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SharePoint Online: Collapsible sections on modern pages
Finally!! Much awaited feature - collapsible sections on #SharePoint modern pages will be released soon
- Collapsible/expandable sections on modern pages
- Show sections in an accordion view or as tabs (future release)
- Roll out begins in early July
More details at: SharePoint: Collapsible sections on modern pages
mayur1719 Yes, rollout date for standard release is extended & Microsoft expects they will complete the rollout of the feature by the end of October 2021.
Check full details/update at the end this blog post: SharePoint: Collapsible sections on modern pages
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- This is amazing. But our message centre post says it's expected to rollout by end of July and the post hasn't been updated and it's mid-August 🧐 We now have people on our tenant who can use the feature but it doesn't display for others. As people are using the section titles it leads to confusion for people that can't view them on published pages. I've opened a support ticket but told "it may take a few months" to fully rollout. Why do Microsoft keep putting out overzealous dates, which keep making it difficult to plan adoption and change activity 😠
- Hi James,
I can understand your frustration, I did some research on it. Microsft rolls out new features under 'Target Release' and upon 'positive feedback' from users, they make the roll-out as 'Standard Release'.
In Office 365, there are three setting options to choose from:
1) Standard Release for everone- Usually this is the default option.
2) Targeted Release for everyone- if this option is chosen, then all the users in your organisation will be part of the new target release under office 365.
3) Target Release for selected users- only selected users will be part of the target release, in this instance Collapsible section.
Note: Sharepoint Admin can change the setting option as per the above three options. However, the Second option 'Target Release for everyone' will have some unprecedented risks.
I hope this was helpful, Let me know your thoughts.Adding to mayur1719's reply,
You can find the Microsoft official documentation related to Standard or Targeted release options at: Set up the Standard or Targeted release options
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- So Collapsible sections have been changed this week so the heading of one now shows as a top level heading only (previously they were out of the headings structure). Anyone know if this was a mistake or if there are plans to allow choice? Pretty unuseable if only top level heading is allowed.
- we just seen this as well today. What in the world is going on? Hope this is not permanent because this looks terrible now.
- We noticed yesterday that all of a sudden the headings of all the collapsible sections are now HUGE, with no option to size them down. It's looks terrible. I really hope it doesn't stay that way. It would be great if we could choose the heading style/size.
richardmeehan rnelson25 Rie0205 jecradk AGoneau
I have observed font changes as well & unfortunately there are no settings to control font size from section settings. But, arrow is on same line as headings for me.
I think this is a bug in recent release from Microsoft & it will be fixed in upcoming releases.
You can try raising support ticket with Microsoft & suggest to make it as it was before. Hope Microsoft will fix this in next updates.
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Hello, I finally saw this feature being available on our end, but it was rather disappointing to find out that it is broken. When I choose 'Left' for the collapsable icon position, it appears on the top of the heading text. When I choose 'Right' for it, it appears on the bottom of the heading text... Does anyone see this? What is going on?
Same thing happening here.. ahhhh Rie0205 all this time waiting for this and still! Come on dear partners.. clean this up please!
Do you know if there is a way to expand a section by URL?
I have a page (like an FAQ page) with many sections which are by default collapsed. In some cases Users will reach this page with a link and then a special section should be directly expanded. Is there a way to do it in the URL (sites/faq.aspx#MySection3 with an additional paramter for expanding?)ganeshsanapThanks for your great page you linked. I didn't found the answer to my question there - but much other great inputs.
HeinrichSchwarz I have tried this scenario before & it does not work. Unfortunately, I have not found any query string parameter for this.
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- Add a Text with header format in the section. Sharepoint will give this header a page anchor automatically. Link to this page anchor via URL. The section will now be expanded.
StevenNeele
that's not true. At least not in my case. The anchor might jump to the correct point in the page but it won't expand the accordion (which it should!)Sorry I see now.. the solution is to add another heading below the collapsible section heading as a h2. How clunky (but does work).
The simpler solution would be for MS to fix this as you now have to have two titles for a section!Also, because my sections have a file viewer embedded it takes 5 seconds for the accordions to open when linked from an anchor tag. Real poor User Experience.
- The feature to "Show divider line between sections" is no longer working. The toggle seems to be disabled. Is this a known issue?
- Same for me, divider function not working. Do we have any idea on when tabs will be available?
I too have noticed this issue. I am not able to toggle the divider option. I guess we have to wait until these features are fully released to all SharePoint online tenants (standard release).
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Stewart Foss I have the same problem. Interestingly, any section that I added previously with a divider line won't let me turn the line off. Any new sections won't let me turn the divider line on. Certainly hope this is fixed by "late September." I won't bother checking it until the third week in October.
- Why is this visible to admins only and not end users? We are all on the same tenant and same page but my users cannot see the sections. We are using Edge.
PamKaiser-Rabobank, I am guessing your organization is using targeted release for selected users (admins) only & that's why it is not visible to all users in your tenant.
So, you have to either enable targeted release for all users in your tenant OR wait until this feature is generally available (GA) / standard release to all SharePoint online tenants.
For updates release timelines, check this thread: SharePoint: Collapsible sections on modern pages
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- Loving the accordion sections for the one column sections! Would it be possible to also apply this feature to individual columns within the section at some point? Possibly add the option to the regular text box Web Part rather than to a section?
M365Specialist That would be a great addition to collapsible sections feature. You can suggest these ideas to Microsoft via SharePoint feedback portal at: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/06735c62-321c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472
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ganeshsanap Is there a delay in roll-out as initially it was planned in early July?
mayur1719 This feature is already started rolling out to the targeted release tenants. After rolling out to targeted release tenants, Microsoft will roll out to standard release tenants.
Usually such features are rolled out gradually to all the SharePoint tenants (based on region & many other factors I believe). You have to wait until it shows up on your tenant/environment.
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- It can take several weeks for features to arrive in all tenants. They are rolled out to targeted release customers first and there will also be a difference depending on your region.
- Great but I am not yet impressed...wish it could be applied to one section in a two-column page. Secondly, I don't see the tabs option per "You’ll have the ability to show page sections in an accordion view (collapsed or expanded) or as tabs. The accordion view will be collapsed by default, but can be set to show expanded."
Callistus Microsoft is rolling out the accordion view with the current release & tabs will be rolled out with future release.
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- I probably missed it, but is there any word on the Tabs feature? Is this still in the roadmap? or is the new lists tab (views displaying as tabs on the modern list) that feature? Because back in the day, that was not what the ask was...but what Microsoft would say is available in PowerApps, the Tabbed form for lists.
Still awaiting with great anticipation the collapsible sections - any update until it will be released within our company?
Katharina1408 Rollout of collapsible sections feature is completed for Targeted release tenants and it is expected to be complete for Standard release in late September.
Check difference between Standard or Targeted release options in Microsoft 365.
For more details about collapsible sections feature & it's release timeline, follow this thread: SharePoint: Collapsible sections on modern pages
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