SharePoint Power Hour: New Modern Web Parts

hello everyone and welcome to SharePoint power our this is our weekly show where I demonstrate just different topics in SharePoint and office 365 I'm Laura Rogers on a SharePoint MVP and today my topic is going to be the new modern webparts that exists right now in SharePoint Online so first of all to kind of get you all oriented here we have the description in this streaming streaming show is going to give you a link to join our live discussion in my slack channel so let me check all that and make sure that's working let's see all right got a 30-second delay on here so on a double check that things are working first okay live control room okay yeah nice okay so um the way this works is that I'm going to be doing my live demo and I do have a 30 second delay turned on for as far as me talking and then you see me because I don't want you to have any kind of issues with the streaming or buffering and things like that so I think that that will help and then we have in the description for this video we have a link to get to the slack Channel and that's where you can see everybody and have a conversation and chat and ask questions while the demo is going on and so I'd like you all to go ahead and jump in there and say hi and let me know that you can see me and let me know that you're here say good morning and I am going to talk a little bit about what our topic is while I'm waiting for you guys to say hello so again the 30-second delay is a little awkward but I want it to make sure that we don't have a lot of issues with the streaming and buffering and things like that so all right if you are using office 365 you may have noticed that in the past just in the past few days or so depending on what release that your tenant is in like if you were in early release or or not you're actually going to see this new page editing and authoring experience that exists in here so it it's it's just it's just appeared there so what I'm going to do now is do a demo of how you can get to it and look at all the webparts and I actually just wrote a blog post on wonder Laura comm just a couple of days ago about going through all these new modern webparts and what they do et cetera and the cool thing about it being in office 365 is that there going to be new ones and they're going to be there a couple at least that I know of right now that are going to be new fairly soon and so I kind of listed those at the bottom of the blog post but we'll go ahead and go over all the ones that are inner in there right now so this is probably a blog post that I'll be updating and changing as time goes on as new webparts appear and it's kind of maybe different things about the web part page editing experience appear so let's go ahead and get right to it go ahead and share my screen here all right so now I'm this is actually my tenant that I use for when I'm teaching my SharePoint training class all my students get an account here in my tenant so this is where I started this is where I wrote my blog post from and this is where I started kind of playing around with this new authoring experience and so I'm going to kind of show you just where you can find it and where I started and then walk through all the way that it exists now for the way that you can edit webparts all right so you'll notice that I've actually this is my home page and I have actually already converted that to use this new modern experience then this is just when I created my blog post this is what I put on the page but I'll go ahead and show you where you can go to get to all this so I'll go ahead and go to site contents and then go to this nice little new button so look there it is it's this is the location where you can go create a new modern page you can't necessarily take your existing pages and convert them because nothing none of the web parts and anything that exists on it anyway it would translate over to the new experience in the new web part so you're going to be creating new pages and using the new web parts which are completely different than what you've used before so let me get this over here and okay okay so I'll go new and choose page let's and then it does have a and now also my resolution is a little large on here so that's probably adding to kind of how gigantic this landing page area looks because you know I have the high resolution for the screen sharing and how this video is going to turn out but gives you a quick way to name your page I'm going to say like about us whatever you want to call it and then you have you can notice up here that you can save and close it I haven't published yet I haven't published the page yet and that just uses regular old you know publishing features and SharePoint but what I can do is this is this little plus this is going to be the important part this is where you add webparts so it's pretty intuitive it's I mean think about kind of the way that share that webparts have existed before and how you kind of you head up training you kind of had to understand what was going on and how to go find things and how to go edit the settings and then you had a lot of Jesus just obscure settings and just a lot of overhead so you know this mindset think about don't think about it this as I know you lot of you might be freaking out don't think about this as oh my goodness all the stuff that I've been doing before I can't do it anymore where my webpart connections where all my advanced settings it still exists you can still create the other kind of pages that you've been able to create so think about it as I can just hand somebody a site and have it makes sense to them and have them not have to have a lot of intensive training to learn how to do web parts and it's all just going to be very obvious and easy for especially for people that are new to SharePoint so kind of let kind of got to let go a little bit and put yourself in a different mindset with that and think about how easy it is and thing about how pretty and modern these pages are going to be all right so a few simple we have a these are these are our web parts so right now these are our web parts text image documents office 365 video content embed highlighted content and Quick Links