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From YouTube: SharePoint Developer Monthly Community Call - October 2018

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SharePoint Developer (SP PnP) Community call recording from 9th of October 2018. Summary of the activities happened in the past month around SharePoint development guidance, roadmap updates, future plans for the SharePoint development.

Demo - Pat Miller (Microsoft) - Preview of Dynamic Data and other new capabilities coming with SharePoint Framework 1.7
Demo - Sean Squires (Microsoft) - Branding and Site Design announcements in the Ignite 2018. Upcoming capabilities

Detailed agenda an links to specific sections available from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/blogs/

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

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So welcome everybody. This is SharePoint Patterson practices, monthly community calls. This is October 2018 tomato community call. It is 9th of October, which is kind of terrifying. It is pretty soon Christmas so remember to buy your Christmas presents early on.

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So today we do the typical monthly community call structure. So we do have a ship on development section. The latest news and all stats and I'm gonna walk through few slides and two news related on that one I'm trying to cut down this section more on referencing, the the URLs and articles and everything else. So we will have more time on the other topic, so we will have two demos or two topics from the engineering side.

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So first of all, we'll have Pat Miller doing a SPF, X 1.7 preview, so basically as stuff which, which demonstrated in ignite related or not coming up on framework capabilities or developer platform capabilities and then shown squares. I is gonna cover if side, scripts and side to science and some printing announcements as well they're related on what we showed in ignite 2018, so trying to explain, what's coming and from those topics as well and will absolutely follow up on the ion window all the time.

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If there's any questions related on the topics, what we can occur true now, let's actually get on going on this one. So if use typical slides so just to explain, because there might be some new people joining on the call as well so on SharePoint, we actually have quite a lot of community calls and community engagement. So, first of all, we have our much of tech community section it's a SharePoint developer group, which is a good place to ask questions and that's one way of engaging together with community.

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We then also have a biweekly special interest group for SharePoint framework, and this is basically all the SharePoint framework topics, Chevron and JavaScript customization based topics and that URL actually does work. But there is a simple, simple URL there. I need to remember to change that, but basically, that bi-weekly SharePoint frameworks community call is for really concentrating on our open source, JavaScript based customization projects and then also having a life community demos in those goals. So people can actually see how to build stuff and how to make certain cool stuff happen.

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And then we also have a biweekly special interest group for SharePoint General Dave, and this is basically all the other stuff than SharePoint framework. So anything related on printing site designs, provisioning, PowerShell power, apps, Microsoft flow and all of those topics fall on this category. Originally we had only this one monthly community con, but pretty soon we realized that. Well, if people- and there was a lot of people who wanted to do live demo, so we wanted to have that opportunity for this course and all of the course are also getting recorded.

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So you can actually follow up on them later on from the YouTube channel as well and, like I said, we also have this monthly community call, and this is now getting more positions on having the latest news and latest demos also from the engineering side. So we're prioritizing the engineering demos on the monthly community calls and then community demos in the by vehicle. A special interest group calls, but it means basically, is that we have a at least that one Mike one community call in every single week, which is quite a lot this week.

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We have two because we understand we have also the SharePoint framer community call. Now you can choose which of these you want to join and which of these we want to listen and or you can watch the summary from the SharePoint dethklok and then jump on the right directly on the demo. So if we don't want to listen and the discussions what's happening in the course as well now one note on the slides, the daylight saving time changes are coming pretty soon.

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If you're, not, let's say working within the international international company might be not aware of this, but due the fact that different countries do change their time zones and daylight savings in a different day, you there might be some switching between two hours. So after November or mid-november, everything is again on the normal time zone, but for certain times certain weeks, I think in the end of October, the the timing for the us-based people and Canada based people is slightly different and then it gets back online on the following week.

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So double-check your calendars: if you download the recurrent in white to your outlook, that's the easiest way to understand when the call is actually happening now. Few news, quick summary on the updated matrix. So the everything is the adaption is crowing. Obviously we had a and the YouTube use it and views are and everything else is crowing out quite nicely. So we had a 189,000 watch time minutes in YouTube in Quito, people are finding the gate up more and more and clearly finding that useful.

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So you can actually find samples and reusable code and all of that and controls from the coton. Then we had fifty-two thousand unique visitors in qatar for the past two weeks, which is quite a big number, but it's nice to see that people are finding what's available for you to for you and supporting your work because that's what they are there for. So you can actually take any of that code and reuse that within your day-to-day work- and that's hopefully, will make your life easier in the dorsum Microsoft at home.

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We had eight hundred and eighty four thousand views, so we kind of a slightly below the 1 million we're targeting to hit the one-minute and at some point we'll see when we get there on the BMP, reusable components and site, we have 18,000 unique, 18700, unique tenants using those components. More than thirteen thousand thirty thirteen billion HTTP requests generated and the most used capability once again was the provisioning engine and used by thousands and thousands of tenants. Now on the other metrics.

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Well, we we don't actually expose to except metrics on the SharePoint framework, use it and adoption, but we kind of a hint at how well and how fast people are actually adapting this. So this is there to show you the the usage curves for the third-party custom, SPF x usage in sharepoint online, so the users per user and use its pertinent and you can see how fast the curve is going, a deeper and deeper, and this deeper and deeper well adoption is growing all the time.

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This is actually updated with yesterday's numbers, so from SharePoint Online, which the circles are really reasoned. What's kind of an interesting on the level of adaption on this here is in January this year, SharePoint framework was already way more used than SharePoint headings in SharePoint Online and since January we crew already eight hundred and three hundred and ten percent. So we tripled our usage since January this year, and that gives you the magnitude of the adaption of custom, SharePoint framework components. What's also kind of an interesting. We don't have that's the state.

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This statistic on the slide cedar is that quite a lot of actually shape. One framework usage is also in the classic experiences, so classic corals, and so people are kind of a kidding you ready with their customizations in the classic publishing sites implementing them. Using SharePoint framework and at some point when they move to communication sites and modern experiences, the functionality itself is exactly the same, so kind of aligning from an implementation perspective for the future of the deployment. We'd, say interesting dimension here, as well.

