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SharePoint PnP is a nick-name for SharePoint Dev Ecosystem activities coordinated by SharePoint engineering. SharePoint PnP is a 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. 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 (see team details in end of the article) and we are looking to extend the Core team with more community members. 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 the\u00a0SharePoint Developer group<\/a>\u00a0in the Microsoft Tech Community for providing input and to ask any questions about the existing materials or report issues using the sp-dev-docs issue list<\/a>.<\/p>\nSome key statistics around\u00a0SharePoint Developer topics from February 2019<\/p>\n
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- GitHub repository forks\u00a0at most popular repositories in SharePoint GitHub organization\n
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- SP\u00a0Dev Docs<\/a>\u00a0– 469<\/li>\n
- SP Dev FX Web Parts<\/a>\u00a0– 1099<\/li>\n
- SP Dev Fx Extensions<\/a>\u00a0– 283<\/li>\n
- PnP<\/a>\u00a0– 3053<\/li>\n
- PnP Sites Core<\/a>\u00a0(CSOM)\u00a0– 539<\/li>\n
- PnP PowerShell<\/a>\u00a0– 521<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Unique visitors during the past 2 weeks in\u00a0SharePoint organization<\/a>\u00a0repositories – 42,234<\/li>\n
- Merged pull requests across SharePoint repositories (cumulative) – 6,226<\/li>\n
- Closed issues and enhancements ideas cross SharePoint repositories (cumulative) – 6,226<\/li>\n
- SharePoint Online CSOM<\/a>\u00a0NuGet package downloads (cumulative) – 941,214<\/li>\n
- Page views in\u00a0SharePoint Dev<\/a>\u00a0pages at\u00a0docs.microsoft.com – 1,137,503<\/li>\n
- Unique tenants using open-source PnP components – 20,796<\/li>\n
- Http requests towards SharePoint Online from PnP components (CSOM Core, PowerShell, PnP JS Core) – 12,177,594,685<\/li>\n
- SharePoint Dev YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0had 32,409 views with 186,544 minutes of watch time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Most viewed articles in the SharePoint Dev documentation<\/a> during February 2019.<\/p>\n
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- Use column formatting to customize SharePoint<\/a><\/li>\n
- Build your first SharePoint client-side web part (Hello World part 1)<\/a><\/li>\n
- SharePoint site design and site script overview<\/a><\/li>\n
- SharePoint Development<\/a><\/li>\n
- Overview of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Set up your SharePoint Framework development environment<\/a><\/li>\n
- Complete basic operations using SharePoint REST endpoints<\/a><\/li>\n
- Get to know the SharePoint REST service<\/a><\/li>\n
- Working with lists and list items with REST<\/a><\/li>\n
- Complete basic operations using SharePoint client library code<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Main resources around SharePoint PnP\u00a0and SharePoint development<\/p>\n
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- SharePoint development blog –\u00a0 http:\/\/aka.ms\/spdev-blog<\/a><\/li>\n
- SharePoint Dev Documentation – http:\/\/aka.ms\/spdev-docs<\/a><\/li>\n
- SharePoint Dev Community –\u00a0http:\/\/aka.ms\/sppnp<\/a>\u00a0– One location for all the resources and news around PnP<\/li>\n
- PnP Community Discussions\u00a0–\u00a0http:\/\/aka.ms\/spdev-community<\/a><\/li>\n
- SharePoint Dev Videos on YouTube\u00a0–\u00a0http:\/\/aka.ms\/spdev-videos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
March 2019 monthly community call<\/h2>\n
Agenda for the Tuesday 12th of March 2019 SharePoint Dev Ecosystem \/ Patterns and Practices\u00a0community call<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a08 AM PST \/ 5 PM CEST:<\/p>\n
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- Monthly summary of SharePoint Development topics – Latest SharePoint roadmap and community news – Erwin van Hunen<\/a> (Rencore) ~15 min<\/li>\n
- Demo – Preview of SharePoint Framework 1.8 – covering all the new capabilities to be released with live demos – Vesa Juvonen<\/a> (Microsoft)<\/li>\n
- Topic – Releasing SharePoint provisioning service for public beta – Getting started – Vesa Juvonen<\/a> (Microsoft)<\/li>\n
- Q&A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 the\u00a0SharePoint developer group<\/a>.<\/p>\n
SharePoint Dev Blog posts<\/h2>\n
