Easter Weekend and Bachelor Party

 20 years of life covers a lot of ground was good catching up with boys this weekend. Best part was landing at home and hosting Easter for the family and friends. I love where our lives have led to and I cannot wait to see what God's plan is next. But we are up for the challenge and have faith to face it with my family by my side. 

Viva Connections is ready for GA

 

Really you say? What does that mean? Well checkout what Mercy thinks it could mean here.

Clutter or creator???

 wow, amazing what digital clutter we can create as we adopt online life as the new norm. what was once an active side project has been discarded to other arenas of sharing my thoughts and ideas.
well here goes take # who knows but just writing feels good. no worries on comments or likes or shares.
just me again. for dev and dad to create. lessgooo!!!

peep the fam. thinking opening day might be in the works. 

Microsoft Viva Connections to start rollout to general availability

End of March is here and Viva continues to deliver:

Microsoft Viva Connections to start rollout to general availability: As hybrid work models become widely embraced, reimagining how we nurture employee development and training and how we keep employees connected to each other and to benefits and wellbeing opportunities becomes critical to success. Last month, we launched Microsoft Viva, our new employee experience pl...

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SharePoint 2010 Hide Site Collection Root and Path Separator in Breadcrumb

In SharePoint 2010 there are a lot of times where you do not want to display the site collection root sites to users in navigation or in the bread crumb.  There are many ways to achieve the task of hiding the root node in the bread crumb but in my opinion this gets you only half way to where you want to be.  Most solutions you will find only hide the root node and leave the Path Separator displayed in the bread crumb.  Whether this is the default > or a custom styled image who wants that to be displayed as the first level of a breadcrumb?  Not my customers that's for sure.  

So how to not only hide the root node but the separator as well?  Well that's where jQuery comes to save the day.  The path separator element has no ID and no style attributes applied which has to contribute to the lack of solutions on the web.  These problems are areas that jQuery excels in.  By being able to select any element from the DOM jQuery really flexes its muscles in these type of scenarios.  Well long story short I have included the jQuery script and HTML used to hide the root node and separator from the SharePoint 2010 breadcrumb.  You can add this to the master page along with references to the jQuery libraries and let the magic happen.

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderBreadcrumb" runat="server">
    <div id="master-page-breadcrumb">
        <asp:SiteMapPath   
            ID="contentNavigation"
            runat="server"                           
            SiteMapProviders="SPSiteMapProvider,SPXmlContentMapProvider"
            RenderCurrentNodeAsLink="false"
            NodeStyle-CssClass="breadcrumbNode"
            CurrentNodeStyle-CssClass="breadcrumbCurrentNode"
            RootNodeStyle-CssClass="breadcrumbRootNode"
            HideInteriorRootNodes="false"
            SkipLinkText="">
            <RootNodeTemplate></RootNodeTemplate>
        </asp:SiteMapPath>
    </div>
                   
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
<script>
    $(document).ready(function(){
                   
        var rootNode = $("span[id$=contentNavigation] > span:eq(0)");
                       
        if (rootNode.attr("class") == "breadcrumbRootNode")
        {                           
            rootNode.hide();
            $(rootNode).next("span").css('display', 'none');                           
        }
                   
    });
</script>

SharePoint 2013 App for WP8

As promised during SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas the Windows Phone 8 App for SharePoint 2013 has been released and is available for download in the Marketplace.  I have included a link to the page below just to speed up the install for those instant gratification types like myself.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/sharepoint/21951931-4a31-47c9-bf8b-e50c8fb7b4c1