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John_Sanders
Microsoft
MicrosoftNew web parts for your modern communications in SharePoint Online
The SharePoint team is excited to announce we're adding three new web parts to the toolbox when creating team news articles and modern pages:
- Image gallery
- Bing maps
- Quick charts
These new web parts are rolling out to First Release customers now…
- Note: only tenants that have First Release (FR) set to on for the entire tenant will see these features.
- Per user first release flighting is not applicable when creating new content that could be seen/viewed by non FR enabled users.
What are modern pages you ask?
“Modern team site pages are fast, easy to author and support rich multimedia content. And pages look great on any device, in a browser or from within the SharePoint app. Using pages is a great way to communicate and share your ideas—such as status and trip reports, how-to write-ups, know-before-you-go guides and frequently asked questions.” - from our blog post last year.
Image gallery
The Image gallery web part lets you share collections of pictures on a page. Simply select your images with the file picker, or drag them on to the web part. Once you’ve built your collection, you can reorder them with drag and drop as well.
We support two beautiful layouts today:
- Tiles layout
Mobile
Tiles view on a mobile phone
Larger screens
Tiles view on a larger screen
- Carousel layout
Mobile
Carousel view on mobile
Larger screens
Image gallery on a larger screen
You can also add additional information about each image such as:
- Image title
- Image description
- Alternative text
Looking forward, we will be listening to customer feedback and adding more layouts and features that highlight your images beautifully on pages.
Bing maps
This web part makes it easy to add a map to your page. Simply enter an address or a well-known location name, and your map dynamically appears.
If you want to pick a different map type, you can of course do that... as well as change the zoom level, label your map pin with a friendly name, etc.
Mobile
Bing map on mobile
Larger screens
Depending upon your location, Bing maps may not support some map styles (e.g. Streetside view isn't available everywhere).
Quick charts
The Quick chart web part allows you to easily visualize simple data on your page. Enter your data points with labels, pick your chart type, and publish.
We support two chart types today:
- Column
Mobile
Column chart on mobile
Larger screens
Column chart on larger screens
- Pie
Mobile
Pie chart on mobile
Larger screens
Pie chart on a large screen
We have a lot more web parts in the works, some of which you can see highlighted in this session “Discover the new SharePoint content publishing experiences” (link jumps right to web part section); from #MSIgnite.
As always, let us know what you think, and where we should invest more time.
Thanks,
The SharePoint Team
Is there a way to get a simple list of libraries associated to a site using a webpart? I can get lists of documents and images, but I'd love to have a library list instead of having to build it in the left-hand navigation column.
Hello,
I am working right now with the new version of Sharepoint and I need to organize a page for the company. I've created a new Task List page, where I've added a lot of tasks and I've also added them to the Timeline.
I know that on the older version of Sharepoint Team Site pages, you could display that Timeline in the Home Page of the site but now I can't find a way to do it. I feel like I'm loosing my mind trying to put that Task List's Timeline into the homepage.
Can someone please help with some ideas?
I'm talking about this timeline:
PS: I'm also having problems because I can't change the logo of the Sharepoint Team SiteI see the quick chart webpart is more of static data. Is that can be made dynamic by pulling the live data from SP List?
This would be great. I think right now you can only achieve this with the PowerBI webpart, which also requires each user to have a PowerBI license to view the data. Please correct me if i'm wrong.
- Sadly the new list view web part no longer filters with a view like it should. It was working until sometime last week I believe.
Image gallery: will this beauty ever get to on prem in any PU/CU for SharePoint 2013? :)
- Mark-KashmanGreat feedback, Uzma. Nothing to share right now, but certainly the team is working on what comes next to on-prem; and know that we have new ship vehicles for on-prem call "Feature Packs" - we shipped our first FP1 for SP2016 not too long ago... Thx, Mark.
You guys are absolutely killing it with the new web parts that have come out (on top of those mentioned above, the links web part was a nice surprise and the PowerBI web part fills a HUUUUGE gap).
We really need the ability to filter the Highlighted Content Web Part by list or library (or even folder for that matter). We all use Sharepoint so differently and many of us slice and dice data in different ways that we need as much flexibility in surfacing it as possible. Many times we just use lists or libraries as data dumps and then use it to surface data in some other way. That's the beauty of SP, the ability to be creative with it.
- John_SandersThanks @Clint. Glad they're working out for you.
We have both of your suggestions (filter by list or libraries and by folder) tracked in our Highlighhted content backlog. Thank you.Hi John_Sanders,
can you comment on the current news headlines webpart, specifically if you plan to expand the properties to include news pages from subsites, or/and if you have different ideas, like global sharepoint news (identical to the News tab on iOS)?
- Suggestion: A calendar in which you can make suggestions of différents dates for the meeting that would be great !
- John_Sanders
Techroadie - Thanks for the suggestion.
I don't know that we'll try to do consensus based scheduling within sharepoint; that's something our Outlook team is much better at.
Check out FindTime for Office 365, using Outlook.
I also just learned of a new Preview we made available in December, called Calendar.Help that uses Cortana to find the best times between users.
Would love to see a new Calendar Web Part that lets you color code by category without creating multiple views and overlays! The SP Calendars really need some TLC!!! I hate having to consider 3rd party apps like Virto-Calendar to make SharePoint Calendars functional!
Probably not the first web parts my users have been asking for, but it's definitely nice to see some progress.
BTW - is there a documented way to get one of these new Modern Pages to be the home page for a Team Site where a web part or wiki page is the current default? The "make homepage" ribbon control doesn't show up on Modern Pages.
- John_Sanders@Kevin you can use the ... on the "new homepage" from the Site Pages library, assuming you have the correct permissions. The user needs "Manage Web Permissions".
On most of my sites, I have permission and can pick a new page and make it the homepage... but on one of our test sites, I don't see that option in the library. I don't have the right permissions.Thanks all for the replies.
This missing piece for us as of this moment is that we still have Classic set as the default experience (this will be changing soon), so we don't see the "..." control that was referenced because our Site Pages libraries are still in Classic mode. I guess we could enable modern in each particular library today, though as I said we'll be flipping the master switch soon.
- Mark-KashmanI call out how in my initial post about modern site from SP home; Check it ☺ : "Create connected SharePoint Online team sites in seconds" [11/7/2016]: https://blogs.office.com/2016/11/08/create-connected-sharepoint-online-team-sites-in-seconds/
- Not documented, but you have to go to the actual library of pages to set it as homepage, instead of doing it when you are actually on the page. (Its talked about somewhere in this community, but heaven help me if I can find it again...)
Cool stuff :)
Any idea when we will be able to white list domains for Group sites, so we can embed maps/graphs etc. from other vendors? Bing is white listed by default, and Group sites does not allow white listing like Team sites does.
Oh, I got one more wish for a new webpart: People Picker WebPart.
Possibly similiar to the quick links webpart. Pick one or multiple people from the people picker, and display them as contact cards/tiles. Pull in the image, job description and department and of course link that card to their Delve Profile.
- John_Sanders@Ivan - you'll be pleased to know, we're working on a simple people experience right now 😄
John_Sanders -What is the status on this?
Thanks ~ Catherine
John_Sanders wrote:
@Ivan - you'll be pleased to know, we're working on a simple people experience right now 😄