Here are the latest blog posts and announcements around SharePoint development topics from developer.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/blogs<\/a><\/p>\n
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- 8th of March –\u00a0SharePoint Dev Community (PnP) \u2013 General SP Dev SIG recording \u2013 7th of March 2019<\/a><\/li>\n
- 5th of March –\u00a0PnP Webcast \u2013 SharePoint Framework Modern Search Web Part<\/a><\/li>\n
- 5th of March –\u00a0SharePoint Dev Weekly \u2013 Episode 29<\/a><\/li>\n
- 4th of March –\u00a0New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online \u2013 February 2019<\/a><\/li>\n
- 1st of March –\u00a0SharePoint Framework Community Call Recording \u2013 28th of Feb 2019<\/a><\/li>\n
- 26th of February –\u00a0SharePoint Dev Weekly \u2013 Episode 28<\/a><\/li>\n
- 22nd of February –\u00a0SharePoint Dev Community (PnP) \u2013 General SP Dev SIG recording \u2013 21st of February 2019<\/a><\/li>\n
- 20th of February –\u00a0Microsoft Graph or the Azure AD Graph<\/a><\/li>\n
- 17th of February –\u00a0SharePoint Dev Weekly \u2013 Episode 27<\/a><\/li>\n
- 15th of February –\u00a0SharePoint Framework Community Call Recording \u2013 14th of Feb 2019<\/a><\/li>\n
- 14th of February –\u00a0MVP Article \u2013 SharePoint Column Formatting \u2013 Show Map in Rich Text Field<\/a><\/li>\n
- 13th of February –\u00a0SharePoint Dev Community (PnP) \u2013 February 2019 monthly community call recording<\/a><\/li>\n
- 12th of February –\u00a0SharePoint Dev Weekly \u2013 Episode 26<\/a><\/li>\n
- 12th of February –\u00a0SharePoint Development Community (PnP) \u2013 February 2019 update<\/a><\/li>\n
- 8th of February –\u00a0SharePoint Dev Community (PnP) \u2013 General SP Dev SIG recording \u2013 7th of February 2019<\/a><\/li>\n
- 5th of February –\u00a0SharePoint Dev Weekly \u2013 Episode 25<\/a><\/li>\n
- 1st of February –\u00a0New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online \u2013 January 2019<\/a><\/li>\n
- 1st of February –\u00a0SharePoint Framework Community Call Recording \u2013 31st of Jan 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
PnP Community Calls<\/h2>\n
SharePoint Dev community has 3 different recurrent community calls, which you can choose to participate based on your interest and availability. All calls are recorded and published in the SharePoint Dev YouTube channel<\/a> typically within the following 24 hours after the call. You can find a detailed agenda and links to specific covered topics on blog post articles at the SharePoint developer blog<\/a> when the videos are published.<\/p>\n
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- Monthly community call<\/a> – Second Tuesday of each month at 8 AM Pacific Time. Consists of the latest news, providing credits for all community contributors and live demos.<\/li>\n
- Bi-weekly special interest group for SharePoint Framework<\/a> – Bi-weekly Thursdays at 7 AM Pacific time. Consists of topics around SharePoint Framework and JavaScript-based development in the SharePoint platform.<\/li>\n
- Bi-weekly special interest group for SharePoint General Dev<\/a> – SharePoint dev platform topics which are not around JavaScript development. Site Designs, PnP Provisioning, CSOM, Column formatting, hub sites, branding, architectural designs etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
If you are interested in doing a live demo of your solution or sample in these calls, please do reach out to the PnP Core Team members (contacts later in this post). These are great opportunities to gain visibility for example for existing MVPs, for community members who would like to be MVPs in the future or any community member who’d like to share some of their learnings.<\/p>\n
SharePoint Dev Ecosystem in GitHub<\/h2>\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 the latest changes to our released guidance and samples.<\/p>\n
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- sp-dev-docs<\/a>\u00a0– Source for new SharePoint dev center documentation exposed from\u00a0http:\/\/dev.office.com\/sharepoint<\/a><\/li>\n
- sp-dev-fx-webparts<\/a>\u00a0– Client-side web part samples from community and engineering<\/li>\n
- sp-dev-samples<\/a>\u00a0– Samples for add-ins, webhooks, and other API<\/li>\n
- sp-dev-fx-extensions<\/a>\u00a0– Samples and tutorial code around SharePoint Framework Extensions<\/li>\n
- sp-dev-fx-vs-extension<\/a>\u00a0– Open source Visual Studio IDE extension for creating SharePoint Framework solutions\u00a0in the Visual Studio 2015 or 2017<\/li>\n
