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

React Birthdays Web Part

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 home site with title "Birthdays."

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

Used SharePoint Framework Version

Applies to

• SharePoint Framework
• Office 365 tenant

Update accordingly as needed.

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

Solution

Solution	Author(s)
react Birthday Web Part	João Mendes

Version history

Version	Date	Comments
1.0.0	November 6, 2018	Initial release

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.

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Minimal Path to Awesome

• Clone this repository
• in the command line run:
  • npm install
  • gulp build
  • gulp bundle --ship
  • gulp package-solution --ship

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.