Collaboration Silos
Traditionally, our collaboration tools have been divided into silos based on the mode of communication. In the Microsoft space, we've used Outlook and Exchange for persisten...
Updated Apr 30, 2021
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Dear Everybody,
I am in the middle of a project with Teams and SharePoint.
The tools will be used for an international IT-community with around 900 people and as a long year SharePoint Consultant I am in the lead of this project from a technical view.
We started with a SharePoint Communication Site and the News were posted as News Pages. Then the client decided that the comments and likes can be only seen, when you click on the news page, so we added teams to the functionality (Short form, of course this was a longer decision and communication process in the project) for more lightweight communication. The idea is to use News Pages for structured News Items and Chat in Teams for non-structured, lightweight conversations. Now we embed the SharePoint Homepage of the TeamSite as a Tab to the Teams General Channel. The problem is: it shows all the News Items in the News WebPart BUT ALSO it shows the "Add" Button. Now, when you click on the Add-Button you will be led to a News Page and you can type the Title and the content of your News Page BUT.... There is no Save Button! When you then click the icon to "watch in Browser", your News Page will be gone....
So, any ideas what I can tell the client here? Or is the answer: the members of the team need to know they should not click the "Add"-Button from the Teams-Tab, as the functionality buttons are missing when the Page is opened?
Will there be any updates regarding this? Is there any configuration I can do to make this more intuitive for the users?
I would really appreciate your thoughts.
Kind Regards