Exciting press release published yesterday as well as a set or articles on Yammer’s momentum, also please check Yammer’s newly designed customer success page: https://www.yammer.com/customers   Yammer Accelerates Momentum Following Microsoft Acquisition Sample of articles published on February 20th: Yammer tops 7M users, sales spike after Microsoft deal – GeekWire, Todd Bishop Microsoft: Yammer Generates Big Business After Buy – eWeek, Pedro Hernandez Yammer has 7 million users as SharePoint integration continues – CITEworld, Matt Rosoff Yammer Touts Record Year – Seattle Times, Janet Tu  

Microsoft is preparing to roll out the new SharePoint Online as a part of Office 365. As a result of this initial phase of the SharePoint Online service update, you may be affected by some of the design changes. Below is a consolidated list of items with pointers to documented fixes and posted workarounds: Install SharePoint Designer 2013 (free download here ). Previous versions of SharePoint Designer are not compatible with the new SharePoint Online. Apply the Hotfix for SharePoint Designer 2013 to work properly with InfoPath 2010 – start here . Apply the Hotfix for SharePoint Workspace 2010 to work properly with the new SharePoint Online – start here. In addition to the above items, there are several known issues previously posted here that Microsoft is working on to resolve in real-time. These issues are not broadly impactful and most have a corresponding knowledge base (KB) article with posted manual solution steps.     Note that you will not yet have access to the new SharePoint features or the new user interface. Rather, during this preparation phase, you will only see the new enhancements to the Office Web Apps as we previous communicated here . In addition, we’d like to reiterate Office 365 no longer supports Internet Explorer 7 (IE7).   Some CRM Online customers are also impacted within this phase of the SharePoint Online service update. Please review the in-depth blog post that articulates the recommended “list component” fix here .   Thank you, The SharePoint Online Team    * The Office 365 ProPlus Preview can run side-by-side with previous versions of Office. Users who have use rights to Office as a subscription will have the use rights to final Office 2013 RTM once available and no longer need the Preview version.

  by Brian Petersen, MSFT SharePoint Online provides users the ability to map a network drive to a document library allowing a user to navigate to and open files directly from Windows Explorer. This blog is intended to direct users to a Knowledge Base article that’s been published to help not only setup and configure mapped network drives, but also address common issues and steps to resolve.  In the More Information section of this blog you’ll see a link to the KB Article, but you’ll also see more details around the most common scenario we see in support.  Note This blog and the KB article do not apply to Microsoft Office 365 for professionals and small businesses.   More information: The Knowledge Base article entitled “How to configure and to troubleshoot mapped network drives that connect to SharePoint Online sites in Office 365 for enterprises” can be found here: KB2616712 . Ensure all the steps are completed in the KB, but also note the comment about the cookie expiring in the first set of solution steps. The comment in the KB states “Be aware that the cookie will eventually time out”. Certainly, having the WebClient started in your client machine’s Services, along with adding your SharePoint site to the Trusted Sites Zone of your Internet Explorer browser, are both important solutions to Mapped Drive issues. However, you will continue to encounter an Access Denied error periodically – mainly after rebooting the computer or when you haven’t logged in (authenticated) to SharePoint Online over an extended period of time, generally 8 hours., One common scenario is when a user locks the computer at the end of the workday, returns the next day, and logs in to their work computer. If that worker tries to access the mapped drive he or she will get the following error. Path is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Access Denied. Before opening files in this location, you must first add the web site to your trusted site list, browse to the web site, and select the option to login automatically’ The user receives this error because the session cookie  for SharePoint Online has expired and must be “refreshed” in order to successfully access the mapped network drive again.            

