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Can IC work without SharePoint savvy?
Thanks a lot for taking the time to write this. This list reflects differing mindsets between you and the IC departments in the organizations that I’ve worked for. They have decided that they, during the years, spent to much time on details and they have settled for a good enough approach. They accept the shortcomings in the hope that they will benefit in the long run from using OOTB and they also put focus on not only IC but also the ease of integration when it comes to collaboration and open dialogue.
Right or wrong – We can debate this forever😊
Just some comments on some of your points. Maybe obvious or/and not a fit for you at all
- News ordering and audience targeting. It is possible to have a separate news channel (site) with promoted news. Promoted news are always news links. That is, links to already existing news articles. They can be presented in a separate space on the start page and they can be audience targeted. They are not "disturbed" by the publishing of less important news articles
- When it comes to auto applying audience targeting. We usually use news channels (sites) for different sets of news editors. E.g. News for a location or for an organizational unit. They are then aggregated on to the start page. In these news channels we have news(page) templates and the templates have the audience targeting defined. So when you create a news article in the news channel, the targeting is carried over from the template to the article.
- Theming. The organizations that I work for think that the limitation is great. They can, with colors and images achieve a branded intranet but they do not spend the quite substantial number of hours they used to. Both discussing and then implementing the branding.
- The rest of your points. Not good at all but no showstopper
kvadratmartin Really appreciate the response. We have generally compromised and are delivering a (mostly) OOTB solution. There is definitely an advantage to keeping with an OOTB solution, but I do understand why others may choose a 3rd party solution.
I hadn't realised that you could apply an audience targeting group to a template and it would be auto applied from there. I'd looked for support with this from a few avenues including microsoft and this has never been mention so thank you this is really helpful to know.
Audience targeted templates for news (resulting in audience targeted pages) is the best macro-level feature and has been a huge win for us. We have 32 main high level audiences and they all come to a few main sites on our intranet, and those sites pull in news from a few dozen sites. With the news templates on those source sites “pre-audienced”, it becomes a LOT easier to pull in and organize the news for our users.
Still wish could audience target at a micro level with the text web part (a feature we had available to us more than a decade and a half ago). Grrr…
