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SharePoint 2013 Hosting – HostForLIFE :: Overview Of SharePoint Permissions
Jan 19th
SharePoint permissions refer to the rights and privileges that users have to access, view, and modify content within a SharePoint site or list. SharePoint permissions can be assigned at several levels,
- Site level
Permissions that apply to the entire SharePoint site, including all lists and libraries within it. - List/Library level
Permissions that apply to a specific list or library within a SharePoint site. - Item level
Permissions that apply to specific items within a list or library.
SharePoint permissions can be assigned to individual users or to SharePoint groups, which are collections of users. SharePoint has two types of groups:
- SharePoint groups
These are groups created within SharePoint and used to manage access to SharePoint sites, lists, and libraries. - Active Directory groups
These are groups created within Active Directory and can be used to manage access to SharePoint sites, lists, and libraries.
SharePoint permissions can be managed using the SharePoint user interface, or by using PowerShell scripts and the SharePoint Object Model. The permissions available in SharePoint can be divided into several types:
- View Items
Allows users to view items in a list or library. - Add Items
Allows users to add new items to a list or library. - Edit Items
Allows users to edit existing items in a list or library. - Delete Items
Allows users to delete items from a list or library. - Approve Items
Allows users to approve or reject items in a list or library. - Manage Lists
Allows users to manage lists, such as creating new lists or deleting existing ones.
It’s also important to mention that SharePoint also has a feature called “Item-level Permissions” that allows you to set permissions at the item level so that different users can have different levels of access to the same list or library.
SharePoint 2013 Hosting – HostForLIFE :: Video Embed Using Hero WebPart In SharePoint Online Modern Page
Jan 12th
Recently our client provided us company anniversary video and asked us if we could add it to SharePoint Online site and showcase the result. So, I thought about what the options available are. And I am writing this blog to showcase the options available and their advantages and limitations. Let’s see the options first:
Stream (Classic)
YouTube
File Viewer
Embed
Hero – This blog
Highlighted Content
If you want to check any previous options, you can click on that option in the above list and read more about that option.
If you want to add a video to your current site or any external site, then you can use this option. For this blog, we will use video from the SharePoint site.
Upload video to SharePoint Library.
Now add Hero webpart to your page.
Note – make sure you add a hero webpart in a single or 2 third section.
Select webpart and click on edit in the top left section.
In the layout option select “one tile”. It will update the webpart to a single-tile layout.
Now click on the select link button.
Select “site” in the left section. Select the library.
Select the video you want to display. Then click select at the bottom of the panel.
It will load the video on the page. Click edit on the bottom right part of the tile to edit the details.
Provide video title. It will display on video as you type.
- If you want to navigate the user to any other link, open the options section.
- In that, you can change the link text from “learn more” to anything you want. Also, you can provide a link where you want to redirect users. You can turn off the setting if you don’t want to display the additional link.
Save the page.
The video will render as below.
Advantage
- The select option can pick videos from classic libraries, like site assets.
- The webpart provides basic features of a thumbnail, and play button, and starts the video on play click.
- We have the ability to provide an additional link to redirect users to another link.
- With Stream (On SharePoint) coming, Microsoft is suggesting this webpart for setting up a video gallery kind of functionality.
SharePoint 2013 Hosting – HostForLIFE :: SharePoint Online Button Web Part
Jan 5th
In this blog, I will discuss SharePoint online Button web part, its properties, limitations, and basic workaround to the limitations.
The Button web part is used to add a custom name and link buttons on the SharePoint site page. When we click on the button it will navigate external or internal URL appended to the button.
How to add Button web part in SharePoint online
- Open the SharePoint online site page
- Select Edit Page
- Click on the + circled icon to add a new Section Layout
- Insert the button web part.
- We can align the button using the property pane to the left, center, and right sides of the section.
- Using the property pane, we can name the button that we want to display. And in the link field, we should use the URL to which you want your button to navigate from the current page to the respective page.
Limitations of the Button web part
- We cannot add different colors on the button as it is based on the theme color of the current site theme, if you want to change the color of the button you have to change the site theme
- Using the button web part, we cannot open the URL in a new tab.
The solution is to open the URL in a new tab.
- Add a table using the text web part and make it a single-row and single-column table.
- Using hyperlinks, you can add the URL in the table and select a checkbox with open in a new tab option
- But here too you cannot change the button color as a table to have a limitation of color in SharePoint Online.
There can be another workaround or solution, if you know any comment down below.
