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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.

Egor Tsvetkov

Copper Contributor

Feb 08, 2018

Bad news, unfortunately. I created a new O365 trial subscription with latest releases and checked Comments list for Communication and Teams sites (private and public). Everywhere result is the same: no Comments list in SharePoint Designer, Client browser, Graph API or Native SharePoint REST API.

I checked on the customer's tenants: comments list available because target release was not applied.

Looks like, hidden Comments data source is a new feature from MS.

Nigel_Price9911

Iron Contributor

Feb 09, 2018

Thanks Egor Tsvetkov back to the drawing board for trapping Comments.

Meg Simmons
Brass Contributor
Jun 28, 2018
I have experienced the same behavior. Here's a great post that shows how to get them using an API call:
https://www.eliostruyf.com/getting-likes-and-comments-from-modern-pages/
Jonas Björkander
Brass Contributor
Jun 28, 2018
It seems like MS have changed their Comment behavior, at least on Communication sites. I can find OLD comments but when I add new comments, they doesn't show up in the Comments.30017244-8B12-4607-9D41-89A859BD352D list