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Warning - Modern Pages on Existing (None Microsoft Teams) SharePoint sites - Lots of things broken
Hi all, I've been creating New Site Pages on standard SharePoint sites in order to utilise the Modern pages on our Sites. Everyday at the moment I am discovering more and more issues with usi...
My biggest issue with this is the new News app. I dislike it to the point of wanting to have a serious discussion with the 12 year old that designed it. The interface is awful for standard users. The old team app bought them a familiar interface using the MS Word ribbon. Now they need to understand building pages, not adding in news. The training and support required means we just cannot role this out. Our concepts are anyone can post a new item.
Now add to that the fact that it is pages you are creating, so what permissions are needed, design as a minimum. So we build a great site and then one of the people that is meant to only be adding a news item clicks edit and wonders what all of there funny things are doing on their news item and delete them all.
Very poorly thought through and I hope they never never never repeat ad infinitum) make this the only available option. We need to keep the old news app that worked well for staff that are creating news items.
Hi Mark,
It works for us because the users adding news are also the users who are administrating the pages. Also, a lot more can be achieved on a page than a classic news text box.
If training is a concern, you could perhaps just show users how to add/edit a modern text web part on the page? Separating the articles with a line?
Unfortunately, I do not think there is anything you can do with the permissions issue you mentioned, it's ok for us, but I can see it being an issue for others. If the news pages were located in a folder in the site pages library, that would allow separate permissions to be set between the news articles and the site pages.
It works for us because the users adding news are also the users who are administrating the pages. Also, a lot more can be achieved on a page than a classic news text box.
If training is a concern, you could perhaps just show users how to add/edit a modern text web part on the page? Separating the articles with a line?
Unfortunately, I do not think there is anything you can do with the permissions issue you mentioned, it's ok for us, but I can see it being an issue for others. If the news pages were located in a folder in the site pages library, that would allow separate permissions to be set between the news articles and the site pages.
- Thanks Simon, but I always sell SharePoint as a great communication tool for users that have little to no technical skills. And some small organisations are loving the ability to use this to share ideas and concepts across the team. But there is no way we could let them lose on the new team sites until the security features take into account the end user communities.