SharePoint 2013 Hosting – HostForLIFE :: How To Remove Quick Launch Navigation Bar From SharePointCommunication Site
Dec 22nd
In SharePoint Site, Quick launch is very helpful for any SharePoint page developer for accessing the different pages or other resources with just a single click, but the quick launch has drawbacks in utilizing the space of the SharePoint Page, and it doesn’t look good.
So, in this article, I will discuss the steps of how you can hide the quick launch from the SharePoint communication site.
Follow the steps below
Go to the Communication site and here you can see the quick launch links next to your site name.
Click the Gear option and then click on site information.
It will take you to another menu option where you can edit site name option and below you can view all site settings, clicking on it will take you to the site setting page.
Here you can Look and Feel which will list down the options for quick launch and change the look, there is no option to directly enable or disable quick launch, but we can achieve it by adding the below text to your site URL.
/_layouts/15/navoptions.aspx
Once you add navoptions to your site URL it will redirect you to the below page where you can see the checkbox option to enable the quick launch, It is by default checked so just uncheck it and click on the OK button below.
Once you complete all steps go back to the home page of your site you won’t be able to see the quick launch navigation bar.
Conclusion
I hope this article helped you to learn how to show and hide the quick launch navigation bar for your SharePoint Site.
SharePoint 2013 Hosting – HostForLIFE :: How To Link Pages In SharePoint Online?
Dec 15th
Linking SharePoint Pages to another SharePoint page can be done using multiple ways, in this article, I will discuss in detail how you can use these tricks.
There are two ways to add links in the text and those are as follows:
Hyperlink
Using Double-Bracket
Option 1: Text Link
In SharePoint Online, you can often need to link another page from somewhere in the text. To do that all you need to do is highlight the text and choose the link button within the Text web part.
Click on the hyperlink it will open a Popup block where you can see another menu that will give you a list of related pages, you can also insert a link to the page or another page you are linking to.
Here you also get checkbox option to open link in a new tab
Option 2: Double-bracket trick
This is the trick or you can say shortcut to link pages in SharePoint Online.
As you type your text, type in double square brackets “[[“and you will get a list of the available pages to link to. Just choose one of the pages, and you are done – both the text and the link are created at once!
SharePoint 2013 Hosting – HostForLIFE :: ERESOLVE Unable To Resolve Dependency Tree
Dec 8th
When upgrading to latest version of SPFx which is 1.15 (as of writing this article), I got the following error.
npm ERR ERESOLVE unable to resolve the dependency tree.
As you know to install the SPFx following steps need to be performed in sequence.
- Installing Node
- Installing Gulp
- Installing Yeoman
- Installing the Yeomen Generator for SharePoint
The official node version for SPFX 1.15 is Node.js v16.
To install the SPFx or to set up SPFx developer environment please go through the below articles which have detailed steps.
Fixing Vulnerabilities
When installing yeomen there are no issues but vulnerabilities. It is advised to fix the vulnerabilities
As mentioned in the screenshot ran the npm audit fix and the vulnerabilities found are 0.
SPFx Install Error
When Installing the SharePoint generator by running the following command
Npm install @microsoft/generator-sharepoint –global
It gave the following error ‘code ERESOLVE’, ‘ERESOLVE unable to resolve the dependency tree’.
To overcome this issue it is required to add the optional parameter –legacy-peer-deps
As you see the installation is now completed. It also warned about vulnerabilities, which are also fixed by running following npm audit fix command.
To finally know the version of the SharePoint framework or the version of the SPFx that is installed please run the following command.
What does “–legacy-peer-deps ” do?
The parameter flag –legacy-peer-deps introduced in node version v7 as a way to bypass peerDependency auto installation. In other words this flag telling node engine to “Not To Install Any Legacy Dependencies”.
Now let’s try understanding Dependencies vs Peer Dependencies:
- Dependencies can be defined as modules are libraries which are installed in node_modules folder which is needed for NPM (Node Packet Manager) to work properly for designing and deploying the components. For example if you want to install Visual Studio 2022 in your machine, one of the required .net framework is 4.8 which is installed during the installation of the product. For Visual studio to work properly the dependency software we can say it as .Net Framework version 4.8.
- Peer Dependency (peerDependency) can be defined as set of libraries or modules with specific versions are required to run the project or to work with the component. Let’s assume that you have built a software which is developed using visual studio 2019 targeted to framework version 4.5.2. In order for the software to work properly the client machine should have .Net framework version 4.5.2 where the software is installed. In this case for your specific/custom software .Net framework 4.5.2 is Peer Dependency.
Hope you find this article useful. Please let me know for any questions or concerns in comments section. 
