Site Designs in Modern SharePoint – A lesson in user training
Site Designs were released a few years ago in SharePoint allowing for amazing experiences to be applied to modern SharePoint sites. These designs are able to act as a template that is applied to a site during the provisioning and include everything from additional libraries, lists, theming, and site pages with web parts to create experiences for users. However, there is a dangerous caveat lurking beneath this amazing functionality. Enter the end-user.
The site design is chosen for a site ...
How to add Formatting for Rows in a SharePoint List
Microsoft recently released the ability to add colored backgrounds or advanced formatting options to the individual rows within a SharePoint list. Adding colors to the background of alternating rows can help make the content easier to consume for users, especially when there are a lot of list items to scroll through.
The first step is to create a list and either choose to create a new view or you can edit the view for the default "All Items" view. From the view dropdown, select "Format ...
To Create a Team or a Channel, That is the Question in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams allows for 2 layers of hierarchy. At the highest level, you have a Team. Teams provide a great opportunity for a single place for collaboration for smaller groups of people.
The membership for a Team is always held at the Team level. Team members can then be added to channels within the team.
When to Create a Team
Teams are great for a smaller number of people that need to collaborate on a project or a portion of the business such as a depart or a a project that also ...
Collaboration from the Trenches – What you need to know!
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A Breakdown of the Limits for Private Channels in Microsoft Teams
Private channels have been introduced to Microsoft Teams. As one of the most asked for requests on User Voice. With great power, comes great responsibility.
Who can create a Private Channel?
By default, any Team Owner or a Member can create a private channel. If there is a need to further restrict the creation of private channels in a Team, the Teams Administrator can manage users with permissions to create private channels through the Admin Center.
How many Private Channels can I ...
Introducing the New Yammer Conversations Web Part
Microsoft has gained much feedback over the past couple years regarding Yammer and how organizations around the world are using it's capabilities to enhance and drive communication and collaboration throughout their organization.
One of the largest pieces of feedback regarding the Yammer web part is that it did not allow for the user to gain context of the conversation or allow for the ability to interact or comment as part of the conversation without being redirected to the Yammer applic...
New Announcement Post for Microsoft Teams now available
Microsoft Teams has released a new type of post called "Announcement". The announcement posts allow for a a user to create a post with an additional visual emphasis to distinguish it from a regular post or response.
To create an Announcement post, open Teams. Click the formatting icon just below the "Start an new conversation" input.
Formatting icon
Click on the "New Conversation" drop down and select "Announcement". You will see the format change to having a banner area and a few ...
A Breakdown of the New Mega Menu Site Navigation in Modern SharePoint
Microsoft just released into Targeted Release tenants the ability to add a mega menu navigation at the site collection level.
*If you are looking for a true global navigation solution, you will need to create a custom SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Extension
Mega Menu Navigation
How to Configure
To change the navigation to the mega menu, click on the site actions menu (gear icon) in the upper right corner of the screen and select "Change the Look" from the dropdown menu.
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Using View Formatting to Create Custom Views of SharePoint Lists
If you ever used jslink in SharePoint 2013, you will know how valuable it is to be able to use custom styling to create experiences for users that are using a SharePoint list. These classic experiences required knowledge of javascript to create. In modern SharePoint, we now have the ability to create similar experiences using View Formatting. View formatting now uses JSON instead of jaascript. This will enable users to create amazing and extensible experiences without the need of knowing how ...
Site Footer Now Available
The new Footer functionality has been released into Targeted Release tenants. The footer is implemented at the Site Collection level.
*If you have a need for a global solution, the creation of an SPFx extension is the only alternative solution.
How to Implement in a Site
To implement a footer into a site collection, click on the site actions icon (gear icon) in the upper right corner of the screen. Select "Change the Look" from the dropdown menu.
Select "Footer" from the ...