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Now, on the few kind of a generic slides which I always keep on these presentations, the domination and guidance they came. Ssb Dave docks is the documentation location that had eight hundred eighty four thousand views last month, which is pretty cool there, and the second slide, which is here always is around the issue tracking and issues on the SharePoint site. So a game SSP dev issues.

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If you have any developer related issues, we do tree, ask this at least twice a week to get in engineering and we're trying to catch up with all of the the information what you are giving us. We actually have new resources now, which we are training to take and help us on keeping up-to-date on all of the reports. What you are giving so thank you for being super active on there. We do apologize, we've been able unable to keep up to date on what's actually happening there.

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Now, a few additional news before we go to the demo section of things. So this one is the news from last week, so we announced that we're opening up the SharePoint developer blog also for MVP. So if you're an MVP- and you want to have additional exposure for yourself and you have a something really cool block article which would like to use or release that through the SharePoint F block that is now available for you to take advantage and.

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Sueños as well, so that's 320,000, additional four of potential followers for you as well now. What else? Obviously, today will release the SharePoint deaf ecosystem, SharePoint BMP October 2018 update. So this is basically summary on what has happened within the last month, new samples, new contributions listing all of the the latest news and everything else. This is available from a kms SB, dev blog, so basically, our SharePoint dev, blog you're, able to also see all of the persons and companies who've been involved within the open source effort within the last month.

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So, thank you, everybody for your contributions. You are absolutely super helpful for others, and the whole community is highly thankful thankful for what you're doing for the benefit of the others- and this also includes a lot of details related on, for example, and updates on a SharePoint starter kit, which we released I'm, going to mention that in a second as well, now one related on that one, so the PMP, starter, kit or SharePoint starter kit well, I would actually call it sharpen starter kit.

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I had a small typo under on the title slide as ty does there, but as part of the October release, where religious, releasing a new version. 1.3 version of the Shipman starter kit sooner or later will align the versions based on the SharePoint framework versioning as well, but basically what its what's new about this version and the really the cool thing is the simplification of the deployment.

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So you can actually now deploy the SharePoint starter kits using a 1.bmp powershell command, which is apply, BMP provisioning hierarchy and that will then eat or read the starter kit BMP file, which is a BMP provisioning file which actually contains inside of it the instructions to read site collections it in contains also solution packages and cost customizations configuration site, design, sigh description, everything what is getting provisioned on the site level.

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So it is seriously as simple as pulling down the repo and running one powershell commandlets to get the whole multi-site collection hub site scenario, demo available within your dinner in general. It has been already updated to 1.6 version of SharePoint framework. It is also now using a contour electron expanding, so my favorite color orange has been a removed based on the request from our designers, which is fair. Maybe the orange wasn't and that fancy-looking, and but it's now it's also using the imaginary and graphics which we used in ignite 2018 related on contoso electronics.

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So it's more polished, more fine-tuned. From that perspective, there is roughly 15 web parts of an extension site, design, side scripts, demonstrating also, for example, for example, accessing Microsoft, tradecraft data from SharePoint framework, read parts and components, so really cool stuff also demonstrates what's possible within the modern experiences. Now sooner or later, this will be actually available through our provisioning service. We're working on at that one as well, which shows that actually in ignite the provisioning service will even further simplify the deployment of the starter kit and other templates.

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But we still need to wait a few weeks or months for getting that one fully out. We need to sort out certain technical details, there's a question related on how much work to add up for SharePoint 2019 preview, so 2019 and GA is coming relatively soon.

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We are, it is in our endless to-do list, so potentially split the existing being at the start, gate shape and start gate to multiple solutions which would then enable you to use those webparts in SharePoint 2019, which would be supported there, because all of the Mike's of craft webparts, which are which are using Microsoft craft, do not work in SharePoint 2019 because they are not supported in on-premises. So there is a pretty big difference, obviously they're now moving on on things, so one kind of address, let's say an ad, so ship on deaf weekly episode.

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8 point live actually earlier today. That was today yes, so this is something which we started doing like two months ago, which is around it's a video block, basically targeted to be 20 to 30 minutes, I think the last one took slightly longer because I was talking too long again, but basically, what we're doing here is that every single week we're recording a new blog post or a video where we go through the latest cool articles written by the community.

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So we're raised from the articles which are coming alive, related on SharePoint development and shape and extensibility and customization we're raising like eight to ten of them and we'll talk about them in this call to big ad and that's me and Waldeck, and then we have always typically a visitor in the call as well we're highly interested on your feedback on this one and also, if you're, writing something cool. Please tack or ping us in twitter, using the SBT, weekly hashtag, so we'll know to cover your stuff in the convene disc recordings as well.

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So thank you for that already advanced now. Moving on are things so ship on the roadmap, quick update on this one. So we talked about the updates on the SharePoint framework SharePoint framework roadmap, already in the Ignite we've been covering this in quite a few community calls as well, but basically we promised in the ignite at one point: seven will come out by end of this year. Most likely it will come earlier earlier than that, but again we're trying to not over promise.

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So we're saying officially by end of this year and 1.7, will then have a domain isolated webparts, which is good example.

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What it means is that you're able to isolate your web part to be executed in side of an iframe rather than in the beige, which will give you additional level of security, and that doesn't actually mean that much changes on the web part, so it will be an attribute in the manifest and everything will be automatically taken care of now dynamic data. Ga is going to happen. So dynamic data is the component component with communications between the SharePoint framework elements or SharePoint framework components.

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The list subscriptions is basically I would I simply find this a socket IO implementation for SharePoint lists, so basically you're able to subscribe any events in your web part from a list. So if there's any modifications in a list, your web part will know if there's a new items for generated on a list, chevron framework components in teams will go to preview, so that will be available. True through the yeoman templates.

