Modern SharePoint has a built-in weather web part but unfortunately it does not allow customizations displaying just the weather in black and white.
I was looking for a solution with a bit more color and similar with the weather tile from Windows, so I decided to build my own using a custom SharePoint list, a custom view formatting, Power Automate and the out of the box lists web part.
Microsoft Viva Topics is like an encyclopedia with super powers that aims to give time back to employees by showing them the content that matters without the need of a custom search.
Topics is the only component from the new Microsoft EXP suite of products that is already available to be used and despite requiring an extra license it can be tested as a trail for 30 days.
SharePoint Spaces is available for some time in preview and soon will become available globally in the tenant to all users with permissions to create content.
The option will become available in the +New menu by default but can be disabled globally or per site collection by an admin using SharePoint Online Management Shell.
SharePoint List web part available in modern SharePoint pages is provided with a filtering option that allows you to dynamically filter the data from one list using data stored in another list.
In this article I will show you how you can take advantage of this feature with, explaining all the steps using a predefined scenario to filter the company offices based on their location.
Displaying a modern SharePoint page without the navigation and the header have generated all sort of hacks over the years that try to replicate the famous ?isDlg=1 and the focus mode from classic SharePoint by manipulating the DOM and injecting custom css.
I’ve recently discovered the query string that can be used with modern SharePoint site URLs to strip the pages from all its elements living it just with the content.
Four years have passed since the introduction of modern SharePoint and the modern experience continues to take over the classic features, the last victim is the search.
Starting late January 2021 classic Team sites will gradually start receiving the modern search experience, meaning that the search bar will be moved to the suite navigation bar.
Modern SharePoint calendars have finally arrived bringing a new and refreshed interface to the classic SharePoint calendar lists.
If you do not know yet how to create a modern calendar in SharePoint, I recommend you have a look to this post where you will find detailed instructions and a video explaining the creation process.
Microsoft Clarity is the new tool that allows you to record sessions and access to heat maps of the user interaction with your site, helping you to find and fix the areas of the pages that are not working as expected.
After my last article about Microsoft Clarity where I explained how to add the toll to modern SharePoint, I received a few questions about how to do the same thing for classic SharePoint sites, the process is quite simple and, in this article, you can find a solution that will help you deploying Clarity to classic.
Combined with the previous solution you will get a global overview of all the SharePoint sites in your intranet.
Creating engagement and measuring the success of any intranet is always a challenge, tools like Azure Application Insights and Google Analytics give you the usage metrics and now you can complement this information with Microsoft Clarity the new user behavior analytics tool.
Microsoft Clarity will gives you the recording of the sessions and heat maps of the user interaction with the site, this will help to find and fix the areas of your pages that are not working as you expect.
In this article I’m proving a readymade solution to add Microsoft Clarity to modern team sites and modern communication sites in just a few clicks, if you are not yet familiar with this tool yet I suggest you to have a look to the awesome series of articles that Megan V Walker as put together.
RSS feeds are a great way to keep updated with everything being posted in the sites you are following. SharePoint has a native integration for this feature but the layout is not that good, and it lacks the support for all the modern features the platform has been receiving.
In this article I’ll explain step by step how you can reuse the out of the box SharePoint news web part to create your own RSS reader web part.
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