Forum Discussion
Reusable Modern Web Parts (shared between pages)
I feel there's a necessary component missing from SharePoint's modern layout: Reusable/Shared web parts. Maybe there's another approach (driven by lists?) that I'm not fully thinking through.
Desire: A Quick Links (or similar) section on multiple pages. When I update it once, I'd like it to update for all.
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kduck Yes, this is a needed feature for SharePoint. All other mature CMS platforms allow you to do this easily. I should be able to use a standard, existing web part, fill it with content and customize, then make it useable anywhere on my site. This is standard practice for other CMS systems AND web programming in general.
- There is a strong business case for this need. Not only will it avoid errors when updating in one location and accidentally missing another, it will be a HUGE time saver at the time of building the web part itself. Build once, and re-use on other site pages when necessary.
- This is ridiculous that I can't create a reusable web part. Just as simple as wanting to use the same QuickLinks webpart on the same 10 pages as a menu of sorts. But I have to maintain the links separately 10 times?
- I do agree this is an area that it would be great to see improved by Microsoft, essentially we just want to copy the configuration of a webpart (link items + styling config) and same to a central "saved webparts" list where we can select from rather than the default config. One day maybe, only option currently is SPFx dev, PnP Search Webpart of a Formatted List View
kduck Great Idea.
There are a few community driven web parts that are list driven. So that when you make changes to the list, it will be reflected in the links web part.
The one I like is the Hub and Link Web parts https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-solutions/tree/master/solutions/LinksAndHandlebarsTemplate
You can upload the hub-web-parts.sppkg file to your app catalog to start using.- Cross-referencing to different forum. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/801629/reusable-content-block-strategies-in-sharepoint-mo.html
- PnP Modern Search web parts are great for this and very customisable - though will required digging into formatting code to get customised looks.
Essentially point the search at a list with all the content and format as you wish. You can even put in smarts to only show specific items depending on page/user metadata
