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<\/p>\nSharePoint Dev Ecosystem \/ SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) July 2018 update is out with a summary of the latest guidance, samples, and solutions from SharePoint engineering or from the community for the community. This article is a summary of all the different areas and topics around SharePoint Dev ecosystem during the past month.<\/p>\n
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SharePoint PnP is a nick-name for SharePoint Dev Ecosystem activities coordinated by SharePoint engineering. SharePoint PnP is community driven open source initiative where Microsoft and external community members are sharing their learning’s around implementation practices for SharePoint and Office 365. Active development and contributions happen in GitHub by providing contributions to the samples, reusable components, and documentation.<\/p>\n
PnP is owned and coordinated by SharePoint engineering, but this is work done by the community for the community. The initiative is currently facilitated by Microsoft, but already at this point, we have multiple community members as part of the PnP Core team and we are looking to extend the Core team with more community members.<\/p>\n
Notice that since this is open source community initiative, there\u2019s no SLAs for the support for the samples provided through GitHub. Obviously, all officially released components and libraries are under official support from Microsoft. You can use\u00a0SharePoint Developer group<\/a>\u00a0in the Microsoft Tech Community for providing input and to ask any questions about the existing materials.<\/p>\n Some key statistics around\u00a0SharePoint Dev topics from June 2018<\/p>\n Main resources around SharePoint PnP\u00a0and SharePoint development<\/p>\n Agenda for the Tuesday 10th of July 2018 SharePoint Dev Ecosystem \/ Patterns and Practices\u00a0community call<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a08 AM PST \/ 5 PM CEST:<\/p>\n Monthly community call will get recorded and release to\u00a0PnP YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0typically within 24 hours after the recording is ended. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please participate in our discussions in the\u00a0Microsoft Tech Community<\/a>\u00a0under\u00a0SharePoint developer group<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here are the latest blog posts and announcements around SharePoint development topics from\u00a0dev.office.com\/blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n PnP Webcasts are typically 15-30 min long conversational webcasts around a specific topic. This series was started in October 2015 and have continued releasing new videos since. All new webcasts are released on\u00a0PnP YouTube Channel<\/a>. Here are the new webcasts released after the last monthly release. We are looking into continuing the releases of the webcast in the future.<\/p>\n General SP Dev, CSOM PnP Sites Core, PowerShell and Provisioning Special Interest Group (SIG) have bi-weekly meetings to cover the general SharePoint topics, CSOM and latest in the PnP CSOM core component, PnP PowerShell and in the PnP remote provisioning engine. These calls have also free Q&A section if you have any questions about SharePoint development in on-premises or in the cloud. Need to get a recommendation for your design or having a hard time with some APIs? – Drop by, ask a question and we’ll help you.<\/p>\n You can download invite for the bi-weekly meeting from the following location.<\/p>\n All SIG meetings are being recorded and are available for view from\u00a0PnP YouTube Channel<\/a>. Here are the latest recordings of the SIG calls.<\/p>\n Interested in doing a community demo in these community calls? – Please let us know!<\/p>\n SharePoint Framework and JavaScript Special Interest Group (SIG) has bi-weekly meetings to cover latest changes in the SharePoint Framework side, from the engineering perspective and to cover also latest development related to the\u00a0PnP JS Core library<\/a>. These calls are designed to have 50%\/50% of content and demos and there has been already great community demos on the new SharePoint Framework Client-side web parts. If you’re interested in showing your code, just let us know.<\/p>\n All SharePoint Framework and JS SIG meetings are recorded, so that you can check the demos and discussions if you can’t make the actual call. You can find the latest recordings from the\u00a0PnP YouTube Channel<\/a>. Here are the latest recordings.<\/p>\n Interested in doing a community demo in these community calls? – Please let us know!<\/p>\n There are quite a few different GitHub repositories under the SharePoint brand since we wanted to ensure that you can easily find and reuse what’s relevant to you. We do also combine multiple solutions to one repository so that you can more easily sync and get latest changes to our released guidance and samples.<\/p>\n Following statements apply across all of the PnP samples and solutions, including samples, core component(s) and solutions, like\u00a0SharePoint Starter Kit.