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Contribution Guidance

If you'd like to contribute to this repository, please read the following guidelines. Contributors are more than welcome to share their learnings with others in this centralized location.

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information, see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.

Remember that this repository is maintained by community members who volunteer their time to help. Be courteous and patient.

Question or Problem?

Please do not open GitHub issues for general support questions as the GitHub list should be used for feature requests and bug reports. This way we can more easily track actual issues or bugs from the code and keep the general discussion separate from the actual code.

Typos, Issues, Bugs and contributions

Whenever you are submitting any changes to the PnP repositories, please follow these recommendations.

  • Always fork the repository to your own account before making your modifications
  • Do not combine multiple changes to one pull request. For example, submit any samples and documentation updates using separate PRs
  • If your pull request shows merge conflicts, make sure to update your local main to be a mirror of what's in the main repo before making your modifications
  • If you are submitting multiple samples, please create a specific PR for each of them
  • If you are submitting typo or documentation fix, you can combine modifications to single PR where suitable

Sample Naming and Structure Guidelines

When you are submitting a new sample, it has to follow up below guidelines

  • You will need to have a README.md file for your contribution, which is based on the provided template under the samples folder. Please copy this template to your project and update it accordingly. Your README.md must be named exactly README.md -- with capital letters -- as this is the information we use to make your sample public.
    • You will need to have a screenshot picture of your sample in action in the README.md file ("pics or it didn't happen"). The preview image must be located in the /assets/ folder in the root of your solution.
  • The README template contains a specific tracking image at the bottom of the file with an img tag, where the src attribute points to https://telemetry.sharepointpnp.com/powerplatform-snippets/samples/readme-template. This is a transparent image which is used to track viewership of individual samples in GitHub.
    • Update the image src attribute according with the repository name and folder information. For example, if your sample is named transmographier in the samples folder, you should update the src attribute to https://telemetry.sharepointpnp.com/powerplatform-snippets/samples/transmographier
  • If you find an existing sample which is similar to yours, please extend the existing one rather than submitting a new similar sample
    • For example, if you use Office Graph with React, please add a new web part to the existing solution, rather than introducing a completely new solution
    • When you update existing samples, please update also README.md file accordingly with information on provided changes and with your author details
  • When submitting a new sample solution, please name the sample solution folder accordingly
    • Folder names should be all lowercase
    • Do not use words such as sample, powerapp or powerapps in the folder or sample name - this repository is only intended for Power Platform Snippets, so no need to be redundant redundant.
    • When submitting a Copilot Studio snippet for plugin actions, make sure to use ac for adaptive cards, txt for text or ai for AI-generated output as the suffix. So transmographier should be transmographier-ac when it's an plugin action that outputs an adaptive card.
    • Do not use period/dot in the folder name of the provided sample

Submitting Pull Requests

Before you submit your pull request, make sure that you read the guidance on how to create your pull request.

Here's a high-level process for submitting new samples or updates to existing ones.

  1. Sign the Contributor License Agreement (see below)
  2. Fork this repository pnp/powerplatform-snippets to your GitHub account
  3. Create a new branch from the main branch for your fork for the contribution
  4. Include your changes to your branch
  5. Commit your changes using descriptive commit message * These are used to track changes on the repositories for monthly communications
  6. Create a pull request in your own fork and target the main branch
  7. Fill up the provided PR template with the requested details

Before you submit your pull request consider the following guidelines:

  • Search GitHub for an open or closed Pull Request which relates to your submission. You don't want to duplicate effort.

  • Make sure you have a link in your local cloned fork to the pnp/powerplatform-snippets:

    # check if you have a remote pointing to the Microsoft repo:
git remote -v

# if you see a pair of remotes (fetch & pull) that point to https://github.com/pnp/powerplatform-snippets, you're ok... otherwise you need to add one

# add a new remote named "upstream" and point to the Microsoft repo
git remote add upstream https://github.com/pnp/powerplatform-snippets.git

  • Make your changes in a new git branch:

    git checkout -b transmographier main

  • Ensure your fork is updated and not behind the upstream powerplatform-snippets repo. Refer to these resources for more information on syncing your repo:

    • GitHub Help: Syncing a Fork

    • Keep Your Forked Git Repo Updated with Changes from the Original Upstream Repo

    • For a quick cheat sheet:

      # assuming you are in the folder of your locally cloned fork....
git checkout main

# assuming you have a remote named `upstream` pointing official **powerplatform-snippets** repo
git fetch upstream

# update your local main to be a mirror of what's in the main repo
git pull --rebase upstream main

# switch to your branch where you are working, say "transmographier"
git checkout transmographier

# update your branch to update it's fork point to the current tip of main & put your changes on top of it
git rebase main

  • Push your branch to GitHub:

    git push origin transmographier

Merging your Existing GitHub Projects with this Repository

If the snippet you wish to contribute is stored in your own GitHub repository, you can use the following steps to merge it with this repository:

  • Fork the powerplatform-snippets repository from GitHub

  • Create a local git repository

    md powerplatform-snippets
cd powerplatform-snippets
git init

  • Pull your forked copy of powerplatform-snippets into your local repository

    git remote add origin https://github.com/yourgitaccount/powerplatform-snippets.git
git pull origin main

  • Pull your other project from GitHub into the samples folder of your local copy of powerplatform-snippets

    git subtree add --prefix=samples/projectname https://github.com/yourgitaccount/projectname.git main

  • Push the changes up to your forked repository

    git push origin main

Signing the CLA

Before we can accept your pull requests you will be asked to sign electronically Contributor License Agreement (CLA), which is a pre-requisite for any contributions all PnP repositories. This will be one-time process, so for any future contributions you will not be asked to re-sign anything. After the CLA has been signed, our PnP core team members will have a look at your submission for a final verification of the submission. Please do not delete your development branch until the submission has been closed.

You can find Microsoft CLA from the following address - https://cla.microsoft.com.

Thank you for your contribution.

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