Sites and Collaboration
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Set "Communication Site" as Root site collection
For organisations that would like to use Communication site as their intranet it would be great if you could provision the root site as a Communication site, rather than a team site with a redirect to the communication site.
There is a workaround as mentioned here but i'd prefer a Microsoft supported method https://hangconsult.com/2017/06/29/change-sharepoint-online-root-site-collection-to-use-the-new-communication-site-template/
1,185 votesYou can now enable communication site experience at the classic root site with http://spo.ms/enablecommsite or swap a new communication site to the root with http://aka.ms/siteswap
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Remove Get the mobile app and Feedback buttons
Please allow site administrators to remove or hide this button as we don't want our internal user to send feedback to microsoft instead of internal support team.
684 votesWe have removed the “get mobile app” and “feedback” button. Thank you for the feedback !
The SharePoint mobile app can be downloaded from the Apple and Google app stores.
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Multilingual Communication Sites
Including support would be needed.
My client has a legal requirement for using software, intranets that is Bi-Lingual.
Communication sites are really great way to building new Intranets quickly but this is a critical feature for adoption.
538 votesPlease see Multilingual publishing feature announcement here : https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-blog/new-sharepoint-feature-multilingual-publishing-for-pages-and/ba-p/1432445
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Provide option to convert existing site to communication site
For customers who are trying to completely modernize their large SharePoint implementations, it should be possible to convert an existing site collection to use the communication site template.
It can simply be a powershell command that applies all the features/etc. it needs.
It doesn't need to change existing content, just apply the styles and create the typical landing page for a communication site.
It'll make it easier to adopt upcoming features (like adding sites to hubs, etc.)
266 votesPlease see instructions here: https://docs.microsoft.com/sharepoint/modernize-classic-team-site
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Add News Article Metadata
Add News Article Metadata
When adding a news article (site page) on Communication Sites, through the new interface, it would be great to be able to populate additional metadata for the page.
This could be along the lines of tagging pages with keywords for searching through articles or adding custom metadata.
203 votesWe’ve enabled custom metadata on pages and news in Sites last year and forgot to mark this complete.
See the blog about it here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Structure-your-intranet-page-metadata-coming-to-SharePoint-in/ba-p/212555
If you have additional asks, like the commentor asking for AND/OR control in news filtering, please search and find a suggestion to vote for, or open a new once.
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Communication Site: Themes and and branding options missing
The current communication site template cannot be used for corporate wide communication because there are some important things missing.
The overall design is only able to speak and represent only the Microsofot CI/CD. The missing branding and theming options makes it hard to be used in corporates because there is currently no way to apply corporate communication and design guidelines to the page. For user it makes it hard to identify the page as an official communication channel by the company and not by Microsoft.In addition not even well known and supported customisations through Themes is possible at the…
130 votesboom! it's done ·AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin (SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint) responded
A number of theming updates have been rolled out this year – and the branding updates we shared at Ignite 2018 will be rolling out to Targeted Release later this month. We’re going to resolve this suggestion and ask that you create new suggestion(s) for specific branding settings/asks. Thank you!
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Enable scheduling of posts for the News Section
In Sharepoint Communication Sites -
Allow the option to schedule posts for the News Section.
Allow the option to change the published date for posts in the News Section (e.g. if you need to back-date something).
Allow the option to change the publishing user on News posts (e.g if you're publishing something on behalf of a team member, but want their name displayed, not yours)
117 votesThis is currently rolling out to customers
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=62892
News and modern pages both support listing an alternate author in the author by-line field already today.
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Change page or news page authors
please add the possibility to modify the page author so e.g. the comms dept is able to add news posts from the Executives. The People Web Part is not sufficient for our business request and a general editors account is not allowed.
112 votesboom! it's done ·AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin (SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint) responded
In the new title area, you’re able to list any author as the page/news author.
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Fix top navigation for external users
When sharing a Communication Site with external users (activated with Set-SPOSite -Identity https://... -SharingCapability ExternalUserSharingOnly), they dont see the top navigation unless they reduce their browser window size below 1024px. Below 1024px window size the burger menu for mobile viewing shows up.
This is obviously a bug that requires immediate fixing.
Please fix this asap.Further info:https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Communication-Sites-Navigation-for-external-users-not-showing/td-p/95641
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Allow News Digest Emails to pull from multiple sources
The News web part can pull news posts from multiple sites, however the Digest email only appears to be able to pull from one site. It'd be great if I could create a digest that pulls from all the sources that a web part pulls from. This would allow for multiple communication sites to be used for a single email digest and would increase buy-in from our internal communications team, as well as the various departments which want to communicate within the organization.
17 votesYou can actually already do this today, but thanks for submitting this suggestion to help us update our help documentation. If you create a page, with a news web part, pulling from the sites you want to make a digest for, and then click the see all link on that news web part, you’ll be able to create a news digest, selecting posts from the various sites you configured to include.
We’ll update this help article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-and-send-a-news-digest-42efc3c6-605f-4a9a-85d5-1f9ff46019bf
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Hide page title in the Modern UI sites
*English follows Japanese
■Title(件名):
モダン UI のサイトにおいて、ページのタイトル エリアを削除できるようにしたいHide page title in the Modern UI sites
■Description(内容):
モダン UI のサイトにおいて、タイトルを入力しない場合でもタイトル エリアのスペースが残ってしまう。ページのタイトルを入力しない場合には、不要なスペースとなるためページのタイトル エリアを削除をできるよう機能拡充を要望します。In the Modern UI sites, even though no title is entered, page title area still remains.
For removing this unnecessary space, in case there is no title entered, allow hiding the page title.Thank you for your consideration.
3 votesYou can choose between four title area sizes & layouts. The smallest one (plain) simply shows the title with no image on one line. Click the pencil on the left hand side of the title area to access these settings.
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