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Give me one second, and so that you're able to basically implement SharePoint framework with parts with twelve verticals as a max of teams tabs so you're able to use the exact same technology for both teams, customizations and SharePoint customizations support and provide a hosted solution. That means that you're, essentially using using a using the product as Mike's of team's applications in the SharePoint pages, then the app pages means that you can have locked down layouts for your customizations, which is also useful for many of the scenarios. Support for react. 16 is coming I'm, not sure.

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If that's wants to comment further on that one, we can actually went with the other, the bat's demo in a second that can probably comment more around what it means. Does it mean that I need to update more all of my existing code and the answer is actually no, which is actually critical.

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Chevonne 2019 support comes to the yeoman templates and that's available and then obviously there's a lot of a lot of changes coming in also on the theming site, design, side, scripts UI layer which are not part of the sharepoint framework, which sharepoint framework is the developer platform and then, for example, the site, designs and size script and branding capabilities which shown will go through today, will be then, on top of all of these changes. So a lot of lot of cool stuff available here cool.

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So, let's see a quick summary on the contributors to thank you, everybody we're not gonna have, as I mention all of you, we're starting to get. The font used on this line is getting smaller and smaller, and even the image on the right side is getting smaller and smaller because we need to fill about. We want to fit everybody who contributed. So thank you for your contributions again. When this month the number of contributors is growing all the time, which is a good sign that people are wanna help each other, because that's really the thing.

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What we're going to hell you to be able to do from an engineering perspective as well from a Microsoft side of the bear, so sorry from the comm company's ID of the thing, there's quite a big list of companies who've given their employees the mission to actually contribute. So these are the components which we have permission to show their local in the community community course or in the monthly communications.

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So thank you for these companies also letting their employees to spend time on an open source project so contributing back for the community on those tools which they used anyway within their day-to-day work. So thank you for a much from the Microsoft side on those things as well and then on the Microsoft side. It's quite a list of people who contributed on pages and samples and background stuff or elements which have happened on there behind of the scenes as well.

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So thank you, everybody from Microsoft side as well good now that was 90 minutes not too bad. That was pretty much in line. What I was planning to do and we do have that as the first person and sorry Pat I actually did think that on Microsoft teams because I didn't he see him, but he was actually he sneaked in as a visitor apparently on this call. So I didn't see your coming in so Pat. Can you your animated? Can we hear you? Hopefully? Yes, we can hear you.

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What you varrick's, that's always good, so anything you can actually share your screen and we can start looking in the some of the 2017 17 capabilities. Now I mentioned to react 16, and what does it mean that we are adding a react? 16 version supports, so do you want to kind of elaborate that slightly for me? What does it mean for existing web parts and all the time.

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The SPF X framework different framework when you do your build. If you take a look at the manifest file behind the scenes, it lists a whole bunch of dependencies. One of them, if you dig in, is react and it'll say, like cracked fifteen point six point two or something like that which says hey when my web part of my component loads I need to espy effects, go and grab the official SP FX version of react that you're serving for all that components on the page for version 15 and so for the sixteen support.

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What will happen is will have the ability for your manifest to say, I want react. Fifteen or I want react. Sixteen and then will do side by side loading of the rack framework from wet from the development, testing and validation we've been doing around this. You should be able to use the version.

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One point six of the framework when it's ready and say I would like to reuse react. 16 points, one point two or whatever it is, and rack Tom 16 and the typing for the sixteen. And then, when you do a build, it'll be updated and your rack sixteen code will work on the SharePoint Online that the biggest trick by.

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The way so people are kind of a noting that, are you showing something because we're seeing this five strain but I, don't think you're showing us anything at this point yet.

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Sharepoint there, so people are not that confused on what we can do or should I. Let me summarize this in a one or two sentence, and then we can jump on the on the demo, so we're not heating up too much time, but basically, what we're looking into doing at that is that one point, seven SharePoint framework in this service will support both react, 16 and 15 right. So you don't have to recompile a read Transcom pile any of your existing customization.

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They will work, but then, if you need to use react 16, you can do that as well, and that's really cool and.

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Because that the one Gaucho is that you're gonna have to make sure that all of your associated libraries are all using the same version of rap. Because react doesn't really like swapping between fifteen and sixteen and the same Dom element.

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Will provide guidance of use, the fabric react five point, one two three and so on and so forth. But then, if you have other react, libraries just make sure that they're compatible with sixteenth. That's all.

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With another bit of the Ignite demo that we did to go over the updates to the dynamic data which is hitting GA in 1.7, the initial release, our dev preview focused a lot on the producer side of things and so for GA we've finished up on the making it easy for the consumer, which is probably going to be the more popular part of it.

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So here I grab the banner web part out of the SPE starter kit, and this is basically how it comes right. You've got your text for your image overlay here. Some text.

B

I'm not sure why it's not updating our text here. Good idea.

A

That's a good start for a demo, sir.

B

It's the perfect start for the demo, I think so. Yes, there's no dynamic data showing up.

B

Under affinity to have it, you are on there as well, some text.

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There it needs an image URL before it'll display any text so serial. Clearly, that's not an actual valid URL, but that's good for now.

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So here's the standard text or the standard code for your for the banner web part and the first place to start updating an existing web part is with your property. So this is your typical thing that says: here's the web part properties that we want to be persisting, and originally it had better text. Image and link is just strings, and so now what we have is this helper class called dynamic property where you can say.

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I have a dynamic property of those same types of strings numbers, boolean objects, arrays that sort of thing, and this dynamic property I will get to in a bit. It provides additional functionality for managing the references.

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The next little bit we need to change so the people that are familiar, this properties metadata that lets. You provide additional information about the properties in your web part, mostly because typescript being or Sam scripts understands types, but by the time that you compile the JavaScript you don't so to sort of provide some additional information such as hey. This is what we add is the dynamic property for banner text and banner image and banner link are all strings, and then it just goes on with the rest of the properties that you have.

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The next piece that we've added is the property pane configuration.

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And so what we've added is the appropriate pin? You can have different groups? No, so we have this parameter. We have this primary group that consists of.

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This primary group and the secondary group, and a little bit of logic here that says.

