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John_Sanders
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Jan 23, 2017

New web parts for your modern communications in SharePoint Online

The SharePoint team is excited to announce we're adding three new web parts to the toolbox when creating team news articles and modern pages: Image gallery Bing maps Quick charts These ne...
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Scott Mckenzie's avatar
Scott Mckenzie
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Jan 23, 2017

No if only they could add Search Parts, and pdate the Content Part to include Lists, we would almost be in a position to use Modern Sites.

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    Mark-Kashman
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    Jan 23, 2017
    Baby steps. The "Highlighted Content" web part is owned by the search team, and this is the first of its kind from a SharePoint Framework pov, aka, it looks great in News/pages, is easy for end users to use, and works on mobile without custom dev when using. More to come in the future, and thanks for the feedback.
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    John_Sanders
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    Jan 23, 2017

    Scott Mckenzie - When you say "No if only they could add Search Parts", we have highlighted content today which is essentially the first iteration of content by search / content by query (CBx) for modern pages, using the SharePOint Framework (SPFx).

     

    We do have on the backlog for it to also support filtering by content in a partiuclar list.

     

    I understand it doesn't do all the myriad of things you could with the previous CBx web parts on classic pages. Do you have a PRI list of things you want after lists?

     

    Thanks

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      Scott Mckenzie
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      Jan 30, 2017

      John it is more the requirement to see content by Custom List Type. Although you have content by Issue / Task etc, these are not Modern List friendly at the moment and, I don't want users flopping between the different views on Modern / Old.

       

      We make extensive use of Custom Lists and this would be of particular use. Also, If there could be some way of seeing CDM Content within that web part as well, that would also be very useful as, we are starting to transition some of our content from lists into CDM and using Flow and PowerApps.

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        John_Sanders
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        Jan 30, 2017

        Scott Mckenzie - Thanks for the clarification. Can you expand on what you'd want to see related to common data model service (CDM) content? Is it only using Flow & PowerApps, or data layer access? 

         

        If you imaging a Flow or PowerApp webpart (since we have them in our backlog as ideas); what would you expect it to do?

         

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      Brent Ellis
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      Jan 23, 2017
      Highlighted content doesn't match the functionality necessary to have display templates and content from across multiple site collections. We've got content tagged all over the place that can be correlated and shown on specific team sites.

      It's ok maybe to replace content search, but not the full fledged search results web part

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