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New "Site Pages" feature in O365 Team Sites conflicting with Publishing feature
I want to use audience targeting of Quick Links menu item on a Modern Team Site. Audience targeting is dependant on the Publishing feature.
I can activate the Publishing feature on Modern Team Sites, but this article says it's "not supported" ...
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/pnp_articles/modern-experience-customizations-customize-sites
So where are we up to with this, please?
Can we activate the Publishing feature in Modern Team Sites but it's not supported? Or is it supported now and the article is out of date?
MicrosoftHey Lawrence,
That article is still up to date. Unfortunately, activating Publishing is all-or-nothing, and while it gives you audience targeting it also creates some undesirable behaviors in other parts of the site, so we are not supporting customers getting into this state. We haven't made a hard block in code, largely due to feedback in this thread, and we are still considering options to better communicate our support while avoiding any customer pain.
I would suggest requesting an Audience Targeting feature for Quick Links in UserVoice, where we can evaluate adding such a feature to the modern sites in a way that doesn't drag along all of the Publishing feature.
I hope this helps!
--Matt
Thank you for the speedy response.
I might have introduced some confusion, btw, when I said "Quick Links" when I meant "Quick Launch" menu, Quick Links being a new modern page web part and Quick Launch being the classic left menu.
But I'm guessing your reply might as well equally to both?
What I'm after is a general means of conditionally displaying on-the-page constructs, both page by page and where required on all pages, to supercede the Audience Targeting functionality (if Audience Targeting is going to disappear with the "classic" Publishing feature). SPFX might do this for developers being able to get hold of and conditional info and then fiddle with the page model, but I'm thinking more for power users and site admins.
I'll mark it up in uservoice, if it doesn't already exist there.