- sp-dev-build-extensions<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Different build extensions like gulp tasks and gulp plugins from the community and engineering around SharePoint development<\/li>\n
- sp-dev-gdpr-activity-hub<\/a>\u00a0– Reference solution on the GDPR business case showing SPFx implementation with PowerBI and modern site customization<\/li>\n
- sp-dev-solutions<\/a>\u00a0– Repository for more polished and fine-tuned reusable solutions build with SharePoint Framework<\/li>\n
- sp-dev-fx-controls-react<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Reusable content controls for SharePoint Framework solutions build with React<\/li>\n
- sp-dev-fx-property-controls<\/a>\u00a0– Reusable property pane controls to be used in web parts<\/li>\n
- sp-dev-list-formatting<\/a>\u00a0– Open-source community-driven repository for the column and view formatting JSON definitions<\/li>\n
- sp-dev-site-scripts<\/a>\u00a0– Open-source community-driven repository for community Site Designs and Site Scripts<\/li>\n
- sp-dev-modernization<\/a> – Tooling and guidance around modernizing SharePoint from classic to modern<\/li>\n
- sp-starter-kit<\/a>\u00a0– Starter kit solution for SharePoint modern experiences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
PnP specific repositories – solution designs and tooling<\/p>\n
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- PnP<\/a>\u00a0– Main repository for SP add-in, Microsoft Graph\u00a0etc. samples<\/li>\n
- PnP-Sites-Core<\/a>\u00a0– Office Dev PnP Core component<\/li>\n
- PnP-PowerShell<\/a>\u00a0– Office Dev PnP PowerShell Cmdlets<\/li>\n
- PnP-Tools<\/a>\u00a0– Tools and scripts targeted more for IT Pro’s and for on-premises for SP2013 and SP2016<\/li>\n
- PnP-Transformation<\/a>\u00a0– Material specifically for the transformation process. Currently, includes samples around InfoPath replacement and transformation tooling from farm solutions to add-in model.<\/li>\n
- PnP-Provisioning-Schema<\/a>\u00a0– PnP Provisioning engine schema repository<\/li>\n
- PnP-IdentityModel<\/a>\u00a0– Open source replacement of\u00a0Microsoft.IdentityModel.Extensions.dll<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Repositories in the GitHub PnP organization<\/p>\n
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- PnPjs<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0PnPjs Framework repository<\/li>\n
- o365 CLI<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Cross-OS command line interface to manage Office 365 tenant settings<\/li>\n
- generator-spfx<\/a> – Open-source Yeoman generator which extends the out-of-the-box Yeoman generator for SharePoint with additional capabilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
What’s supportability story around PnP material?<\/h2>\n
Following statements apply across all of the PnP samples and solutions, including samples, core component(s) and solutions, like\u00a0SharePoint Starter Kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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- PnP guidance and samples are created by Microsoft & by the Community<\/li>\n
- PnP guidance and samples are maintained by Microsoft & community<\/li>\n
- PnP uses supported and recommended techniques<\/li>\n
- PnP implementations are reviewed and approved by Microsoft engineering<\/li>\n
- PnP is an\u00a0open-source initiative\u00a0by the community \u2013 people who work on the initiative for the benefit of others, have their normal day job as well<\/li>\n
- PnP is NOT a product and therefore it\u2019s not supported by Premier Support or other official support channels<\/li>\n
- PnP is supported in similar ways as other open source projects done by Microsoft with support from the community by the community<\/li>\n
- There are numerous partners that utilize PnP within their solutions for customers. Support for this is provided by the Partner. When PnP material is used in deployments, we recommend being clear with your customer\/deployment owner on the support model<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Area-specific updates<\/h2>\n
SharePoint\u00a0Starter Kit<\/h3>\n
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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 an 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- \n
- How to provision site collections using PowerShell<\/li>\n
