It’s been a super busy time since Ignite 2017 for Content Services in Office 365. Let’s recap some of the highlights
Tag: SharePoint
Use Microsoft Forms on your #SharePoint pages to collect responses or show survey results right on your site.
Now integrated with the Office family, Microsoft Forms can easily collect information from your favorite and familiar apps.
Forms for Excel
Forms for Excel, powered by Microsoft Forms, has replaced Excel Survey and builds a live data connection between Microsoft Forms and Excel. The responses you collect in your form will show up, real time, in your Excel workbook.
Forms in Microsoft Teams
You can now access Microsoft Forms directly in Microsoft Teams. Set up a Forms tab to create a new form or insert an existing one, create notifications for your form via connector, or conduct a quick poll using Forms Bot.
Forms web part for SharePoint
SharePoint has been widely used to share ideas and collect feedback. You can now use a Microsoft Forms web part on your SharePoint pages to collect responses or show survey results right on your site.
Find your group forms in portal
The forms you have created in Microsoft Teams or SharePoint team sites belongs the O365 group. In Forms portal, there is a new features, “Recent group form”, where you could quickly access the group forms you have used recently.
SharePoint pages and image editing updates in Office 365
Full article on: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-pages-and-image-editing-updates-in-Office-365/bc-p/143145#M1285
Summary
Start from existing page
Make your text appear more like you like – rich text editing (RTE) updates
Image web part now allows editing and photos from Bing
Further promote your pages and news
Site usage page – At the bottom of each SharePoint page or news article you’ll see a row of information that tells you how many people have liked your content, how many left comments and total number of views.
Full article on: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-pages-and-image-editing-updates-in-Office-365/bc-p/143145#M1285
Video: Understanding permissions in SharePoint
Video: Understanding permissions in SharePoint
Are you confused about how permissions work in SharePoint? Controlling access to sites, libraries and items in those libraries is an important part of using SharePoint in your organization. This conceptual video explains the basic guidelines to follow when working with SharePoint permissions. You’ll get an overview of these guidelines, including how to creating unique permissions for sites, sub-sites, and libraries by breaking permissions inheritance.
For more information on SharePoint permissions see Get help with permissions in SharePoint.
SharePoint Object Explorer: See all the objects and its properties in your sitecollection.
https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104055379?src=office&tab=Overview
See all the objects and its properties in your sitecollection.
With this tool you can take a look behind the scenes in SharePoint and see all the properties of all the objects in your sitecollection.
Features
- see all the lists and libraries with their properties
- see all the fields and contenttypes with their properties
- see all the (sub)sites with their properties
- see all the site pages and webparts with their properties
SharePoint mobile notifications keep you up-to-date
Triggers for Microsoft Planner, actions for SharePoint attachments, and other connector improvements
https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/planner-triggers-connector-improvements/
Planner triggers
One of the top-voted requests on the Ideas forum is for us to add triggers for the Microsoft Planner connector. This week we are announcing three new triggers:
- When a new task is created – pick a plan and any new tasks in that plan will trigger the flow. Use this trigger if you want to sync a plan with another data source, like SharePoint Online.
- When a task is assigned to me – trigger a flow whenever a task is assigned to you – this way you could create an item in Wunderlist or Outlook Tasks.
- When a task is completed – whenever an task is closed in a plan, the flow will run. You can use that to mark items in other services as completed, or just send a notification out.
Continue reading .. -> https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/planner-triggers-connector-improvements/
Communication sites- Hero WebPart Jigsaws
This blog shows how to quickly create a set of ‘jigsaw’ images to power the SharePoint Hero webpart to provide one image across the banner.
https://medium.com/@smcollier/hero-webpart-jigsaws-ad59f52deb91 by Steven Collier