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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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Jan 27, 2017

Probably not the first web parts my users have been asking for, but it's definitely nice to see some progress.

 

BTW - is there a documented way to get one of these new Modern Pages to be the home page for a Team Site where a web part or wiki page is the current default?  The "make homepage" ribbon control doesn't show up on Modern Pages.

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John_Sanders
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Jan 28, 2017
@Kevin you can use the ... on the "new homepage" from the Site Pages library, assuming you have the correct permissions. The user needs "Manage Web Permissions".

On most of my sites, I have permission and can pick a new page and make it the homepage... but on one of our test sites, I don't see that option in the library. I don't have the right permissions.
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    KevinCrossman
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    Jan 28, 2017

    Thanks all for the replies.

     

    This missing piece for us as of this moment is that we still have Classic set as the default experience (this will be changing soon), so we don't see the "..." control that was referenced because our Site Pages libraries are still in Classic mode. I guess we could enable modern in each particular library today, though as I said we'll be flipping the master switch soon.

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