- How to apply\u00a0content and layouts to site collections<\/li>\n
- How to\u00a0create and use Site Designs and Site Scripts<\/li>\n
- How to build custom web parts and extensions for your deployment<\/li>\n
- 15 different ready to use web parts<\/li>\n
- 7 different extensions<\/li>\n
- Hub site configuration<\/li>\n
- 3 site collections<\/li>\n
- Automated provisioning of the whole solution with PnP Provisioning engine<\/li>\n
- etc. etc. etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Following are the key changes in the Starter Kit since\u00a0the previous monthly summary<\/p>\n
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- Documentation updates<\/li>\n
- Additional language translations<\/li>\n
- Preparations on getting Starter Kit out from the upcoming SharePoint Provisioning Service<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
We do welcome contributions on this open-source community project.<\/p>\n
Modernization tooling<\/h3>\n
SharePoint Online is continuously evolving and improving, which is a great thing for you as a consumer of the service. One of the key improvements is the availability of modern sites, which are modern Office 365 group-connected team sites or communication sites, combined with improved functionality that can be consumed from a beautiful modern user interface. There are however plenty of customers who have already existing content in the classic sites and in classic pages, which would be great to get moved on the modern experience. This is where the open-source modernization tooling will help you.<\/p>\n
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- All guidance and tooling details are available from http:\/\/aka.ms\/sppnp-modernize<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Following are the key changes in modernization tooling and guidance since the last monthly summary<\/p>\n
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- Support for transforming into another site collection on top of existing in-place transformation<\/li>\n
- Improved classic to modern web part transformation<\/li>\n
- Preparations for upcoming publishing page transformation<\/li>\n
- Updates on the modernization framework<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
SharePoint development samples<\/h3>\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>. Web parts<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- New sample\u00a0react-my-teams<\/strong><\/a> showing how to use Microsoft Graph to get a list\u00a0of Teams the current user is a member of<\/li>\n
- New sample react-image-gallery<\/strong><\/a> showing how to build an image gallery capability with taxonomy based filtering and typed search<\/li>\n
- New sample react-tree-orgchart<\/a><\/strong> showing how to present an organizational chart of a team based on a current user<\/li>\n
- New sample react-image-slider-list-taxonomy-filter<\/a><\/strong> showing how to build an image in slider based on a filter of taxonomy from property panel<\/li>\n
- New sample react-page-sections-navigation<\/strong><\/a> showing how to add section navigation capability for modern SharePoint page<\/li>\n
- New sample js-theme-manager<\/strong><\/a> providing a user interface for creating, updating, deleting and applying modern Sharepoint theme in SharePoint Online<\/li>\n
- An updated version of the ModernSeach<\/a> solution with changes on both web part and the renderer extension<\/li>\n
- Numerous other updates on updating solutions to the latest version and other adjustments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
SharePoint Framework Extensions<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- New sample react-send-document<\/a><\/strong> illustrating how to use a custom dialog to send an email related on a document<\/li>\n
- Numerous other updates on updating solutions to the latest version and other adjustments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Other open-source projects and assets<\/h3>\n
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- Reusable SharePoint Framework controls<\/strong> – Reusable controls for SharePoint Framework web part and extension development. Separate projects for React content controls and Property Pane controls for web parts. These controls are using Office UI Fabric React controls under the covers and they are SharePoint aware to increase the productivity of developers.<\/li>\n