site activity and Yammer feed I do have a favorite I might actually save that one for last but we'll go ahead and go through all these so first of all text is just going to be just free typing freeform text on a page this is stuff about us we are cool all right and so you can do just some basic formatting like make it a heading and you know make it a subheading or whatever you want to do and then you have just some super basic things like making things bold or creating a quick hyperlink or clearing your formatting so again super simple kind of they got it kind of narrowed down to I guess the most common things that people do and then very simply you can just delete this webpart using the delete button when you don't want to have it anymore so I'm not going to delete that I'll go ahead and so I can add another web part here using the plus button you'll have plus buttons above and below each one so for this one I'll go ahead and add an image now this is really nice think about the pain of adding an image you guys chime in in the chat window if you agree and remember that there's this 30-second delay so tell me what you're agreeing about think about the paint just the image web part that we've always had in SharePoint you can insert the image web part then you had to go find where the image was in an end user like a business user had to have the understanding of getting the URL of the image and then putting the URL in the web part settings and then kind of the size of the image and just all these things that you know for IT people is not that much it's just it's a few steps but look how nice this is we can just pick an image so we can just are just a few logos of mine but we can pick a recent image that we've been working with but we can also go navigate through the site and go find images that exist in a library and we can kind of navigate back and forth and we can even upload an image from over here and we can alternately upload it from here so it gives us a lot of options that are very easy and obvious so I'll just click this one and click open and then that sticks my little image on the page when you do when you're doing this this is going to put the image on the page as the actual size of the image so that is kind of something like a gotcha there where you have to know how to go make the image smaller ahead of time to make sure that it doesn't show huge on the page because when you go edit the properties for this webpart using this little edit button this is the only option that you have so my logo or something like that okay so this some webparts will just have a delete button some will have the ability to do further configuration and then some of them will give you the ability to add a caption like the video and images and things like that all right let's go see just kind of as we go let's go publish this page and see what it looks like all right so again we had we do have this big blank area I think that a lot of people have given have given Microsoft feedback about this how we don't kind of really need this big empty space up here all right so now I've got some of the verbage that I typed on here and then my little caption under the image and then when I see when I hover over the image does it give me my little alt text no necessarily see yeah that's fine all right so let's go back into how do we go back into edit mode you click the little edit button up here okay now let's scroll down again I can put a webpart above or below any of my existing webparts so I'll go ahead and keep I'll just put one right up here just for fun and now here's the option to insert a document and these are all like my training manuals and things like that for my class so I'll go I'll go ahead and pick that one and open it all right now that's pretty huge that's my uh it's going to take up the whole screen but that's embedding my powerpoint presentation on the page right so that's my power user class that I teach and then I can put a description under it all right okay so on then let's go look and see does this one have any settings let's go look at the little pencil here hopefully you guys are trying this along with me if you have a tenant or you know go create just a trial tenant for yourself and just get you know kind of start playing with this stuff it's really fun you can say what slide you want it to start on so maybe I only want it to start on slide two so now when people go to this web page and they're looking at this webpart it's automatically going to start on slide two and when you have can't spoke class there we go and when you have a when you've inserted a word document on the page it's going to say start at a page number so you're just doing a page instead of a slide number all right what do you guys think about this or you guys you have any you know freaking out about the new look of this or do you think it's good or do you agree about it being awesome that it's easier for people to be able to learn SharePoint now in a nice simplified way so I'd love to hear from you guys in the little power our hashtag power our channel all right so let's go do another one I'll go add another web part office 365 video now this is one where it does start to get a little awkward it doesn't have a nice pretty little picker where you can pick a video you actually have to go over to the portal and get it but at least it has a link here I can just click go to my organ portal and now it's taking me to my office 365 video portal alternately I could have gone to the waffle up here and gone to video up here to get to the same place so this is you know when I teach my SharePoint training class everybody gets access to the recording for 30 days you know after they've taken the class all here in my video portal so here for example my like my workflows and forms those are the four days in my workflows and forms class so I'll just go click on one of those then you have to just click on one and go kind of grab the whole URL like that so that's a little bit awkward it's not the most smooth the next type of web part well show you is going to be the content in bed web part so this is going to be similar to what we have with a content embed on current pages where you can go to the