Category Archives: Web Parts

SharePoint Audience Targeting – It’s Back!

SharePoint audience targeting has been revamped and renewed, and it’s back!  First I’ll tell you how it works, then for those of you who have been using SharePoint for years and remember the old way, I’ll tell you how it’s different.  First of all, as of right now, December 2019, there is no audience targeting for *navigation* YET, but it’s

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SharePoint Communication Sites

The new SharePoint Communication Sites are in the process of being rolled out globally in Office 365 currently.  In case you missed it, a couple of weeks ago, on our live SharePoint Power Hour, I did an introductory demo of them. ALSO, I demonstrated a bunch of new web parts and the improved page editing interface, which gives you the

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Embed PowerApps on SharePoint Modern Pages

** 11/2019 update: Note that this post was originally written in 2017.  In the meantime, a new PowerApps web part has been introduced to the product.  So, the embed code method in this post only needs to be used if the PowerApps web part is not available to you. PowerApps can be embedded on pages, using an embed code. Go

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Turning on New Modern Pages

SharePoint site pages feature

Some of you have mentioned to me that in your SharePoint site in Office 365, you don’t have the new, modern pages.  They don’t exist when you create new pages, and they don’t exist as a content type in your Site Pages library.  I’ve noticed that this is the case in my tenants.  One of these such site collections was

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New Modern Web Parts – Full List

In Office 365, you may notice that there are more new things rolling out right now.  This post is all about the new page editing experience and new web parts.  Here’s what I’ll cover: How to use the new page editing interface How to use each of the new web parts How to set your new page as the homepage

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Custom Hyperlink Icon Column

Have you ever wanted to have a nice pretty button, right on the row of one of your list or library items in SharePoint, and that button does something custom? Out of box, there’s a column called “Edit”, and you can add that to your view, and it gives you a quick way to get to the edit page with

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Organizing and Managing Promoted Links (Tiles)

Promoted Links list in SharePoint are very popular, and I see a lot of customers creating them in many places in their sites, giving each page a nice, modern appearance with pretty clickable tiles.  In this post, I’ll show you a way I’ve devised to keep them organized and managed in one list for a site, so that they can

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