We’re all set for SPS (SharePoint Saturday) Bangalore on Sep 1st 2018 at Microsoft’s new Office in Bangalore where I would be taking on How to build intelligent Azure Bot using Cognitive Services i.e. LUIS and QnA Maker with SharePoint Online . If you’re interested in attending this event , please use the link below to enroll yourself . We have many great sessions lined up for you on SharePoint and Office 365 .
The comments section is an important part of any webpage. It appears in all the modern pages by default. However, we can easily turn this feature on or off using the below simple steps.
Step1 Edit the page.
Step 2 The page owner can see the "Turn on or off" option parallel to the comment section.
Step 3 Select the Turn Off toggle.
Step 4 Publish the page and you will not see any comment section.
SharePoint Online Modern pages have header image banners in all modern pages; i.e., Communication or Team Sites. Header image banner needs a background image or text, it takes almost 40% of the page, and we can’t remove this section using User Interface.
If you want to turn this section ON or OFF, it is possible using PnP PowerShell command. Basically, it allows us to change the page layout from Article to Home. The homepage layout doesn’t have a header image banner section.
Remove the Header Image Banner Section
Open SharePoint Online Management Shell and run the below command in sequence.
This tutorial demonstrate, How to fetch azure SQL data into SharePoint Online using Business Connectivity Services and Secure Store Services.
SharePoint Secure Store Service
Quoting MSDN, the definition of SharePoint Secure Store Service is:
"Secure Store Service is a shared service that provides storage and mapping of credentials such as account names and passwords. It enables you to securely store data that provides credentials required for connecting to external systems and associating those credentials to a specific identity or group of identities. It is very common for solutions to try to authenticate to an external system in which the current user is known differently or has a different account for authentication. In such cases, Secure Store Service can be used to store and map user credentials required by the external system. You can configure Secure Store Service so that multiple users can access an external system by using a single set of credentials on that external system."
Business Connectivity Services
Business Connectivity Services (BCS) connections to data sources, such as SQL Azure databases or Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) web services, that are outside the SharePoint site.
The interaction between users and bots is mostly free-form, so bots need to understand language naturally and contextually. The Cognitive Service Language APIs provide powerful language models to determine what users want, to identify concepts and entities in a given sentence, and ultimately to allow your bots to respond with the appropriate action.
Introduction
The Azure Bot Framework supports different types of rich cards and provides a richer interaction experience to the users in term of text, image, video etc.
In this article, I will show how to exchange a message between user and bot can contain one or more rich cards rendered as an image, video.
