Scripting Settings In SharePoint Online

SharePoint provides one of the ability to authorized users to change the look and feel of the page / site, access and modify SharePoint objects based on the requirements. Now a days, SharePoint Online come with disabled custom scripting.

Due to this disabled feature, the users are not allowed to change the look and feel of the page by client side without using SharePoint Designer or other tools.

Custom Scripting feature is disabled by default to the following items,

• Personal Sites
• Self-Service created sites
• Root Site Collection of the Tenant

Default Script settings in SharePoint Online under SharePoint admin center,



The following site settings will not be available, if the Scripting is disabled.

Site feature	Behaviour	Notes
Save Site as Template	No longer available in Site Settings.	You can still build sites from templates created before scripting was disabled.
Save document library as template	No longer available in Library Settings.	You can still build document libraries from templates created before scripting was disabled.
Solution Gallery	No longer available in Site Settings.	You can still use solutions created before scripting was disabled.
Theme Gallery	No longer available in Site Settings.	You can still use themes created before scripting was disabled.
Help Settings	No longer available in Site Settings.	You can still access help file collections available before scripting was disabled.
HTML Field Security	No longer available in Library Settings.	You can still use HTML field security that you set up before scripting was disabled.
Sandbox solutions Solution	Gallery will not appear in the Site Settings so you can’t add, manage, or upgrade sandbox solutions.	You can still run sandbox solutions that were deployed before scripting was disabled.
SharePoint Designer	Site Pages: No longer able to update web pages that are not HTML. Handling List: Create Form and Custom Action will no longer work. Subsites: New Subsite and Delete Site redirect to the Site Settings page in the browser. Data Sources: Properties button is no longer available.	You can still open data sources.
Uploading an ASPX file to a document library	No longer available in document libraries.	ASPX files that are in the library already are not impacted.

The following web parts / features will not be available, if the scripting is disabled.

Web part category	Web part
Blog	Blog Archives Blog Notifications Blog Tools
Business Data	Business Data Actions Business Data Item Business Data Item Builder Business Data List Business Data Related List Excel Web Access Indicator Details Status List Visio Web Access
Community	About This Community Join My Membership Tools What’s Happening
Content Rollup	Categories Project Summary Relevant Documents RSS Viewer Site Aggregator Sites in Category Term Property Timeline WSRP Viewer XML Viewer
Document Sets	Document Set Contents Document Set Properties
Forms	HTML Form Web Part
Media and Content	Content Editor Script Editor Silverlight Web Part Search Refinement Search Box Search Navigation Search Results
Search-Driven Content	Catalog-Item Reuse
Social Collaboration	Contact Details Note Board Organization Browser Site Feed Tag Cloud User Tasks
Master Page Gallery	Can't create or edit master pages.
Publishing Sites	Can't create or edit master pages and page layouts.

Table Reference.

The above listed features can be enabled by applying the setting under SharePoint Admin Centre in Office 365.

• Log-in to the Office 365 Portal site.
  
  
• Navigate to Office 365 Admin Centre (By clicking on the Admin from the Apps context menu on top left corner)
  
  
  
  
• From the Left side navigating, click the ADMIN, then SharePoint under Office 365 admin center. This will navigate to SharePoint admin center
  
  
  
  
• Click the Settings under SharePoint admin center. This will navigate to Settings page, there we can manage the tenant settings.
  
  
• Under the Custom Script function, select the options as in the following figure,
  
  
  
  
• Click OK. Now the SharePoint online will enable those disabled settings / webparts / features in 24 hrs.

Reference:

• Turn scripting capabilities on or off