Will Modern Pages ever allow "Web Part Connections" (to link related lists)? How about "Filters"?
One of the most powerful and, frankly, underused features in SharePoint (2010 and 2013) was the concept or practice of "connecting" related web parts. We used it ALL the time for things like: A list of Vendors connected to lists of Quotes or Invoices A list of Requests connected to a list of related Log Entries (each step in the request process generates a Log entry) Also, it was helpful for creating "template" pages. For example, we would have a Query String Filter that connected to a bunch of lists on the page, each of which had a common column (e.g.: "Term"). So, when creating a course catalog, we didn't have to build a new page for each term, just use that template page with the right query string in the URL. As slick as the Modern Page experience looks and feels, it seems like they're driving toward the model of creating tons of separate pages rather than a few reusable ones. While creating these pages is easier in the Modern Experience, enforcing consistency between them is pretty much impossible (that's where the idea of a template page really shone). So, since I can't find any chatter about these features/functions whatsoever, I figured I'd ask here to see if anyone else had seen or heard anything. Heck, maybe even someone from the mothership (calling Mark-Kashman or Jeff_Teper) could chime in and let me know if I should just give up hope on ever using Connections or Filter web parts on Modern Pages.Windows 11: Turn the "Show more options" context menu into a slide down menu
Turn the "Show more options" context menu into a slide down menu and show those extra options in modern style Change the Windows 11 context menu so that when user clicks/taps on "show more options", the context menu expands and the rest of the options become visible in the same modern style with a sliding down animation, possibility with the ability for user to scroll up/down through the options (with mouse wheel or touch). Upvote this feedback in feedback hub: https://aka.ms/AAd53qzUnable to see documents when searching by folders in Modern Document Libraries
Hi everyone, I am seeing some odd behaviour with modern document libraries when you try to search for content stored in folders. Lets say you have the following structure in a document library: Folder named "James" File named "P45" File named "P11D" Folder named "Gary" File named "P45" File named "P11D" Modern Experience: If you do a search in the "Search" box in the top-left corner for the word James then you will see the James folder returned. If you then click into the folder you don't see any documents shown such as the P45 or P11D docs, with a message saying "No items match your query". Classic Experience: If you switch to classic experience and do a search for James in the "Find a File" box, you will see the James folder returned. When you click into the folder you will then see the two files, P45 and P11D. The modern search is appears to be doing a search on items that contain the phrase "James" in the filename or in the document, where as the classic experience is doing more of a filter on the current items being displayed and then allowing you to see the child items in that folder. If you search in a modern experience, you can then see the child documents if you remember to clear your search query from the search box, or if you remember to not press the Enter key at the end of typing your search query and use either the mouse or keyboard to select the folder from the auto-suggestions. If you do choose a folder from the auto-suggestions then this opens in a new tab taking you away from where you were originally working. This has been reported by users and clients as a significant pain in the user experience when searching for content and is causing push back on adoption of SharePoint. Have you guys seen this before? Cheers,SharePoint Modern Doc Library Web Part - Won't display other views
I have been using the new Modern Document Library web part for a few weeks now without issue. Suddenly yesterday around noon, any instances of the webpart I had reverted to the default view of the Library and I could never get it to go back to a non-default view. If I change which view is default, they'll all show the new default. I've even tried with entirely different libraries on different sites thinking I might have messed something up with that library, but with the same results. Is anyone else having this issue? Anyone have an idea of how to fix it? Thanks!Automatically publishing News Articles based on Microsoft Flow Approvals
Hi all, For our intranet we're trying to actively allow editors in our organization to post content such as news and blog articles. We're using the Modern Communication Site as a template. The basic idea we had is as follows: Editors to write a page and save that page as a draft. When the draft is saved, catch the creation of a new item in Flow and trigger an Approval. The Editor-in-Chief checks the article, makes changes if needed and approves it. Up on approval, we update the PromotedState of the draft to 2 (which is the Published state) to get it to show up as a news article. Editor is notified that the article is published. The only hiccup we're experiencing right now is that the updating of the PromotedState via this method does not have the same effect as actually pressing the 'Publish' button on the Draft page, the page is still in Draft. Does anyone know of a way to trigger the actual publishing based on this scenario, or is this not yet possible and will we need to do this manually? Thanks in advance!
Centering Pages in Modern Experience
Hello all, I'm having some trouble searching for a way to center a master page or a modern experience page in SharePoint. There is so much space on the right and I'd like to have it centered rather than have everything all to the left. PS. I removed the current nav on the left (which is what I prefer) Anyone know how I can make everything on my site centered? Thanks!How do I hid List options in a list view on a SharePoint Modern page?
I want to add a list view to a page in https://twitter.com/hashtag/SharePoint?src=hashSharePoint modern. Is there anyway to hide the chrome? I don't really want them being able to change the view, add an item, or see the whole list.
Highlighted Content Webpart filtering as "or" instead of "and" with multiple metadata filters
Hi All, I am trying to set up a Highlighted content webpart so that I can pull through specific documentation into a communication site view for end users to access. The idea behind this is that our training team has all the training documents in their document library, each document is tagged with "Finance, Compliance, IT" etc. What we want to do is surface onto a "Finance Page" all of the "Finance Training" documents in one webpart, and in another, all of the "Finance Policy" documents. So we have set up as follows: Training document library contains all training docs Each document is tagged with their function (e.g. finance) Each document is tagged with "Training Document" Compliance document library contains all policy docs Each document is tagged with their function (e.g. finance) Each document is tagged with "Policy Document" Now I have set up crawled and managed properties etc. So I can display in the Highlighted Content webpart all documents tagged with "Finance" I can also display all documents tagged with "Training Document" What I want to do now is bring through all documents that are tagged "Finance" AND "Training Document". However the Highlighted Content Webpart, when I put these two filters in, bring through any documents that are tagged with "Finance" and any documents that are tagged with "Training Document" so I am bringing through all the Finance Policy Documents and the IT Training Documents. Am I doing something wrong, is this the intended behaviour? Will we be able to select an "and/or" filter soon? Seems crazy that this isn't working for managed metadata (because it works as expected when you use the "Title contains" filter!) Thanks for any help! Daniel
Unable to update Repost Page Description property using Flow or HTTP request
I am using Flow to create News items in SharePoint using information that is coming from an external application. I have a REST call getting all of the news post properties from the external application and then writing out those properties to a copy of a Repost Page (.aspx). The issue I've hit is the Description field for the Repost Page content type is not available in the Update File Properties action in Flow. So I tried using the Send HTTP Request action to update the Description field but, to no avail. I'm able to update other properties with no problem but, can't seem to write to Description. Any ideas on how to achieve this or known limitations?