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So the primary group just is bound to the standard text. Fields like we had before, and the secondary group is bound to these dynamic properties that we handle the controls for and provide the end-user capability for picking stuff, and these primary and secondary group for any need to be bound to dynamic data. You can add them, however, you want, but the interesting thing here is says: hey should I be showing the primary or the secondary, and this says show the secondary group.

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If the banner text property has datasource with it and then it just follows through the rest of the properties that we have there, so I'll save that it'll compile in the background and give me an error, because the banner text tsx file hasn't been updated. Yet this one's even simpler. So originally we pulled the banner text out of the web properties. We just say no banner image is the banner image for the properties.

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Now what we have is the banner image you say, because it's a dynamic property now, rather than just a static string, you can say try get value and what that'll do is if it's a static value that the user is typed and explicitly it'll return that and if it's a dynamic property that the user has configured through the property pane, it will detect that it's a dynamic sort, dynamic property it'll go to the source data, that's the current version. They fetch the current value and return it back to the the dynamic property as well.

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So these lines basically say hey banner image. If it's that they attempted a hard-coded value, use that otherwise go to the source data and get the property that it was bouncing.

B

And that's exceeded: okay, let's go back to our page here! So.

B

So now, if we switch back quickly to the code here and the configuration we said, here's this group- and so what that group shows up, as is this little thing up here, that says, connect a source and you can override that text in the icon. If you need to.

B

And now we get to choose from the data sources that are available from Freddie autherine, so in this case there's the page context which I'll have like the current user, the current site, the current list and so forth. Or in this case we want to say a southern web part called the real-time news feed which is below us here and we are interested in the selected item. Property.

B

mmm I apologize for a second here, oops.

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No I apologize I was showing somebody.

B

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We had a bug where, if you threw exception from your get property value, then the webpart property pain would disappear, as evidenced here and.

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Tested based super clear: this is the preview all of them, not the one which you will get to preview for you by end of this year, so which.

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Is we're just fixing up the little loose end here? Okay, yeah! Try this one more time here.

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Configure webparts source real time news, feed.

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Precursors in the selected item- and now here we say we can say that text we want to be say the title: the URL we want to be the file URL and the Select item properties should be the the link title. We could say it's the preview URL and now, as we select the properties here, the dynamic data, which is the dynamic part of it, is updating this vendor web part with data. That's been selected.

A

Now on this one, there was a good question on that Ondine window before we close how to move on on to another drinks. But we still have some time for you to show some of the stuff, but there's a good question. So could you implement a wet part which is then responsible of reading, query parameters and then based on the query parameters, it's by passing that to all of the other pages or wet parts on a page?

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And the answer is absolutely because, basically, you would create a wet part which is then responsible of reading the query parameters and then, and that would serve that information for other web parts in a page, because that will then open up an interesting scenarios related on having on one page, which is fully dynamic, which is based on the query parameters. Changing the behavior right.

B

Yeah and so I'll just quickly do one little thing here.

B

That's Oh one of the properties here. If we want to select the page context, is URL query parameters and then you could say the image should be the URL yeah. Well, once I was driven by this URL up here. Maybe we also- and we also expose the URL fragment as well, for the Kenny.

A

Now that don't be too fast to Chester, that drop down is to be interesting, and so the bates content is not really just page content. That's also the the user information, the site information, the web being from.

B

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Context of the page, absolutely yeah.

B

And this is the this was what was done in the dev preview. A lot of big I'll be honest, a lot of this stuff, the end user author will have no idea what on earth to do with the instance URL, so.

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Through it and scribbling out the things that won't make a lot of sense for authors to be presented with this types of rationalization that were doing before GA but and the right way to differentiate between the as a developer. What's in the SP page context info and what's in the current page information we're trying to sort of the right object to display that to the end user, so they can pick things for the current user or the current request, or the current page makes.

A

Makes a lot of sense now the the kind of a following logical question, which nobody has yesterday yet asked on Diane window? If, unless I missed it, what about out-of-the-box webparts will order book with box? Webparts also support these kind of things, and obviously, for that. One answer is yes, because sharepoint framework is not used only by third party. It is used by a first party as well. First party made its meaning sharepoint engineering, so the list view web parts. The document library web parts will actually expose this kind of information as well.

A

So we are able to then tie in what is getting selected on the list of things on the other side, and here we go, but it's actually showing that basically, the document web is exposing and saying hey, I'm, a source of the information. We have kind of information and you are able to tie in that one as well. Yeah.

B

It's a word again where the preview has sort of a rough first guess for what the list view should be, but we're working with the list you guys to make it fit along with the guidance of how webparts should expose properties and that'll be done for a Jew yeah.

B

Okay. Thank you very much. Any other question.

A

Did we miss any important questions or any follow-up questions? Everybody's super? Yes, this is well. This is not exactly dynamic. Data is TN 1.7, so the team staff which we demonstrated in the SPF X call a few weeks back. We will do more demos on that one in the future course as well. What else the list did the socket IO stuff in a list will absolutely do demos on that one as well from a time.

B

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Well, SharePoint framer yeah at the one point, seven timing, officially we're saying planned of this year because they might face a surprise is we do have internal objectives which are pretty soon actually for getting getting the versions out and because we don't want to wait too long until too close to the Christmas, because then the holidays is know starts and we so we should be shipping earlier than that.

A

So we wouldn't need a separate, very stirring, URL web part. That is correct for Mike's comment. So basically there is a query parameter capability on the on the web part or the context automatically. So that's really cool cool I think this is that's enough for this one. So let's actually jump on Sean your screen, if you're still uncommon.

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One second, let's make sure I can still share my desktop and.

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Tax but really great to have a live demo on that one and it's it evolved enormously because it in the in the preview dinner I didn't have a UI to do the connections so in the TA. There's a native out-of-the-box UI in the web part properties to do the connections. So that's really cool.

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C

Good morning, everybody and thanks for having me back yeah just coming off of ignite a couple weeks ago, where we got to share a couple of new capabilities that we're bringing into the branding and site design space I actually did a session with our director of designs in East rabona, because we are working on a bunch of updates to the sort of the change. The look experience that I'm not going to spend a lot of time on theirs, because some of that stuff is still sort of in progress and it's less.

