Introducing new SharePoint news for email feature

Looks great. A few questions if I may please:

1. Can you send the email to distribution/mail-enabled security groups?
2. What is the UX when the user doesn't have rights to send to those groups?
3. Do you plan to offer the option to include Bcc (preventing the reply all with recepients)?
4. Do you plan to offer the option to send from a shared mailbox that the user has access to?

Sara_Cummings 
VesaJuvonen 

Really excited to see this new feature. I have a question, Why the "saved on this site" tab that has all custom page templates is not present when we click new page?
It's present when we click news post but it's not when we click new page!
One more observation is, If we click news post from the news webpart add button, then the "saved on this site" tab is not present. it's really confusing the end user.

1st - New Page

"saved on this site" tab is not present. meaning the user won't be able to choose from the custom saved templates on the site.


2nd New News post from news webpart:

Why "saved on this site" tab is not present. meaning that the user won't be able to choose from the custom saved templates on the site, when he wants to create new news post from the webpart add button.

Question

- any plan to add alternative reply to address to the email?

- any plan to add send from address, so news go from the group/unit email instead of individuals?

- any plan to add prevent forward to prevent information leakage?

- any chance we get a proper print button for pages?

Indeed, a great part of the users are creating new news post from the news web part using +Add News post, but no longer have a chance to choose the organization's customized templates

There is no Saved on this site tab to choose the custom templates from causing concerns to the users

Could this be improved?

Will there be any possibility to switch this new feature off? Our customers in the Nordics are trying to move away from sending everything via email and not promote them in every point 🙂 

As mentioned by Mohammad Amer, this update breaks the widely used flow for using custom templates for pages! This affects our company and all our customers because page templates are used commonly.

Both Page and News Post should give the option to choose from the Saved Templates in the main screen of the popup, otherwise contributors will not be able to use the required templates and cannot continue creating pages!

Sara_Cummings  VesaJuvonen 

My question is also how to turn this off? This update is very confusing to end users as the custom page templates are not visible on the first tab. Also the tab names are in English even though we are using different language on the sp site so there is now two different langugaes shown to users. MS published this announcement Aug 29 and now the feature is already in production so we had no time to inform the end users. 

Sara_Cummings This is a great feature - and I think the video answers most of the questions people have asked. However, one really bad thing that was introduced with this feature is that now the "Saved on this site" templates are hidden behind a tab when they used to be "first" in the list of available templates. From a usability standpoint, this is a really bad change because it adds friction to selecting a template that site owners have carefully created to ensure that users follow organizational recommendations and best practices when creating pages. When page templates were first released, the Microsoft templates were shown "on top" and custom templates were at the bottom. There were enough complaints that the position of the two templates were reversed - so custom templates showed up "on top." Now, they are not only not first, but they are hidden! If you are going to change how templates appear to users, at least put organization templates ("Saved on this site") as the first tab, not the second one. It's fine to show the Microsoft templates first if there are no custom templates. It's not OK to show the Microsoft templates first if there are. I hope you will prioritize fixing this because it takes away from an otherwise really nice feature.

• Does forwarding the email cause any loss formatting-wise? - You would need to send the email on to be able to send from another email address.
• Does the news template post automatically show up in the news webparts or do you have to plan to filter it out?
• Can you copy the news template post from site contents to other collections or even just duplicate it to save recreation?
• Can you add existing posts to the email newsletter? - So you can create say a weekly digest?
• Do we really need this? 

   

• Important: Can you remove the posters' identity?

Hi SariSoinoja , I hear you on moving users away from email! We introduced this feature because we want to meet users where they are already used to recieving communications and draw them into the SharePoint ecosystem organically, not because we are trying to increase email usage. We currently do not have an off switch, but are considering adding a site level powershell opt out. Would this address your needs?