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Chad_V_Kealey
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Sep 04, 2018

Will Modern Pages ever allow "Web Part Connections" (to link related lists)? How about "Filters"?

One of the most powerful and, frankly, underused features in SharePoint (2010 and 2013) was the concept or practice of "connecting" related web parts. We used it ALL the time for things like: A lis...
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Mark-Kashman
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Oct 05, 2018

Beyond the good insights called out in this thread, I wanted to add that we did announce the support of webpart-to-webpart connections coming to SharePoint in Office 365, sometimes referred to as "dynamic data connections." You can review my blog that has a disclosure section about what we shared at MS Ignite 2018: "SharePoint powers teamwork in Office 365 – Ignite 2018 announcements": https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-powers-teamwork-in-Office-365-Ignite-2018/ba-p/255465 (scroll to the "Enhancements to powerful SharePoint web parts and pages" section). Cheers, Mark.

  • Darren Graham's avatar
    Darren Graham
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 23, 2019

    This is welcome news and looking forward to it. Specifically looking forward to more development and customised features which support Visio integration with SharePoint Online. We are looking to embed visio diagrams on modern pages and connect the data in the diagram to other lists and libraries contained within our site..for example a page which contains the file viewer web part of a visio process flow diagram, and a web part showing a document library or highlighted content and as the user clicks on the shapes within the visio web part the document library or highlighted content will filter to only display the documents which correspond to that step (shape) of the process. This would be acheived by shape data values matching the values contained in the document library column. So basically modern versions of send shape data to, highlight. We need more out of the box  customisation options in the file viewer web part edit settings for visio files to select default zoom, default tab, lock pan and zoom etc - would be great to see this type of functionality in the future.

  • Jan_Kostrzewa8's avatar
    Jan_Kostrzewa8
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 07, 2019

    Hello,

     

    is there an update on the availability of this feature? In the SharePoint Roadmap the feature is marked as launched since December 2018. Unfortuniatly I cannot find this feature / active it in our SharePoint environment. 

     

    Kind regards,

     

    Jan

    • Daryl Vogan's avatar
      Daryl Vogan
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 11, 2019

      where do you see this?

      • Luca Bandinelli's avatar
        Luca Bandinelli
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        Jan 11, 2019

        AS part of SPFx 1.7 we released Dynamic Data for General Availability. Details are reported here: SharePoint Framework v1.7 release notes

         

        However it's important to mention that this doesn't mean that now all web parts we ship in the product (we refer those as "first party web parts" as they are developed by Microsoft) automatically expose that capability. 

        1.7 release of SharePoint framework it's a developer release: it means that developers can create web parts that take advantages of Dynamic Data capabilities.

        Web parts developed by Microsoft will start, where make sense, to surface ability to consume or produce signals for Dynamic Data; and that will happen over time.

         

         

        Hope this helps,

        Luca Bandinelli

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