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John_Sanders
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Re: Please help! ALL Modern pages impacted | SharePoint spacing issue
The corrected spacing between paragraphs is a fix we implemented to return to previous modern page spacing, fixing a bug we introduced while making a performance improvement in late 2020. At that time, we removed virtually all space between paragraphs, making reading quite difficult for many users. Our design team discovered this issue in late March, and we've been slowly rolling out the bug fix for the last few months. We recently moved to the final phase of the flight roll-out from 50% to 100% WW. Here's is a comparison picture of the current (and previous spacing on modern pages), and the brief time when we had extremely tight spacing introduced by the performance optimization. Example text from Vegan Ipsum - The Vegan Lorem Ipsum Text Generator If the fix somehow introduced some other spacing oddness, we're unaware of, please let us know. The intended fix adds back spacing between all paragraphs. fyi Bruno Aleixo6.2KViews0likes6CommentsRe: Sharepoint Modern events webpart - Where are my custom fields?
Thanks for the suggestions. We don't have any plans in the near term to visualize custom columns on the modern create events page, nor in the card views. We do have these as concepts on our backlog, but haven't been investing in this area recently. If you want to visualize custom metadata columns within a calendar view, you'll likely need to look for a community contributed web part in the near term to meet your needs. However in the future we will deliver a calendar view for lists, which may also meet your needs. No ETA to discuss at this time.15KViews2likes7CommentsRe: Home site on SP + New butt drop down is missing the ability to add list, document library, page, etc
lukevang Only the homepage +New button allows you to create other content libraries (lists, doc libs, apps) within your site. When viewing a given "page" or "news post" your contextual to the content you're currently viewing and therefore you're only able to create a New page (using the templates gallery) or start with a copy of this page/news post. This is similar to document libraries, where the +New button allows you to create folders or documents, but not lists or pages. It's (trying) to be contextually relevant to the area of SharePoint you're in. Sounds like it's confusing you however. Love your feedback on how we could make that more clear. I think it would be equally confusing if all options were available everywhere, but love to hear from you.7.1KViews1like1CommentRe: Modern SharePoint News Subscription
matt howell - today if you select News source = Recommended for current user, we'll pull news for the page viewer. This includes news from people you work with, people in their management chain, and news from sites you follow. It is however still ordered still in recent order (not a weighted relevance ordering).42KViews0likes1CommentRe: Modern SharePoint News Subscription
Matt Janssen - When someone posts news today, people with the SharePoint mobile app, that are "working with" the author (based on the Microsoft graph) will be notified of that post. If you're a manager, peopple in your management chain also get notified. Similarly if the manager of someone you work with posts news, you'll see that too. We're constantly trying to improve our notification system and model, so feedback is always welcome. You can read more in this post: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-mobile-notifications-keep-you-up-to-date/ba-p/128763 Some examples of recent internal explorations are: Adding followed sites as a signal that you want to get notified of ANY news posted on a particular site (this seems to be successful so far in our experimentation internally at Microsoft). Falling back to an email notification, if the "should be" notified people the author works with (based on the graph), don't have the SharePoint mobile app installed. Automatic news digests of news in your personalized feed on SharePoint home, if you haven't visited sp home or mobile within a certain period of time. Would love to hear your thoughts on these and other scenarios to help you adopt SharePoint news. fyi Debjani Mitra45KViews0likes1CommentRe: SharePoint deliverables marked as October on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap
Looks like we had a miscommunication on our roadmap between months and quarters... where we misplaced some items that should be Q4 (e.g. sometime in October, November, or December) into earlier months in Q4. I apologize. We'll get this fixed up. Mark-Kashman can help get the roadmap updated.873Views1like0CommentsRe: How to Send an Email when added a News Post in SharePoint Online site
If they use the SharePoint mobile app today (iOS or Android), they'll be notified of news posts by people they work closely with (powered by the graph). We're also currently have notifications enabled for sites you follow within Microsoft (and will be rolling this out in the future to TR, then production). We've built a feature to email people that don't have the mobile app installed if a notification "should" go to them (based on graph, site following, etc.) but we haven't yet figured out the right way to integrate that into the authoring process and create the right notification settings. If you have thoughts on what you think the right experience is, we'd love to hear them. Thanks! fyi Debjani Mitra118KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Stock Ticker webpart for modern site
