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Jacques van der Hoven
Sep 22, 2016Iron Contributor
Too many issues with Groups and SharePoint backing site
I'm testing out the new Groups with SharePoint backing site concept and the strange thing is that I see Files, Notebook, 'Shared with us' and 'Recycle bin' in the left side navigation but I don't see any pages.
If I click on the cog at the top right then click Add Page I get a new interface for page creation that I haven't seen before (looks somewhat like Sway), but okay that's fine. I add a title and some text below it then click Publish.
Issues:
- Once I navigate away from the page it's gone, I have no way to get back to it.
- I tried to add a Document section to the page but it won't take PDF, only Microsoft Office document extensions by the looks of it
- I tried uploading a PDF, it uploaded then promptly disappeared. If I go back to files though, it's there, but you can't add it to a page.
- When I click publish the page shows along with the content I added to it, but when I click on Files in the left side menu... nothing. There's no pages at all!
- I click on the Cog at the top right of the screen and choose Site Contents... it just takes me back to the Files page.
- I do the same again but choose site settings, same result
- The group site itself has been added at the root of /sites/ which means I have no control of the information archticture of my SharePoint Online instance because it should have been created as part of my /Customers/ site collection but I just didn't have that choice.
- If I click on Conversations it launches me into a new tab redirecting me to Outlook online...?
- I added a Yammer section to a page with a link to a particular external Yammer group I created for this group. The Yammer plugin/add-in shows with a login button which when I click it opens up a popup followed immediately by a dialog asking me to allow the browser to close the window.
- I click on members, it jumpts out to Outlook?
This is a feature I was rather looking forward to, but I must say this is the single worst Office 365 user experience I've had so far.
What you are experiencing is due to the fact that Microsoft is working on a new user experience that is not finished yet so there are still many functional gaps and issues that has to be filled and fixed
- Jacques van der HovenIron Contributor
jcgonzalezmartin thanks for that. But this seems a bit beyond gaps and issues, this is hardly beta material. I'll hold off on using it until it's ready. Do you have any idea on an ETA for this?
- You can expect to have some news around this at Ignite next week