Before we begin

This article is for Office 365 SharePoint Environment. Also, make sure you have completed the following steps before you proceed with this article:

Step 1: Open the SharePoint Admin Center


From any location in your Office 365 tenant, click the App Launcher button on the top left:


Choose Admin:


In the side App Launcher menu, scroll down and click Admin Centers:


From the drop-down, choose SharePoint:

 

Step 2: Open the SharePoint App Catalog


Click on Classic features on the left menu section:


Click on Open button under the Apps section:


Click on the App Catalog:


In the next screen, on the side menu, choose Apps for SharePoint:


Step 3: Download latest version of ShortPoint SPFx

  1. Download the latest version of ShortPoint SPFx
  2. Extract the file ShortPoint-SPFx_XXXX.zip
  3. You will find after extracting the file: shortpoint-spfx.sppkg
  4. Upload shortpoint-spfx.sppkg as described in the following step:

Step 4: Upload ShortPoint SPFx to App Catalog



In the pop-up, click Choose Files:





Click OK in the pop-up window:



From your computer, choose the shortpoint-spfx.sppkg file. Press Open:


Press OK:




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After the upload is completed successfully, you will be prompted to deploy the solution. 

Press Deploy. This will enable ShortPoint to download the latest files from our global CDN d2zzvnmppezkx.cloudfront.net:



OR


Make sure you are in classic mode:



After this step is completed, you will see a message on the top highlighted with green, indicated that the upload is completed successfully.


Important: You should see that ShortPoint SPFx is Deployed



If you get the following error that the App was not Deployed:



Then all you have to do is to click on the app and try to Deploy again


To get more help about above deployment error, check out our article.


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