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Deleted
Mar 15, 2018

Add site activity on team site in SharePoint 2016

Hey,

 

I'm not an expert in SharePoint and I'd like to add the site activity on the homepage of my team site.

When you open the site I'd like to see the documents people recently edited.

I have the option to show relevant documents, but I can't find this option for recent documents.

 

I only found how to do this with the new look, but I have the old look (with the tiles).

Can someone help me with this?

 

Thank you!

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  • paulpascha's avatar
    paulpascha
    Bronze Contributor
    Mar 15, 2018

    A Web Part called "Recently Changed Items" exists (under category "Search-Driven Content"). You can insert this Web Part on your page to show recently modified List Items and Documents.

     

    Is this what you're looking for?

     

     

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      Deleted
      Mar 15, 2018

      Oh yeah I founded that too, but then it only shows the pages I recently edited, not specific documents. Or well, the middle one is a document, but when you click on it, it opens in Word not Word Online. Do I have to change something in the settings of the webpart?

       

      It looks like this:

       

       

       

      • paulpascha's avatar
        paulpascha
        Bronze Contributor
        Mar 15, 2018

        The Web Part is search-based. After changing any of your documents it could take a little while for SharePoint's search engine to detect (index) your change and show your recently changed document on-top of this list. "Pages" are considered documents so that's why they also show up. 

         

        If this Web Part queries for  the wrong data you can consider adding a "Content Search" Web Part to the page and configure it with exacly the Search Query you need to retrieve your recent changes.

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