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LincolnDeMaris
Microsoft
Feb 10, 2017Use the Quick Links web part to put your content front and center
Don’t bury your lead - put important stuff right up front for your site visitors. The Quick Links web part allows you to add visibility to the most important content you create – with the ability to adjust and curate as you go.
We’re pleased to announce a small but important improvement we’ve made to the Quick Links web part. You can now adjust the image that represents your link inside Quick Links cards. This often-requested update will be available to use in this web part on all modern pages.
Let’s say you’ve been using Quick Links on your modern team site home page to showcase important team resources – it might look something like this:
If you want to swap out the default images with something that's more visually engaging, or more appropriate in the context of your site, find the tile you want to change, and select Edit:
This brings up the edit pane, where you can change the link's title, or its image:
You can upload an image, or use one that's already in your site. You might wind up with something that looks like this:
We hope that this feature will help you create more beautiful, engaging SharePoint sites. As always, we would love to hear your feedback. How can we continue to improve this web part, and all our modern web parts, to best meet your needs now and in the future?
- laurenzCopper Contributor
It would appear quick links are not searchable in hub sites. We have used quicklinks several places across our intranet and now have the problem that if staff do not know the location of the individual link, they are not finding it in search.
- Jo_77Copper ContributorAt some point between 7th June and 10th June 2019, when selecting the Tiles display for Quick Links, the tiles no longer automatically size to the same dimensions when choosing image with text (as shown in the screenshot on this page: https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/use-the-quick-links-web-part-e1df7561-209d-4362-96d4-469f85ab2a82). They look awful when they're all different heights. Is this a bug or a new feature?
- Cuong1977Copper Contributor
Hi there
The quick links web part is a great tool. However what if I want to use the same quick links setup for several different pages. How do I "copy and paste" or reuse a quick link setup? I have several pages which would need the same quick links, but I dont want to edit every single one, every time there is a change.
- troyleriosCopper Contributor
- Cuong1977Copper Contributor
- DonnaGregoryDCCopper Contributor
What image dimensions work best for filmstrip please.
- Robin NilssonBronze ContributorThis page has information on image sizing for lots of different web parts - quick links included.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/image-sizing-and-scaling-in-sharepoint-modern-pages-dc510065-b5a5-4654-bc94-e3ecbbb57d8d
- Larry CaseyBrass Contributor
Microsoft,
Great job on improving Quick Links but I beg of you to fix 1 thing. Please allow us to choose if the link should open in place or new window. As I develop extremely useful User Interfaces for business processes and data collection, Quick Links are the perfect solution for creating buttons etc.
However, Users end up with hundreds of browser windows open because each click of a Quick Link opens a whole new browser window.
- John_Sanders
Microsoft
Thanks for the feedback Larry. The logic should be - link on the same site opens in the same window. Link to another site/domain/etc opens in a new tab. This is the behavior we're trying to consistently create with all our links in modern experiences (going away from author manual choice to a more consistent experience for all users).- jroadcapCopper Contributor
Originally I was able to use the Quick Links Web part to add a link to a folder within the Document Folder. Now I am unable to do so. I can only create a link to a file or a page. What am I doing wrong?
- Jim DuncanIron Contributor
When linking to a Document, for certain file types (e.g. PDF) a default image is selected. Is it possible to change these default images to our own or must we change it manually every time?
- Robert WoodsSteel ContributorCan we make these quick links open in a new window/tab?
- John_Sanders
Microsoft
We actually don't support that option in our modern parts, instead trying to create a more consistent experience across all parts/pages. If the content is on the same site, it opens in the same window. If it's on another site/external/etc. it opens in a new tab.
- Joe FosterCopper Contributor
John,
We have a link in another site that is not opening in a new tab. Any ideas?
- Rachel ArnoldCopper Contributor
Hi, when I change the Quick Links image, the new image is getting enlarged to fit the Quick Links card making the image blurry if I use a small size (68 height) and chops off the top and bottom of the image if I make it bigger (250 width). How can I find the recommended sizes for the Quick Links images? I also tried editing the images with design renditions but it doesn't appear to pulling from those.
- Ivan54Bronze ContributorI just use any square image with at least 200px on each side.
- Jim DuncanIron Contributor
This may be the wrong thread for this, but here goes:
Why is "/?web=1" being added to the end of URLs I paste into Quick Links? In some cases, this is actually breaking the link as the receiving server doesn't know what to do with that parameter or isn't expecting it...
- John_Sanders
Microsoft
Thank you for reporting this issue.
We updated quick links to fix an issue where files were being downloaded to user's machines by appending the parameter "?web=1" (which tells SharePoint to open the files in a web browser).
It looks like we're being a bit aggressive and adding it to all URLs (not only SharePoint URLs).
We'll get this fixed.
- samhegartyCopper Contributor
2 years later and web=1 still isn't fixed. Please bug everyone you can to get this removed John_Sanders as we can't use anchor tags while it's there.
- Ivan54Bronze Contributorno clue. I also sometimes get csf=1
- kmktnnIron Contributor
Did you notice that you cannot use search to find the text of the quick links?
Update April 2019: I was wrong, in fact, the text of the quick links is findable. My conclusion was wrong because I tested with quick links on the home page. In fact, any text or quick links that you add on the home page are not findable with the search box of the site (this is incomprehensible!). However you can find the content of the home page (text + quick links) when you go to the organization level search.
- Vishal SethCopper Contributor
That is just terrible. really? I have the same issue and can confirm your findings kmktnn