Archive for March 2018

Hey developer, the solution which was just deployed in production is not working. Can you have a look at and fix it? This is probably something which you might have heard before. As every user and environment are unique, it could be caused by different things. IMPORTANT: Use this approach to test and find out what is wrong.

If you are using a modern site in SharePoint Online, you might have noticed that there is a new footer / social bar control which contains actions that allow you to like a page, see the number of comments and page views. The social bar with like and comment capabilities This is a very simple control and might be useful to you when building some social solutions like for example when building your own news page roll-ups or controls.

The SharePoint item REST API has its limits. One (or two in this case) of these limits is about returning values for fields you specified, more in particular when using lookup- or managed metadata fields. The problem with the lookup field occurs when it references a list from another web.