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Too many issues with Groups and SharePoint backing site
I'm testing out the new Groups with SharePoint backing site concept and the strange thing is that I see Files, Notebook, 'Shared with us' and 'Recycle bin' in the left side navigation but I don't see any pages.
If I click on the cog at the top right then click Add Page I get a new interface for page creation that I haven't seen before (looks somewhat like Sway), but okay that's fine. I add a title and some text below it then click Publish.
Issues:
- Once I navigate away from the page it's gone, I have no way to get back to it.
- I tried to add a Document section to the page but it won't take PDF, only Microsoft Office document extensions by the looks of it
- I tried uploading a PDF, it uploaded then promptly disappeared. If I go back to files though, it's there, but you can't add it to a page.
- When I click publish the page shows along with the content I added to it, but when I click on Files in the left side menu... nothing. There's no pages at all!
- I click on the Cog at the top right of the screen and choose Site Contents... it just takes me back to the Files page.
- I do the same again but choose site settings, same result
- The group site itself has been added at the root of /sites/ which means I have no control of the information archticture of my SharePoint Online instance because it should have been created as part of my /Customers/ site collection but I just didn't have that choice.
- If I click on Conversations it launches me into a new tab redirecting me to Outlook online...?
- I added a Yammer section to a page with a link to a particular external Yammer group I created for this group. The Yammer plugin/add-in shows with a login button which when I click it opens up a popup followed immediately by a dialog asking me to allow the browser to close the window.
- I click on members, it jumpts out to Outlook?
This is a feature I was rather looking forward to, but I must say this is the single worst Office 365 user experience I've had so far.
3 Replies
What you are experiencing is due to the fact that Microsoft is working on a new user experience that is not finished yet so there are still many functional gaps and issues that has to be filled and fixed
- Jacques van der HovenIron Contributor
jcgonzalezmartin thanks for that. But this seems a bit beyond gaps and issues, this is hardly beta material. I'll hold off on using it until it's ready. Do you have any idea on an ETA for this?
- You can expect to have some news around this at Ignite next week