<\/p>\n SharePoint Starter Kit<\/a>\u00a0demonstrates how to extend out of the box modern experiences in the SharePoint. It demonstrates multiple different techniques and uses different patterns and practices to build end-to-end\u00a0demonstration solution which can be provisioned to any\u00a0Office 365 tenant. It contains for example following capabilities, which you can learn from or use them as your reference:<\/p>\n Following are the key changes in the Starter Kit since\u00a0the previous monthly summary<\/p>\n SharePoint Starter Kit was announced in SharePoint Conference 2018 and we will keep on evolving and update this reference solution also during\u00a0future releases. We also do welcome contributions on this open-source community lead project.<\/p>\n These are samples which are available from the SharePoint client-side web part sample repository at\u00a0https:\/\/github.com\/SharePoint\/sp-dev-fx-webparts<\/a>\u00a0or from the SharePoint Framework Extensions repository at\u00a0https:\/\/github.com\/SharePoint\/sp-dev-fx-extensions<\/a>.<\/p>\n New reusable controls initiative was announced in Ignite 2017 during September. There are two npm packages and source code repositories for the reusable\u00a0controls which you can use in your\u00a0SharePoint Framework solutions. We do welcome community contributions to these initiatives as well. There are two different repositories:\u00a0sp-dev-fx-property-controls<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0sp-dev-fx-controls-react<\/a>. Here are the changes on these repositories.<\/p>\n Added<\/p>\n Enhancements<\/p>\n Fixes<\/p>\n SharePoint list formatting capability was released for First Release customers during October 2017. As\u00a0part of\u00a0the availability, we also announced the availability of\u00a0open source repository<\/a>\u00a0for sharing different column formatting definitions. Since we will be releasing also new view formatting capability soon, the repository has been renamed as\u00a0sp-dev-list-formatting<\/a>\u00a0as it will be containing both view and column formatting samples.<\/p>\n SharePoint Site Designs and Site Scripts has been released for production usage during March 2018. As\u00a0part of\u00a0the availability, we also announced the availability of\u00a0open source repository<\/a>\u00a0for sharing different Site Designs and Site Scripts.\u00a0Following lists the changes in the Site Design and Site Script area.<\/p>\n Office 365 CLI was\u00a0released<\/a>\u00a0in November 2017. This is an open source tool which enables you to controls tenant level properties in SharePoint Online or in Office 365.<\/p>\n v1.4.0\u00a0release<\/a>\u00a0available with following changes<\/p>\n Added<\/p>\n Changes<\/p>\n\n
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July 2018 monthly community call<\/h2>\n
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SharePoint Dev Blog posts<\/h2>\n
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PnP Webcasts<\/h2>\n
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General Dev, CSOM, PnP Core, PnP PowerShell SIG Bi-Weekly Call Special Interest Group (SIG)<\/h2>\n
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SharePoint Framework (SPFX) and JavaScript Special Interest Group (SIG)<\/h2>\n
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SharePoint Dev Ecosystem in GitHub<\/h2>\n
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What’s supportability story around PnP material?<\/h2>\n
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Latest changes<\/h2>\n
SharePoint\u00a0Starter Kit<\/h3>\n
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SharePoint Framework samples<\/h3>\n
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Reusable open source controls for SharePoint Framework<\/h3>\n
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PeoplePicker<\/code>\u00a0control added\u00a0#19<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
npm postinstall<\/code>\u00a0script to automatically add the localization config\u00a0#64<\/a><\/li>\nPropertyFieldCollectionData<\/code>\u00a0panel\u00a0#67<\/a><\/li>\nPropertyFieldCollectionData<\/code>\u00a0control\u00a0#66<\/a><\/li>\nPropertyFieldCollectionData<\/code>\u00a0control\u00a0#72<\/a><\/li>\nPropertyFieldCollectionData<\/code>\u00a0control. Related to previous enhancement.<\/li>\nTaxonomyPicker<\/code>\u00a0to specify which terms are disabled\/not-selectable\u00a0#69<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
TaxonomyPicker<\/code>\u00a0where values are not updated by an async change\u00a0#83<\/a><\/li>\nFieldUserRenderer<\/code>\u00a0uses email prop for\u00a0GetPropertiesFor<\/code>\u00a0#84<\/a><\/li>\nListView<\/code>\u00a0when a user clicked on the group header\u00a0#86<\/a><\/li>\nPropertyFieldPeoplePicker<\/code>\u00a0validation error does not clear as expected\u00a0#68<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nCommunity list formatting definitions<\/h3>\n
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Office 365 CLI<\/h3>\n
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