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Mark-Kashman
Microsoft
MicrosoftROLLING OUT: SharePoint Online team sites + Office 365 Groups & Pages
Today marks the beginning of bringing the full power of SharePoint to Office 365 Groups, with additional benefits to SharePoint Online all up! New and existing groups will get modern team sites, whic...
Dave Cohen (US)Microsoft
MicrosoftHi everyone.
We've now enabled the new Modern Pages experience for 'Selected Users' in our First Release program. Please use this thread for feedback as continue to roll out over the next few weeks. Thanks!
-Dave
Initial Thoughts on Modern Pages -- honestly, they're not that far from prime time and more flexible, as far as content (embed and highlighted content add a great deal of flexibility) than I imagined. The biggest issue for me/us is simply this
- The biggest issue, and it's brought on by the lack of branding capabilities (which I know is coming in the future), is the need to be able to change the background like Delve. I'm sure it's coming, but giving us the ability to add some visual variety between different sites and pages is huge. We'd get over lack of branding options with that simple addition.
- SEARCH? Search IS in the new modern pages for groups so why not in modern teamsite pages yet? Consistency is vital.
- Activity feed should have the option to scroll horizontally with arrows. Show 3 or 4, then move one way or another to see more. Give the option of showing only a specific amount on top of that.
- Any thought to giving us a second column to work with? A right column we can pin content to? I suppose that hinders the slide panel and responsiveness.
- Can't hide "Pages" in the quick launch?
- Global navigation is coming I'm sure, but if it takes a while, give us the ability to add a web part to the TOP of the page. I've never understood why team sites don't, at the very least, give us the option to use managed metadata for global nav as an option. Why should I need publishing on to get a global nav?
Again, that simple addition of being able to add an image to the header would be a big step to easing the lack of branding and customization options as we wait for more robust customization options. Still, very impressive start here. Looking forward to more!
I've been testing the new modern pages and I'm very excited for the potential. However I'm disappointed that the amount of web parts in the toolbox is very limited at this time. When this was demoed during the Future of SharePoint event, https://youtu.be/0NyxhMlIGeA?t=3454 , many awesome web parts where in the toolbox, but I don't have access to very many of those web parts now.
Also in the blog post, it appeared I was going to be able to embed a Yammer group on my modern page easily, but I'm not seeing that option.
How soon will the web part toolbox gain more web part choices?
Below is an example of the web part choices I see in the toolbox.
- John_Sanders
EricDavisTech - We turned on the flight to add the Yammer web part to modern pages. It will be rolling out over the next few days.
Yammer web parts in modern pages sounds great! Are there any documentation available on this?
- John_Sanders
EricDavisTech - thanks for you inquiry. I really appreciate you mentioning this as yammer should be available to you now. I've opened a bug to track this and will reply when we have more info.
We have a pipeline of web parts that we're working on internally, and a number of third parties that are using our SharePoint Framework (in preview) to build solutions that you should have an option to install in the coming weeks/months.
I'd love to know what capabilities you'd like to use, beyond yammer (which you'll have shortly). Care to share a list?
After creating a new Site Collection, I have managed to use the Modern Pages. Created Page and have added 'Highlighted Content' WebPart
This is now showing documents from a completely different Site Collection even when Source is saying this Site. Site has been provisioned under \Sites Container so should not be exposing any data from other sites and, site that these doucments are retrieved from has a completely different Security Group.
- In addition to the above Web Parts being limited, it is very hard to set the New Page on a Group Site unless you directly edit the URL to get to the SitePages Library as, clicking Site Contents always takes you back to the Documents Library. Also, if you add a new Library, it always takes you back to the Documents Library, it does not add the Library currently. Also, it does not seem to function within tradiational SharePoint Sites as yet as, when select ing to add a new page, its giving the old Page Canvas.
Thank you!
I can now create new page using the modern authoring canvas ... Will be testing this arvo.
However, is it expected behavior that I still cannot access 'Site Settings' or ' Site contents' from the cog? (it loop back to the Shared Document Folder)
How will you know if your a selected User?
- Dave Cohen (US)Hi Scott,
When setting up the First Release program for a tenant, admins can choose to enroll their entire tenant, or just select users to the program. Our initial 'ring expansion' is being made available to the latter group, and as we evaluate the release we'll soon expand it to a random subset of tenants enrolled in the program. Over time we'll expand that group until it encompasses the entire First Release program.
Thanks!
Dave- Hi Dave,
Just to confirm my understanding no tenants selecting First Release Full Org will receive Modern Pages initially. Can you explain this more please? I would have thought Full Org would be a default choice. For example, in a test focused tenant it would be useful to test across 'all users' to get a broad sense of the changes. I must admit I was sitting waiting for this. It might be worth updating the original blog to let the FR community know about this approach as I don't recall this rollout method being used before. Thanks.
