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Integrating Outlook into SharePoint site
- Fairly certain this isn't possible Tim. There are no Outlook webparts for instance available for SharePoint pages. Only possible solution I can think of would be a Flow that took emails to a mailbox and created them as list items, that you then displayed on a SharePoint page. But they wouldn't be 'emails', they'd just be text messges, you'd still need to open Outlook to actually do anything with them. Is there a specific reason someone at your place wants to do this?
Tim HunterWe're no design gurus so we've gone with a fairly vanilla setup (I've attached a screenshot of the top of the homepage if you are interested). We're using modern pages as the base with the standard news posts + yammer for different types of organisation news. Then we use a mix of hero webparts and quick links for different navigation elements. We have links to Forms too so people can notify us of lateness or sickness, or log support calls, that kind of thing.
We've also made our intranet a hub site and associated various other team site collections with it to make it easier for staff to move between the relevant SharePoint sites. Worth checking out if you haven't already.
None of this is rocket science from our side of things, but I've been impressed with how relatively simple it is to make a pretty good looking site. And using modern pages means that the SharePoint mobile app really starts to come into itself as an intranet in your pocket.
Hi Paul,
Thanks for sharing, however, I did not see any attached screenshot.
We are also using some custom apps for Time Off, Incident Reporting, Help Desk; I built all of those in PowerApps custom to our company. So I plan on adding Quick Links or something for those on the SharePoint homepage.
We are also using Modern Pages along with Microsoft Teams Sites for our different departments.
- If you refresh you should see the screenshot, I forgot to add it before I first clicked post.
Your PowerApps sound good, it's something I want to explore more. I'm a big fan of Teams too.Wow! That's a great looking homepage. Are those custom icons you used for the Quick Links or are they included in SharePoint?
So is the top menu bar (IT Support, HR Portal, etc) for Hub Sites?
and the bottom menu bar (Social, Trust Info, etc) the Sharepoint Site Menu?
- Thanks! Those are standard built-in icons that SharePoint makes available. You can control the size and the layout (we've used Large Tiles), and the colour comes from the theme.
Re navigation that's right. The smaller top nav bar comes as soon as you designate a Hub site. We found that gave us the flexibility to move quite a few links (that were for completely other site collections, like IT, HR etc) that were cluttering up our site specific nav bar up to the hub site nav bar and then keep the standard larger nav bar as just for stuff that was Intranet specific. Really handy.