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Chris Bill's avatar
Chris Bill
Copper Contributor
Jun 30, 2017

New Communication Sites Layout Issue

The new communication sites look great but we are experiencing an issue with the layout when users only have read permission. The site moves to the right creating a large white space on the left. When logged in as an administrator the site layout is fine.

 

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

  • I'm having issues trying to add a full width hero web part to a page. I managed to do it once, but now can't see the full with column. Is there are trick to this?

    • Sam Gibson's avatar
      Sam Gibson
      Copper Contributor

      Same. Only the main page on Communication Sites has the full-width Hero. In any child pages it sits in a column.

  • Warwick Ward's avatar
    Warwick Ward
    Bronze Contributor
    Just tested on a site that used to work fine for me and now it's broken also, I'm in First Release and have all the permissions, so this must be a bug in the deployment
    • Benoit Fournier's avatar
      Benoit Fournier
      Iron Contributor

      Looks like it has been fixed over the weekend.

       

      All seems fine this morning:

      1. Existing site is displayed correctly;
      2. I can add new web parts;
      3. I can create new communications sites.

      I openned a ticket last thursday, had no resolution / follow-up yet this morning but the service seems back.

    • Brad Hofman's avatar
      Brad Hofman
      Copper Contributor

      Hope so :). I have now lost the ability to create new Communicate Sites too. I am hoping this is due to the new services being pushed GA on our tenant. 

       

  • Warwick Ward's avatar
    Warwick Ward
    Bronze Contributor
    From the look of it, and from the console error it's trying to render the left hand menu like on a Modern Team site, which it shouldn't on the pages of a comms site.
  • Warwick Ward's avatar
    Warwick Ward
    Bronze Contributor

    I am experiencing the same issue.

    From my trouble-shooting it seems like it only effect users who are not in "First Release - Select Users", as I have given users Site Collection Admin and they still get the rendering issue.

     

    Bruno Aleixo from Microsoft say they were investigating it on the post below.

     

    Anonymous-Sharing-not-working-with-Communication-sites

     

    As far I was aware any user should be able to view a comms site, you just need to be in First Release to actually create one from the SharePoint Home Page.

     

    Would really like to know what's going on...

  • Brad Hofman's avatar
    Brad Hofman
    Copper Contributor

    I have similar. though for me its everybody. Image below. Very Frustrating as it was working fine.

    • Benoit Fournier's avatar
      Benoit Fournier
      Iron Contributor

      I have the same display issue and, above that, we cannot add the new web parts for an existing sites nor can we create a new communication site.

       

      Mark-Kashman is there an issue with the service?

       

      It does that with a least 2 of our first realease users. It was working fine last week.

       

       

       

      Thanks

      • Melody Shults's avatar
        Melody Shults
        Brass Contributor

        With News you can only have 1 news webpart per site collection. Meaning parent and all subsite share 1 news webpart.

         

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