sp-dev-fx-webparts/samples/react-birthdays

Birthdays

Summary

The Web Part Birthdays shows the upcoming birthdays in the company, the web part reads birthdays from a list located on the tenant's root site with title "Birthdays."

Now is possible to the user select an image for the background in the properties of the web part.

There is an Azure function available that get AAD user birthdays, this function creates a list on the tenant root site, if it does not exist. See the local.settings.json for details on the required application variable located in SyncUsersBirthdaysFunction folder.

But you can synchronize the Birthdays list with other applications HR Systems, or other sources

Compatibility

⚠️ Important
Every SPFx version is optimally compatible with specific versions of Node.js. In order to be able to build this sample, you need to ensure that the version of Node on your workstation matches one of the versions listed in this section. This sample will not work on a different version of Node.
Refer to https://aka.ms/spfx-matrix for more information on SPFx compatibility.

This sample is optimally compatible with the following environment configuration:

Applies to

• SharePoint Framework
• Microsoft 365 tenant

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Prerequisites

Existing list in tenant root site, with the Title "Birthdays" and columns:

Column Internal Name	Type	Required	comments
JobTitle	Text	no
Birthday	DateTime	true
userAADGUID	Text	no	required if used Azure Function to get Birthdays from AAD
Title	Text	true
email	Text	true

IMPORTANT: Create index on column "Birthday".

Contributors

• João Mendes
• Sajal Maity

Version history

Version	Date	Comments
1.0.0	November 6, 2018	Initial release
1.1.0	July 23, 2019	new version
2.0.0	June 16, 2021	Upgraded to SPFx 1.12.1
3.0.0	April 7, 2022	Upgraded to SPFx 1.14.0
4.0.0	March 6, 2023	Upgraded to SPFx 1.16.1

Minimal Path to Awesome

• Clone this repository
• in the command line run:
  • npm install
  • gulp build
  • gulp bundle --ship
  • gulp package-solution --ship
  • Add and Deploy Package to AppCatalog
  • Go to API Management - from SharePoint Admin Center new experience, and Approve the Permission Require to Use Graph API SCOPES

This sample can also be opened with VS Code Remote Development. Visit https://aka.ms/spfx-devcontainer for further instructions.

Features

This project contains sample Birthday web parts built on the SharePoint Framework using React and an Azure Function to get user Birthdays from AAD. This sample illustrates the following concepts on top of the SharePoint Framework:

• using React for building SharePoint Framework client-side web parts
• using React components for building Birthday web part
• using MSGraph API to get data from SharePoint Lists
• using MSGraph API to read users from AAD
• using @PnP/PnPjs to create a List, add, update, delete Items.

Help

We do not support samples, but we this community is always willing to help, and we want to improve these samples. We use GitHub to track issues, which makes it easy for community members to volunteer their time and help resolve issues.

If you're having issues building the solution, please run spfx doctor from within the solution folder to diagnose incompatibility issues with your environment.

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Disclaimer

THIS CODE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.