If you have used or are still kicking the tires of the Office 365 Preview and Project Online you may have noticed that you can have up to 3 PWA instances.  The first one is provisioned for you as the …/Sites/PWA instance, and you can then either use the New > Private Site Collection with Project Web App option to add a new site collection with PWA, or you can use the Project Web App > Add option to add the feature to an existing site collection.  Once you have used all three your SharePoint admin center may look something like this: The red bar in top right signifying that you have used all your available PWA instances.  In the preview we have seen that customers wanting to start afresh with a clean PWA have deleted the site collections and then still not been able to re-use this apparently deleted PWA instance.  The reason behind this is that the instance isn’t gone – it is in the recycle bin – and you could actually recover it if you needed to.  So how should you remove a PWA instance if you want to recover the quota to re-use somewhere else?  We have this documented over on the Office site (thanks Sonia! – and if the link isn’t live it soon will be…) and the key take-away is that you should use the Project Web App > Remove option.  This removes the feature from the selected site collection and gives you back one of your quota instances.  But what if I have already deleted the site collection?  The answer to that question is covered on the link given too – but I’m also going to cover the steps here as well as introducing the concept of administering your SharePoint Online instance via PowerShell. So my scenario is that I have deleted two of my site collections that had PWA instances – so still see that I have used my quota of 3 – what do I do next?  For the first recovery I will use the option to restore my PWA and then remove properly.  So looking in my Recycle Bin from the ribbon I can see my two sites (if I had deleted more than 30 days ago they would be gone anyway – and my quota would have been returned) – and I select the first one and click Restore Deleted Items – and then click Restore on the next dialog..   In my testing the restore took just a few minutes – but my PWA was pretty empty.  Once it was back I could select the site collection and use the option Project Web App > Remove, and then click Disable in the next dialog to disable this feature (and we really are sorry to see you remove PWA…). After this completes, which again for me was just a minute or two, I can see that I now have 1 PWA instance available to re-use – and I still have the …/Sites/PWS site collection.  This is important to note – I have disabled PWA which deleted all Project Web App data, including project plans, timesheets and resources – but I still have any pure SharePoint content that may have also existed in that site collection. For my remaining PWA instance that is still in the recycle bin I am going to take a different approach – and thanks to my colleague Stefan Schwarz for coming up with this workaround.  PowerShell is a tool that can be used across many and probably nearly all current Microsoft products.  For current Office 365 there is a good article at https://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/hh124998.aspx and for the commands we are interested in you will also need the SharePoint Online Management Shell from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35588 You will also need to install the Microsoft Online Services Sign-in Assistant as noted in the first article. I prefer using the ISE for PowerShell – so I start this up and then load the SharePoint Online cmdlets using import-module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell (installed from the link above) then connect to my SharePoint Online instance using Connect-SPOService and entering my Tenant admin url and then my credentials.  This isn’t just your tenant url but your tenant admin url – for example mine is https://BlogFodder-admin.sharepoint.com . I can then use the command Get-SPODeletedSite to see what is in my recycle bin: and to completely remove it I can use another PowerShell command – Remove-SPODeletedSite, along with the Url of the site I wish to remove – and to be extra cautious I can use the –Confirm parameter to give me that last chance to change my mind – and I then even get another last chance with the Permanently removing site dialog… Once this completes then I did notice it took a couple of minutes and a refresh or two before I could see my available PWA instances count go up to 2. Remember, the Remove-SPODeletedSite  isn’t just removing the Project stuff – but will completely delete everything to do with that site collection.  But hey – it was in your recycle bin so I guess you thought you could do without it.  Again, the link to the Office site gives a good breakdown of the options to use and what the consequences of your actions will be. The SharePoint Online Management Shell isn’t a total replacement for the SharePoint admin center UI – for example you can’t administer PWA instances and features – but it may offer some useful features such as user administration.  Another good reference to help understand the differences between the Office 365 and SharePoint Online PowerShell commands is https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161388.aspx .  I can see that the PowerShell stuff for Project and SharePoint online will be generating a few more blog posts. Thanks to Jean Donati and Sonia Atchison for feedback on this article – and Doug Welsby for running into the problem and getting us thinking about documenting the issue – and Stefan Schwarz for the PowerShell commands.