insert tab just on a webpart page or wiki page and do content embed and that's where you can go to some video on YouTube click the share button and go to the embed tab here and grab that code and then that's where you would paste it in here and resize to fit the page so yes they're suggesting that you do that because if the default is turned on so as soon as you paste the code on there immediately shows it here and look I'm not clicking play so that's how you would just take and it's not just for YouTube it's going to be for Vimeo or anything else there are a lot of different services that I listed in my blog posts where that will give you the embed code that you can use in here it has to be an iframe and it has to be secure so it has to be an HTTPS so it's very particular about that all right let's go to the next web part type here they're not necessarily called web parts you'll notice I'm just calling them web parts but it doesn't say webparts anywhere it's just basically you're clicking a button to add a future I'm going to skip highlighted content because that's my favorite one I'll save that for last I'll go to Quick Links Quick Links is kind of like the idea of adding hyperlinks to your page so I can go click Add here and say create a link to and then it remembers some of the most recent files that I've got gone to so it's going to put the URL in here for me and then create the title for me and I can edit if I like again this is a huge improvement over think about just the regular old links webpart our links list that we've had in SharePoint you had to go find the item you want to link to go grab the URL to it go back to the web part paste it in there it's just a few extra steps that you had to do so now I can just say I want to create a link to this file and I can add it now this is this looks a little bit different than when I inserted it as a document so it's just kind of for the for the file itself for the document it looks a little bit different but think about just something that's not a file on my site like maybe I go to I go to Bing comm and I can just type being see what that looks like and then I can go add another one and do that one all right and let's go save the page and see what that looks like yeah it's giving me a scroll button because these are so large that it can't put them all next to each other on the page and it doesn't give you the ability to change the size of them so that's not necessarily the nicest interface but you don't really have any pseudo memory settings so it's got a edit button but it doesn't have actually any settings that you can edit it would be nice if those were smaller but that is how you could add just other hyperlinks and if it's content from SharePoint it's going to automatically put it as something nice-looking so let me say like my resources site I already know what the URL is so I'll go add that and see what it looks like when you're showing another shirt right side on here oops sites resources so anything that's going to be SharePoint content I believe it's going to look a little bit nicer let me go ahead and save that and see if it and that really just looks like a URL to something oh well okay so let's go ahead and go back into edit mode and let me know again if you have any questions as we go I got a lot of feedback from you guys about that video that like got you all just coming out of the woodwork huh okay I'll go ahead and add another one and we'll go add the site activity this is another web part that it pretty much has no configuration nothing to do in here but it's just a pretty little list of all the things that people are working on right now and again this so this is based on SharePoint search so this is based on all the content and your site that's being indexed and it's just doing math behind the scenes and it can tell what things people are working on the most and what things people are clicking on the most and the most recent files so it's automatically just showing you all just the site activity from your site just default set of content that the nice thing is you don't have to know to go do anything to change this to change it to have more relevant files in it it's just low maintenance so think about this think about like just setting up a site for someone and handing someone a team a site for the first time you could stick this activity webpart on their homepage think about all the times you've handed out team site to somebody and you put maybe documents in a calendar or something on the home page and no one ever touched anything on the home page from then on they just use some files and that was it has that ever happen to you alright so think about that just stick this on the homepage at least so they'll have some relevant content automatically showing and it's automatically going to be security trimmed because it's based on SharePoint search it's based on things that I have access to Stewart the way you get to this is by going to site contents and clicking the new button at the top of site contents and choosing page there isn't like a switch to turn it on you just go and see if you have that in the new button and your site contents okay next web part is going to be Yammer feed alright so I can go add a gaymer feed here not sure if I feel like doing that but I would go put the address here I can go ahead and do it you Murphy let's see oh this is my demo tenant that it's trying to log me in fine just do that that one now let me just do sorry I still want to put my you know I don't wanna put my real vamp Yammer stuff in the in the demo I'll just I'm just going to leave that alone so I actually did show a picture of that in my screenshot but we're not gonna it just shows a Yammer feed on the page so at least that you know remember the old Yammer web part that was kind of clunky and you kind of had authentication issues this looks like it's smoother and it's just the only settings you have our small medium or large I wish some of the other webparts had a small medium or large option as well Carolyn says there an option to add scripts to your page I've used a hidden content editor point to a JavaScript file is that options still available you can do embed code but I don't