Common Pitfalls When Sending Email from SharePoint Hosted Apps Configuring Incorrect Mail Settings in SharePoint A common pitfall when attempting to send email from SharePoint hosted apps is configuring incorrect mail settings in the SharePoint environment. The mail settings in SharePoint allow the platform to relay messages through an SMTP server. Incorrect configuration of these…
Prerequisites for Setting Up Outgoing Email SharePoint Permissions Required The user configuring outgoing email for SharePoint hosted apps requires membership in the SharePoint Farm Administrators group. This provides full control permissions for the SharePoint configuration databases and enables setting up service applications. Additionally, db_owner rights to the SharePoint configuration and service application databases allows managing…
Understanding SharePoint Views Views in SharePoint libraries allow users to customize how documents are displayed. Views control settings like sorting, filtering, column selection, and more. Out of the box, libraries come with default views like “All Documents” that show items with common settings. Users can also create custom views with specialized settings. What are views…
Why Use Multiple Views Implementing multiple views in SharePoint document libraries can greatly improve organization and access to stored documents. Carefully crafted views help tailor the library to the needs of different audiences. For example, a marketing team may prefer to see columns and metadata related to campaign status, performance metrics, and content categories, while…
What’s Causing the Issue SharePoint document libraries can only display up to 8 views by default. This limit is hard-coded into SharePoint to ensure optimal performance. Having additional views can negatively impact the speed that libraries load. The list view threshold, which governs the maximum number of items that can be displayed in a library…
The Problem with the Default View Selector The default out-of-the-box view selector menu in SharePoint 2013 provides limited options for customization to match specific branding or site styles. The available views are predefined and cannot be easily modified without coding solutions. This presents challenges when designing branded SharePoint sites. With only using out-of-the-box features, SharePoint…
Increasing the SharePoint View Threshold What is the SharePoint View Threshold? The SharePoint view threshold is the maximum number of items that can be displayed in a list view or document library before throttling limits are imposed. By default, SharePoint online sets this view threshold limit to 5,000 items to ensure optimal performance. When a…
Ensuring Tile Consistency Across Browsers Achieving visual consistency of customized SharePoint tiles across diverse web browsers poses complex technical challenges. Varying browser implementations produce inconsistent renderings of style sheets, scripts, and markup. Strategic cross-browser testing uncovers rendering divergences through simulated testing across an array of target browsers. The Challenge of Varying Browser Implementations The major…
The Problem: Images Appearing Stretched or Squished A common issue that SharePoint users face is distorted images when using the Image Viewer web part set to tile view. The images can appear undesirably stretched, squished, pixelated, or out of proportion. This occurs because SharePoint does not automatically scale the images when changing between standard and…
Why SharePoint Restricts Special Characters SharePoint places restrictions on special characters for several important reasons related to functionality, compatibility, and security: Special characters can break functionality or cause unexpected behavior in SharePoint sites, lists, libraries, and other components. For example, the percent (%) sign is used for encoding in URLs, so it can cause issues…