- Office 365 CLI<\/strong> –\u00a0Using the Office 365 CLI, you can manage your Microsoft Office 365 tenant and SharePoint Framework projects on any platform. See release notes<\/a> for the latest updates.<\/li>\n
- PnPJs<\/strong> – PnPJs encapsulates SharePoint REST APIs and provides a fluent and easily usable interface for querying data from SharePoint sites. It’s a replacement of already deprecated pnp-js-core library. See changelog<\/a> for the\u00a0latest updates.<\/li>\n
- PnP Provisioning Engine and PnP CSOM Core<\/strong> – PnP provisioning engine is part of the PnP CSOM extension. They encapsulate complex business driven operations behind easily usable API surface, which extends out-of-the-box CSOM NuGet packages. See changelog<\/a> for the latest updates.<\/li>\n
- PnP PowerShell<\/strong> – PnP PowerShell cmdlets are open-source complement for the SharePointOnlinee cmdlets. There are more than 300 different cmdlets to use and you can use them to manage tenant settings or to manipulate actual SharePoint sites. They See changelog<\/a> for the latest updates.<\/li>\n
- List formatting definitions<\/strong> – Community contributed samples around the column and view formatting in GitHub<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Site Designs and Site Scripts<\/strong> – Community contributed samples around SharePoint Site Designs and Site Scripts in GitHub<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- DevOps tooling and scripts\u00a0<\/b>– Community contributed scripts and tooling automation around DevOps topics (CI\/CD) in GitHub<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
SharePoint Dev articles<\/h3>\n
SharePoint Dev articles are surfaced at\u00a0docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/dev<\/a>. Since the last release, also classic SharePoint server-side API reference documentation has been moved to the docs.microsoft.com platform. You can provide contributions to these documents by submitting documentation improvements using GitHub tooling. All of the SharePoint Dev docs are stored and surfaced from the\u00a0sp-dev-docs repository<\/a>. Here are new\/updated articles on SharePoint Development.<\/p>\n
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- Updates on the modernization guidance<\/a> for transforming from classic to modern experiences<\/li>\n
- Updates on the Site Designs and Site Script guidance<\/a><\/li>\n
- Updates on the column and view formatting guidance<\/a><\/li>\n
- And the countless other adjustments and updates on the documentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Updates on the Site Designs and Site Script guidance<\/a><\/li>\n
- Office 365 CLI<\/strong> –\u00a0Using the Office 365 CLI, you can manage your Microsoft Office 365 tenant and SharePoint Framework projects on any platform. See release notes<\/a> for the latest updates.<\/li>\n
- Numerous other updates on updating solutions to the latest version and other adjustments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- New sample react-image-gallery<\/strong><\/a> showing how to build an image gallery capability with taxonomy based filtering and typed search<\/li>\n
- New sample\u00a0react-my-teams<\/strong><\/a> showing how to use Microsoft Graph to get a list\u00a0of Teams the current user is a member of<\/li>\n
- All guidance and tooling details are available from http:\/\/aka.ms\/sppnp-modernize<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- o365 CLI<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Cross-OS command line interface to manage Office 365 tenant settings<\/li>\n
- PnP-Sites-Core<\/a>\u00a0– Office Dev PnP Core component<\/li>\n
- sp-dev-fx-webparts<\/a>\u00a0– Client-side web part samples from community and engineering<\/li>\n
- Bi-weekly special interest group for SharePoint Framework<\/a> – Bi-weekly Thursdays at 7 AM Pacific time. Consists of topics around SharePoint Framework and JavaScript-based development in the SharePoint platform.<\/li>\n
- 5th of March –\u00a0PnP Webcast \u2013 SharePoint Framework Modern Search Web Part<\/a><\/li>\n
- Demo – Preview of SharePoint Framework 1.8 – covering all the new capabilities to be released with live demos – Vesa Juvonen<\/a> (Microsoft)<\/li>\n
- SharePoint Dev Documentation – http:\/\/aka.ms\/spdev-docs<\/a><\/li>\n
- Build your first SharePoint client-side web part (Hello World part 1)<\/a><\/li>\n
- SP Dev FX Web Parts<\/a>\u00a0– 1099<\/li>\n
- SP\u00a0Dev Docs<\/a>\u00a0– 469<\/li>\n