We leveraged one of the PnP contributed web parts in the design look book, it's for a stock ticker (you need to provide your own API key). You can acquire it here as part of the PnP starter kit: https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-starter-kit/blob/master/documentation/components/wp-stock-information.md31KViews0likes5CommentsRe: SharePoint "Sites" Web Parts - Selected Sites Needs to be Security Trimmed
This isn't currently a supported capability in the sites web part. In "select" mode you're defining specific sites/links to display. SharePoint displays them. If the user doesn't have access to the site they won't see the tidbits or info about the site (as we do a search query to retrieve that data from the site, as the user), but they'll still see the site as you've specifically chosen to display it. This is similar to modern navigation and quick links. If you choose to display X site, we display it. If the user clicks it, they don't have access to it (of course). Security trimming explicitly added user content would seem to me to be counter-intuitive... not to mention not very performant for page loading (if every link added to every page had to be checked for permissions to simply display the link for every viewer). Always open to feedback on what we've created, and how we can improve it.4.5KViews0likes2CommentsRe: Implement Google Analytics for SharePoint Online modern sites
You can use extensions to add functionality to modern pages (that don't require UX, like webparts). Here's a doc about extensions. This application customizer sample code should help you get started with google analytics11KViews1like0CommentsRe: Rollout of SharePoint Communication Sites to First Release?
Ülgen Öztürk - We limit planner use to group connected team sites, as Mark points out above. We could potentially augment the webpart to allow you to select a different group to show content from on your communication site (similar to what we do for Group Calendar). We didn't bui8ld this initially to keep the experience very simple. If you're interested in having this type of choice on comm sites, please let us know. It does create a potential scenario where people that have access to the comm site are not members of the group governing permissions to the tasks in planner, and therefore won't be able to see them.3.8KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Use the Quick Links web part to put your content front and center
Thanks for the feedback Larry. The logic should be - link on the same site opens in the same window. Link to another site/domain/etc opens in a new tab. This is the behavior we're trying to consistently create with all our links in modern experiences (going away from author manual choice to a more consistent experience for all users).15KViews0likes1CommentRe: Roadmap question - 21047 "SharePoint News Digest Email"
Thanks for the questions Jo. That help article is what we have on news digest, so I'll work with our awesome user assistance team to get more info in it. At the moment, we aren't planning on supporting rich text in the summary area, but if we hear enough feedback that a desired upgrade we can look into it. Right now it reuses page descriptions, which are plain text. Similarly the images come from the various news Para, but the "chrome" of the digest is part of our template and not editable. I've heard from a few folks that they'd love to have an ability to modify those images, but we haven't invested in that yet. I'm curious what you're thinking for the permissions. Today anyone that can edit a site (eg create news) can send a digest. Is there a need to lock that down more? If so, can you help me understand it better?3.9KViews1like2CommentsRe: Modern Site Page People Web Part
If the people cards start to show user status, we will get them in the hover experience immediately (which is one of the reasons we're starting to standardize and reuse control across Office properties with scenario owners) so the experience is consistent in Outlook, SharePoint, Word, etc. But I'm not sure if/when such a feature will come into the people overlay.4KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Roadmap question - 21047 "SharePoint News Digest Email"
Great suggestions Lanetta. At this time we don't support changing the logos in the News digest. News digest only works with our modern news system, so it doesn't have a way to roll-up non news content. We're thinking about the easiest model to support sharing existing content into the news system right now.4.2KViews1like4CommentsRe: Use the Quick Links web part to put your content front and center
We actually don't support that option in our modern parts, instead trying to create a more consistent experience across all parts/pages. If the content is on the same site, it opens in the same window. If it's on another site/external/etc. it opens in a new tab.16KViews0likes2Comments