Accessing the Office365 Library Settings direct from the Library View

Hi folks

Just recently I’ve been doing a lot of prototyping in Office365 and since the new, generally, better look for library views has come in I’ve noticed that without the ribbon there is no easy way to access the ‘Library Settings’ page direct from the Library’s view pages.

See no ribbon.

Getting Ready for SharePoint Framework Development

This is Microsoft’s next best hope for making SharePoint development modern, if not easy.

It’s not quite here yet though, see: The SharePoint Framework—an open and connected platform

Q. When will the SharePoint development framework be available to customers?

A. Starting in the third quarter of 2016, we’ll begin to deploy the SharePoint Framework to our First Release customers.

However we do know a lot about it and its very different, in essence SharePoint becomes a service that your code calls via an API and also acts as a host so that your security context is handled but essentially you are writing a generic JavaScript application.

SharePoint 2016 Development Options

SharePoint development has gone from having ‘one true way’, SharePoint Solutions, to many, many ‘do it this’ ways.

However based on some experimenting and according to the OfficeDev  PnP group there is a new way coming that is the preferred way the SharePoint Framework.

This doesn’t mean that the others have gone away, and in fact some still have their place, but your default thought should be to use the SharePoint Framework.

So we now have available:

• SharePoint Framework
• Office Add Ins
• SharePoint Hosted Add Ins
• Provider Hosted Add Ins
• SharePoint Solutions
• SharePoint Sandbox Solutions

Underlying these are the SharePoint APIs.

• REST, REpresentational State Transfer
• JSOM, JavaScript Object Model
• CSOM, Client Side Object Model
• SSOM, Server Side Object Model

Confusion could easily abound, however our default option should be to look at SharePoint Framework and only use one of the others when it doesn’t handle our requirements or is inappropriate.

Good luck

Sebastian