The Project 2013 SDK download is updated for the RTM release of Project 2013. In addition to articles, references, and code samples that are updated from the July release of Project 2013 Preview, the SDK also includes a local copy of VBA Help for Project Standard and Project Professional. You can install the downloaded Project2013SDK.msi file on computers that are running Windows 8, Windows 7 (and a couple of earlier Windows releases), Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012. When you install the SDK on a Windows 7 machine, the SDK contents are accessible from the Start menu. Figure 1 shows, for example, that the Microsoft SDKs folder contains the Project 2013 SDK folder, which contains links to three files. From the hierarchical context of the Start menu, it is clear that the Documentation node is contained in the Project 2013 SDK folder. Similarly, if you install the SharePoint 2013 SDK download and the Apps for Office and SharePoint SDK download , they each create a folder in Microsoft SDKs , and each SDK has a Documentation node within its folder. Figure 1. Using the Project 2013 SDK from the Windows 7 Start menu The problem Windows 8 does not have a Start menu, it has two related Start screens. After you install the Project 2013 SDK download, and scroll the main Start screen to the links for the installed files, you can see the same three links as in Windows 7. (To see the Welcome Guide on the Start screen, you can search for Welcome.rtf , open it in Internet Explorer, and then pin Welcome Guide to the Start screen.) But , the Start screen in Windows 8 is not arranged in hierarchical folders. In Figure 2, it is not clear what the Documentation link is for. Figure 2. Using the Documentation link to the Project 2013 SDK, on the Windows 8 Start screen The problem is worse if you also install the SharePoint 2013 SDK and the Apps for Office and SharePoint 2013 SDK. You would then have three Documentation links and three Welcome Guide links, each of which goes to a different SDK. If you right-click one of the Start screen icons, the icon shows a check mark, and the Start screen shows options at the bottom (see Figure 2). If you choose All apps at the bottom right of the screen, Windows 8 shows lists of installed apps within top-level groups. For example, the Microsoft SDKs group contains links for all of the Office, Project, and SharePoint SDKs that you install; there are no subfolders to distinguish which links go to which SDK. In Figure 3, only the Project 2013 SDK is installed, and the links have the same names as in Figure 2. Figure 3. Using the Project 2013 SDK links in the Apps view, in Windows 8 The workaround (for now) On a machine with Windows 8, you can install one SDK at a time, and then rename the links on the Start screen, before installing another SDK. To install Office, Project, and SharePoint SDKs on Windows 8 Log on to Windows 8 as an administrator. Install, for example, the Project 2013 SDK. On the Start screen, right-click the Documentation icon, and then choose Open file location at the bottom of the screen. On the Windows Desktop, rename the Documentation link as Project 2013 SDK Documentation , and then choose Continue in the File Access Denied dialog box (see Figure 4). Figure 4. Renaming the Project 2013 SDK links in the Desktop view Similarly, rename the VBA Reference link as Project 2013 VBA Reference , and rename the Welcome Guide link as Project 2013 Welcome Guide . With the mouse pointer in the lower-left corner of the screen, choose the Start pop-up icon, and then scroll to the Project 2013 SDK icons (see Figure 5). Figure 5. Using the renamed links in the Start view Install the Apps for Office and SharePoint 2013 SDK, and similarly rename the Start screen links. Install the SharePoint 2013 SDK, and similarly rename the Start screen links. Figure 6 shows the Microsoft SDKs group with the renamed links in the All apps view. Figure 6. Using the renamed links for all three SDKs in the All apps view In future releases, the Office, SharePoint, and Project SDK downloads will be reconfigured so that they install with non-conflicting link names on Windows 8.  

Using Lync and OneNote, an Office 365 user can take notes during a Lync Meeting. In addition, other meeting participants can see and add to these notes during the meeting. Users can also take private notes and, if the user also has Outlook, he or she can include notes in the meeting request, allowing users to preview them, add their own notes, and prepare for the meeting accordingly.   