Oct 24 2017 01:32 PM
RE: Using a Modern Communication site as an Intranet Home Page
I think I would like to have two "Pages" areas in one Modern Communication Site. One area will be to store News articles, and the second area will be for Intranet Pages.
I know that I can co-mingle these two types of pages in the one "Pages" area, but it just feels like I should keep them separate because a) they serve two completely different purposes, b) so I can reveal them in a variety of places using the Highlighted Content web part & not have the wrong thing appear, and c) for housekeeping purposes.
I know could add a metadata column and flag each page with a tag of either "news" or "page," but that would be an extra step for a contributor to have to go through, and may or may not happen.
The other issue is that it doesn't appear that I can actually add a second pages area to a Communication Site.
SharePoint Product Team, can you provide some guidance on this?
@Mark Kashman, @Adam Harmetz, @Sean Squires, @Denise Trabona, @Melissa Torres
Thanks!
Oct 24 2017 02:32 PM
Oct 24 2017 07:10 PM
Oct 24 2017 10:42 PM
Beth
There is a 'work around' that will need testing specifically in the communications site because Microsoft have included so many restrictions to ensure it can be developed further.
But on other sites you can create document libraries and add the Site Page content type. As I said this will have some restrictions but if you are looking for users to create pages in a specific location (like within the new library) and for a page to manually display them (as in a hero web part) then this might work for you.
SharePoint has become more restrictive in workarounds so that some of the new great features are simpler to use (like create a news article and it just works from a user perspective but only if the site admin wants all pages in one place ;) ) This might do what you want and it is worth a try but do not be surprised if in a specific site type some features seem not to work.
Best of luck...
Steve.
Oct 24 2017 10:56 PM