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Marcel Haas
Brass Contributor
Apr 03, 2017

Configuration Section "Display Map" of modern WebPart "Highlighted Content" is gone

In the beginning of March, some other community ppl and me, noticed that the Highlighted Content WebPart got a new configuration section "Display Map". It allowed us to map custom managed metadata properties  to the existing content placeholders in the card template.

 

Yesterday, I wanted to continue to build a customer workspace and sadly discovered, that it was removed. Existing and already configured WebParts, still show the custom values, but I can't change them anymore. For the ones who understood what to do with it, this was a very important piece of functionality. It was similar to Search Display Templates, just with the limitation that the design markup couldn't be changed. In my opinion this wasn't important, then the Office Fabric Component (React) provides us with a very nice and responsive component design.

 

 

Any idea why it disappeared and if it will come back in this or another form?

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  • Bastiaan Kortenbout's avatar
    Bastiaan Kortenbout
    Brass Contributor
    Oct 13, 2017

    Do you still have the pages available where you configured this? If you open it with SharePoint Designer, you can view the content of the page. The JSON is escaped, so it is difficult to read. When I look at my page in SPD, and remove escaping characters, I can see how the webpart is configured. If you share how "Display maps" was initially configured on your environment, possibily we can reproduce this functionality by manipulating the page through SPD.


    See example below how filters on a Highlighted content webpart are stored on the page.

    filters":[{"filterType":6,"value":"STS_Site","op":1,"fieldNameMatchText":"Contentcl","lastFieldNameMatchText":"Contentcl","fieldname":"ContentClass"},{"filterType":6,"value":"/sites/","op":3,"fieldNameMatchText":"Pat","lastFieldNameMatchText":"Pat","fieldname":"Path"},{"filterType":6,"value":"GROUP","op":1,"fieldNameMatchText":"WebTemplate","lastFieldNameMatchText":"WebTemplate","fieldname":"WebTemplate"}]

     

    This website allows you to easily unescape HTML.

    https://www.danstools.com/html-escape-unescape/

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