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John_Sanders
Microsoft
Sep 09, 2016
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.
- Morten Myrstad
  Iron Contributor
  Sep 10, 2016
  Yammer web parts in modern pages sounds great! Are there any documentation available on this?
  - John_Sanders
    Microsoft
    Sep 10, 2016
    We'll have help pages up soon, but hopefully for this webpart you won't need them.
    
    We leverage the yammer embed API. You'll copy and paste in the URL of the yammer feed you want embedded (we support a few different types - home, topic, person, etc.)
    
    The webpart will validate the feed & type and put it on the page.
    
    The only other parameter you set is how large (vertically) you want the embed to be.
    
    It's rolling out now, so let me know if you have any questions when you see it.
John_Sanders
Microsoft
Sep 08, 2016
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?
- Scott Mckenzie
  Iron Contributor
  Sep 08, 2016
  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.
  - John_Sanders
    Microsoft
    Sep 08, 2016
    Scott Mckenzie - Thanks for the report. We need a bit more information to better understand the issue. I sent you a message.
Scott Mckenzie
Iron Contributor
Sep 08, 2016
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.
Azam Javaid
Copper Contributor
Sep 08, 2016
Hi

I've also had a quick play with the modern pages and can see the potential of this being a great new feature. I have some initial feedback (Is there a specific site where I should be adding this?):

- Can't set the new page as the default homepage - error "Could not set this page as your homepage. Please try later". Have tried several times
- The width of the content seems to the fixed
- I can't select a specific content type for documents to display in a page
- Even though the I have set the option "Show this many items at a time" to 10 I only see 6 - maybe it needs more time to index. Also I would expect to see a paging option here
- As (I think) has already been mentioned I'd like to be able to add my own banner at the top of the page as well as being able to resize it as it takes up quite a bit of height
- General abaility to change the look and feel of items e.g. Quick Links, etc.

Overall I think this is a great new feature and the right direction for SharePoint so well done. I am looking forward to seeing further enhancements.

Thanks
- John_Sanders
  Microsoft
  Sep 10, 2016
  Azam Javaid - We're wokring on continuous updates to Highlighted content. So I appreciate you taking the time to let us know what you'd like to use it for. One of the things at the top of the list is to allow limiting by document type.
  
  We debated the verbiage on that setting "Show this many items at a time" as it really should say "Show no more than this many items at a time". If there are only 6 documents that match the options selected, only six will show.
  
  As for pagination, thanks for the suggestion. Our inital thought was to only "highlight" however many items you want to show on the page (e.g. 10), allowing you to tune the query to show only the most relevant items, and specifically NOT show the long tail of results.
  
  So we're working on ways for you to more accurately tune qhat content you display, and how you display it, over showing more results.
  
  We have pagination in the backlog of things to think about in the future...but would love to know your specific scenario.
  
  Thanks!
  - Azam Javaid
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 10, 2016
    Hi John
    
    Many thanks for the feedback. I am looking forward to the enhancements and features.
    
    Thanks
    Azam
- Dave Cohen (US)
  Microsoft
  Sep 08, 2016
  Hi Azam, thanks for the feedback.
  
  - We're investigating the 'set as homepage' error you're seeing. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
  - The column width is fixed. We're working on different layout options within that width, and we'll also consider your feedback about the fixed nature of it.
  - For setting a specific content type, do you mean within the Highlighted Contents web part?
  - Good feedback on paging. Indexing latency does apply, but can you share how recently those items that you expect were created?
  - Feedback heard on branding and theming. We'll be able to share more here in the future.
  - Again, good feedback.
  - Azam Javaid
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 09, 2016
    Hi Dave
    
    Thanks for responding.
    
    Yes I am referring to the Hightlighted Contents web part. Very simply I can choose Documents, Pages, Videos, etc. But I cannot choose a specific content type, similar to a Content Search Web Part. For example I may only want to show Policies or Procedures.
    
    I also checked the number of documents displayed and it is still at 6. So there seems to a limit even though you can enter more than 6 in the "Show this many items at a time" box. And yes the paging would be good, similar to the CSWP, in that X documents are displayed but a paging can be used to show more.
    
    Thanks again. Like I said I think this is great especially as it is also responsive. Quite timely actually as I have a client who was looking for something like this but with a bit more branding. So I can tell them that it's coming soon.
    
    Final point, I assume we can start using this create pages which may become production pages/sites in the coming weeks/months?
    
    Thanks
    Azam

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