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Iron Contributor

Nov 21, 2017

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Alerts on Comments in Modern Pages?

So now that we are beginning to take advantage of Communications Sites, Modern Pages and News, we are starting to get comments on our pages - which is awesome, but... Nobody knows there are comments ...

Modern Pages

SharePoint Online

Egor Tsvetkov
Dec 29, 2017
Hi Rob,

I had a similar task: send the email notification to the author of the modern page in SharePoint online if the new comment added.

I have done this using MS Flow and MS Graph API because standard SharePoint actions in MS Flow didn't help me.

I've described the solution in https://www.infopulse.com/blog/using-microsoft-graph-api-inside-microsoft-flow-office-365/ on the public blog of my company.

Hope, it helps you.

UPDATE: This solution was implemented for teams site. We found new challenges for brand new communications sites.

Rob Bowman

Iron Contributor

Nov 22, 2017

Deleted first - trust me on this - "Happy Wife, Happy Life", just say that over and over. :) Next, I love that idea, but really trying to find a simple solution for 9000+ users to get alerts on those comments if they want. I like your idea, but...

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Nov 22, 2017

Yeah I messed with it last night and stepped back and thought the same thing. This is going to be a pain for setting up even if you could get it to work lol. This would be easy if it was stored in a list like blog comments used to work!

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Nov 22, 2017
True
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Nov 22, 2017
Yeah, but if the user is created "News" pages, then they have to know how to setup that webpart, think that could be the issue here. If we could setup templates for the pages then it could work :p, but even then that user interface with connector to the powerapp etc. could be ugly.
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Nov 22, 2017
Or create a list and use a powerapp embeded on the page, to capture the comments and flow to alert via email.
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Nov 22, 2017
So here’s a thought. You can easily disable the comments. And it’s a web part page. Maybe something could come up with tapping in a web part onto the page for comments via custom list. Or I guess there is always putting the annocuments on yammer or using that for comments on the page instead. Just thinking outside the box a bit, maybe something like that could work. But then again it’s something the users would have to do each time they create a news article which is no bueno lol.
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Nov 22, 2017
Yeah I agree, I played with the REST API and instantly thought a user is not going to be able to do this. Which means I will need to maintain it ... and that's not going to happen (too busy).

With the drive to modern pages, which I really like, the idea is that anyone can do it, enable enable enable ... free our users from IT of old.