Aug 24 2017 06:17 AM
Aug 24 2017 06:17 AM
I need to use the Events web part, and possibly the News web part on my site's home page, which is apparently a classic page. This is a newly provisioned SharePoint site, and if I create a new page, I have access to all of the new web parts. But for some reason the home page is apparently not a "modern" page.
Aug 24 2017 08:44 AM
Aug 24 2017 09:17 AM
I knew I could do that, but I'd already done significant formatting and design on the current home page, it just seems ridiculous that this page works differently.
Aug 24 2017 12:06 PM
To my knowledge, when creating a site in SharePoint, there is not yet a template available that includes a Modern page as the homepage--every site needs to have its homepage moved to a newly created Site Page to gain the Modern experience.
The Modern webparts aren't built to work with the old architecture, and while it's inconvenient that there's not a page transformation process from Classic to Modern aside from a rebuild, it is what it is.
Aug 24 2017 03:07 PM
Dec 24 2017 08:12 PM - edited Dec 24 2017 08:14 PM
Dec 24 2017 08:12 PM - edited Dec 24 2017 08:14 PM
Totally agree. If Msft's argument is that there's a different "architecture" involved then this should have been developed differently so you can transition between old and new. In fact that argument is total bs - the same archaic platform is used and not to make a new front end view compatible with the current one is simply laziness or worse stupidity. I'm so tired of Msft transferring the cost of their poor design sense and amateurish approach onto paying customers. Google - please expedite your Sharepoint alternative so we can finally abandon what is probably the worst software ever made which just gets worse everyday.
Feb 15 2019 08:26 AM
Opening an old thread here.. but have a customer who's root site is Classic and trying to see how we can make this like a Modern site using Modern pages/web parts and the new experience for lists and libraries.
Am I right in saying that the News Web Part won't work on a Modern page within a Classic site.
i've added the news web part and have add some news posts , however they are not appearing in the news web part (even when I have created the News posts directly from the web part) ?
Feb 15 2019 12:03 PM
News works fine in classic site. But you have to create the news off a Modern page using the News web part.
Feb 19 2019 07:31 AM
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