Viva Connections extension with user presence status using Microsoft Graph Presence API and SPFx

In this 10-minute developer-focused demo, Yves Habersaat delivers an introduction to the Graph Presence API, API methods, presence sessions, presence sessions with SPFx, a setPresence method example, and suggestion to use Graph Explorer to experiment with API. This ACE demonstrates how to use the Presence Graph API endpoints (beta) to set and retrieve a presence … Continue reading Viva Connections extension with user presence status using Microsoft Graph Presence API and SPFx →

Getting started with Microsoft Graph Toolkit and SharePoint Framework

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b914nIub-s0 In this 11-minute developer-focused demo, Yves Habersaat articulates how the Microsoft Graph ToolkIn this 11-minute developer-focused demo, Yves Habersaat articulates how the Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MGT) together with SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and custom templates work together to display agendas, files, tasks, messages and more. To set up your environment - install mgt-spfx, mgt-spfx npm, … Continue reading Getting started with Microsoft Graph Toolkit and SharePoint Framework →

Use Image Helper API with the SharePoint Framework (beta)

Context With the SharePoint Framework v1.14 release, Microsoft introduced a brand new Image Helper API to help developers to manage thumbnail images and optimized URLs to images stored in the SharePoint Online service. This feature is actually in developer preview and shouldn't be used in production until the GA release planned for June 2022 (subject … Continue reading Use Image Helper API with the SharePoint Framework (beta) →

Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework Community call – 10th of March, 2022

On March 10th, I made a demo at the Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework Community call on how to get started with Microsoft Graph Toolkit and SharePoint Framework and you can find the full recording below. Thanks again to Patrick, Vesa, David and all the Microsoft 365 PnP team for hosting the call! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1XEqm01xrA

[EN] Canadian Cloud Summit 2022: Starting with Viva Connections extensibility model (17/02/2022)

On February 17th, I spoke at Canadian Cloud Summit online event about Microsoft Viva Connections extensibility model and you can find the full recording of my session below. Thanks again to Serge Tremblay and the organization team for the opportunity! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DGJZxfRjs0

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Awarded Microsoft Office Development MVP (2022)

I'm really happy and proud to have been awarded Microsoft Office Development MVP for 2022! 2021 was without any doubt the best year of my career with a great new professional challenge as Business Applications Consultant at Sword Group in Switzerland, the launch of this website, my entry in the aMS Community as official member … Continue reading Awarded Microsoft Office Development MVP (2022) →

Microsoft Graph Toolkit with SharePoint Framework and React demystified

Context Recently, I saw a lot of people asking through GitHub or Microsoft tech communities for more documentation about Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MGT) with SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and React. With the latest releases of SPFx, my previous article is no longer up to date so this new article will give you a simple up to … Continue reading Microsoft Graph Toolkit with SharePoint Framework and React demystified →

[EN] aMS Southeast Asia: An overview of Viva Connections extension points (15/10/2021)

On October 15th, I spoke at aMS Southeast Asia online event about Microsoft Viva Connections extension points and you can find the full recording of my session below. Thanks again to Rene Modery and the organization team for the opportunity! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r30YdOv1g5Y

Develop Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) with SharePoint Framework

Context SharePoint Framework (SPFx) v1.13 introduced a brand new component type named Adaptive Card Extension (ACE) to build your own cards to extend Viva Connections Dashboard desktop and mobile experiences. In my previous article, I've made an overview of what are Viva Connections Dashboard and Feed web parts in the SharePoint Online context as the … Continue reading Develop Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) with SharePoint Framework →

New upload feature in Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MGT) File List component

Context Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MGT) latest release v2.3.0 introduced a brand new upload feature in the File List component which is really cool and useful for every Microsoft 365 developer. In this article, I'll show you how to use this new feature in a SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and React web part project context so let's … Continue reading New upload feature in Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MGT) File List component →