Getting started

Quick Start

The SharePoint Customization Analysis Framework (SPCAF) is the “de facto” tool to verify the quality, compliance & governance of customization’s being deployed to your SharePoint on-premises and cloud environments. Catch errors in your SharePoint customization’s throughout the entire development life-cycle before they go live.

Having had a wonderful demo from our Sales department or after subscribing to my rencore plan, you may be thinking well what do I do? The following article is aimed at guiding you through downloading and installing SPCAF Client, applying a license and Authorizing it, Running an analysis and reading the results.

Getting SPCAF onto your System

Following the email sent from our sales team, you will be prompted to go to https://rencore.com/downloads/ to download SPCAF.

Once the installer has been downloaded, follow the details in the following article to install the application:

Once you have SPCAF installed on your system you will need to either sign in with your subscription as detailed in the following article;

The following article will explain how to apply your license key:

Now you have applied your license, in order to remove all Trial Headers from your reports and fully unleash the power of SPCAF you will need to activate your license.

The following article will detail how to activate the license key(s):

Using SPCAF to analyze your projects

Now that SPCAF is completely installed and the license applied and activated, it is time to use its powerful analysis. The following article will explain how to analyze using SPCAF.

After completing the analysis, you will be presented with a summary screen that provides an overview of the analyzed results. You can then review the details of the results. The following article will explain the different sections of the report.

Customizing SPCAF

Now that you know how to run reports and what they mean you create your custom rulesets to analyze the files you wish and create exclusions for the report, suppress Violations on the report, and customize the report, the following articles will guide you through doing this.


Last updated: 10/31/2023