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SF Bay Area User Groups

It’s been a long time since we’ve hosted a group, and a lot has changed for many of us involved. We hope that instead you can check out some of the other local groups hosted by DesignMind, here: https://www.designmind.com/microsoft-technical-community-groups/

  • Bay Area Power Platform User Group
    • San Francsico & Sunnyvale
    • Monthly
  • San Francisco Data Platform User Group
    • San Francisco
    • Bi-monthly
  • Silicon Valley Data Platform User Group
    • Sunnyvale
    • Bi-monthly

Please check out the link above for the most up-to-date information.

SFSPUG July 2019: PowerApps Workshop

Creating a Time Off Request Application with Custom Approvals in Flow

This month Harjit will walk us through creating an example time-off request application using PowerApps, Flow, and SharePoint.

We will cover/discuss:

  1. Flow Approvals and their pros and cons. We will implement an Approval process using Custom Lists and Flows, NOT Flow Approvals
  2. Creating buttons in PowerApps that calls Flows
  3. Permissions management throughout an Approval process

Hosting by R3 Interworks/WeWork.
Pizza and drinks from R3 Interworks.

WHERE:
2 Embarcadero Center
7th Floor, Conference Room A

WHEN:
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Food and Networking: 6:00 PM to 6:15 PM
Presentations: 6:15 PM to 7:45(-ish) PM

REGISTRATION: Meetup (registration closes at 12:00 PM on July 11)

Speaker: Harjit Randhawa

Harjit is currently an Office 365 Support Specialist for ExpressWorks International. Harjit has worked in various financial institutions and government institutions to help customize and administer SharePoint sites over the last 2 years. He is a graduate from San Francisco State with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science. Since graduating, he has dove into the world of Office 365 and SharePoint and is eager to share what he’s learn and learn from others that are working with Office 365 as well.

SFSPUG May 2019: SharePoint “Back to Basics”

Date: Thursday, May 9th, 6:00 PM

IMPORTANT: For building access, we need to collect the names of all attendees before the event. Please be sure to register using your real name, which matches your photo ID.

Registration ends on Thursday, May 9th at 11:30 AM.

Schedule and Registration Info:
Food and Networking: 6:00 PM to 6:15 PM
Presentations: 6:15 PM to 7:45(-ish) PM

Registration: Meetup

Location: WeWork, 2 Embarcadero Center, 9th Floor community area

Hosting by R3 Interworks and WeWork.
Pizza provided by R3 Interworks.


Topic: SharePoint “Back to Basics”

This month Chris Romp and Caitlin Young from R3 Interworks are presenting a “Back to Basics” session for working with SharePoint. We will cover some introductory topics like working with documents (sharing, syncing, co-authoring), working with and customizing SharePoint lists and libraries, options for automating business processes, and audience questions as they arise. This will be an interactive, demo-heavy session, so please come with your questions and an appetite for free pizza.

Speakers:

Chris Romp is the founder and a Principal Consultant at R3 Interworks, and a member of the SFSPUG board for 9+ years. He has over 18 years of IT and software experience, and has been building custom solutions on SharePoint since 2007. Chris lives in San Francisco and enjoys collecting passport stamps, running, and falling out of airplanes. https://linkedin.com/in/chrisromp

Caitlin Young is a Principal Consultant at R3 Interworks, with a focus on business analysis and user-centered design. She’s been helping real people make practical use of SharePoint since 2006 and has lots of cynically practical advice on this topic, as well as Enterprise Project Management, Intranet Governance and Process Improvement.
https://linkedin.com/in/caitlinjyoung

April 2019: Building an Organizational Phonebook with PowerApps

***WE ARE MOVING BACK TO EMBARCADERO CENTER! Please note the address!***

IMPORTANT: For building access, we need to collect the names of all attendees before the event. Please be sure to register using your real name, which matches your photo ID.

Registration ends on Wednesday, April 10th at 12:00 PM sharp.

Schedule and Registration Info:
Food and Networking: 6:00 PM to 6:15 PM
Presentations: 6:15 PM to 7:45(-ish) PM

Hosting by R3 Interworks and WeWork.
Pizza provided by R3 Interworks.


Building an Organizational Phonebook with PowerApps

Harjit is back and he’s going to do a working session showing us how to build an organizational phone book with PowerApps. Harjit will cover:

  1. Using the Gallery control
  2. Connecting PowerApps to Office 365 users
  3. Implementing Flow within PowerApps
  4. Creating email and call links within the app

Speaker: Harjit Randhawa

Harjit is currently an Office 365 Support Specialist for ExpressWorks International. Harjit has worked in various financial institutions and government institutions to help customize and administer SharePoint sites over the last 2 years. He is a graduate from San Francisco State with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science. Since graduating, he has dove into the world of Office 365 and SharePoint and is eager to share what he’s learn and learn from others that are working with Office 365 as well.


Where: 2 Embarcadero Center 7th Floor
When: April 11, 2019 at 6:00 PM

Register at: Meetup or Eventbrite (you only need to register once)

No Meeting Feb 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day

Hey SFSPUGers,

Since the next regularly-scheduled meeting falls on Valentine’s day — and some of us don’t want to end up single — we’ll plan to skip February and aim to have our next meeting on Thursday, March 14.

But if you’re really hoping for some SharePoint goodness that evening, grab your favorite internet device, curl up with your favorite beverage, and check out these recorded sessions from MS Ignite 2018.

See you in March! 💘

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Meeting Jan 10 2019 – Expectation (Ignite) vs. Reality (Life as a SharePoint site owner)

IMPORTANT: For building access, we need to collect the names of all attendees before the event. Please be sure to register using your real name, which matches your photo ID.

