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Enable SharePoint Client App Parts to Post Status and Notification Alerts to Host Page

Office365, SharePoint, Technology by Adam Toth on March 24, 2014

This post will show you how to opt-in to enabling Client App Parts from Apps for SharePoint to post Status Bar and Notification area alerts to the hosting page. Overview Client App Parts are essentially iframes that can be placed on SharePoint pages. Because Apps for SharePoint run in a different domain name than the…

MyTasks – The WorkManagement and Task Aggregation JSOM APIs in SharePoint

Office365, SharePoint, Technology by Adam Toth on March 20, 2014

This post provides an overview of the WorkManagement feature of SharePoint, and how you can use its JSOM API to read and update tasks in SharePoint, Exchange, and Project Server. Overview The WorkManagement Service Application in SharePoint 2013 is a powerful but little-understood feature; it aggregates, synchronizes, and updates tasks from across SharePoint, Exchange, and…

Highs and Lows so far from SPC14 – Day 2

ASP.NET, Azure, Office365, SharePoint, Technology, Yammer by Adam Toth on March 4, 2014

After a (too short) night to digest the news from SPC14, here is a list of my highs and lows from the announcements and sessions so far. General Impression My general impression of the conf so far is: strange timing. The conference comes after SharePoint 2013 has just reached SP1 milestone, and there is isn’t…

Configuring Single Sign On with ADFS and UserVoice

Office365, SharePoint, Technology by Adam Toth on February 6, 2014

This post will show you the steps necessary to configure Single Sign On with Active Directory Federation Services and UserVoice. Overview official SAML docs). This is due to a slight server-clock mismatch between your ADFS server and the UserVoice servers. To fix this, I had to adjust the

Hey Microsoft, Get Your BLEEPING Markup Out Of My SharePoint

Office365, SharePoint, Technology by Adam Toth on January 31, 2014

By now. we all are familiar with the justifications for the new SharePoint App Model. Chris Johnson recently wrote a nice piece on the client app parts or full screen experiences, and leave the SharePoint UI alone. But if that’s the case, let’s take a look at some examples of a Microsoft-generated UI, and I…

Use a PostMessage Shim to Give your SharePoint Client App Parts More Information

Office365, SharePoint, Technology by Adam Toth on January 28, 2014

In this post, I’ll walk through how to use the postMessage api to enable cross-frame communication between your Client App Parts and the hosting SharePoint page, to make your SharePoint App Parts more dynamic and responsive to changes in the parent page. Overview In the SharePoint 2013 App Model, Client App Parts are implemented as…

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