Emad Gabriel

Power Automate - Send invite to new person without updating everyone else

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:00:00 GMT

In this case, we have a workflow that sends meeting invites to people who join by filling a form. So when the form is submitted, the flow adds the new user to the invite. The issue is that everyone else is getting an…

.NET MAUI Blazor hybrid crashing in TestFlight but works fine locally

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 09:00:00 GMT

I have been struggling with an issue where I has a .NET MAUI Blazor hybrid worked just fine in hot restart when connecting to my PC (both Debug and Release Modes). After a lot of trials, it seems this is happening even…

PowerApps - Canvas apps - Merge 2 lists in a gallery

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:00:00 GMT

Let's Say you have 2 SharePoint Lists ParentList -ID -Name -Details ChildList -ID -ParentID -Comment Assume you want to display a list of comments with the name of the associated Name from the Parent List in a gallery…

Random Data generator

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 09:00:00 GMT

Faker.js is a very useful tool to generate random names, addresses, company names, and so much more: Marak/faker.js: generate massive amounts of realistic fake data in Node.js and the browser (github.com) It is a simple…

PowerApps Model Driven App - Cascading Dropdowns

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 09:00:00 GMT

Here are the steps needed in order to have cascading dropdowns in a Model driven app. Example: User selects a country and then selects state inside that country. Example DataVerse structure: A Country Table: holds names…

Adding Custom rules to show/hide a button in a model driven power apps form

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 09:00:00 GMT

Power Apps has two sets of rules for showing/hiding buttons: Display rules and Enable rules. Display rules are running on the server side and enable rules are running on the client site (maybe counterintuitive). Custom…

Vuejs Axios load image buffer as an img

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 09:00:00 GMT

here is a simple code to load an image coming from a web service as byte array In the html Add this snippet Get QR And add this snippet to the methods section in…

Microsoft Flow - Add user to SharePoint Group

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 09:00:00 GMT

In Microsoft flow there is no built in action to add a user to a SharePoint group. One way to achieve this is to use the "Send HTTP request to SharePoint" in this action you need to Set the URL of the Site Set method to…

Error Installing SharePoint 2013 Prerequisites on Windows 2016 or 2012R2 (Error: The tool was unable to install Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role)

Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:00:00 GMT

When trying to install SP2013 on a windows 2012R2 or 2016 you may get the error : Error: The tool was unable to install Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role A quick fix might be to go to C:\Windows\System32\ ,…

Sketch 2 Code: using AI to convert handwritten sketches to html code

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:00:00 GMT

Newly released from Microsoft AI Lab, a tool to convert handwritten mockups into valid html code. Simply upload an image and get HTML markup. GitHub link: https://github.com/Microsoft/ailab/tree/master/Sketch2Code a…

Replace text in header or footer of a document with VSTO

Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:00:00 GMT

In order to replace a text in any section of the header or the footer of a word document, you can use this snippet doc = Document Object foreach (Section sec in doc.Sections) { foreach (HeaderFooter fot in sec.Footers)…

IIS returns 404 error for an existing file

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:00:00 GMT

I had a case of an IIS site that had link to a local ODT file (Office Document Text, used by Open office and star office). Anyone clicking on this link was getting a 404 error, file not found. I made sure the url is…

PowerShell script to set URL redirects for SharePoint site using SPWebConfigModification

Wed, 31 May 2017 09:00:00 GMT

To have http redirects in a sharepoint we can use something like this in the web.config file

Powershell to set URL Rewrite to SharePoint using SPWebConfigModifications

Tue, 30 May 2017 09:00:00 GMT

If we need to add some URL rewrite to a SharePoint site, we can do that using some web.config settings like :

SharePoint Site not accessible - 404 Page not found

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 09:00:00 GMT

One possible reason to have an error accessing a SharePoint site (page not found, 404 error) is that content database is not accessible by Pool user. This could happen after restoring content database using SQL restore…

SharePoint - Enable-SPFeature : The file is currently checked out or locked for editing by another user.

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 09:00:00 GMT

When running Enable-SPFeature, you may get the weird error: "Enable-SPFeature : The file is currently checked out or locked for editing by another user." One possible cause of this issue could be that some file(s) the…

Published file is different between Authoring site and publishing site

Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:00:00 GMT

We had a very weird issue today with a SharePoint publishing site. Some js and css files (which were deployed as part of a WSP) were not updated in the publishing zone. When checking from the authoring zone, everything…

New tool to check site mobile-friendliness

Tue, 07 Jun 2016 09:00:00 GMT

A new tool by google to test how mobile friendly is a web site: https://testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com

Reduce payload of SharePoint REST API

Thu, 02 Jun 2016 09:00:00 GMT

Just came up across this very useful post : http://sadomovalex.blogspot.ca/2015/08/fix-problem-with-returned-xml-instead.html It shows how to use JSON light with SP2013 SP1+.

SharePoint Sites throwing 404 Page not found error

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:00:00 GMT

If all SharePoint sites are returning 404 errors, including Central Admin site after a fresh installation. the problem might be the IIS setting about unlisted file extensions. To check if this is the case: Enable IIS…

List template not showing up when adding an app

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:00:00 GMT

Problem: The list/library template you just created by saving List or library as a template is not showing up when you try to create a new list/library based on that template. One thing to check first is to go to…

SharePoint Online–Enabling Custom Script

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:00:00 GMT

When Creating an Office 365 SharePoint site, you might want to turn on custom Scripting. Steps here:…

Creating SharePoint online Site Structure from a CSV using PowerShell

Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:00:00 GMT

Here is a simple script to create the site structure for SharePoint Online based on a csv file. The script is using the Client-side SharePoint PowerShell project from Codeplex (…

Client Side OAuth solution

Wed, 04 Jun 2014 09:00:00 GMT

https://oauth.io/ offers a Client Side OAuth solution that can be used with JavaScript. It can be used for the new Twitter API with no server code.

SharePoint PowerShell script to create SPWebApplication with Custom membership provider and Claims based authentication

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:00:00 GMT

$webAppName = "Contoso Internet Site XYZ" $webAppUrl = "http://www.contoso.com" $webAppPort = 80 $webAppHostHeader = "sharepoint.contoso.com" $membershipProviderName = "OAMMembershipProvider" $roleProviderName =…