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Jun 05, 2017

Sharepoint Framework Geolocation

I created today a simple webpart that uses the navigation object from the browser to take the current location of the user using coordinates, it works perfectly fine on the browser.   I wanted to d...
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Waldek Mastykarz
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It's a great suggestion but one that I'm afraid you can't do much about yourself. As you've noticed, the SharePoint app would have to have permissions to access location services on your device, and even then the question is if it could relay these permissions to the browser control it uses to display web pages. I'd say it's definitely something for the engineering team to have a look at. Have you considered submitting a UserVoice entry with the idea?

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