/sp-starter-kit

Modern SharePoint Starter Kit - End-to-end showcase solution to get started with modern experiences.

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SharePoint Starter Kit

This is a solution designed for SharePoint Online which provides numerous web parts, extensions, and other components which you can use as an example and inspiration for your own customizations.

Please be aware that documentation work is still in progress and we will keep on provide more guidance and input around covered capabilities in this solution. In the meantime, please submit issues and questions using the issues list to help us provide better documentation and guidance. Thanks for your patience!

PnP Starter Pack Front Page

Objectives of this solution

SharePoint Communication Sites have great out-of-the-box capabilities, but the out-of-the-box capabilities may not always be sufficient for your scenarios. This is exactly why you are able to include your own customizations. This solution addresses common scenarios and tasks you may encounter when introducing those customizations, and provides examples and guidance on how you might address them including:

  • Automated provisioning of simple demo content within a communication site
  • Automated provisioning of the whole solution to any tenant within minutes
  • Automated configuration of Site Scripts and Site Designs at the tenant level using the PnP Remote Provisioning engine
  • Implementation of different customizations for SharePoint Online
  • Usage of Office UI Fabric and reusable PnP SPFx controls within the customizations

Additional high resolution screenshots are also available: front page.

Pre-requirements

Here are current pre-requirements for making this solution work in your tenant.

  • You will need to be a tenant administrator to be able to deploy this solution

  • Automatic end-to-end provisioning only works with English tenants

  • Release preferences for your tenant will need to be set as "Targeted release for everyone" option (also known as First Release)

  • Add the used tenant administrator account as Term Store Administrator in the Taxonomy Term Store through the SharePoint Admin Center

  • A tenant 'App Catalog' must have been created within the 'Apps' option of the SharePoint Admin Center

Getting started

Shortest path to success: The following steps will help you get started in any tenant as fast as possible:

Connect-PnPOnline https://contosodemosk.sharepoint.com
  • Change to the provisioning folder found in SP Starter Kit solution root and execute the following command (using your own tenant url and the prefix of your choosing):
Apply-PnPTenantTemplate -Path starterkit.pnp -Parameters @{"SiteUrlPrefix"="demo"}

This will provision 3 site collections with urls of /sites/demoportal, /sites/demohr, and /sites/demomarketing. Your urls may vary depending on the SitePrefix you use and the managed path you selected for team sites in your tenant administration (this defaults to 'sites').

Notice that the starter kit also adds tenant level settings like themes, site designs, taxonomy term sets, and other adjustments. Therefore, it is recommended to test the starter kit in an isolated test tenant and not immediately execute it within your production environment.

Custom Web Parts

Here are the custom web parts currently included in the solution package.

Pic Web Part Description Code
Banner Creates a banner with an image and overlaid text. code
Followed Sites Shows the list of sites which particular user is following code
Links Link list web part which is using collection data editor and stores the links in web part properties code
LOB integration Sample web part to surface LOB information from API hosted in Azure. code
People Directory People directory web part uses the people search API to get list of people to show. code
Personal Calendar Shows upcoming calendar meetings for the particular user using Microsoft Graph. code
Personal Contacts Personal contacts for particular user using Microsoft Graph. code
Personal Email List latest personal emails for the current user using Microsoft Graph. code
Personal Tasks Show personal tasks for the current user using Microsoft Graph. code
Recent Contacts Show recent contacts for the current user using Microsoft Graph. code
Recently Used Documents Show recently used documents for the current user using Microsoft Graph. code
Recently Visited Sites Show recently visited sites for current user using Microsoft Graph. code
Site Information Intended to collect and present additional metadata for group associated team sites. code
Stock Information Display stock information by using the live stocks service provided by Alpha Advantage. You will need to register for a custom key for this to work at the Alpha Advantage site and then include the key in the tenant properties. code
Tiles Renders set of tiles. Icons are from Office UI Fabric and you can configure tiles using collection editor in web part properties. code
Weather Information Weather information web part which is using Yahoo Weather APIs to get the forecast information. code
World Time Clock web part to show the time in specific time zone. code

SharePoint Framework Extensions

Pic Extension Description Code
Alert Notification Shows informational or important messages in the header section of pages based on a custom list information in the hub site. code
Collaboration Footer Shows company wide links which are configured using Taxonomy service. Includes also personalized links which are stored in user profile property if set. By default associated to group associated team sites when a custom Site Design is selected for new sites. code
Discuss Now Custom list view command set to add new custom dialog for document library. code
Portal Footer Expanding footer for communication site. Show standard company links and also supports personalized links for the current user which are stored in User Profile. code
Not available Redirect Can be used to perform automatic redirections of URLs in the site based on a custom list. code
Site Classification Renders a header with site classification information. code
Not available Tab Page Renders a header with links between two different pages in the site. code

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.microsoft.com.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA-bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., label, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.