Author : Alexandra Lise Publication date : November 6, 2012 Product version : Lync Online   Lync’s sharing feature gives Office 365 users with OneNote a way to share notes with colleagues in different locations during an ad hoc (IM, audio, and/or video) conversation or a scheduled Lync Meeting. Collaboration features allow others to contribute to the notes. And, with Outlook and OneNote, Lync Online users can send out notes in a meeting request for attendees to preview. Guidance First, help Lync Online users set up a sharing session , by pointing them to the following topics: Set up a Lync Meeting Explains how to schedule an online meeting by using Outlook or Lync Web Scheduler. Start an impromptu Lync Meeting Explains how to invite one person or a group of people into a Lync IM conversation and add audio and/or video. Next, teach users to add notes to a meeting request and/or Lync Meeting by following the steps at Use shared and private notes in a Lync Meeting . Finally, make sure users know how to let others edit the notes and also how to save notes from Lync. Edit notes together To give control to another person, on the sharing bar at the top of your meeting window, click Give Control , and then either click an individual attendee or click Give Control Automatically to grant control to anyone who requests it during the sharing session. Take back control at any time by clicking Give Control again, and then clicking the either the name of the person who has control or Give Control Automatically if it’s selected. Save notes To save notes during a Lync sharing session, pause on the presentation (monitor) icon, click the Manage Presentable Content button, click More , and then select the saving option. Lync’s sharing and collaboration tools combine with OneNote’s ability to keep track of information by giving Office 365 users with both programs a way to share notes during sharing sessions with large and small audiences, remote users, and in scheduled or impromptu settings and to work with colleagues to capture evolving ideas and to collect information from different experts. Additional Resources To learn more, check out the following articles: Download the Lync 2013 for Office 365 Sharing and Collaboration Quick Reference Introduction to the Lync Meeting Window Check the Lync 2013 for Office 365 Help at office.com for related training and videos, coming soon. Keywords: Lync Meeting, OneNote, notes, sharing

Using Lync and PowerPoint, an Office 365 user can give PowerPoint presentations, record them, and work collaboratively on PowerPoint slides during a Lync Meeting with as many as 249 other people. This article describes how to use this feature.   Author : Alexandra Lise Publication date : November 6, 2012 Product version : Lync Online   Lync’s sharing feature gives Office 365 users a way to share PowerPoint presentations with colleagues in different locations. Users can present information from slides or take advantage of Lync’s collaboration features and work together on a presentation to be delivered later. Collaboration features enable users to give control to other users while the annotation tools help groups focus on certain parts of a presentation. Sharing sessions can be done ad hoc or during a scheduled Lync Meeting. Getting Started To help Lync Online users set up a sharing session , point them to the following topics:   Set up a Lync Meeting — explains how to schedule an online meeting by using Outlook or Lync Web Scheduler . TIP: To be able to set up Lync Meetings users must be enabled for dial-in conferencing. For details, see Configure Dial-in Conferencing .   Start an impromptu Lync Meeting — explains how to invite one person or a group of people to join a Lync IM conversation and add audio and/or video. Presenting and Recording To give a presentation 1. In a meeting or conversation window, pause on the presentation (monitor) icon, and then click PowerPoint . Figure 1. Selecting PowerPoint in the meeting window. 2. Options: To move the slides, use either the arrows at the bottom of the meeting window or click Thumbnails , and then click the slide you want to show To see your presenter notes, click Notes . To use the laser pointer, highlights, shapes, the eraser, pen, text changer, and other annotation tools, on the upper-right side of the slide, click the Annotations button — then click the type of annotation you want to use. Note : annotating doesn’t change the actual file, although, if you want to, you can save an annotated copy. To prevent someone from skipping ahead or using annotations, in the meeting window, click More Options , click Lync Meeting Options , and then select the permissions level for the participant(s). To record a presentation 1. In the meeting or conversation window, click More Options , and then click Start Recording Figure 2. Figure 2. Starting recording. 2. (Optional) Use the controls at the bottom of the window to pause and resume recording. 