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SharePoint posts is very limited in supporting Arabic and other Right-to-Left languages. You can't format paragraph as RTL or LTR. you should distinguish between Right-to-Left and Right aligned paragraph, they are totally different thing. This missing feature prevented our company from using lot of SharePoint features.
Some of this concept is also missing or mis-behaving in Microsoft Teams:
- - When you press Ctrl-Right Shift to make the paragraph RTL and (right aligned at the same time) this works fine, but after pressing Enter to start a new paragraph or a new post the new paragraph stay RTL but switches to Left aligned.
- - Formatting RTL bulleted paragraphs is not correct, the bullet placed at the right side of the edit box and the text is placed at the right side of the text.
- - When I want to insert Code in RTL paragraph (the paragraph is right aligned) the code also displayed as right aligned. the correct behaviour is to be displayed as left aligned (code should always be displayed as left aligned and LTR).
I can provide some images and more explanation anytime.
- SharePoint Document Set Question: When I create a document set and I open it in SharePoint 365, I don't see the Welcome Page which I would do in SharePoint on prem. I've added columns to show on the Welcome Page and default content. However, the Customize the Welcome Page option is not there and when I open the document set, it opens like any other folder, without a welcome page. Am I missing a step, or has it changed?
- Have you had a look at this post by Dan Toft : https://twitter.com/tanddant/status/1655456584045043713
- I haven't as yet Kasper, but I will now. Thank you.
- SharePoint Question: When replacing a classic root site with a modern site, does the modern site remain reachable from it's original address? If not, does SharePoint put in a redirect?
- FYI that that the URL you'll use to navigate to the original classic root site (after you replace it with the new modern site) will be: https://<domain>.sharepoint.com/sites/archive-<year>-<month>-<date>T<time>/default.aspx It will use the exact date month year and time that you performed the swap. Example: https://<domain>.sharepoint.com/sites/archive-2023-05-25T235850Z/default.aspx And don't stress if you don't get access to the original classic root site via the new "archive" URL right away. It took 48 hours before the URL worked for me.
- The Replace Site command in the SharePoint admin center (same as PowerShell method but with a GUI) sets the default SharePoint URL to the new site and then appends the legacy URL with /archive****. The files & links no longer work so we always migrate files to the new site for our users. Or better yet - to a Team site based on their function that is connected to their new communication root site via the Hub function.
- Just to clarify, are you saying that when I make the modern site the root site, the files and links aren't migrated?
- Stream Question: When is Stream (Classic retiring) and before it does, will we see the trim capability in Stream (on SharePoint)? Thanks?
- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
All the retirement timelines are on the help docs: https://aka.ms/StreamMigration We are bringing Clipchamp to enterprise for full video editing over this year, watch for announcements. We also have a "soft trim" in Stream itself we are working on but it's a harder project to adapt all the metadata like chapters, transcript, etc. So we don't have a timeline we can share but we are working on both right now.- Thanks Marc. Even the soft trim would be something for now. It sounds like exciting things are to follow though. Looking forward to them.
Teams meeting question: It would be really useful if there was an option when responding to a meeting invitation to specify whether you are attending in person or virtually. This would help meeting organisers plan their refreshments and select the room size more appropriately. Are there any plans to introduce this? Thanks.
Sorry, this question is in the wrong area as it doesn't concern Lists, Stream, OneDrive or SharePoint and I can't delete it.
- EmilyPerina
Community Manager
Hi Karen! This event was only about SharePoint, Lists, OneDrive, and Stream. I would suggest posting in the Team Discussion space to get an answer - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/bd-p/MicrosoftTeams- Thanks Emily. I realised that after I posted it and couldn't delete it, so I edited it to apologise for posting in the wrong place. I'll post it in the right area.
- One of the largest SP headaches I have is when designing 'secure' sites for very large clients, the Site Owner is also the administrator (not Site Admin) in the sense that they need to manage and report on the site. Sites are set -up correctly; no individual members, all members are assigned to groups however, outside of PowerShell there is no easy way to report on the membership of the groups - which is usually a DISO/CISO requirement BUT only SharePoint Site Admin have the authority to run PowerShell and they are effectively 'air gapped' from Site Owners. I have, kind of, worked round this using very complex Power Automate scripts but these are way beyond the capabilities of most of the teams (usually PMOs) that are left in charge. Surely, there must be a simple means to report across and co-ordinate members of the Groups within a site?
- I have 4 questions here, hope to get the solutions... 1. Once we created item in excel, can we auto move to list? How can we do it? 2. Can we use the formula from excel to the list? 3. For the Sharepoint, why we cannot vlookup from the column choice, currency, multiple lines of text from another list? 4. How can we do a vlookup from Site 1 to Site 2?
- 1. No. We don't have bi-directional support from an Excel sheet back to a list. 2. Not in the list. But you can export from a list into Excel and then apply formula; including ability to refresh data if you reuse the Excel. But again, you can't put data back to list from Excel. 3. You can lookup information from list to list if the lists reside in the same site collection. And the team is working to enable lookup of additional column types in the future. 4. Yo would need to use Power Automate to lookup and take action across lists, across sites: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/security/connect-data-sources Thanks for your feedback and time in joining the AMA. - Mark
- For the SharePoint team: Is there any chance of ever seeing SharePoint file metadata (custom properties) visible from File Explorer and/or Finder? A LOT of my clients rarely use the web apps and only access their files from the the desktop, so they do not get to benefit from custom properties.
- Regarding the Lists web app, when can we expect to see improvements to the landing page? It hasn't changed since Lists launched in 2020 and is in need of attention. I'd love to see the next iteration modeled after the Excel Online landing page (in Office.com). Large icons to create new lists from a template, a table of recently modified lists, filter pills, keyword search, etc. I would also like to have the ability to see ALL of my private and shared lists in one view.
- Hi Alex. Can you review the answer I provided to a similar question? https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint-events/tech-community-live-ama-for-sharepoint-onedrive-lists-and-stream/ec-p/3848103#M477 Thanks for your feedback and time in joining the AMA. - Mark
- Lists on iOS - is there a way the list admins can optimize the user experience to reduce long sync times?
- At this point, no. The sync time mostly depends on the individuals connection from their device. We do a lot to optimize calls back and forth to the service, but there is no admin control that would help, beyond optimizing the overall network connection between our service and end user. Thanks for your feedback and time in joining the AMA. - Mark
