap with I think you guys can get with the regional ones and some of the the solution ones are here. Let me go back here and just show you real quickly rather than running through those. The regional one is fairly straightforward, but where did it go sorry here?

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Oh I think I closed the regional one. My apologies okay. So let me just show you what the reach I want to speed with you. So I've got this. Oh I think I've got my regional one. Where did it go? Oh there, it is. Maybe is it still there? It is still there, okay, so real quickly. This is what the regional one does for those who have a need to set the regional settings.

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That is actually the Reg settings option here under site, administration and you'll see that what I can do is this new action allows you to specify the timezone locale sort order and the time format. So you can set a bunch of these regional settings at the time that the site is created or even go and apply those changes after the site has been created, and so that is a very powerful one that is documented as well. That's a pretty simple script in the interest of time. You'll find that example go. Take a look at it.

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Essentially what the script does is it requires you to. Each of these settings actually has a master list of numerical values like UTC. Dublin, I think, is value 13, so you expectedly we in the documentation. We have a link to all of the lists where you can get these numerical values for time, setting timezone, locale, etcetera and you can just specify those of your script and we'll take care of it when we run the action real quickly. I just want to show you one other one.

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This is like the mando list, so just so, you can kind of see how you can start to pull all this stuff together and we'll put this one out there as well. We're tweaking this a little bit just to kind of give a really nice example of how all these actions really start to come together and bring all these capabilities so real quickly. What this one is doing is it's creating some side columns, it's creating a content type. It's then creating a list.

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It's using the address field, XML to create that choice field, and then it's creating some views. It's removing some views. It's now, even using an action we have previously shipped the set SP field, custom formatter, so you can use things like Chris Kent's, a very cool tool to build a column, formatting JSON file and then just embed it in your site script so that you can actually do some formatting on that on that list and then we're also creating another list here.

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That does a bunch of other things as well, including formatting views order, fives and all that and then adds those links. So if I want to just illustrate here is the power of what you can do when you start to bring all these actions together, you can start to build some really fancy and pretty highly configured list comes I've already made bondo for the pears.

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And while this one is finishing up, my focaccia see Joe always gets in the way but see at least the validations working.

B

All right so there's a whole bunch of things happening and you'll see, you'd see that there's just a lot of things that can be handy to hear by the way we have put limits here so I'm also showing you guys this to sort of say, hey.

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We have put some arbitrary limits into the number of actions that you can execute, cumulatively, when you run a site design, whether it's in one side, script or an array of something script, and we did that largely so that we can monitor and put you know we do some of the impact on the front ends, but we are very much wanted to hear from folks and understand: did we set the right target?

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Do we need to adjust that because it is adjustable, so we want to make sure that, as you guys are building these things out, please share your feedback and say why you guys are limiting us to too abruptly when I try to do this complex scenario or hey, that's great. If they're nice, you know nice out limit spot but effectively. That's what this all does you guys should go check these things out. I will say that there is one other one that we have a nice example of even doing the install SPF X solution.

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That is pretty cool because then, once you have that thing in the App Catalog, you can go ahead and execute the site to just get to add it for you brilliant, so go check out those samples. Let us know your feedback and contribute as well. Now.

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Can you start sharing and while you do that, we can actually have a quick chat with Sean still so few things mentioned on the on Windows, so first of all, UI designer for creating this stuff is not right now in the pipeline from the future, or is it shown.

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Which for I'm sorry UI.

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Designer for creating dis, Chaisson files, ya.

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Know that's something that we definitely have on the roadmap, but we do not have a UX I. Think that's where contributions like from folks like Yannick, come in and have value if you want to get up to speed, I think take advantage of samples for sure, but no. We in addition to designers, though guys I, will say that we are also looking into doing Auto extraction.

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So the way that we might approach it in the product is actually using the SharePoint UI to build the list that you want and then being able to generate the JSON site, stripped from that yep.