3. When finished, click the Stop Recording button. Lync automatically saves the recording in a format that plays in Windows Media Player and Zune. Figure 3. Stopped recording notification. To manage a presentation To prevent people from downloading the presentation, during a sharing session, hover over presentation (monitor) icon, click the Manage Presentable Content button, and then click the Permissions menu and the appropriate option. To prevent people from annotating or skipping ahead, in the meeting window, click Meeting Options , click Lync Meeting options , and then select the appropriate permissions. To save someone else’s presentation or an annotated copy, during a sharing session, pause on the presentation (monitor) icon, click the Manage Presentable Content button, click More , and then select the saving option. To edit a presentation together To give control to another person, click Give Control on the sharing bar at the top of your meeting window. Then either click an individual attendee or click Give Control Automatically to grant control to anyone who requests it during the sharing session. To take back control at any time click the Give Control again, then click either the name of the person who has control or Give Control Automatically if it’s selected. Lync’s sharing and collaboration tools, combined with PowerPoint’s ability to organize and feature important information, give Office 365 users an effective way to present information to remote users in large and small audiences, It also enables users to work with colleagues— in scheduled or impromptu sessions— to develop, refine and style presentation content. Additional Resources To learn more, check out the following articles: Lync 2013 for Office 365 Sharing and Collaboration Quick Reference Record and Playback a Lync Meeting Introduction to the Lync Meeting Window   Keywords : Lync Meeting, PowerPoint, present, annotations

Introduction Apps for Office present a great new opportunity to bring data from a variety of sources into Office applications. The new Project specifically offers a very powerful way to surface both SharePoint and Project Web App data in a task pane app in Project Professional. To connect with SharePoint or PWA from the client, we use on-the-fly OAuth flow as presented in the SharePoint 2013 SDK . The App for Project described in this article connects with the same PWA site collection that Project Professional is currently connected to, and displays data about the currently selected task that is not otherwise available from within Project Professional. This will work with all versions of Project Professional (C2R, MSI, On Demand) and with all PWA environments (Project Online, Project Server). Setup Prerequisites for this project are: Visual Studio 2012 IIS or IIS Express configured to allow applications to run on your server (at localhost) Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 tools for Visual Studio, available here Project Professional 2013 Project Online tenant or Project Server The first step is to launch Visual Studio 2012. Create a new App for Office 2013 project as shown below. Let’s call it “TaskLastModifiedApp”. In the next dialog, make this a Task Pane App for Project. We need to add references, as this app will use a number of APIs across Office and SharePoint. These DLLs may be in a different location on your system. Most of these references are automatically added if you use the App for SharePoint template, so if you can’t find these on your system, create a quick App for SharePoint solution and note the reference paths to help you out. You should add: C:Program FilesReference AssembliesMicrosoftWindows Identity Foundationv3.5Microsoft.IdentityModel.dll C:WindowsMicrosoft.NETassemblyGAC_MSILMicrosoft.IdentityModel.Extensionsv4.0_2.0.0.0__69c3241e6f0468caMicrosoft.IdentityModel.Extensions.dll C:Program FilesReference AssembliesMicrosoftWindows Identity Foundationv3.5Microsoft.IdentityModel.WindowsTokenService.dll C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions15ISAPIMicrosoft.ProjectServer.Client.dll C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions15ISAPIMicrosoft.SharePoint.Client.dll C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions15ISAPIMicrosoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll C:Program Files (x86)Reference AssembliesMicrosoftFramework.NETFrameworkv4.0System.IdentityModel.dll C:Program Files (x86)Reference AssembliesMicrosoftFramework.NETFrameworkv4.0System.IdentityModel.Selectors.dll C:Program Files (x86)Reference AssembliesMicrosoftFramework.NETFrameworkv4.0System.ServiceModel.dll Additionally, you will need to add a copy of TokenHelper.cs, which is generated when creating an autohosted or provider-hosted App for SharePoint project. Task Pane App Manifest The actual task pane app is just an XML manifest. Open up TaskLastModifiedApp.xml from the TaskLastModifiedApp project in your Solution Explorer. Replace its contents with the following: 1: 2: 3: [leave this line alone] 4: 1.0 5: Microsoft 6: en-US 7: 8: 9: 10: https: //localhost:44301/ 11: 12: 13: 14: 15: 16: 17: 18: ReadWriteDocument 19: Replace the port after localhost (in both instances) with whatever port you have configured IIS to use for SSL. Make sure to toggle the “SSL Enabled” property on the TaskLastModifiedAppWeb project to true. Let whatever ID was originally set in the manifest remain. Architecture Next, delete the TaskLastModifiedApp.html page – we will need .aspx pages in this project. The basic architecture of the task pane app is as follows: When the task pane app is launched, it loads “URLConstructor.aspx”, which pulls the PWA URL from the client and constructs a call to OAuthAuthorize with the proper tokens to request permissions for the app to access PWA data. This page loads “URLConstructor.js” to interact with the client. OAuthAuthorize is launched in a