C

The dev focus, but I did want to kind of bring up the roadmap just to kind of give everybody a heads up aware that is, and I'm obviously happy to show whatever we have configured on the demo. But the main thing that we're doing is in the branding spaces, just adding more settings and capabilities to expand beyond just setting custom themes. We're bringing a lot of stuff into the header.

C

A lot more flexibility there, including that, for example, we just went a hundred percent with header backgrounds, which is the ability to put a strong or a light, or a great emphasis on the background just to, on the header background, just to bring a little bit more pop and visual break in the page. We're also bringing a lot more capabilities into the header in terms of settings in terms of being able to hide or toggle certain elements.

C

Some things we're working on right now, which we didn't demonstrate at ignite, but are working on and we'll probably are hoping rather to include in the release before the end of the year. Is things like being able to change the nav orientation or even hide it? So you have a little bit more flexibility there, a couple of other things: let's see integrating that change the look panel, so what we showed it ignite real quickly was a panel that looked something like this.

C

So in the change, the look experience you have this, these new set of tabs now so we're introducing things like dedicated header, navigation and footer tabs. We're gonna be bringing a footer into the into the experience. This will we're right now.

C

Tentatively it'll probably only be available for a community I'm sorry for communication sites, but we are looking to bring it to both to the team site as well just for template parity, where one of the product truths that we're always adhering to we're trying to as best we can is to ensure that we're not just producing features that are only available on one template so that users kind of get stuck like. Oh no I put the wrong template. We don't want you to ever be in that position.

C

So a lot of the capabilities that I'm showing you today that we're going to be releasing some may be introduced first on the communication site template, but the intent is always to bring it to the team site as well.

C

So, let's see we got the footer and that's going to be largely a simple footer that just kind of does links, logos and letters, the idea being that you can bring a logo into it or as well as adding your own links, editing the footer navigation very similar to the experience of just you know, like you would add, sitemap you can go ahead and add links there and they'll show up and a persistent footer. Let's see.

C

The other thing we have here is mega menu, we're bringing a new mega menu, which I think a lot of people were excited to hear. That is also going to be just a new navigation display that is going to be available and I. Think it's actually on this site here yep here we go so instead of the cascading default layout that we have currently we're now giving you the ability to essentially have up to level 3 links.

C

So you can have your header, some sub, headers and then add links and we'll actually also be introducing linked list. Headers so that'll be a very cool and welcome experience for organizing portals the header, we're also adding some new header layout.

C

So you the ability to actually modify the header, take advantage of more real estate or just reduce some of the available components and controls that are in the header and we're going to be adding a little bit more flexibility to those layouts over time, including for folks on this call, probably the ability to actually inject your own JSON. So you can actually customize provide your own custom header outside of the layouts that we'll provide in the product and then finally, the beefy mean capability. I. Think a lot of folks have already seen this.

C

This is the thing that just rolled out header emphasis. It's actually going to be changing to header background and that's just the ability to go ahead and put like a strong emphasis on the header and that is actually fully available out in the your tenant today. The experience that you're, seeing here on the screen which we used it ignite, is actually gonna change, just slightly we're still working on the UI pretty much it's just going to be we're going to be folding everything under these new blades or tabs.

C

If you will just to give us a little a cleaner look and more consistency across the experiences, we're also going to be moving some of the controls around just so they're in their logical places and let's see what else oh and then obviously is a nice segue to site scripts and site designs, we'll be making all of these scriptable actions.

C

So now, in addition to applying a theme as a part of a site, script you'll be able to do things like set the minimal header or disable the footer, or even apply specific navigation layout like a mega menu.

C

Let's see, let's see, I'm just wondering if there's anything else, I think it was one more thing. I wanted to show you guys that if denise has shown it's actually not under the change to look what will be moving. This is under the site information panel, where you can change the logo. One of the things that we're doing now is we're supporting different aspect ratios instead of just the square and also finally, support for transparent logos, so I think I still have one here. Yes, this larger one.

C

So you can do something like this and go ahead and set a transparent. You know more horizontally or rectangular logo that will be applied and a render Wow. That was a really strange refresh there we go, and so you can actually have a little bit more control and flexibility over the logos that are in the header, okay enough with branding. So let's go back to the map real quickly, so most of the stuff I just talked about and showed you, along with.

C

We have section background colors, which we showed and also we're shown a couple of other sessions. All of this is intended to be coming to you before the end of the year. We may not get the rollout completely out the door, but the hope is to and the plan is to actually start the rollout and one of the things I'm working with my team on is to see if we can get some of those equivalent sites, script actions built to complement that release. So that's what's happening there.

C

Let me pause real quickly. A vest am I missing any major questions before we go.

A

So our SVG logo, supported from Stefan, is an interesting question. Oh there's.

C

An interesting questions too far, I, don't know the answer. Let me that's. That's a really good question. I, don't know, let me find out and report back yeah.

A

And you mentioned that side designs were supposed to make a menu and all of that stuff, so I'm just double-checking things. Will there be a debugging support capability for side scripts.

C

Debugging support, yes, that's something! That's still in progress, great question, good feedback, I think I get that every time I join you guys. So thank you for staking me honest there all right, great. Let's, uh let's go back to this guy here, let's see right so site, scripts and site designs. The other half of our talk was some of the improvements and updates that are happening there, the two biggest ones that I'm gonna demo.

C

For you guys in our remaining few minutes here is we started working on a script automation so essentially the ability to serialize from existing SharePoint objects. So what we can do now is we're starting with lists and libraries. If you have an existing list, you can go ahead and run a PowerShell command and actually generate the site script from that, and that includes things like you know: custom columns, content types, the views, one piece that we're still working on before we release is trying to get the lookup column support in there.

C

One question that folks have asked is what's happening with manage metadata column support, and that is something that we are also working on this month and hope to have an update for you soon.