think anything that you did with client-side rendering or JavaScript is going to be apply to these new pages at all so no client-side rending or code or JavaScript is going to work with any of these webparts so whatever you're doing with your JavaScript right now in that web part there isn't going to be a reason to do with this kind of page this is super simple there isn't anything like that in here all right so let's see what did we finish going over the Yammer was the last okay so now I get to go to highlighted content this is my favorite one okay highlighted content it defaults to a few things highlighted content is like a replacement a sort of a new simpler version of the content search web part okay content search web parts really cool and it's got a million different things you can do and it's very powerful but again think about just the typical business user who doesn't have a PhD in SharePoint and then trying to navigate around in that interface it's just sometimes it's a little bit much so this is like a super simplified version of the content search web part don't worry guys you didn't lose your content search web part you can still create web part pages and wiki pages and use it there this is just going to be you know it's completely different interface so here's the way highlighted content works I have a source and I can say this sites this site collection are all sites and then I can pick what type of contents I want like documents pages videos images events issues tasks lists contacts and all and then I can add more of these so right now I have a feeling that they're kind of some other ones that I expect to see here but even if you don't see some content type that you're used to using or a custom one you've created they're still going to be other ways that we can get to to narrow it down to see that content and actually might over might flip over to my other tenant to look at some yeah to look at some of this and to look at because you know I have tenants that have just a lot more sort of fake content in them so I'm going to go ahead and do that and I go ctrl shift P and go to my in private browsing and pull up my other demo tenants and then you guys let me know what you think about the so far all of that nice empty login site okay there we go okay so let's go to this tenant and again how do you create a new page like this you go to site contents and click new oh this tenant doesn't have it how interesting so some of you might have tenants that have it and some of you might not so my other temp didn't my demo tenant that is in our first release cycle does not have it and my IWM enter tenant does so that's fine alright so what I'm going to do is so you have different types so once you select a source you can select a type but when some select some types that you select will give you a narrowed down list so for example when you choose documents you can choose a specific type of documents and as you change the settings in here it will change what you see on the page just immediately right if you don't see page in your site contents page when you click the new button you don't have this yet in your tenant so it's kind of a like a roll of the dice right now since this just came out all right so I can choose when I choose documents I can narrow it down to a document type and like if I choose videos it doesn't have that so if I choose like documents I think documents is the only one that does it but then it documents the one it gives me document type down here see for the other ones it goes away yeah all right so documents I can choose a specific document type I'm going to go ahead and say instead of documents I'm going to say all and then the next section that you're going to have notice that you can add a different document type though so I could just say type is documents and then another one and say type is powerpoints so now I've got just documents and powerpoints so that way you can get a little bit granular in here and it's not going to be too bad with you know feeling you don't have to feel like you're stuck with just picking one thing in here because you can add more of them and you can remove them as you go as well filtering and sorting so you do have some powerful options in here you have some pretty simple options and then you can get a little bit more advanced in here title includes the words so let's see if I type power that should narrow it down to things that have power user oh I have one that's the power of content types stuff like that so I can search for title includes power and then I can say content includes the words so like everything not just the title of the file but everything in the whole file might contain that word I can do that let's see I'll have like like I do fast for fast class or whatever anyway and then you have recently added and then when you choose recently added those are going to be files that that's based on created that's the created date so recently added is going to show you files that are newer ooh let me scroll see look when I chose recently added earlier this month I don't have anything showing see it narrowed it down to nothing so so let me see let me get rid of make it so that it's not filtering it so much and so now I've got in the past month I've created this one file also as you're creating as you're filling out this webpart you'll notice that see how I said sort by most recent it actually will give you a default name of your web part based on what you pick here so I can say change it to most viewed recently added earlier this month sort by most viewed and it's going to change that but then I can type whatever I want nice alright so it will give you a suggestion of a webpart title which is nice but then I can change it and just type something else on the page you know I think about it I could also just add some text here if I wanted to add some additional text to describe something alright so I've got my source all sites type is documents and then any document type and then let's go back down to filtering sorting so I have recently added so it's filtering it as soon as I choose recently added or recently changed that's going to be the created field versus for recently added and the