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MicrosoftNew web parts for your modern communications in SharePoint Online
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.
MicrosoftScott 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?
John_Sanders the Common Data Service Data Layer would be the useful part. We have already started using PowerApps and Flow to recreate a new CRM System in house. We do not want to give access to multiple users therefore, the Data Layer exposed within the Content Query whereby we could display latest entries to the app would be ideal.
We were trying to utilize PowerBI to show the CDM however, the service has not reached Canada as yet like so many other O365 offerings / updates.
- Kerem Yuceturk
Hi Scott Mckenzie, to clarify, you want to show some of the entries from a table from CDS in SharePoint using a web part? Is that accurate? This is something we have in long-term plans, but no timelines at the moment.
We also wouldn't do any user permission translations, but I guess that is ok by you? I'm guessing the users viewing the web part would have the permisisons to see the data in question, but maybe not to navigate to the Common Data Service pages directly.
So at the moment, your option would be to build a custom web part that uses CDS APIs to query and display the data, and hopefully longer term, we could do it with an out of box web part that lets you pick a table and add some filters to it, similar to what you can do with a SharePoint list.
Kerem Yuceturk thanks for reply. It would be to show certain entries from CDS Fields. In repspect of permissions, we would be giving access to users based on O365 Groups so translations would not be an issue.
Can the CDS API's currentl by used as an External Data Source within SP Online?
