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Header area for Modern Pages
Is there an official post covering the excessive white space in header area. We just started using modern pages across some sites (where the majority are still using pre-defined templates via a governed provisioning process), and users are not happy about this extra white space (complaining about having to scroll unnecessarily). In effect, it's now tagged as a productivity issue, and as a result, we are relunctant to move forward with it.
Seems the white space isn't as priminat on the mobile experience, which is great. Wondering why the UI/UX team chose to do this.
Bottom line. How do we get this fixed?
This is a HUGE issue for us too. Users will not want to move to the modern page as it is.
On the video "An overview of SharePoint communiction sites", they show the new Page authoring updates, including the ability to set a header page with a focus point. Looks pretty slick!
I have seen hundreds of presentations from MS staff since I started working with SPS 2003, and I have do not recall seeing anything from anyone who represented the UI/UX team (:.
I get the impression that SP UI is designed by devs who dabble in UX.
From this page:
Check out the image. No big giant white space on top! This is sneaky, Microsoft.
- I'll post my own workaround, too. I discovered this one while trying to 'convert' some sites from classic to modern. I wanted them to have a page with the homepage layout that doesn't have any banner.
First, go to the Site Pages library and download any of the modern pages. Next, open SP Designer, open Site Pages, then create a new ASPX and edit it in Advanced Mode.
Open up the page you downloaded into a text editor, such as Notepad, and copy everything. Back in Designer, replace the default ASPX code with your modern page code you just copied. Look for "<mso:PageLayoutType" and change it from "Article" to "Home". While you're here, you may see BannerImageURL. It doesn't appear to change anything at this time, so don't bother with it.
Save your page and then open it in a browser and you should have a new 'home' page.
Stephan,
Thanks this worked great.
True, the Modern homepage and Modern Site Pages do have a slighty different design, which can be a little jarring when navigating around. With the homepage in mind I guess we have the extra space allowing for the focus to fall on Team News.
At Ignite 2016 it was mentiond that customisation options for the banner on non-homepage Modern Site Pages would be coming in the future. Unfortunately I don't remember the session ID it was mentioned in...
Hopefully this is something that will come once everything has received at least the first pass of the 'Modern SharePoint' look and feel.