modified field for recently changed so those are going to be and then whichever one of those two date options that you pick it's going to say since when since and then it'll have today yesterday earlier this week earlier this month last month so since earlier this year so that's going to be pretty much everything within the year it will show things that are recently changed sorted by the most views so this class SharePoint workflows informs training class we worked really really hard on this class when I look at the revisions there's like 199 revisions we had three of us working on this file and we worked for you know like a couple weeks solid getting that put together so that makes total sense that that is the most viewed file because we worked a lot on that file more than a lot of these other ones that was a very extensive lab file that we created for that workflows in forms class alright and then we have trending which is a little bit different it's going to be just kind of based again this is based on all the math going on behind the scenes with with SharePoint search and just kind of the most popular things that are that people are clicking on Carl cross success I still don't see how to add a list of the page there is not a way to add a list of the page you can take you can use this highlighted content and change it to list you would use the highlighted content web part though to add a list to a page but you have to use this to find it too to filter it so like if I want to say this site events I don't have any so you do I have any vents in this entire site collection well look at that okay so if I want to see maybe a list of events and I want to show them in a webpart that's what I would do so you'd have to go point to what type of content it is that you want to display in the web part and then use the filters to narrow it down to what specific set of content okay so there is not going to be look there's not a filter for what site it's in or what list it's in that's where your source is going to be so like maybe this site I don't have any events so I'll change it to like this site and documents so this is how I can show all the documents that exist in this site and I can say maybe I only want to show five and that's where my paging comes in right so no there is not a way to just add a list view web part on to this type of page it doesn't exist yet the highlighted content is the closest thing you're going to get to that it's a little odd isn't it all right so filter and sort we're still going through the options here for the filtering we went through title includes the words content includes the words recently added is based on created recently changed is based on modified and then created by and modified by so we can put a person's name in here so let's see I'll do like glory see if Corey created any files yep so there are some files that Corey created and then let's see if I can do me in here I think I can you know I can't do me that's good to know all right so then created by modified by are going to be people fields outlook modified by me filters it interesting what's my filter modified by me that's word that it didn't have anything under created by me that doesn't make any sense because I created most of content in here maybe it just took a second to refresh okay so me does work so this is really powerful for just like with your list and library views and SharePoint you can have whoever the person is that's looking at the page you can make it show their content so created by is equal to me or modified by is equal to me and all documents that's immediately going to show the person that's looking at the page all the files that they've been working on just in a nice neat little package just in whatever sort of sort order you pick here and so you can do multiple filters here so I could say created by me and recently added earlier this month and I only have one that I did so you can narrow it down you can keep adding filters I think I click this about 50 times and I kept it let me just keep adding more of them so you're going to be able to add more filters to it which will help you narrow it down and then let's go we got more filters here so last month earlier this year last year those are all the date things but then we also have managed property this is where it's a little bit more advanced this is kind of where we get into the nitty-gritty and why I wanted to save this webpart for last because there's a lot of potential here okay when I click this drop-down box to say manage property name that's going to show me all these sort of like site columns and all the managed properties coming from like the root level of office 365 so not only do you have all the properties just like in the content search web part not only do you have all the properties from things that are site columns but you also have all the properties from all just the people properties this is the highlighted content web part it shows it up here alright so I can go pick a property or I can go type the property or I can just type like a sign and whatever word I type it's going to narrow down my list to like you know to give a look find a property because there are so many of them in there so I type a sign and I get assigned to I can type tagged and I get several different tagged ones I'm going to do tags and so tags equals or tags contains let's see power yeah there we go so I have a tag so remember I've done previously in a presentation I taught you guys about the enterprise keyword setting you go to any list or library you can go to that library settings and choose enterprise keywords and you can check the box to turn that on and that will give you just an enterprise keywords piece of metadata on that list or library so that you can just quickly tag things and then users can quickly tag things in more of like a unstructured way and that uses managed metadata so when you are using Enterprise keywords or manage metadata that tags property is going to be powerful so one way that you would be able to using this functionality that you would be able to have this webpart just show the files in one library is you could utilize this tags concept and I'll do a demo that and show you