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MicrosoftNew web parts for your modern communications in SharePoint Online
Can't wait to find out tomorrow morning if we're in the 10% group (we're usually not :( ).
I've been waiting for a gallery web part ever since the future of sharepoint announcement! :)
Is this a upload-only web part, or can a create I "collection" of photos out of an existing image/document library?
Also it would be awesome if you could improve PDF support in your existing web parts. We have a lot of blurred PDF previews with the Quick Links webpart and the document webpart doesn't support PDFs, which it should (since you could enable office web apps server to view pdfs with office online in sharepoint 2013 back then ;) )
- John_Sanders
Ivan54 You can select images from your site or upload them. We don't at the moment have a way to point at a folder or list and say "use these images" as a gallery, but it's one of the ideas in our backlog for potential v.next next implementations.
We have on our backlog to enable PDFs in the document web part, but it isn't something we're actively working on.
Thanks for the feedback.
Cool, thanks for the input. As guessed, we're not in the 10% :P Is there anyway to get into that group or do you randomly select 10% every time for each rollout?
Some additonal input on the document webpart. Right now you can't easly show Office documents with the document webpart when the document is in a document set. The documents might show up on recently used, but browsing a document library (with the document webpart) with document sets shows nothing at the moment.
- John_Sanders
Ivan54 - Thanks for the tip on document sets not showing up in the file picker to select; we'll take a look at that.
John_Sanders wrote:Ivan54 You can select images from your site or upload them. We don't at the moment have a way to point at a folder or list and say "use these images" as a gallery, but it's one of the ideas in our backlog for potential v.next next implementations.
Where do the uploaded images actually "go"?
All the manual work of curating the images seems like it would be easily addressed by having the "point at a folder", then leverage SharePoint library for content management (which is quite a novel idea if I do say so myself :smileytongue:). So hopefully that comes sooner rather than later.
- John_Sanders
Brent Ellis while it's certainly powerful to enable pointing image gallery at a library or list, is also complicates the simple scenario of "I want to throw the five pictures I took during the trip into my trip report" scenario. That's the kind of scenario we initially optimized for.
We create a folder in the site assets library for each instance of image gallery, per page.
I totally see the value of the list & library scenario; we just wanted to keep it simple initially for easy content creation.
Thanks
