Presentation used in PnP SIG call on October 5th, 2017. Main concentration on the dev roadmap and also on the upcoming Site Design capability.

2. Miscellaneous announcements
Site Designs - Upcoming capability around site
templating model in SharePoint Online
Demo – Hooking in your custom provisioning solution
to out of the box Site Designs –
Patterns, options and considerations
Q&A

4. Documentation and
guidance
aka.ms/spdev-docs
• New consolidated platform
• All SharePoint development
topics will move here
• Content managed in GitHub,
but surfaced in the
docs.microsoft.com/sharepoint

5. Roadmap – SharePoint Development – SPFx++
Just Shipped ✔✔
Coming soon ⏳

9. and extensible

10. Central gallery to host custom themes
PowerShell commands

11. Custom theme support
Resources
PowerShell management support (6906.1200):
https://aka.ms/spsitetheming
Theme builder tool (hosted on Fabric site):
https://aka.ms/spthemebuilder

12. site designs
Apply site settings and
call custom solutions
Provision select settings
after creation; use
Microsoft Flow to call
apply additional business
logic
Custom scripting of sites
through provisioning
Site designs can be
injected into in-product
provisioning experience
to automate consistent
site creation
Clean & consistently
branded sites
Apply company theme or
custom page designs at
time of creation

13. var listRecipe = {
"$schema": "schema.json",
"actions": [
{
"primary_verb": "List.CreateOrOpen",
"target": "Customer Tracking",
"templateType": 100,
"verbs": [
{
"verb": "SetDescription",
"description": "List of Customers and Orders"
},
{
"verb": "AddFieldIfNotExist",
"fieldType": "Text",
"displayName": "Customer Name",
"isRequired": false,
"addToDefaultView": true
},
{
"verb": "AddFieldIfNotExist",
"fieldType": "DateTime",
"displayName": "Date of Delivery",
"isRequired": true
},
]
},
{
primary_verb: "Theme.Apply",
target: "Contoso Travel Green"
}
],
"bindata": {},
"version": 1
};
Idempotent syntax of
common site configuration
actions
Script actions can be
concatenated in single file or
multiple files can be used
(and reused)
RestRequest("/_api/Microsoft.Sharepoint.Utilities.WebTemplateExtensions.Scr
iptUtility.CreateFormula", {info:{Title:"Contoso Travel - Legal Case Book",
Description:"Restricted site design to create a legal case book site",
ScriptGuids:["b432a1cd-7e1f-4fb1-9829-633d8MaG1C”],
Targets:["CN=GUID,OU=GUID,OU=Tenants,OU=MSOnline,DC=<value>,DC=
msoprd,DC=msft,DC=net"], IsDefault:true, WebTemplate:"68"}});
Site Design attributes
designate display
characteristics and target
template

14. Create lists/libraries (incl. settings)
Apply company themes
Trigger logic apps (using Microsoft Flow)
Activate features
* Create modern pages; set as home page
*Add to site nav
*Add declarative formatting to a column
*Join site to Hub
* Enable external access
* Set site classification
…with more to come

15. var flowRecipe = {
"$schema": "schema.json",
"actions": [{
"primary_verb": "Flow.Trigger",
"target": “<<http post url>>",
"name": “contoso hr additions",
"parameters": {
"department": "HR",
"cost center": "1023"
}
}
],
"bindata": {},
"version": 1
};
SharePoint
Online
Storage
Queue
Azure Function
Microsoft Flow
Business logic will handle the message
processing. Site URL is used as a parameter to
connect to site using remote APIs. Applies
needed customization using remote
provisioning techniques, for example with PnP
remote provisioning template model.
Script configured to start
previously configured flow,
which will receive the newly
created site URL as parameter.
Flow includes a step to pass
site URL to Azure storage
queue for delegating
processing to Azure side
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16. Sample business case for the demo

18. Open discussion…