of course search would have to run after I do its old demo how it would work and then the search index is not necessarily going to show it in a webpart immediately but we'll go through that since you guys seem to be concerned about that manage property name is so again you find your manage property there a bajillion of them in of them in there in the whole full list then once you pick your manage property equals doesn't equal begins with contains doesn't contain etc and then I kind of mention the sort by so the sort by you actually can also do manage property so when you pick manage property for sorting let's see maybe I'll do title everything has a title so just the just want to do the title field it's not odd why would that not have title in it okay very strange so when we try that again document just going to type title so it doesn't oh so yeah it doesn't look like it's actually sorting it by title but theoretically that is where you could sort things by a certain property we try sort by I can just do by most recent yeah if you wanted if you don't if you want to do something other than just a date or how popular it is you're going to use this manage property and that's where you're going to have to have the manage property in the first place so those are going to be all you know not every single column and every listing library is going to show here so this is actually behind the scenes are a lot of extra steps you'd have to go through to be able to have some custom column of your own to make make it a managed property that's going to be something we've talked about in other power hours before where you can go in to be a site collection and then and go to manage properties in site settings it's in your search schema and do some fancy things in there to be able to create your own manage properties but those are definitely some extra steps you'd have to go through to be able to do really much more custom filtering in here and more custom sorting as well I like this setting down here to say hi this webpart if there's nothing to show for example if you have a web part that's showing all events that are happening this month and you don't have any just the web part won't show there if you if you don't want it to alright so let's go through this exercise of having a library that and using tags and then showing how you can make it just show the content from that library alright so I'm going to go ahead and publish my page alright I have all these lovely webparts that I put on my page now it's a lot of scrolling right we could definitely stand to get rid of this big empty space here okay so let's go ahead and I'm going to go on this little demo site that Corey created and I'm going to create a library in here since just I don't want to mess with my you know kind of creating fake content in my actual tenant I don't want to create a bunch of mess in there so I'll go ahead and go in here and do add an app and add a document library I'll call it policies you'll notice that I use policies as an example and a lot of my demos everybody knows everybody's company policies right so I'll go ahead and create my policies and then I can see it here and go straight to the settings like this and I'm going to turn on this is what I mentioned a minute ago the enterprise metadata and key word settings I'm going to turn that on click OK and as soon as I do that I'm going to have a new piece of metadata so I can actually add that to my view here let's see if it gives me a quick way to show that there it is enterprise keywords going to love that and then I need to save my view there we go love the way the new way of working in views here ok so next I'm going to show you how we can make it so that everything that gets put in this policies library is just going to automatically get a certain tag that we assign and that way end-users won't have to know to go do anything it will just be you know it'll just exist there and they don't have a lot of extra work that they need to do so let's see good too go to the library settings and then you guys sure quiet let me know if you have any questions and then go to this is a little obscure column default value settings now if I have folders in my library this is also a good setting where I can define if you know again I don't recommend a whole bunch of folders or a deep set you know structure of folders but if you have maybe one maybe two levels of folders in your library you could click on each folder down here on the left and automatically set certain metadata to have certain values automatically when people drop things into that folder so that's what I'm going to do right now just for the whole library so enterprise keywords if I tried to just go into the library settings and click on enterprise keywords and set a default value it it would not exist it doesn't give me the setting there that's why I'm going to this page right so I'm going to say when people put any files in this library I want the metadata to let's see what options it gives me policy I want it to be tagged with the metadata policy and I click OK so now I can see that that setting is in place and I go to policies and let's go drag a couple of files in here so I have some just demo files I think company policies and I'm I just dragged those just straight from Windows Explorer and now I have three files in here so look at that magic so now they all have that keyword of policy do you guys like that so this is probably nothing new to a lot of you but this is the functionality that you could use to make it so that when you're displaying things in the highlighted content web part that's where you can make it make sure that it shows just a certain subset of your data right they might all be documents they all might all just be the generic gimmick content-type you don't necessarily want to go have to change all the content types that is an option but if all this stuff is in place already you could put some tagging in place and so then the way you'd set that up would be I'll go edit my page in I almost click the drop-down to go to edit it's not there it's over it's up in the top-right go edit this webpart just a little kind of getting used to where to go in this new interface