A

And now that we in the PMP team on the BMV provisioning, we already have the extraction of an existing site. So but what we're looking to do in the future, together with engineering and BMP crew and their abs, were working on the provisioning engine is to combine so getting the stuff which you can inside design, but that. But then, if there are additional configurations on top of the other box, Delta still have the BNT PNP template as an optional entry for the site as well.

A

So then, you can actually hook in that for nasha nasha function, but now when and what is the timeline for that?

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One we'll see we need to get the the native site design extraction at some point and some level it might be that the BMP will come up with an extraction with a site, design, extraction, support and template together with that before, and then we get the native capabilities available, both Lee right so one step at a time and because the community actually works superfast on these things now Yanik, we can see your screen and we do apologize of taking way too much time on this one, but I think what you have is prettyand.

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Looking under Sean's, Chasen, they're, pretty complex, so Yannick, please take it away.

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Yannick, can we hear you no.

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No indication that there was being a sound Yannick from your side, I think it's only me and Shawn, which I now live.

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This you're presenting yeah.

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Yannick is presenting I think it's an audio hiccup on the microphone now, unfortunately, and it's not actually picking up, you could actually reconnect, we can go slightly longer. We will get this absolutely recorded if somebody needs to jump away from this call so Yannick, if you, if you reconnect, if it's too big on microphone, which should work, reconnecting, typically helps, or we can do this with a pantomime, which means that I can explain what if we were potentially seeing and then Yannick is presenting. So now, Yannick is reconnecting.

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It's a hardware issue. It has to be a heart Federation, nothing wrong with Skype I.

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Will say this in case I miss any questions. Folks, I will go through the conversation thread, while y'all are sitting back online and get back to the that's. What's the best way to get back to the community can I just reply to the meeting invite.

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No that doesn't really work out well. I would actually recommend to open up a Microsoft, a community trait on this discussion and that's in general. I would say that, if needed, and if the community makes instant available, we could end in site design coverage in the SPF community call, which is within that biweekly call which, where we go through more details on the stuff, because then we could actually show, for example, how to create the site. Design really kind of a step by step coverage on the whole thing.

B

I would love to do that, but if folks have interest in that I apologize I know it's always so hard to kind of distill all this down, but like the bullet points, so I want to make sure you've got the highlights, but always happy to you know, spend more time going through and I. Think an end-to-end tutorial would be great. Another thing I'm just gonna, add folks, is I, see some great questions and suggestions and feedback with the user voice.

B

We are looking into maybe set creating a separate forum, but I'll talk with besa and we'll get back to the community with the plan there, whether it's like hey, just make sure you tag your dev user voice, stuff with site design or you know, there's here's a separate forum or tag you can use, because we do want to make sure that we're getting that feedback to us so that we can review it.

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Try to record our enemy and sharing one more time.

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Okay Yannick: let's do this there's something wrong with the microphone. Don't worry about it! That's not a massive deal. We will absolutely get this recorded in one of the community calls not necessarily on this Thursday but the week after or whatever. Let's absolutely agree on that, so let's delay this Thank You Yannick for volunteering, on that one I will actually paste thingy on its sample here details around the sample in the ion window, because we can now we can answer some of the questions wrong.

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I'm so sorry I was.

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Let's get them back, but.

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They're still in business code- and the whole point is that you can actually Yannick is working on updating to include also the latest site script actions. So, but we will absolutely get that covered in upcoming course as well. Now any critical questions for Shawn or me around site to science and such scripts I'm.

B

Starting to note a couple I hear the feedback that, yes, as we add more site script actions, it's going to become critical, that we reevaluate that limit I hear the feedback. We are looking into that as well. One of the things that we're also looking to is two ways that we can make these things a bit more performant and also run a bit asynchronously.

B

So like certain actions that might be longer running operations or things that can be done in the background we might separate those out and do those asynchronously or afterwards and I think that also gets to somebody's question about sequencing the scripts right now. Your best bet is to sequence, the actions and which you want them to be run, but we are looking at ways to give you a little bit more intelligence there.