Registration ends on Wednesday, January 9th at 12:00 PM sharp.

Schedule and Registration Info:
Food and Networking: 6:00 PM to 6:15 PM
Presentations: 6:15 PM to 7:45(-ish) PM

Hosting by R3 Interworks and WeWork.
Pizza provided by R3 Interworks.

Register Here

Expectation (Ignite) -vs- Reality (Life as a SharePoint site owner)

Microsoft made lots of exciting announcements at Ignite in September, including many features that would be ready by the “end of the year.” Now that it’s 2019 what’s actually available* and how useful is it? We’ll be looking at Modern SPO features and webparts from a site owner’s perspective. Once the PowerShell command Enable-CommSite is publicly released, do you think you’re ready to go fully Modern? Feel free to bring your own experiences and questions.

* YMMV depending on the rollout schedule and phase of the moon. We have no special insights on the Gov/Edu rollout schedule.

Speaker: Caitlin Young, R3 Interworks

Caitlin is a Principal Consultant at R3 Interworks, with a focus on business analysis and user-centered design. She’s been helping real people make practical use of SharePoint since 2006 and has lots of cynically practical advice on this topic, as well as Enterprise Project Management, Intranet Governance and Process Improvement.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlinjyoung

Register Here

Meeting Dec 13 – Customizing PowerApps: Dive into Advanced Functionality

IMPORTANT: For building access, we need to collect the names of all attendees before the event. Please be sure to register using your real name, which matches your photo ID.

Registration ends on Wednesday, December 12th at 12:00 PM sharp.

Schedule and Registration Info:
Food and Networking: 6:00 PM to 6:15 PM
Presentations: 6:15 PM to 7:45(-ish) PM

Hosting by R3 Interworks and WeWork.
Pizza provided by R3 Interworks.

Click Here to Register


Customizing PowerApps: Dive into Advanced Functionality

We will be going over ways that administrators can create dynamic forms efficiently and that are easily maintainable. Topics that will be covered include: branding, dynamic repositioning and hiding of form elements, using variables, screen transitions, and more.

Speaker: Harjit Randhawa

Harjit is currently an Office 365 Support Specialist for ExpressWorks International. Harjit has worked in various financial institutions and government institutions to help customize and administer SharePoint sites over the last 2 years. He is a graduate from San Francisco State with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science. Since graduating, he has dove into the world of Office 365 and SharePoint and is eager to share what he’s learn and learn from others that are working with Office 365 as well.

Click Here to Register

Meeting Nov 8 – Customizing Modern SharePoint Communication Sites

*** PLEASE NOTE THE NEW LOCATION ***

IMPORTANT: For building access, we need to collect the names of all attendees before the event. Please be sure to register using your real name, which matches your photo ID.

Registration ends on Wednesday, November 7th at 12:00 PM sharp.

Schedule and Registration Info:
Food and Networking: 6:00PM to 6:15PM
Presentations: 6:15PM to 8:00PM

Hosting by R3 Interworks and WeWork.
Pizza & beverages provided by R3 Interworks.

Click Here to Register


A Practical Guide to Customizing Modern SharePoint Communication Sites

This month Ravi Chandra from Netwoven discuss some practical approaches and pitfalls when customizing modern SharePoint communication sites, including:

  • Intro on “Classic” development vs. “Modern” development
  • Customizing SharePoint sites using Site Designs and Site Scripts
  • Customizing modern SharePoint lists using Column Formatting and View Formatting
  • Building responsive webparts using the SharePoint Frame (SPFx)
  • A modern approach to applying custom Site Templates using Microsoft Flow and Azure Functions
  • A brief overview of using Docker in a modern SharePoint development cycle
  • Demos!

Speaker: Ravi Chandra

Ravi is a Senior Consultant at Netwoven specializing in Office 365. Since 2007, he has been supporting and developing projects for Fortune 1000 companies. The last two years have been focused on low-code solutions with SharePoint Online, Flow, and PowerApps. He has created robust multi-tier no-code solutions for various customers across multiple industries. You can find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravichandramaniyani.

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Sept 13 2018: Creating a Tenant (or Web Application) Level lookup field (using Managed Metadata)

PLEASE NOTE THE NEW LOCATION (and floor)

To get to the meeting space, go to 2 Embarcadero, enter the office complex on the 2nd floor, then take the elevators on your right to the 9th floor. They should be “unlocked” for the event.

IMPORTANT: For building access, we need to collect the names of all attendees before the event. Please be sure to register using your real name, which matches your photo ID.

Registration ends on Thursday, September 13th at 12:00 PM sharp.

Schedule and Registration Info:
Food and Networking: 6:00 PM to 6:15 PM
Presentations: 6:15 PM to 7:45(-ish) PM

Hosting by R3 Interworks and WeWork.
Pizza provided by R3 Interworks.

REGISTER HERE

Creating a Tenant (or Web Application) Level lookup field (using Managed Metadata)

Do you find yourself recreating the same lookup tables in different site collections? Often as administrators, we forget the power of the Managed Metadata field in that it is a field that is accessible by all sites in a Tenant (or Web Application).

Join us as we explore ways to use Managed Metadata as a “Tenant-wide” lookup! And while we are on the topic we can open the floor to discuss the other powerful uses of Managed Metadata!

Speaker: Harjit Randhawa

Harjit is currently an Office 365 Support Specialist for ExpressWorks International. Previously with Essention, he has worked in various financial institutions and government institutions to help customize and administer SharePoint sites over the last 2 years. He is a graduate from San Francisco State with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science. Since graduating, he has dove into the world of Office 365 and SharePoint and is eager to share what he’s learn and learn from others that are working with Office 365 as well.

REGISTER HERE