C

Obviously, the serialization is not we're. Talking MO in a second is just the beginning: we're looking to obviously expand that to other SharePoint objects and site settings so that it just makes it much easier for folks to build those scripts without having to whip out their JSON editor and be as awesome as all you guys. The other big piece is I'm happy to say that we have a model for supporting large scripts site scripts.

C

So, as you all know, for those you've been playing around with this capability, we do have a limit on the number of script actions that could be run and partly that was just to you know, for reliability and performance reasons.

C

What we have done now is we've effectively built a scheduler so that you can queue up rather large script actions and that's something I'll also demonstrate for you, it's less about the limit on the number of actions. Now it's really just the overall size of the script files, and so we can actually run up to a hundred thousand characters. Right now is the limit.

C

Obviously, my asking question and comment to you guys is: let us know if that's sufficient or if you're, you know, if you all start getting into this and you're like yeah, we're still running into limits, we're looking at ways to just kind of continue to expand on that. But hopefully this initial lift will get you guys going in the right direction there and we will be rolling that capability both of these capabilities out very soon. Let's see, let's see, let's go look at some of this stuff.

C

Let's go try some of this stuff out, so you can see what it's what it's doing. Let me jump over to a powershell here. Actually, the first thing I'm going to do, there's a third thing that actually I didn't mention for those of you who have watched the video or were at ignite.

C

We are also building a new persisted experience for site scripts and site designs, specifically in the UI, so that, if something is executed against the site, you can actually go and see that go and now pull that stuff back up with a lot of great feedback from you. Is that hey once something gets run? You know it's really hard to know where those things have been.

C

You know applied to what sites they've been applied to or what, if I want to make updates- and that's always been a part of our larger roadmap- is to start pushing these things into the UI, so that we can give folks the flexibility to actually execute or apply additional site designs or updates directly from the site itself and obviously we'll be complementing that with some administrative actions in the near future. So let's go ahead and just quickly create a site mm-hmm, and you can start to see some of this stuff.

C

Let's see, let's go ahead and create a showcase site and I don't want to call this a dev, oops community.

C

Let's go ahead and create that site and you'll see that when the when the comm site is created a slightly new experience here, we are now getting a larger whoops. I just closed it that wasn't very nice. Let me open that back up, so you can see what that was. We now have a persistent link here in the gear menu for the site designs and you can go ahead and bring that up, and it's going to be a much larger panel.

C

That's going to give you more detail on the the script details that were run for that site design, so I'm going to go ahead and run that update and it'll go ahead and apply those changes. Once those changes are applied, that link is still there and you can still go back to it and actually see the history. We have a little issue that we're working on still, which is why this is not released. I have to go ahead and refresh that you will not have to do that help. It's still doing its thing of it.

C

So we'll get back to this one on another one. But the idea is that once you've gone ahead and applied to site design, even if you have multiple site designs applied to a site, you'll be able to go ahead and see those the resulting script. Action output in this window- okay, No Vignesh- you don't want you to have control right now,.

C

All right, so, let's go and see a couple of other things. We can do, let's go ahead and grab this site, and the first thing I'm gonna do is: let's go ahead and apply it to a variable so that I can now use that variable and one of the other things I want to do is I'm going to told you guys we can start to serialize and extract a site script from an existing library. So I have a library here and you'll see that it's got a bunch of custom columns.

C

It's got some custom views and it's even got some list formatting on the effort column. So we're going to go ahead and grab this library and we're gonna go ahead and extract it. So the extraction command is let's go ahead and actually apply it to this guy and if it's a new command called get SPO site script from the list and then all you have to do is pass in the list URL and in this case it's at media library and just like that, it's done.

C

Let's go ahead and see that there it is, let's go ahead and actually grab that just so, you can kind of see what the output is. Looking like, mm-hmm.

C

So this is what we just extracted in just a matter of seconds. Saying you'll see that because of the complexity of this library, with the number of views and fields and things like that, it probably already exceeds the the larger the list limit that the list number of script action limit that we had in there. So obviously that scheduler is going to come in handy. So let's go ahead and use that I'm gonna go ahead and actually grab this script output and go ahead and make a new a new site script.

C

So let's go ahead and do that now.

C

I've already got this: you guys don't have to watch me type. Essentially, what I'm doing is I'm, adding a client to a new variable. The ad SPO site, script, action I'm, giving it just the title in the description and the content is the output that I grab from this list. Okay, so now I've got that new site script and we can go see what that guy is there's my site script. So now, I'm gonna go ahead. Mm-Hmm I've already got another script action that I've already built.

C

Let's see, I think it's script, whoops script too and you'll see it's script. U is another huge list: okay, so because I'm sorry site script. So the reason why I'm, showing you guys this is because what I want to do is I'm gonna, build a site design that actually marries these two just so we built an even larger site script. So I've already got that up here. Let's make sure I still have it there. It is okay.

C

So let's talk to this one, what I'm doing is I'm creating a new site design, so ad SPO site design, mondo script, demo and I'm. Just throwing in an arbitrary web template ID that doesn't exist, so it won't show up in the UI and the Neuse. The two site scripts that I'm using are the I. The two site.

C

Scripts are the ones that the one I just extracted, that was new site script and the new news site script, one and then the one that I just showed you guys that already existed, which is an existing site script. That's also pretty large. So let's go ahead and create this site design and let's go see what we, what we have so now: I have a new site design. So now that I have this new site, design I actually can go and run this through the UI those bit.

C

You will be able to run this through the eye of UI when we release it. I haven't pushed those bits to a place where I can test them. Yet we literally are just doing that work right now. So let's go ahead and do this through PowerShell and the way you do that is you run a new powershell commandlets. Some of you may have seen because it went out in last month's release.

C

Oops get back over here. It's called ad SPO site design tasks and so the site that, on what the parameters that it takes is where do you want to apply this site similar to the invoke SPO site design command, let so I'm giving it a site which is the one that I told just created for you guys, let's go back and look at that real quick that was was that which one was it. Who is this guy?