new window, since we cannot predict the customer’s Project domain. After the user trusts the app, that new window is redirected to “PostOAuth.aspx”, which surfaces the auth code back to URLConstructor.aspx. Once URLConstructor.aspx has the auth code, the task pane app is redirected with this as a token to “Default.aspx”, which has the functional code for the app. This page uses Project CSOM code in its code-behind page to read data from PWA, as well as “TaskLastModifiedApp.js” to interact with the client. Constructing the OAuthAuthorize URL The complete code for URLConstructor.aspx is as follows: 1: 2:   3: 4:   5: 6:   7: 8: TaskLastModifiedApp 9: 10: 11: 12: 13: 14: function getClientId() { 15: var clientId = ‘ ‘ ; //read the clientID from web.config 16: getPwaUrl(clientId); //return to client code 17: } 18: 19:   20: 21: Redirecting… 22: 23:   24: This page needs to be an .aspx page in order to read from web.config, but does not need anything in its code-behind. The clientId read from web.config is needed for the authorization flow. getPwaUrl() is a function within URLConstructor.js. The complete code for URLConstructor.js is as follows: 1: var _projDoc; 2: var pwaUrl; 3: var oAuthUrl; 4:   5: Office.initialize = function (reason) { 6: _projDoc = Office.context.document; 7: getClientId(); //on document load, reads the ClientId from web.config first since it is server-side 8: } 9:   10: function getPwaUrl(clientId) { //uses Office App API to read PWA URL 11: _projDoc.getProjectFieldAsync(Office.ProjectProjectFields.ProjectServerUrl, 12: function (asyncResult) { 13: if (asyncResult.status == Office.AsyncResultStatus.Succeeded) { 14: pwaUrl = asyncResult. value .fieldValue; 15: generateUrl(clientId); //creates the OAuthAuthorize URL with necessary parameters 16: } 17: else { 18: logMethodError( “getProjectFieldAsync” , asyncResult.error.name, asyncResult.error.message); 19: } 20: } 21: ) 22: }; 23:   24: function generateUrl(clientId) { 25: oAuthUrl = pwaUrl + “/_layouts/15/OAuthAuthorize.aspx?IsDlg=1&client_id=” + clientId + “&scope=Projects.Read&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https://localhost:44301/pages/PostOAuth.aspx” ; 26: authWindow = window.open(oAuthUrl); 27: codeListener(); //start listening for the auth code 28: } 29:   30: function codeListener() { 31: setTimeout(function () { readCode(); }, 1000); //check for the auth code every one second 32: } 33:   34: function readCode() { 35: try { //if we can actually reach the authCode field on PostOAuth.aspx 36: authCode = authWindow.document.getElementById( “authCode” ). value ; //pull the authCode value 37: if (authCode != “NA” ) { //if it is not the default “NA” 38: authWindow.close(); //close the new window 39: document.location.href = “/Pages/Default.aspx?code=” + authCode; //redirect task pane to the app code with the authCode token 40: } 41: } 42: catch (e) { 43: codeListener(); //if we couldn’t reach PostOAuth.aspx, wait another second and try again 44: } 45: } When the task pane app loads, it first reads web.config from the aspx page, since this is server-side code. Once it has the clientId, we read the PWA URL. We then create the full OAuthAuthorize URL with the parameters specified above. scope=Projects.Read requests read permission to projects on the current PWA site. Make sure to match the SSL port here as well, as before. On running the app, a new window will open up outside of Project that prompts the user to login to PWA (if they have not checked “Keep me signed in” previously). They will then be presented with a “Do you trust…” page, the same as if they were installing an App for SharePoint. This is the OAuthAuthorize.aspx page. Once trusted, that new window navigates to PostOAuth.aspx, presented below: 1: 2:   3: 4:   5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: 13: Closing… 14: 15: 16: 17: And PostOAuth.aspx.cs: 1: using System; 2: using System.Collections.Generic; 3: using System.Linq; 4: using System.Web; 5: using System.Web.UI; 6: using System.Web.UI.WebControls; 7:   8: namespace TaskLastModifiedAppWeb.Pages 9: { 10: public partial class PostOAuth : System.Web.UI.Page 11: { 12: protected void Page_Load( ob
ject sender, EventArgs e) 13: { 14: var code = Request.QueryString[ “code” ]; 15: authCode.Value = code; 16: } 17: } 18: } This page saves the auth code token in a hidden field. The task pane app, still on URLConstructor.aspx, waits for this value and then closes the new window. The app then continues on to default.aspx with the proper code token needed to finish the OAuth flow. Reading the Last Modified Date of the Selected Task The remainder of this article is an example of what you might do in your task pane app now that you have read access to PWA data. This example will show you the Last Modified date and time of the task you have selected. On launch, it shows you data for the selected task, and as you change tasks, the data is updated using an event handler. The complete code for Default.aspx is as follows: 1: 2:   3: 4:   5: 6: 7: TaskLastModifiedApp 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: 13: 14:   15: 16: 17: 18: 19: 20: 