Sites and Collaboration
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Missing page layout option in communication sites
The publishing possibilities shown in the new communication sites serve a great insight of possibilities to create content in SharePoint. While this is an suitable approach for user generated content such as in Wikis there is a high demand to provide a consistent corporate wide communication.
In the past this was possible through page layout option which is now missing and removes the ability for corporate communication departments to manage, plan and organise the content to communicate.
In addition the missing page layout option lead to inconsistent and at least time consuming page creation. It will be hard to recreate…91 votes -
Remove the list view threshold (5000 by default)
This limit has always been a bit laughable, and is even more so as we develop more client side applications. In SharePoint 2007 we didn't have this limit and were allowed to make our own mistakes. Now that hardware is so much more powerful, we need this limit removed so that we can build enterprise-class applications.
1,115 votesThe 5,000 item threshold is likely here to stay. We are aware that it takes awareness on both sides to get past this limitation: list owners have to build the right fields, indices, and indexed views so that end user queries can run successfully in large lists. And then, end users have to run the correct queries – they can’t just open the root of the list, they have to use a filtered, indexed view.
We want to pursue work that helps on both these ends – for example, proactively indexing more lists, making suggestions to list owners for views to create that will help end users, and helping end users at query time pick filters that will unblock their queries. Additionally, we want to increase our support for running more types of queries in large lists when an index is present – for example, instead of requiring an indexed…
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Document sets in modern document libraries
Document Sets in modern document libraries
305 votesWe’re thinking about how we modernize the document set experience to make it faster, more productive, and at home in the new modern UI setting.
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Cross site collection navigation
Current term set based solution is not usable at all in real life multi site collection scenarios.
691 votesThis one came back up to our attention recently. We aren’t yet ready to say we are working on it, but we are considering various ideas for global cross site collection navigation and “meg-menus.” In the meantime, we are also making sure the PnP site has great examples and all available APIs are well documented for building this (e.g. it came to our attention recently there was a set of taxonomy APIs that could help but could be documented better.) Stay tuned!
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Enable renaming the site collection URLs
Currently the site collection URLs are fixed as https://tenant.sharepoint.com and cannot be changed. This does not fit with flexible cloud-based solutions - business needs will inevitably result in an organisation changing it's name during its lifetime (mergers, acquisitions, rebranding etc). While it may not be possible to change it so that entirely custom domains are used (eg contoso.com, instead of sharepoint.com), it must be possible to allow the sub-domain to be changed (eg. newtenant.sharepoint.com)? Please?
Migrating an entire organisation (likely to include Exchange, Skype, Sharepoint and Onedrive data!!) to a new Tenancy is absolutely not a viable option.
2,460 votesWe recognize that this is important for customers that undergo branding changes or mergers, or who simply want to move away from less than ideal initial URLs.
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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/
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Create Groups sites under /Teams and Communications sites under /Sites
Communications sites should not be created in the same managed path as Groups sites. They are not managed the same way and don't follow the same rules.
At least, allow the selection of the path on the create screen.
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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.
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Add Article Tagging to the Modern News Feature
It would be great to tag News posts/articles by category (e.g., training, motivational, announcement, etc.). Users could then refine by category to see all articles under that tag.
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Add Page Image and Rollup Image to columns that can have default values set
Within: Pages > Document Library Setting > Column default value settings. Add the ability to set a default image for the Page Image and Rollup Image columns.
We are trying to make it easy for users to quickly create a new page, but we require these fields to be populated so they get displayed correctly in Content by Search web parts. Everytime someone creates a new page they have to manually populate these image fields. It would be great if we could default them to some generic image and if they wanted to they could change them19 votes -
Link Icons in Quick Links
When I use links in the quick links and I link out to a site it doesn't autoload a little preview image like sharing a link in Yammer or Facebook.
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#Hashtags & @Mentions in blogs
Blog pages/posts should allow 'Hashtags and @mentions but they currently dont.
The rest of SharePoint social (micro blogging converstations, forum comments etc) make use of this. so it is beyond strange that if you comment on a blog you cant mention someone to make them aware etc
25 votesThanks for your suggestion. We agree this would be super useful. We’re looking into it.
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Enable Audience targeting on modern page web parts
It would be great to be able to target content by Audience (using global audiences and SharePoint groups) on the modern web parts just like we were able on the classic pages. Thanks
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Enable Reordering Modern News Articles/Pages in News Web part
We would love the ability to reorder the articles/pages in the modern News web parts or have the ability to surface featured articles to the top.
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Improve modern page metadata and tagging capability
Provide better ability to tag pages with labels and content type
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Page templates for Modern Pages and Libraries that allow removal of elements and reuse
Allow page authors to design page templates right in the Page Edit UI. Page edit would allow them to remove the Title Banner, Logo, left navigation, Edit link, New Link, Share Link, Search box and save the template for reuse.
Page Templates would support web parts and new developed custom JS controls for things like custom navigation controls.
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Full integration of SharePoint calendar with Outlook calendar
Allow custom fields in SharePoint calendar available to view and update from Outlook
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Add customization possibility to the new SharePoint Home page
Based on the new feature being now rolled out at large: https://blogs.office.com/2016/05/04/sharepoint-the-mobile-and-intelligent-intranet/
The new SharePoint Home page (landing page) is cool and we really appreciate the new look and feel.
The only issue is that we can not customize that Home page and place the different items based on our priority!
Based on what we have now:Links
Followed Sites
Recents
SuggestedIt would be very interesting if we could place the LINKS on the right followed by the Followed sites!
Then we would have the Recents and Suggested sites on the left menu.
Basically being able to move parts…
92 votesThanks for your feedback. We are investigating the right level of customization for the SharePoint Home page. In addition to moving the existing sections around, are there other features you’d like to see?
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Column totals missing in modern list views
Column totals missing in modern list views.
This is an often used function, and the workaround to set the list back to classic will only be a temporary solution.
168 votesThank you for your feedback. We’re considering building this functionality soon.
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Overview of applied content types
Content types are an essential part of SharePoint. One issue that has been around since SharePoint 2007 is the absence of an overview of all applied content types. Why is this important? Try to delete a content type and you get the message it's still in use. Good luck finding out where. This is very frustrating and time consuming. That's why I vote for an overview where you can see where the content types are applied.
189 votesThank you for the suggestion. We recognize the importance of better auditing around content type usage. We have a few ideas in this area though they are in too early a stage to share publicly.
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