Introduce markdown syntax for authoring content
As a systems engineer/developer, I love the office 365/sharepoint platform. The one thing that's stops me from using it for everything is the lack of a productive way to generate content.
Editing content in the UI is horrendously slow and painful, I just want to be able to author content quickly with markdown syntax, and publish my content/documentation quickly and easily.
What's microsofts standpoint on this? Am i the first to request this? (i highly doubt i'm the only one who wants this...)
Cheers,
Morgan
Morgan Jones
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(SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint)
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We’ve recently rolled out a markdown web part for modern pages that enables users more familiar with creating content in this syntax, to create pages using this method. Go forth and make beautiful pages :)
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Tom Franciosi
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I just noticed that modern pages now have a webpart for Markdown. Webpart controls include the below.
Markdown quick reference
Here are examples of commonly used markdown syntax.
Headers
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
#### Header 4
Emphasis
**Bold**
Ctrl-B
_Italic_
Ctrl-I
~~Strikethrough~~
Ctrl-Dash
Paragraph
> Blockquote
````Code````
Links and images
[Contoso](http://www.contoso.com/)
Ctrl-L
Lists
Ordered
1. First ordered item
2. Second ordered item
Bullets
* First bulleted item
* Second bulleted item
Table
| Header1 | Header2 | Header3 |
|---------|---------|---------|
| One | Two | Three | -
Julian Knight
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At least add the capability to specify a custom CSS style sheet for the document (which is viewed as an inserted iframe).
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Julian Knight
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While .md files can be put into a document library and are visualised as HTML. The formatting is very limited.
Please use GitHub flavored Markdown or something similar!
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Jurgen Wiersema
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turns out .md files are supported and are turned into html on the fly. Nice! Only image src tags are a problem.
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Jurgen Wiersema
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Definitely would love putting .md files or markdown text on sharepoint, pref. synced from VSTS
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Anonymous
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There is an actual demand for a WIKI including a Markdon-like way of document creation at my recent customer.
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Anonymous
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Would love to have Markdown support so I can just easily stuff content into wikis.
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Roshan Sathaar
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Implementing Markdown in Wiki pages/communication sites would revolutionise way Marketing teams manage content. Simply put it would increase SharePoint content updates quite a bit.
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Thomas Potier commented
I would like to write case studies (most easily done next to my code in Markdown) and publish these in my team SharePoint - also made visible to a "case Study" Team channel. Are you working on such feature? When is this expected to be available?
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Jonathan Eckman
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Developing markdown content in VSTS and then "deploying" it as searchable content to a SharePoint site would help us enormously.
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Matthew Petty
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Here is your annual request for an update
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Toby
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Would love to be able to share standard & Github Extended MD documents between Visual Studio Online repositories / Git Hub & SharePoint.
Our document generators for code & database documentation can also output MD so this would be really useful.
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Jonathan Eckman
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SharePoint Team - See Visual Studio Team Services wiki feature for an example. We need wiki capabilities similar to that.
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asubmani
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I need markdown as I can easily work with Javascript etc. to allow for easy copying of anything that is tagged as code in Markdown. Also, I can author my Markdown content in "Visual Studio Code". It would be really cool to be able to use sharepoint like a CMS system for Markdown.
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Jonathan Eckman
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We would love to use SharePoint as an internal blog. Unfortunately there is no way to easily format text as code which will be in a majority of our posts.
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DataSN.com
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I don't know why but it's really not enjoyable authoring content / docs on Office 365.
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Martin Müller commented
Any update on Markdown Support for modern site pages?