B

So, yes, feedback noted, thank you. Approval flow foresight, scripts actually, Vincent. There is some work being done around this, we'll have more to announce, I, believe at the sharepoint conference timeframe and.

A

Then, on the publishing of the json schema shown would've wanted that to happen already. We do have some technical things or we need to delay that for a few days for a week we are gonna release a new location for all of our json files, so we can maintain them in key top, so the json file for this one will be coming Krita. So now, if somebody need- let's say Rick seems the json schema files super-super available right now we can put it in the SP dev site scripts repo.

A

If somebody wants to have access on that no harm, yeah, cool.

B

Thanks guys, I saw a comment and a couple of plus ones to Sebastian's coming about exporting out scripts and we using them in interesting ways, especially I, don't know if you have audio and what an elaborate on that, but I will say that we are certainly it's in the roadmap to find more interesting ways to make site designs more readily available. Let me put it this way to sort of fulfill some of those more. I w site the same site as template scenarios where, let's say I just build.

B

Some very cool site spend a lot of time. Configuring a list and VESA wants to use that list, rather than recreating it it'd be swell if I could just generate a script and give it to them. We are definitely looking at fulfilling scenarios like that. It's just a bit further out. It was there another pivot on that. You mentioned I'm. Sorry I'm, trying to find your comment. I lost it about P and he policy here it is an event to transform from P and P provisioning to side scripts.

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On that is absolutely the pipeline off the PMP team. We are looking into making that happen, so we've talked about that one already in the past. That would be super cool, and now, when will that happen? That depends so right now. The next steps in the PMP provisioning engine will be tenant level. Support for automating deployment of site design, side script, everything else using the BMP provisioning template, so you can easily then automate stuff in the in the tenant level level. Now now on Sean, we kind of take a few more minutes extra.

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If people need to drop feel free to drop, everything will be recorded, so people can actually follow up on this one question around the multilingual side because I'm living also in a country where we have multiple official languages, so one is the multilingual support for these things. Yeah I'm putting you on.

B

It's definitely in the back. No ETA though, but I would love to see what we can do there and I think actually, looking at some of the things that you guys have found in the PMP space, what might be applicable patterns to reuse there.

A

Those who are familiar with SharePoint provisioning or the site design, so you can actually see some similarities here. Why is that show? No just kidding just kidding.

B

Question here from Brian, can you elaborate on the ad SP field XML in the docs? Yes, Brian I can go and lab rate on that a little bit more actually caught me as so that piece of the documentation to add SP field XML. We sort of feel like it's a bit of a bootstrap to take advantage of using field XML, because we haven't built support for all the data types. So things like, as you said, what I ate about the choice field, currency managed metadata. The management of data one needs a little bit more work.

B

Unfortunately, we will provide examples and updates, as we get those built in managed metadata.

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B

Field XML is a bit complicated, so we're trying to see if there's some ways that we can simplify that so when you are including it in a site, script so more forthcoming, but I think that thing I would ask you guys is what are the common field types I think I know what they are, but are there ones that you want to make sure hey make sure that you have support and prioritize documentation for these above the others.

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Now we're two minutes on the After Hours: let's actually close up quickly, Larry, you sure, and that's the SharePoint dev community, let's say terms and actions and Oberer as the sharing is caring, is one of the things what we've been working our doing for past years, so a kms SP PMP, that's the new pages for SharePoint community. Thank you, everybody for joining Yanik. Well, don't worry about it. We'll risk at your reschedule in your demo for upcoming community calls shown.

A

Thank you awesome coverage and we will also absolutely do real inter and deep dive on slide designs, kind of a step by step coverage potentially already within a week or so we could actually have Yannick to do his demo during that one as well. That could be actually kind of an interesting topic, not this week or the week after, but we'll look at it sorted out in our schedule, but thank you Shawn. Thank you. Everybody for joining thanks for watching. Please, please, please keep on providing us feedback.

A

Keep on using to issue lists, keep on using the comments in documents and community channels. We need to get your input to be able to be successful and fulfilling our business requirements. Thank you. Everybody will be absolutely touch this.

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