21:   22: 23:   24: 25: 26: 27:   28: 29:   30: 31: This page contains three hidden fields used to pass data back and forth between the client-side code and the server-side code. It also leverages a label to surface the results to the user, and a hidden button that the client-side code uses to call a server-side function, as you will see below. The complete code for TaskLastModifiedApp.js is as follows: 1: var _projDoc; 2: var taskGuid; 3: var projGuid; 4: var pwaUrl; 5:   6: // This runs after every postback 7: Office.initialize = function (reason) { 8: _projDoc = Office.context.document; 9: if (document.getElementById( “pwaUrlHF” ). value == “NA” ) { //if this is the first run 10: firstRun(); 11: } 12: manageTaskEventHandler( ‘addHandlerAsync’ ); //need to re-register event handler after each postback 13: } 14:   15: // Only need these on the first page load, not on postbacks 16: function firstRun() { 17: getProjGuid(); 18: _projDoc.getProjectFieldAsync(Office.ProjectProjectFields.ProjectServerUrl, 19: function (asyncResult) { 20: pwaUrl = asyncResult. value .fieldValue; 21: document.getElementById( “pwaUrlHF” ). value = pwaUrl; 22: } 23: ) 24: getTaskGuid(); 25: } 26:   27: // Get the GUID of the selected task, comes from SDK 28: function getTaskGuid() { 29: var TaskLastModLabel = document.getElementById( “TaskLastModLabel” ); 30: TaskLastModLabel.innerHTML = “Loading…” ; 31: _projDoc.getSelectedTaskAsync(function (asyncResult) { 32: taskGuid = asyncResult. value ; 33: document.getElementById( “taskGuidHF” ). value = taskGuid; //saves the task GUID to a hidden field to pass to the code-behind 34: document.getElementById( “hiddenTaskChangedButton” ).click(); //runs the CSOM calls in the aspx.cs file 35: }); 36: } 37:   38: // Get the GUID of the current project. 39: function getProjGuid() { 40: _projDoc.getProjectFieldAsync(Office.ProjectProjectFields.GUID, 41: function (asyncResult) { 42: projGuid = asyncResult. value .fieldValue; 43: document.getElementById( “projGuidHF” ). value = projGuid; //saves the project GUID to a hidden field to pass to the code-behind 44: } 45: ) 46: } 47:   48: // Task selection changed event handler. 49: function onTaskSelectionChanged(eventArgs) { 50: getTaskGuid(); 51: } 52:   53: // Add or remove a task selection changed event handler. 54: function manageTaskEventHandler(docMethod) { 55: manageEventHandlerAsync( 56: Office.EventType.TaskSelectionChanged, // The task selection changed event. 57: onTaskSelectionChanged, // The event handler. 58: docMethod // The Office.Document method to add or remove an event handler. 59: ); 60: } 61:   62: // Add or remove the specified event handler. 63: function manageEventHandlerAsync(eventType, handler, operation, onComplete) { 64: _projDoc[operation] //The operation is addHandlerAsync or removeHandlerAsync. 65: ( 66: eventType, 67: handler, 68: function (asyncResult) { 69: // code here runs after event has been registered (or failed) 70: } 71: ); 72: } The first time this code runs, it pulls the PWA URL (just like we did in URLConstructor.js) and saves it to one of our hidden fields, registers a client-side event handler to capture when a new task is selected, and starts the process of connecting to PWA and pulling the data we need, which is mostly done in the code-behind file. After each postback, we do not need to recapture the PWA URL, as our ProjectContext is maintained as a static variable. We need to make one quick tweak to TokenHelper.cs first – change GetRealmFromTargetUrl from a private method to a public method. The complete code for Default.aspx.cs is as follows: 1: using System; 2: using System.Collections.Generic; 3: using System.Linq; 4: using System.Web; 5: using System.Web.UI; 6: using System.Web.UI.WebControls; 7: using Microsoft.ProjectServer.Client; 8: using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client; 9:   10: namespace TaskLastModifiedAppWeb.Pages 11: { 12: public partial class Default : System.Web.UI.Page 13: { 14: public static ProjectContext projContext; 15: public static PublishedProject thisProj; 16: public Guid projGuid; 17:   18: protected void Page_Load( object sender, EventArgs e) 19: { 20: if (!IsPostBack) //set values of hidden fields if this is the first page load 21: { 22: projGuidHF.Value = “NA” ; 23: taskGuidHF.Value = “NA” ; 24: pwaUrlHF.Value = “NA” ; 25: } 26: } 27:   28:   29: protected void GetContexts() 30: { 31: var code = Request.QueryString[ “code” ]; //pulls the code token from the request 32:   33: string targetPwa = pwaUrlHF.Value; //pulls the PWA URL from where the Office app API stored it 34:   35: Uri targetPwaUri = new Uri(targetPwa); 36:   37: var tRealm = TokenHelper.GetRealmFromTargetUrl(targetPwaUri); 38:   39: Uri rUri = new Uri( “https://localhost:44301/pages/PostOAuth.aspx” ); //hardcoded link to redirect_uri 40:   41: var clientContext = TokenHelper.GetClientContextWithAuthorizationCode(targetPwa, “00000003-0000-0ff1-ce00-000000000000” , code, tRealm, rUri); 42:   43: projContext = GetProjectContextWithAuthorizationCode(targetPwa, “00000003-0000-0ff1-ce00-000000000000” , code, tRealm, rUri); 44:   45: projGuid = new Guid( “{” + projGuidHF.Value + “}” ); //loads the current project through CSOM 46:   47: var projects = projContext.LoadQuery(projContext.Projects.Where(proj => proj.Id == projGuid)); 48: projContext.ExecuteQuery(); 49: thisProj = projects.First(); 50: } 51:   52: protected void OnTaskChanged( object sender, EventArgs e) //determine the selected task’s last modified date 53: { 54: if (thisProj == null ) 55: { 56: GetContexts(); 57: } 58: 59: var taskGuid = new Guid(taskGuidHF.Value); 60:   61: var tasks = projContext.LoadQuery(thisProj.Tasks.Where(task => task.Id == taskGuid)); //load the selected task off of the project 62: projContext.ExecuteQuery(); 63: PublishedTask thisTask = tasks.First(); 64: string dateMod = thisTask.Modified.ToString( “D” ); //pull out the Modified field on the task 65: string timeMod = thisTask.Modified.ToString( “t” ); 66: TaskLastModLabel.Text = “The selected task was last modified on ” + dateMod + ” at ” + timeMod + “.” ; 67: } 68:   69: public static ProjectContext GetProjectContextWithAuthorizationCode( string targetUrl, string targetPrincipalName, string authorizationCode, string targetRealm,Uri redirectUri) 70: { 71: Uri targetUri = new Uri(targetUrl); 72:   73: string accessToken = 74: TokenHelper.GetAccessToken(authorizationCode, targetPrincipalName, targetUri.Authority, targetRealm, redirectUri).AccessToken; 75:   76: return GetProjectContextWithAccessToken(targetUrl, accessToken); 77: } 78:   79: public static ProjectContext GetProjectContextWithAccessToken( string targetUrl, string accessToken) 80: { 81: Uri targetUri = new Uri(targetUrl); 82:   83: ProjectContext projContext = new ProjectContext(targetUrl); 84:   85: projContext.AuthenticationMode = ClientAuthenticationMode.Anonymous; 86: projContext.FormDigestHandlingEnabled = false ; 87: projContext.ExecutingWebRequest += 88: delegate ( object oSender, WebRequestEventArgs webRequestEventArgs) 89: { 90: webRequestEventArgs.WebRequestExecutor.RequestHeaders[ “Authorization” ] = 91: “Bearer ” + accessToken; 92: }; 93:   94: return projContext; 95: } 96: } 97: } PageLoad() The f
irst time the page loads, we need to initialize the hidden field values. This enables us to not set them directly in Default.aspx (and thus lose their values after a postback) and lets the client-side code distinguish between a first run load and a postback. GetContexts() This code also only runs once, assuming the current project remains loaded. This handles the last part of the OAuth flow – we use the code token from OAuthAuthorize to generate a client context and a project context using methods in TokenHelper.cs, as well as slightly modified methods GetProjectContextWithAuthorizationCode() and GetProjectContextWithAccessToken(). OnTaskChanged() This first checks to make sure we have a project loaded from which to pull data. We then read the selected task guid from the hidden field, which was updated client-side before this method was called. We use Project CSOM to load the selected task from PWA and read its Last Modified field, which is then presented to the user in a readable format using the label on Default.aspx. Register the App ID and App Secret Since we are not submitting this app to the Office Store, we need to register it on our test tenant. On your tenant, navigate to https://[your PWA site]/_layouts/15/appregnew.aspx. Generate a new App Id and App Secret, set the Title to “TaskLastModifiedApp”, set the App Domain to localhost:44301 (or wherever the app code is running), and set the Redirect URI to match the redirect_uri token value in the oAuth URL created in URLConstructor.js. Hit Create, and then add the App Id and App Secret to web.config in your Visual Studio solution. It should look like the following when you are done, with your values for ClientId and ClientSecret: 1: 2:   3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: Time to Test! To run the app, just hit F5 in Visual Studio, which will launch Project Professional. Make sure to connect to a PWA profile, then load a published project (or create and publish a new one). From a task view, select the Project tab in the ribbon, hit the dropdown for Apps for Office, and click TaskLastModifiedApp. The app will launch in a task pane on the right side of the screen. It’ll prompt you to trust the app, quickly load, and then display the last modified date and time of the selected task. Select a different task, and the data will update almost instantly. Wrap-Up In this blog post, you have learned how to create a task pane app in Project Professional that can display data from PWA that would not normally be visible in the client. The app uses SharePoint’s OAuthAuthorize page to request permissions from PWA and handle the authentication handshake between the app code and your online data. For more on working with OAuth, make sure to check out the relevant node in the SharePoint 2013 SDK. For more information on PWA programmability, check out the Project 2013 SDK . To learn more about writing task pane apps for the new Project, see this node in the Office 2013 SDK .

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