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Following Capability in Modern Sites
We have been getting several questions around the Follow capability now that more modern sites or pages are present on our online environment and also due to the deprecation of newsfeeds. What options do we have now for following a document or following a person in SharePoint Online in Modern Sites? Any insights are appreciated.
- DC_Padur
Microsoft
We already have the ability to "Follow" sites. Look for the "STAR" icon in the top right side of any site. Recently we have introduced a concept of "Save for Later" on the web - its a quick way to collect and get to pages/news. See this post. If you are using the SharePoint mobile app, you can also Save documents for later, on top of pages/news. See this post
You can always manage your Saved items or Followed sites from SharePoint home - the SharePoint landing page when you click on the SharePoint tile in the Suite Nav menu or from Office.com homepage.
At this point, we don't have an ability to "follow" people in the SharePoint modern experiences. Would love to hear about your thoughts on this.
- I missed the "star" in the site ^-^...but you cannot follow documents any more...
- DC_Padur
jcgonzalezmartin wrote:
I missed the "star" in the site ^-^...but you cannot follow documents any more...The gesture on documents, pages, news (leaf nodes basically) is called Save for Later.
- Basically the "Following" feature is not present in the modern UI so no many choices here...but this is not supposed to be a problem bearing in mind that the Graph provide all the signals and information around a user
