Sharepoint SE News Webpart Not Working
We have a fresh, out-of-the box new Sharepoint Subscription Edition modern site setup but the News Webpart is not working. It looks fine in edit mode but reverts to empty, new preview after hitting publish. We found the following strange behavior with the News webpart: Looks fine and shows annoucements/news items fine in edit mode Shows only empty/preview after publishing If you refresh the page, does not help click HOME navigation link the webpart refreshes and displays correctly click HOME navigation link a second time the webpart goes back to empty/preview Every second HOME click the webpart is working If you place TWO News webparts on the same page, the SECOND webpart always displays correctly We have no special code, add-ins, packages or anything else installed. It is a plain-jane modern site with only a few simple, ordinary default configured webparts in the layout. There is also nothing special about the announcement pages. We even tried deleting all the real announcement and made several plain 'test' announcements. Same issue. It seems like there is some late java-script or client-side return/rendering which causes the webpart to think the news content is empty but remains in cache or somewhere so on the subsequent request it renders correctly. In edit mode, this cache, staging or temp data is not used so always works.
List Web Part Expand/Collapse View Broken on Modern Site Page
When attempting to display a list view on a SharePoint Online Modern Site Page for FAQ questions and answers the Answer field (multiple lines of text) is not displaying the values. In the examples below all question and answer fields have values and should display. In the actual list itself the same view shows both the Answer and Question values just as expected. Answer Field = Required (List Web Part) When I have the Answer field set as required (no matter if it is Plain, Rich, or Enhanced Rich text) it shows that required info is missing even though all the Answer fields have values in them. Using the List View Web Part I see the following: If I click the heading, "Question: Question #1 here? (1)" in the list view web part I then see the value for the Answer: Answer Field = Not Required (List Web Part) When I have the Answer field set as not required (no matter if it is Plain, Rich, or Enhanced Rich text) it shows no value even though all the Answer fields have values in them. Using the List View Web Part I see the following: If I click the heading, "Question: Question #1 here? (1)" in the list view web part I then see the value for the Answer:
Searching for SharePoint Modern Pages
I was looking at using a sharepoint site as a collaborative "wiki" style best practices/knowledge site (not using the old wiki system, because old sharepoint is on its way out) by encouraging editing. After some fiddling, it doesn't appear that search is very sensible for these pages, nor is there any way to "tag" or attach any useful labels/metadata to them to aid in searching/filtering. Search also doesn't seem to make any sense for them, and looks to only return results where words in either the title or url match(or maybe even some other unseen data). Is there something I am missing here? Or are modern pages really not usefully searchable?
Webpart file (document library) upload to modern page view
Hi there, Got myself a nice root site with document library's. Got them to subsite's on a classic view sharepoint online site. ( with a webpart, downloaded as a file in sharepoint designer) I see it on the classic site. But is there a way to get the document library from the root site to a subsite? Or is there a way to upload the webpart file in the modern view ? thanxs Gr kloenie
Can not add Task List and Issue tracking list to a Modern Site Pages as web part
I am not able to add Task List and Issue tracking list as web part in Modern Site pages. Although Document Library and Generic Lists are being added successfully. Am I missing something here? Do I need to activate some site feature or something? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in Advance !Modern Sites/Pages limitations - Project Road Blocks.
Evening everyone, I'm looking for some advice on how I can get around some roadblocks i'm hitting with the modern UI. Here's the issues: I need to be able to disable / hide fields on a modern UI form (NewForm.aspx / EditForm.aspx). Previously this would have been done using JS in a SEWP/CEWP. The only solution I have found here is to hide it from the form by customizing the content type (but this hides it from everyone). The newly released powerapps functionality (https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/custom-form-launch/) would have solved this easily but comes with its own quirks that cause issues for the requirements below. Attachments - the Modern form supports adding attachments to items but the powerapps functionality does not - PA only supports read only operations when it comes to attachments (At least for now) which prevents me from using PA to solve issue 1. Multiple notes - Previously I would have dealt with this by simply turning on versioning and "append changes" to a multiline text box. However, when append changes is turned on, the Modern UI changes to a classic form. Powerapps handles it better but only shows the latest addition to the text box - any previous entries are not shown on the PA form but are correctly stored on the list item. These requirements could be met fairly quickly using the classic UI with only a little bit of JS for the field hide / disable part - SharePoint does the other two requirements out of the box with no issue. Any input on how these requirements can be met using powerapps or the modern UI would be appreciated. I'm not against using SPFx Web Parts / Extensions but don't want to create completely custom forms as I feel that goes against everything that was mentioned at ESPC17. Thanks. MFormatting of Tables in modern pages
I recently noticed that when I add a table to a modern page (using the Text web part and paste from Word) the formatting of the columns doesn't automatically wrap the text any longer. The column widths just grow with the size of the text. This naturally creates a horizontal scroll bar in order to view the entire table contents (not very user friendly at all). I've added tables in the past and haven't observed this behavior before. In the past the text would wrap so that the entire table was visible. Was this change intentional? Is this a bug?
