Pretty Up My SharePoint

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4th of March 2017@MS HQ Munich

Corinna Lins

@corinna_lins

Pretty Up My SharePointTips and tricks for designing the UI

#SPSMUC14

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About me

• SharePoint Consultant, for 5 years

• Focus areas: SharePoint/Office365 UI Customizing and Consulting, HCI, UI and UX

• Since 2015 at Munich

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Please make my SharePoint not look and feel like SharePoint!

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Session topics

Define

RequirementsBranding

the UI

What is UI/UX? Browser Styleguides Responsive design Mock Ups SharePoint issues Infrastructure

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UI UX

Emotion

Meet user

needsVisual

Elements

Interaction

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Do we need to define Requirementsfor UI Customizations in

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Browser compatibility

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Styleguide,

corporate identity,

existing sources

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Responsive

Design

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Use

Mock-ups

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User Experience Expectation

Modern document library experience in SharePointClassic document library experience in SharePoint

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Understand

SharePoint

Structure

Elements

• Contains left and top navigation

• Loads resources (CSS and JS)

• Uses content placeholders

• Layout of the content area

• Used in publishing sites

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Check SharePoint

concerning issues

e.g.: Publishing Feature

Site collection feature

Site feature

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Check Infrastructure

vs.

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Define Requirements for UI Customizations

PROS

• Less investment of time, more customer satisfaction

• Better overview of technical challenges in SharePoint

• Common understanding by precise UI requirements

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Do you know other important

Requirements for UI Customizations

in ?

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Session Topics

Define

RequirementsBranding

the UI

CSS Color Palette Tool Themes Responsive design Retrieve data Display templates

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Pretty up with CSS

• Alternate CSS

• Content editor webpart

• Custom actions

• CSS Reference in masterpage

• Display templates

• Page layouts

• SPFx

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Use Browser Developer Tools

Press F12

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SharePoint

Color

Palette

Tool

Create SharePoint Themes

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What about custom theme in modern site?

# Apply a custom theme to a Modern Site

Add-PnPFile -Path .\SPcolorFile.spcolor -Folder SiteAssets

# Second, apply the theme assets to the site

$web = Get-PnPWeb

$palette = $web.ServerRelativeUrl + "/SiteAssets/SPcolorFile.spcolor"

# Method: public void ApplyTheme(string colorPaletteUrl, string fontSchemeUrl, string backgroundImageUrl, bool shareGenerated)

$web.ApplyTheme($palette, [NullString]::Value, [NullString]::Value, $true)

$web.Update()

…

$web.Context.ExecuteQuery()

See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/pnp_articles/modern-experience-customizations-customize-sites

Only

PowerShell

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DEMOComposed Looks andCSS in SharePoint

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Make SharePoint Responsive

Only CSS

example

SharePoint Patterns & Practices Responsive Design

UI Frameworks (e.g.: Bootstrap)

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DEMOResponsive Design with PnP

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UserData

How to retrieve data?

• SharePoint REST API

• SharePoint Client Context

• SP Services (SharePoint 2010)

• Search API

• Graph API

Libraries

Lists

User Profile

Information

Visualisation

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Search and Display Templates

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DEMODisplay Templates in use

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SPFxWebPart

SPFx 40 Fantastics Web Parts

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Customizations in SharePoint

Techniques

• SharePoint Themes

• Masterpage

• Page Layouts

• Display Templates

• JSLink

• Manipulation with JavaScript

• PnP Solutions

Tools

• Design Manager

• Color Palette Tool

• UI and JS Frameworks

• PowerShell

• SPFx

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SharePoint Rocks!

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Useful Links

SharePoint Color Palette Tool, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38182

Step by Step create a SharePoint 2013 Composed Look, https://bniaulin.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/step-by-step-create-a-sharepoint-2013-composed-look/

Image Slider with SharePoint 2013 Search Results Web Part, https://en.share-gate.com/blog/image-slider-with-sharepoint-2013-search-results

SharePoint 2013 Search Query Tool, https://sp2013searchtool.codeplex.com/

SharePoint 2013/2016/Online Responsive UI, https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-Tools/tree/master/Solutions/SharePoint.UI.Responsive

SPFx 40 Fantastics Web Parts, https://github.com/OlivierCC/spfx-40-fantastics

PnP SharePoint 2013/2016/Online Responsive UI, https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-Tools/tree/master/Solutions/SharePoint.UI.Responsive

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