C

You have community demo, yes, ok, great, let's go make sure that I don't have any other site designs there. Nope, okay, I just have that guy there, but I ran when I first created the site. So what I'm gonna go, do is I'm gonna, go ahead and schedule this task and run it against run this site design this big one against this site. So let's go ahead and run that mmm and you'll see that what that is showing is the output is saying: hey a site.

C

Design task has been scheduled against this URL this website, so I can go ahead and actually check the status of that with another command line called get SPO site, design and you'll see that it's still running so we'll give it another. Second, hopefully up hold on, and it's done so. What happened? Is that really large site script, a rather site design of to really large site scripts, was already executed against the site? Let's go take a look and see if the magic happened. I want to go ahead and refresh the site page and I.

C

Didn't do is not enough visual stuff here for you guys, but actually this guy there's a new site logo, there's a bunch of new lists and libraries and things like that and actually the theme was changed, but let's go take a look and see what the site design information said and there it is okay. So a couple of issues but I think you guys get. The idea here is the really large site script.

C

That I just ran that I built for you on the fly and that has a whole bunch of stuff going on and all that stuff was applied to the site pretty quickly and that's it.

A

Cool now we have a set of questions which we need to go through. Okay,.

C

One other thing here that just because I'm excited about this too, the other thing where you'll see here is we have this link that we're still working on the UI a little bit but we're gonna. They have a link that will allow you to apply other site designs. So the other cool thing is, you can go ahead and grab another site design and say: oh perfect, legal they're taking over this site. Let's go ahead and run that and just like you were running it through a site creation experience.

C

It's gonna go ahead and run that thing. This is still work in progress, but that's the ideas that you other site designs that have been scoped and available to me, the user and owner of the site. I will be able to see those and apply those. That's obviously also a way that you can generate updates as well. Okay and there we go see logo change all that good stuff. Okay, jumping over to the window, don't.

A

Go to the Skype question. I will ask.

C

A

There was a Kris can't mention that accent, ace assassins added to the theme narrator.

C

A

Up on the promises and all of that so ya.

C

Know fantastic PB, yeah, there's there's you know what I'll just be perfectly blunt with you guys. I have been trying to get some funding to do a bunch of things. We have a bunch of things planned for the theme generator, but making sure at least the available slots that are out there are in the output. Is apologies for the delay on getting that it wouldn't.

A

Cost sooner or later and that's fine, so there was a Mike actually had a question related. Is there a will? There be a tenant level setting to enable or clock the theme as options so basically he's his. If you go to the team setting, this is good question. So we race to build therapy a tenant level setting to height hitter navigation footer option from here, so that people don't mess up things.

C

A

The in the from a control perspective again, yeah.

C

So so, as you guys probably have noticed, let's see here, you'll see that I applied a custom theme here and that custom theme is actually this contoso electronic technologies. So, as some of you may know, when you create and upload company themes, they are not customizable. So you'll notice here that if I click it there is no customize option like there are with the SharePoint themes. One of the things that we're going to be is we're gonna be providing you with an admin switch and that admin switch is going to that admin.

C

Switch, is gonna, give you the control over. Hey I, don't want these other change. The look branding Ella settings to be available for my company themes or they can be available. So you can say some because we've talked with a bunch of customers and I'd love to hear more feedback from you guys. But some folks have said what we care more about is company, color and brand.

C

But in terms of you know, the layout of the site itself were less concerned about, so they would probably set that switch to say these things would be available to them. Others might say you know what I want to completely control that brand, including how the page looks and renders, and they would have the ability to essentially disable these. So the short answer to your question is: yes: we are going to be giving you a switch initially.

C

That switch will probably not be a depth which probably won't go out with this release, so these options will be available for company I'm, sorry for out of box themes only and not available for company themes, we're still working through the specifics of that.

A

Just a quick comment: Vignesh that that is getting the lock on dos. The electronics logo on the top is setting Internet admin UI. So no number is on that now. Can you go back on the selecting of theme so order the previous viewer on this? Obviously there will be I'm, assuming there will be a tenant level, no close respond.

C

A

That's that's good so, but this one has two themes as well, so that, but there will be a tenant level setting off of hiding those themes as well. Obviously, oh.

C

Yeah, let me comment on that yeah. Let me comment on that: real quick guys. So what you're seeing on the screen here is I'm honored that the this tenant is what we actually use, what we were demoing and running sessions that ignite this is still a work in progress. This new suite shell, which is eventually going to host the new Microsoft search.

C

That's why a lot of this stuff is sliding over, but this is also a new panel experience that will be coming to a number of settings, there's even a new helpline that will be coming as well. This SharePoint experience will first priority when you're in SharePoint, so all of these sort of personal and office 365 settings are actually going to hide they're going to go behind a tab.

C

So because it's a bit confusing that you see these themes and then you also have SharePoint specific site themes, so yeah and as message just noted, some tenets might even turn this stuff off completely, in which case it wouldn't render cool.

A

Now a few other questions still we will go slightly all the time so Shaun do you have a hard stop right now, no.

C

I am happy to stick around for a minute.

A

Question set of questions so link color for themes. So can we modify the link color in the theme and the answer is yes: we can modify the link color in theme right, basically, the links and in the UI. So absolutely you can modify that in the same settings. Yeah.

C

And in fact, real quickly, just one of the things to take go grab the for those of you who can go grab the deck.

C

Brk 3090, if you want to get I, think it was referenced in a couple of other places, but in our deck in our session deck we do have a number of this guy here, sorry jump back up there. There is a kam SSP design guidance. This is gonna, be a new landing place where we're putting a lot of design guidance. In fact, a reference to the SharePoint starter kit that best talked about the top of the hour.

C

That's included there, there's also a bunch of other stuff we're going to be adding more articles and resources for how to you know, customize your site and set you up for, as it says there for success. So that's where a lot of that information is going to start to go. So that's one thing: you want to bookmark for sure cool.

A

Cool excellent few more questions there recently just view formatting can it be applied as part of the slightest honest I, scrape view.

