I recently had a requirement to “export” data shown in a table on a web page to an Excel file. In a normal situation I’d do something server-side to generate an Excel file with the necessary data, but unfortunately this situation was not a normal. The project I was working on did not have a server-side component – it was completely client-side code – so I couldn’t just create an Excel file. The solution I came up with was to provide a way for the users to copy the required data to their clipboard and they could then paste it into an Excel document. Continue reading “Javascript Copy to Clipboard for Excel”
Tag: javascript
Postman – Using Environments and Tokens
Postman is an incredibly useful tool for testing API’s. I’ve been using it for a few years now and have found some features that make it a breeze to work with when it comes to secured API’s. It’s good for handling different environments as well.
Login and Tokens
A common pattern we use with our API’s is to use Javascript Web Tokens(JWT’s) for authentication. To work with this in Postman, I typically have a /login post call which returns a token. Then for any other calls to that API, I manually copy the returned token, and set the Authorization header to “Bearer <token>”. Although this works, it’s a pain when the login token expires and I have to copy a new token to the Authorization header for every saved API call. For an API where you have a lot of endpoints saved, updating all the Authorization headers can become tedious. Continue reading “Postman – Using Environments and Tokens”
Xamarin vs. PhoneGap
I recently had the opportunity to write a Xamarin app for the first time. It wasn’t 
anything complicated – basically a CRUD application that would list items for the user with the option to add, edit and delete – but it afforded me a chance to compare and contrast with the way I’ve been writing mobile apps for the past few years. Continue reading “Xamarin vs. PhoneGap”
Choosing the Right Front End Tools
Recently, I had the opportunity to meet with a client that was in the process of deciding on a front-end technology for their dev team to use. They already did quite a bit of research and formed some opinions about different technologies, and wanted to get our opinion about the way they evaluated their options. One point I made early on in our discussion was that there is no one “right” answer to the question of “which tool(s) should we use?”. Continue reading “Choosing the Right Front End Tools”
Angular 4 compared to React/Redux
Our company often does Angular projects so I’ve done a number of Angular 4 projects already and, currently, it’s a love/hate relationship. I wanted to try React so I wrote a side-project that uses React with Redux. This is my high-level comparison between the two.
Managing Content for Similar SharePoint Sites
I have a client that has over 50 subsites of the root site in a SharePoint site collection that are all pretty much the same. There’s a site for each county in the client’s state, each one with web parts to show some data from the root site that’s relevant to that specific county (contacts’ information, documents, that kind of thing). Whenever they wanted to make a change to, say, the contacts web part for these county site, they had to modify over fifty copies of the same web part. Tedious to say the least. After a few rounds of making these kind of repetitious modifications it was decided that I would need to come up with a solution to make managing this stuff much easier.
So I did.
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Inject Scripts in SharePoint with JavaScript
Don’t worry, it’s the good kind of Script Injection!
I was recently working in a SharePoint environment where I wanted to have some JavaScript libraries (like jQuery and moment.js) available across the entire site collection. The most obvious solution would be to add a reference to each library into the master page(s) used across the sites in the site collection but for this situation editing any master page was not an option. Instead I wanted to use User Custom Actions to do script injection.
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