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Customizing the "modern" experiences in SharePoint Online - your opinion?
Vesa wrote:
► thx @Oliver Zeiser for starting this thread. We are absolutely interested on input around this. Would like to also point out that whatever is currently supported from customization perspective, is just a start and more capabilities will be supported gradually when those are finalized and ready to get published.
We would though absolutely be interested on hearing what are the key missing capabilities currently and other input around the questions what Oliver pointed out.
Your input truly matters, so thx for everyone's feedback and comments advance.
C'mon Vesa, you are turning into a shepherd who's sole Microsoft job it is to keep the flock at ease.
Your response is straight from the Community Manager 101 Textbook, chapter "How to silence threads"
You very well know what everyone wants to customize, you have been in this game for years.
You also know about Oliviers UserVoice post, so this reply here is kinda stupid to all those who are watching these threads.
https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/13385364-allow-javascript-customization-and-css-branding-th
MicrosoftThx Danny for the feedback. Let's be clear on few things.
- We are absolutely aware of the generic scenarios what we need to support
- We are working on enabling these in the modern experiences, like mentioned in the MSDN documentation and in Ignite presentations - we simply do not have infinite resources, so things happen gradually and input always helps on prioritizing which scenarios will be implemented first, since we no longer wait two-three years on showing new capabilities - and I think this is great
- I do not see any harm on asking scenario input from the community - maybe someone has missed the previous UserVoice entry or the discussion, so getting more input on the functional scenarios can't cause harm
- We absolutely understand that frustration around missing capabilities and team is working hard to address these gradually as fast as we can
We absolutely take community input into account around the new experiences, since we want to ensure that existing customers and partners benefit from the new capabilities. We do however release capabilities now gradually, which no doubt causes challenges to follow up on what's exactly supported and when you can enable your required scenarios.
I'd encourige people to evaluate modern experiences and take them into use, when needed capabilities and customization options are available. Each deployment has slightly different requirements, so this is definitely not black and white decision. We do highly value constructive feedback and try to align on the input we get from the field. We also understand that it might seem that it takes too long every now and then, but everyone from MS side is working hard to ensure that modern experiences will also support needed scenarios.
thx for your input.