C

Formatting, yes, it can absolutely in fact yeah if we had more time. That's script. Let's see I'm sorry, remember that the that the library that I apologize I'm losing my place, the library that I copied included view formatting in this case it just had some column formatting here, but we support both column and row, formatting the you formatting and we extracted that, so that was actually a part of that extraction.

C

If we go and look at this, you will see here that I believe where is it might be too too long for me to find trust me. It is in here so if you, the site, design that I just applied to that new site, if I go ahead and start uploading stuff in that library and setting the effort field, it will actually pick up that view. Formatting yeah.

A

So basically, I'm! Sorry! Yes, sorry.

C

There was a really long-winded answer to say: yes,.

A

Hey can we have a custom properties in the panel so decide the information panel? That is an awesome question. That is an awesome, actually suggestion. So the if you click the gear, you can see the the site information panel, not that come on this.

C

A

So having a placeholder having a support, not on this one, the previous one, having a support for you to ant your own site level, property editors. Basically, because there's always such a massive amount of let's say metadata, which we want to set on a site level or something else on a site level having a capability here on exposing a custom custom option for adding options. So configuring settings would make a lot of sense, that force term or on mine and Pat Miller's responsibility to figure out so yeah.

C

No but I will say this, though, that is a great ideas, great feedback, one of the things I think I've shared with this audience or another venues before is even as a part of site provisioning.

C

We recognize that there is a need for both approval, as well as the collection of additional metadata outside of what the products you know ask for, and so we are looking at ways through flow and power apps to allow you to essentially embed your own custom customizations into that experience, because we don't want you to have to do what you have to do before, which is go and build all that all of that experience.

C

We want to give you entry points into the provisioning flow as needed to collect that data, but then, obviously, if you're going to elected, you need to have a way to expose it in the site itself and it.

A

Might be, it might be something that you're connecting this site to an S AP system or whatever, and then you need to have that extensibility point to be able to do that or whatever but anyway. So that's, that's a great in bird from Gotham now, one last thing: what I wanted to quickly walk through and explain: hey Sean, so this the the site designs inside scripts- and this is awesome- variable to extract a list already. So how does this relate on the PMP provisioning stuff and when would I use what and when not so yeah.

C

So I think the short answer to that and VESA can help correct or amend is, as you guys probably know, the there's still some core capabilities and configurations that we don't yet support natively in site scripts and that probably the main one is setting custom pages in that webparts.

C

So I think that there's still very much a place for any existing solutions or if you have requirements for those types of configurations, I will say that we are working on some amendments to the modern page API, so that we can provide that capability. For you guys it's very much on our roadmap.

C

Let's see I think yeah I think that's the main one and I think there's also I have the same mantra that I've been you know saying, since we announced this capability. Is that the option to do things like trigger flow and stuff like that is still oh and even install or register SPF X solution is still required. If you have custom solutions, we don't want to lock you out of being able to take advantage of. You know that work or previous investments, so the site design, sorry the site. Script for vocabulary continues to grow.

C

What we are continuing to work on, that I have a couple that I didn't have time to get you today that we will be announcing and releasing very shortly, but yeah I think that they're still always a place for the PNP stuff.

A

So, when possible use my scripts, it's faster, it's executed, server-side! That's why it's faster! It's not it's not as chatty the BMP is, has a delta handling and it's executed remotely and that's why it's actually slightly well, not as speedy as the site design side script. Now the some the BMP provisioning also supports getting site designs and size scripture proficient in a tenon, so you're able to easily get the your site designs on side, scripts provision to your deft and intestinal sand productions arounds.

A

So that's really the role where the BMP is heading, also in the future, more on the tenant level, automation and then we use the site, designs and side scripts on the site, provisioning and site level, automation where possible and likes it like like Sean sets. Currently there are certain gaps in the steel inside scripts and site designs, but and then you fall back on the BMP provisioning when Aidan one yep.

C

Yep and we're looking to fill those gaps but yeah, absolutely I, think that you know there's a place for both of them, and that was in that was by design. So.

A

Yeah there was a last one last question: Jordans asking what was the comment led to extract the list and library structure? That's not yet out right. So we're done it.

C

Is not okay, so yeah, so Brazil roadmap and release and all that stuff, so this stuff is really close to being shipped ready, specifically those three things that I just showed you the ability to the the powershell commandlets to extract a list or library, the PowerShell commands to and rest to be able to schedule. Large script runs and then that new, updated UI to both see and view run history and run scripts site designs rather from the UI. All of that is intended to come out. This fall I'm, hoping that we'll be able to ship.

C

Oh gosh, don't hold me.

C

Guys this month so I'm hoping that we can start getting it out to you before the holidays, yeah.

A

That's that's always a good target know we run out of time. We do apologize. I'm taking slightly extra time seems.

C

To be much mo, these.

A

C

A

A humongous amount of kids questions to cover as well and the recording will be available in YouTube in 24 hours, so the AKMs, and if you can't remember any of these URLs, which were all the time sharing Koike MSSP PMP, that is location where you can find the documentation. Urls are portals, you type urls are community calls and all that information, but we don't, unfortunately, have more time now for questions, but definitely will get shown on back on the on the calls in the future as well.

A

But thank you, Shawn and I also saw that Pat had to already drop. So thank you Pat's, even though you're not no longer in a call, and thank you, everybody for your awesome questions and support and and feedback. So hey.

C

I would just add. Thank you one. Thank you, everybody, but at a time and opportunity to okay I'll, go take a look at some of the questions, feel free to reach out to Vesta and either through Twitter or through other channels, and I'll try and follow up with any in clearing ones that we missed, but yeah.

C

Follow me we'll keep things surprised on when this stuff becomes available and.

A

We always prefer public channels like Twitter or a mistake community, because that way, when we answer potentially some other people can see that as well, rather than sending us an email, because this doesn't simply scale so trust me I know all right.

C

A

Recording of the session will be posted in the shape on deaf community as shape on deaf block, which is a chemist, is the SPF blog, but thank you, everybody we'll be seeing you later on. The community calls hopefully Thank You, Sean, Thank, You Pat, and thank you. Everybody bye, bye, professor.