🧭 Guides
End-to-end walkthroughs that connect the dots — the "how it all fits together" layer above scripts and snippets.
Index
| Guide | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Calling SharePoint REST like a pro | The client landscape, headers that matter, safe writes, reading well, field/list creation quirks, and a ten-minute diagnosis routine |
| Search queries that actually work | The one mandatory header, practical KQL, managed properties (RefinableString*), paging/sorting, and the freshness/trimming traps |
| SharePoint REST vs Microsoft Graph | A decision table by capability, the SPFx auth difference, common wrong picks, and throttling budgets |
| Choosing a knowledge format for RAG | Markdown vs DOCX vs site pages vs list items — extraction quality, token economics, and the author-here-publish-Markdown pattern |
| Token cost of content formats (measured) | Real numbers: the same article as .md/.docx/.pdf/a SharePoint page — why extraction, not format, drives the token bill; plus a CZ-vs-EN language tax and a reproducible harness |
| Reverse-engineering Plumsail Forms apps | Where the JSON definitions, custom JS, and hosting web parts live; a read-only extraction routine and the client-side patterns (dummy-item pages, UI-only security, race conditions) to flag before a migration |
| Provisioning folder trees at scale (measured) | What creating 86 folders and breaking inheritance really costs (no throttling), the alias-parameter syntax, reading a whole tree with one item query (two calls) instead of ninety, and copyRoleAssignments=false silently dropping the owners group |
| Renaming your SharePoint domain | Scheduling a tenant rename on a fresh tenant – checking the name is free, adding the matching .onmicrosoft.com domain the right way, the 24-hour scheduling floor (error -772), what -WhatIf and the status output look like, and what to freeze until it finishes |
Planned next
- SPFx from zero to App Catalog — scaffolding, debugging, packaging, deployment paths
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Format
kebab-case.md with frontmatter — see CONTRIBUTING. Task-oriented: each guide takes the reader from A to B, not through the whole alphabet.
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