SharePoint Online : An Introduction to Office Delve

Microsoft has been talking about “codename Oslo” and Office Graph since the SharePoint conference in March 2014. Office Delve (previously codenamed “Oslo”) was launched recently by Microsoft on September 8.  For all those who are not aware as to what Office Delve is, let us briefly discuss about what the Office Delve is and after that we will dive into fetching data from Office Graph Using Graph Query Language.

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Step by Step Guide to Configure Environment for Creating your first SharePoint Hosted App

One of the new features of SharePoint 2013 is the SharePoint App Model. Similar to the windows phone marketplace, we now have a SharePoint Store available where we can simply search for apps and download them on our SharePoint site.  In SharePoint 2013, everything is an app, be it lists or libraries.

In this article we will talk about how to configure development environment for an on-premise implementation of a SharePoint Hosted App. We will also create our first basic SharePoint Hosted Apps and talk about few possible errors usually encountered by developers while implementing their very first app. There are huge amount of reference available over MSDN to create and configure the apps but the purpose of this article is to help developers not only configure the environment but also pose before them the common challenges that they might face during their very first implementation and help them resolve those errors.

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SharePoint Online : Working with People Search and User Profiles

People Search and User Profiles are amongst the popular topics that everyone use in their projects every now and then. With SharePoint 2013, a lot of functionality has been included in the Client API's by Microsoft. If you consider user profiles itself, in SharePoint 2010 you cannot fetch user profiles using client side object model. However, with SharePoint 2013, you have a wide variety of methods that you can use to fetch the user profile information using client object model. The search API is also expanded greatly.

Content Search WebPart is one of the important additions in SharePoint 2013. Using this webpart you can display content that was crawled and added to search index.

To have a complete look at this post refer to the link over here. 

Cheers,

Geetanjali

SharePoint Online : Export User Profile Properties Using CSOM

With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has provided the ability to fetch User Profile information client side using CSOM API’s. User Profiles and user profile properties provide information about the SharePoint Users.

The scope of this article is to talk about how we can make use of CSOM API to fetch the user profile information on Office 365 and export profile properties to a csv file.

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Perform Basic Admin Operations using CSOM in SharePoint Online

This post will focus on how to make use of SharePointOnlineCredentials class to authenticate to SharePoint Online from your host machine using a console application. In this article I will give you a walk through of some of the basic administration stuff that can now be achieved using CSOM. Previously this was possible only using Powershell and SharePoint Online (SPO) commandlets but now we have CSOM as an option available as well.

Though we can use CSOM from an app but in the below scenarios I will be implementing the same using Console Application to keep things simple.

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Cheers,
Geetanjali

Count the selections inside a people picker control

Dear Readers,

This is another of my people picker post where I will write how using jQuery you can count the number of entities/users you have provided inside your people editor control. For my previous posts on people editor refere to the links link1 and link2 .

Coming back to the scenario, at times you need to do client side validation to see how many entities you have entered inside the people editor control. You have an attribute MultiSelect="false" that you can set  on the SharePoint:PeopleEditor control to show an error message stating that only one value is allowed to be entered in the people editor control. Now if you want to do the same validation using jQuery then its really simple. Below is the code snippet for the same.

 
var noOfChildren = $("[id$='peopleEditorProductOwner_upLevelDiv']").children().length;

where 'peopleEditorProductOwner' is the id of the people editor control.

 

 

Hope that helps !

 

Cheers,

Geetanjali 

Validate People Picker Value is Resolved or not using jQuery

Dear Readers,

Recently I was working on a people picker control and using jQuery I have to validate whether the people editor field is resolved or not. I played with people picker control using the IE developer tool and finally came up with the solution using jQuery. Its a very simple jQuery implementation and hope it might help somebody. For greater understanding of the below snippet have a look at my previous post here

var htmlPeopleEditor = $("[id$='peopleEditorProductOwner_upLevelDiv']");
var isResolved = $("#divEntityData", htmlPeopleEditor).attr("isResolved");

if (isResolved == "False" || isResolved == "false") {

          alert("Not Resolved");

}


Now if you look at the above snippet, there is an isResolved attribute that gets set when you try to resolve a people picker field. With the help of this attribute you can ensure whether your people picker field is resolved or not.

Hope that helps !


Cheers,
Geetanjali