Modern Pages
42 TopicsAnnouncing SharePoint page approvals
We are happy to announce that we will be releasing SharePoint page approvals to Targeted Release. We expect to start the rollout of this feature to all Targeted Release tenants by end of July 2018. Rollout status Current rollout status: July 31st, 2018 - Deployed to 10% of Targeted Release tenants August 3rd, 2018 - Deployed to 50% of Targeted Release tenants August 6th, 2018 - Deployed to 100% of Targeted Release tenants January 8th, 2019 - Deployed to all tenants in SharePoint Online Documentation: 1. Configure page approval 2. Page approval flow Known issues If the page is checked-out by another user and you (the author in this case) submit the page for approval, the page will not notify and proceed with the approval. The flow will run and send an email indicating to the author indicating an error occurred in publishing the page. If you have only major versions enabled for the Site Pages library, submit for approval will result in int he following error: Could not complete that action: The type of data at position 0 is different than the one expected. There an issue with the Flow service for the UK region. Any existing UK tenants created before March 2018 will work while it affects only new tenants created after March 2018. We expect to have this resolved by end of September if everything goes according to the plan. See this thread for more information. Good news is that these will be fixed soon are fixed! If you have any feedback, please make sure you discuss here! Configure page approval Site owners can configure page approval to add to the standard publishing process for a site. After adding page approval flow, new and updated pages will be not be published directly. Instead, only the completion of the approval flow will make changes visible to all readers of the site. A site owner can configure page approval flow from the Flow menu of a pages library. Submit page for approval Once the page approval is configured, authors will be able to submit page for approval. The publish button will be replaced by a submit for approval button. The page will be published once the page is approved. Rejecting a page will put that page back to draft status. Approve page Approvers will get an email regarding the page approval request. They can either approve the page directly in the email (in email clients that support actionable messages) or open the page from the email to review and approve the page in SharePoint. Customizing the page approval flow Since page approvals use Microsoft Flow behind the scenes, the page approval flow is available to site owners to modify and add any custom business process items in the flow. After creating the flow, the site owner can click on Flows -> See your flows in the pages library to find the page approval flow. For example, The default approval type is set to ‘anyone can approve’. Site owners can modify the flow and change the approval type to ‘everyone must approve’ if that is the requirement.46KViews16likes63CommentsAlerts on Comments in Modern Pages?
So now that we are beginning to take advantage of Communications Sites, Modern Pages and News, we are starting to get comments on our pages - which is awesome, but... Nobody knows there are comments on the pages. Is there currently a way to get alerts/notifications (like most other modern Social Collab Tools) that a comment was made on a page? Maybe by email?Solved46KViews2likes49CommentsRESOLVED: How to change Modern page Author from the "Created By" field to something else
When we use the Modern Pages to Publish news, we can see the WebPart "Last Published News" with a vignette (Image, Title, first part of the text and Author). The issue is this value when you use an automation system to create the site canevas, because the News Author will stay with the "Created By" field as Author which is in my case the account used for the PowerShell script. As you can see in that picture, I modified some pages with my standard account and the Home Page Webpart shows only the admin account as Author The "See All" link placed into the Last news WebPart is pointing an aggregated view of all the published news and you can see into the Author shows only the "Created by" field (my admin account). Is there anyone who know how to define another field as Author for that "News" Modern Page ? Fabrice RomelardSolved44KViews0likes19CommentsSearch box changes in modern SharePoint and OneDrive experiences
We wanted to make sure that the community is aware of some UX changes coming to the search box on modern OneDrive and SharePoint experiences! These are part of the changes we had announced as part of Message Center post published on March 28 (MC176702), and then talked about in our blog posts at Build and SharePoint conferences this month. The changes we are detailing below are already rolled out to Targeted Release users and tenants. So if you are part of the Targeted Release program, you should already be using these updated experiences. The major experience change is the removal of the search box in modern experiences from where it was in the site header in communication sites, or the command bar in team sites. A new search box connecting our users to Microsoft Search will be shown at the top of the page in the suite header instead, and provide a consistent place to access search functionality. Similar changes are rolling out to other experiences across Office 365: Office.com, Office desktop applications, Outlook on the web, etc. SharePoint start page shown after the search box move The change will affect the following modern experiences: SharePoint start page (formerly known as SharePoint home). This is the page you are taken to when you click on "SharePoint" in the suite navigation control. Modern SharePoint sites, including modern site pages, document libraries, lists, and the site contents page. OneDrive for Business. Classic sites/experiences will not be affected by this update. The search boxes on classic pages will continue to work as they currently do. We will provide an update to classic experiences later this year. This change will be announced using message center posts as well as this community. Hub site with the Microsoft Search search box - scoped to search across the hub This update will take effect without requiring any action from you. The functionality provided by the new search box includes personalized suggestions in addition to functionality provided by the previous search box. We are planning to roll out these updates to our customers in Production over the coming weeks during the month of June. Note: During our rollout to Targeted Release, we have heard from a small number of customers who had customized the search box experiences and had adverse effects. If you have customized your search box, please ensure that you test the changes using Targeted Release users in your tenant to make sure that you are not negatively affected. If you see negative effects, follow this link and tell us more about it.35KViews3likes33CommentsCommunications Site "Promote Page" feature flaw
Hello, We are currently developing our Intranet using the Modern Communications site template. Overall, we are pleased with the functionality but I have noticed that when a user clicks 'Promote' on a page, there is no way to demote it afterward. I have been able to create a custom column the calculates the 'promotedstate' property but I am unable to change the value from 2 (promoted) to 0 (not promoted). Does anyone have any experience or insight? I currently have several pages that were promoted in testing which should not have been promoted and as the Site Collection Administrator I would really love the ability to demote pages if they were promoted in error.Solved19KViews0likes21CommentsBug/issue with modern news thumbnail if team site has header image
I'm experiencing a rather strange issue with modern team news. I have this issue on two different O365 tenants. When a team site has a header image - the news thumbnail will render the site header image, not an image from the news post. This is the news web part - the news item thumbnail is the same image as the site header: Even though the news item looks like this:16KViews2likes17CommentsModern Communications Hub Site- Error on Hub Home Page
Hey there, I enabled a Modern Communications site as a Hub site and associated several Team sites. The Nav is working great and when I view the home page of my Hub site(I am the site collection admin), I can see the 'News' web part is serving news from sites in the hub and the 'Sites' web part is showing sites associated with the Hub. However, my users are not seeing this. They see two blank web parts. They do not even see news published from the Hub site itself. And, below the blank 'Sites' web part there is an error. Screenshot attached. ANyone else having issues14KViews0likes23CommentsSharePoint Modern Page Quick links web part missing Layout option?
According to support.office.com, Quick links web part in SharePoint Modern Pages should show a "layout" option where we can select either Compact or Film Strip. But my development site and client's site doesn't show such options. Any idea? My developer site is given below.Solved11KViews1like9Comments