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Rob Bowman's avatar
Rob Bowman
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 ...
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  • Egor Tsvetkov's avatar
    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.

     

Egor Tsvetkov's avatar
Egor Tsvetkov
Copper Contributor
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.

 

Nigel_Price9911's avatar
Nigel_Price9911
Iron Contributor
Feb 04, 2018

Hi @Egor

 

I think the comments are not held in a list for modern Communications Sites, but in some datastore in the cloud.

 

You can get hold of them using a REST call so :-http://www.vrdmn.com/2017/07/working-with-page-comments-rest-api-in.html  

 

I cannot see any list on my communications site starting with "Comments".  I tried using SharePoint Designer, but no list showed.  I am the Global Administrator on the Tenancy and the site collection administrator as well as the Communications Site Owner.  Are you using Yammer by any chance ? is that why you can see the "Comments" list ? - what am I doing wrong not to get the "Comments" list in my Modern Communications Site ?

 

Regards

 

Nigel

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