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SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework

By : Jussi Roine, Olli Jääskeläinen
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SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework

By: Jussi Roine, Olli Jääskeläinen

Overview of this book

SharePoint is one of Microsoft's best known web platforms. A loyal audience of developers, IT Pros and power users use it to build line of business solutions. The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a great new option for developing SharePoint solutions. Many developers are creating full-trust based solutions or add-in solutions, while also figuring out where and how SPFx fits in the big picture. This book shows you how design, build, deploy and manage SPFx based solutions for SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2016. The book starts by getting you familiar with the basic capabilities of SPFx. After that, we will walk through the tool-chain on how to best create production-ready solutions that can be easily deployed manually or fully automated throughout your target Office 365 tenants. We describe how to configure and use Visual Studio Code, the de facto development environment for SPFx-based solutions. Next, we provide guidance and a solid approach to packaging and deploying your code. We also present a straightforward approach to troubleshooting and debugging your code an environment where business applications run on the client side instead of the server side.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Sending email

It is possible and easy to send email using SharePoint PnP JavaScript Core Library. You can do it by defining an object based on the EmailProperties interface, and send it using the utility.sendEmail function:

const emailProperties: EmailProperties = { 
    To: ["[email protected]"], 
    CC: [], 
    Subject: "Testing PnP JavaScript send email functionality", 
    Body: "This email has been sent using JavaScript", 
  }; 
  pnp.sp.utility.sendEmail(emailProperties).then(() => { 
    this.domElement.innerHTML = `<p>Email has been sent.</p>`; 
  }); 

This function doesn't send the email as the user in whose context we are working but as SharePoint Online system. You don't have to be tenant admin to send this email:

A word of caution here: based on our testing, this functionality currently only works on classic SharePoint sites but not in modern Team Sites. It is also highly likely that the email will not appear...