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karen_dredske
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Re: SharePoint Template Copying
Have you considered just creating a page template and the user creates a new page and updates their own metadata (if it needs to be changed)? You can create a page template right in modern SharePoint. When a person goes to create a new page, they are brought to the page templates list and they can select it there. In fact, you can create a separate one for each product if you want to. Then, when they create the page you've already populated the metadata and they just need to give the page a title and add any content to it. Here are the steps for this: Page templates in SharePoint - Microsoft SupportRe: Tool for broken links on a Sharepoint site
LinkTek's LinkFixer Advanced will do this for you also. Their scanning tool is free to download and use to find broken links, but you have to get a license for it to fix them for you similar to the tools recommended by other people here. LinkFixer is nice because it will work with pretty much any kind of a file including CAD and Adobe files. It also works with re-organizing files whether they are in M365 or on a file share server. Their customer service was fantastic with the client I recommended them for. LinkFixer Advanced: Data Migration Tool to Fix Broken File LinksRe: Strange Auto-Publishing Behavior in a Homesite
Hi DaveMehr365 Thank you for the suggestion, but that isn't the problem. I am aware of the change to Save and close because of co-authoring now available on SharePoint pages. This is where once you literally create the page it is getting published. Period. If you create a news page it is getting added on its own to the news web part. If you edit the page that the news web part is on by changing the layout of the news web part - and you have not hit the Save and close or the Republish button . . . it changes on the page for all users. This isn't normal behavior for SharePoint. Normally, if you create a new news post as a private draft, it will give you a button for "Post and send" for when you are ready to publish. That isn't happening here. I watched my user do this. That button is grayed out. Save and close is grayed out also. However, any changes they make are posted. This morning I tested this out again. When you select create a news post (a normal one, not a private draft) the button says "Update news" - which is what you should see AFTER you have published it the first time. And when in Edit mode for the page, the "Save and close" is grayed out. There have been no changes to this homesite so this makes absolutely no sense when it has been working just fine for several years now. I'm open to other suggestions if you have them. Regards, KarenStrange Auto-Publishing Behavior in a Homesite
I have a client who is having the strangest behavior on their homesite. If they go to add a news article - whether from the News web part or from the + New drop-down menu, once the news post page is provisioned, it is automatically publishing. The link to the blank page appears in their web part and the news post they are editing does not have a Publish button on it. The same thing is happening when you create a normal site page also. To try to work around this, they created a new page and selected the checkbox for Save as a personal draft first. Once they finished adding their content, there was no button to publish it in any way. Then they used the Managed Access option on the individual page to attempt to make it viewable in the News web part. It does appear in the news web part on their homepage BUT it is only a gray box with the page title at the top that is linked to the article. I have checked to be sure the page is a "Promoted page" - and it is. I have never seen this in any tenant before and cannot replicate it in any of the 3 other tenants I have access to. As of right now, we are only aware of it happening on the intranet home page which is a homesite and a hub site. It worked as expected until this week as far as we can tell. Is anyone else having this issue? Has Microsoft pushed out an update that broke homesites or News web parts on homesites?Re: Need help accessing a client's SharePoint site
Hi Nancy. Try using an "Incognito" browser window from Chrome or an "In-Private' browser window in Edge to access the site. These windows ensure that you do not have a caching problem on your computer. If the site and information appears in one of these windows, then you need to be sure that you clear the cache (browsing) history in your browser and restart it. Sometimes you have to clear the browsing history and restart the computer to get it all to clear out. Give this a try first. It's what the help desk would have you do.Re: Stuck asset Library - unable to remove
DannyBau do you understand what the organization asset site and its libraries are for? You are saying that you did it for a test and now you want to move them. That's not how they work. You only get ONE organization asset site in your tenant. You can only enable an organization asset library in that one site and no others. This is also the same site where the Brand Center assets are stored if you utilize the Brand Center for your sites as well as the Brand Center assets for Clipchamp. And, of course, the Office templates that can be made available to all users of any Office application in your tenant are stored here also. The idea is that this site will house those libraries that provide themes, branding info, (and Office templates) to all SharePoint sites (users) in the entire tenant. Once you set this up, it cannot be changed. (Not to my knowledge anyway and I've been using them for several years now.)Re: No results coming back from search in SharePoint Online
Ugh. I was afraid that was what was going on. This seems to be going on with another library now. Hopefully there will be someone on the Microsoft support team who will look deeper into this. I wish dealing with Microsoft support wasn't such a disappointment to everyone I talk to.Re: No results coming back from search in SharePoint Online
Yes KasperLarsen We tested and received results using the SharePoint Search Query Tool and nothing from the Search box for everyone. We did submit a support ticket last week and were asked to reindex the library. Very frustrating as this is going to take a long time.No results coming back from search in SharePoint Online
I have a client with a SharePoint communication site that is used as a document repository where the search results are bringing back nothing. There are 1.8 million files in the library. It has been almost a month since the files were migrated to SPO. We tried a query using the SharePoint Search Query Tool which brings back results, but doing a search on the library or the site brings back zero results. How do I troubleshoot this situation? I have already checked to be sure that the appropriate columns are being indexed and have been since the files were added last month. I don't want to reindex the library if I can help it since there are so many files in there. Is there anything I can do other than have my client submit a Microsoft support ticket?Re: Allow muting a person only for me
Ascendor thank you. So Zoom and Webex are not on your list. Teams pretty much seems to try to keep up or pass those two services and doing what these other services do would put Teams higher up on the food chain. Thank you for sharing these. I DO get the point. I will share this with some folks I know. Do we have a link for the feedback portal that we can all vote for that I missed along the way here? It looks like we all need to vote here and get others to vote here to move this feature up the flagpole for consideration. https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/972be416-4fbe-ed11-83ff-000d3a1f8608Re: Allow muting a person only for me
costinel2081 I'm really sorry you feel that way. That was not my intention. I can tell you it really sucks having a name that people use as an adjective - especially when it isn't who I am. I feel for your situation. I think everyone has been there - whether at your desk in a bullpen or in a conference room that doesn't have mics setup. It stinks. Adam_Zovits mentions that there is other web conferencing software that allows individuals to mute other individuals from them. Which software does this? I am interested and would like to suggest this to the people I know on the Teams engineering team.Re: Allow muting a person only for me
AdamZovits I was not trying to be condescending. But I know you can't hear a voice in a forum or chat. dpamment and Martin_Kalchgruber if I am in that situation I either use a noise cancelling headset or I turn off my laptop speaker and listen to the conversation through my neighbor's computer if it is that loud. I have been in those situations and it isn't an easy situation to navigate sometimes. I don't think any of the other web conferencing options have a solution for this either. It's like how if I have voice isolation on and my dog starts barking it definitely is awesome because everyone else can't hear it, but I have to find a way to ignore it and not let it disrupt my meeting. dpamment the idea of Bluetooth beaconing is pretty cool, but I could see where the assumption you give might be problematic if anyone has a hearing problem or if one of the people in the vicinity speaks quietly. Maybe that would get people closer to a better experience though.Re: 3 Ways to Effortlessly Embed YouTube channel on Website & Supercharge your Website
You can do all of this in a SharePoint website using Stream. However, if someone has a YouTube channel, there is a YouTube web part available out of the box that can be leveraged to display YouTube videos. You don't need Tagembed for anything on your website if you use the SharePoint and Stream tools available to you. . . unless you are referencing a public facing website that is hosted on another platform that is. It is unclear in your article although it is here in the Microsoft community where I would expect the focus to be on SharePoint sites.