right okay here's my filter so filter is going to be only remove kind of there we go and remove that filter and just kind of narrow it down so I don't have too much going on in here okay my filter is by managed property my managed property that I selected it's tags and I can say contains policy so I don't have anything now let's go see what my scope is see it only says this site I'll just say all sites and see if it finds something now I just added those files to that library so those files that I just added and not immediately going to show up in my search results so that's one thing to kind of keep in mind with not only with this webpart but with just the content search web part that you've been using is that it's always going to have that little bit of a delay because all that content needs to be indexed so I showed you a minute ago what it would look like if I did you know tags contain like power for power hour so it does work but that's the technique that you could use to make it show files from a certain library hopefully that helps you guys if you guys want to immediately start using this webpart you don't have a way to modify what columns are showing though or anything like that there's no there no view settings it's basically cards or lists a moment says I was trying the other day set up a default default values for all the folders in my library and when I wanted to update one value column default values settings page was missing all the folders that is weird of I've never seen that happen so you had folders in your library and the column default value settings did not see all your folders that's very odd I don't know um the only thing I could think of where the folders some weird you know custom content type or something like that for the folders I'm not sure so that's an obscure one hopefully that's an obscure one all right so let's say I'll go ahead and click publish and the next thing to show you is ok once I've created one of these pages how do I make it be the home page for my site so you'll need to go a couple things you'll have to keep in mind and that because I had tried this and kind of fumbled around and clicked around and now had to do a couple things to figure it out first of all the site pages needs to be using the modern look so if you're not sure yet the modern look for the lists and libraries can be found in the Advanced Settings and that's where you can change it to the new experience as the modern look and for mine my whole tenant is set to modern so it's just set to default experience so those site pages needs to be set to that and then also the page that you were editing needs to be published so if you haven't published it like this one if you hadn't published it it would it would show that little checked out icon to show that you're still working on so you actually have to have it published before you can do this and then um you select the file and then up here in the ribbon you have make home page so that's how I did created my iw mentor home I went to site contents click new click page to create it worked on it published it and then went to site pages and chose make home page and now and this is the home page and so now anytime somebody clicks home this is the page that they go to it's a big mess because I wrote my blog post editing that page I like to go see kind of of the other multiple tenants that I have going to go see which ones that may or may not have the new look so all right I'm going to go ahead stop sharing my screen okay couple of additional things to go over thanks everybody for watching we have my iw mentor power users training classes coming up in November IWM intercom and the workflows informs classes in December and also today there is a conference hope you hopefully you all know about it Nick is here Nick is actually a big part of that helping out with that conference and helping out in this SharePoint community collab to five is going on today and it is a collab I think I put yeah I put the URL in the chat window it's clad 365 slot events and then you go to click on the collab 365 global conference that's the one that starts today and there it's all over Twitter we've been tweeting about it etc and I think I put it on my speaking engagements page on my blog my session is going to be at 3 p.m. central today it's a pre-recorded session that I did about Microsoft flow and so I encourage you guys to go watch that now the nice thing about it being a pre-recorded session is that I had all the stress of recording it you know a couple of weeks ago when I recorded it but I don't have any stress anymore so I can just not have to worry all day about my presentation in my demo being ready I can just show up in the chat window and talk chat with people and answer questions and just kind of relax and have fun with it so I encourage you guys it's just a free conference I encourage you guys to all go to it and check it out check out all the long list of everybody sessions again it's 24 hours so every single hour there are multiple sessions going on that you can pick from you can kind of flip back and forth they all have chat windows going on collab 365 dot events I'm going to double check that - yeah yes black 365 dot events and then click on global conference 2016 and register for free yep I'm glad you guys agree that's a great one all right next week I'm not sure if I'm doing a power I haven't decided yet I have like a like parenting day one of my children's schools so I might go to that but feel free to go over to the general tab the hashtag general in slack and type some ideas you have for power hours and we'll kind of like see if everybody will chime in and see if we can get feedback and see what you guys think and I will post them on my schedule on Wonder Laura comm I have a little under resources I have my power our schedule there that just doesn't have much in it right now I don't think of a few things thanks everybody have a good afternoon

Channel: Laura Rogers

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Keywords: SharePoint, Office 365, Web Parts

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Length: 52min 34sec (3154 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 19 2016