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July 13, 2021July 14, 2021

SharePoint team vs communication site web part options

Depending on whether your SharePoint site is built on a team site template (has a left-hand navigation menu) or a communication site template (no left-hand navigation menu) you will have different options available for web parts to be used on your site’s pages.

Part of this may be because communication sites are not built on Microsoft 365 groups which are required for creating assets like Planner plans. The Planner web part requires its hosting site to share a supporting Microsoft 365 group. You’ll also notice a much more limited selection of third-party (non-Microsoft) web parts available in communication sites.

Note
Even though communication sites aren’t built on Microsoft 365 groups, you can use pre-existing Microsoft 365 groups to grant access/membership to your communication site.

These web parts help remind us of the purpose behind each template. Team sites are meant to be used for collaboration – therefore we see much more collaborative tools available in this template. Communication sites, however, tend to be more consumer-oriented and don’t typically need the third-party apps or collaborative tools to share their documents, news, knowledge, etc. with consumers.

Team sites have the most web part options, including many third-party options. The following web parts are unique to team sites:

Asana
Bitbucket (and Bitbucket Server)
GitHub (and GitHub Enterprise)
Google Analytics
Incoming Webhook
JIRA
Office 365 Connectors
Planner
RSS
Salesforce
Stack Overflow
Trello
UserVoice

Web parts available in a team site | Click to enlarge

There are currently no web parts in communication sites that are not also available in team sites.

In the following table, you’ll find all of the default available web parts, their descriptions, and which template(s) they’re each available within.

Web part	Description	Team	Communication
Asana	Track projects from start to finish	X
Bing Maps	Display a location on a map using Bing Maps	X	X
Bitbucket	Manage and collaborate on your code projects	X
Bitbucket Server	Manage and collaborate on your code projects	X
Button	Add a clickable button with a custom label and link	X	X
Call to action	Add call to action text and an image paired with a clickable button	X	X
Code Snippet	Add a Code Snippet to the page	X	X
Conversations	Show conversations from a Yammer group, user, topic, or home	X	X
Countdown Timer	Count down or count up to an important event	X	X
Divider	Add a line to divide areas on your page	X	X
Document library	Show a document library from this site	X	X
Events	Display upcoming events from your sites in a layout you choose	X	X
GitHub	Manage and collaborate on code projects	X
GitHub Enterprise	Manage and collaborate on code projects hosted on a GitHub Enterprise instance	X
Google Analytics	Get Google Analytics summary reports	X
Group calendar	Display a calendar from one of your Office 365 groups	X	X
Hero	Prominently display up to 5 pieces of content with links, images, pictures, or photos in a highly visual layout	X	X
Highlights	Show highlights of Yammer conversations	X	X
Image gallery	Show several images, pictures or photos in a gallery layout	X	X
Incoming Webhook	Send data from a service to your Microsoft 365 Group in real time	X
JIRA	Gather, organize, and assign issues detected in your software	X
Kindle Instant Preview	Show a preview of a Kindle book	X	X
List	Display a list from this site	X	X
List properties	Connect to a list web part on the same page and dynamically display a selection from that list	X	X
Markdown	Use Markdown language to add and format text	X	X
Microsoft Forms	Add a survey to collect responses or show results	X	X
Microsoft PowerApps (Preview)	Show a custom app created with PowerApps	X	X
My feed	Display a personalized feed of content and activities	X	X
News	Show news posts from one or more sites in a variety of layouts. You can filter news and target news to key audiences	X	X
Office 365 Connectors	Connect with other services to show updates and notifications from them	X
Organization chart	Show an organization chart (org chart) with structure and connections for a selected person	X	X
Page properties	Show details about your page like date, content type, or custom properties	X	X
People	Display selected people and their profiles	X	X
Planner	Show and work with a Planner board or charts	X
Power BI	Display a Power BI report	X	X
Quick chart	Show data in a simple bar or pie chart	X	X
Quick links	Show a collection of links in a variety of layouts with options for icons, images, and audience targeting	X	X
Recent documents	Display recent documents for the current user	X	X
RSS	Get RSS feeds for your group	X
Salesforce	Build relationships with your customers	X
Saved for later	Show the current page viewer’s documents and pages that they saved for later	X	X
Site activity	Show site activity such as files uploaded or edited, lists created, and more	X	X
Sites	Show important or interesting sites on your page	X	X
Spacer	Add vertical space between areas on the page	X	X
Stack Overflow	Ask and answer programming questions	X
Stream	Display a Stream video or channel	X	X
Trello	Manage Trello cards and tasks all in one place	X
Twitter	Display a Twitter feed	X	X
UserVoice	Collect new customer ideas, and track and respond to customers’ problems	X
Weather	Show the current weather in a location you choose	X	X
World clock	Show one or more clocks with time zones you choose	X	X
YouTube	Show a YouTube video on the page	X	X

A table detailing available web parts and in which site template you can find them for use.

January 10, 2019January 2, 2019

Content and script editor web parts missing in SharePoint

Missing two of your favorite web parts? Don’t fret.

Make sure the site collection feature “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure” is activated

Make sure the site feature “SharePoint Server Publishing” is activated

Still not there? Check “Settings” in the admin center to see if custom scripts are allowed on personal and self-service created sites (allow both). This can take up to 24 hours to take effect.

If you can’t wait (and you’re using SharePoint Online), use PowerShell to make the change immediately, changing my site details to your own

$adminUPN="nate@sharepointlibrarian.com"
$orgName="sharepointlibrarian"
$UserCredential = Get-Credential -UserName $adminUPN -Message "Enter password"
Connect-SPOService -URL https://sharepointlibrarian-admin.sharepoint.com -Credential $userCredential
Set-SPOsite https://sharepointlibrarian.sharepoint.com -DenyAddAndCustomizePages 0

Repeat the last line for each site on which you need to quickly activate this setting. For example, I would run it again on https://sharepointlibrarian1.sharepoint.com/sites/AnotherSite

Your web parts should have now returned! Good luck.

December 11, 2018December 10, 2018

SharePoint’s Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is missing!

Applies to: SharePoint Server/on-prem

I love SharePoint’s Content Query Web Part (CQWP) – but if you’re missing a feature in your site collection(s), you may not have it! Luckily you can get it back in just four clicks.

Go to Site Settings

Click “Site Collection Features” under “Site Collection Administration” (Note: Must have full control or site collection administrator permissions to see this option)

Activate “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure“

Now your CQWP should be available as a web part under Content Rollup.

If you need to activate the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure across all site collections in a web app, I recommend checking out
Salaudeen Rajack’s site, SharePointDiary.com, for instructions on doing this via PowerShell.

October 23, 2018October 23, 2018

How to give SharePoint link lists a professional look out-of-the-box using the icon library

In the modern SharePoint experience, you can clean up ordinary link lists with very little effort, thanks to SharePoint’s icon library.

Whether you need a Teams icon (teams), dog (fangbody), tooth (teeth) or football (football), you can search for icons and use those for adding visual cues and iconography to your sites. Here’s how you can implement this on your page(s):

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March 26, 2018

Embed quizzes and/or results in SharePoint using Microsoft Forms

Asset 1quiz.png This morning I looked around for either pure javascript or custom service solutions for trivia or quiz embeds for SharePoint. The out-of-the-box survey web part wouldn’t allow the kind of features I needed such as showing a message upon submission about correct and incorrect answers, and I wanted something more robust than a newsfeed or Yammer quiz. I also wanted users to easily be able to change their own quiz questions and answers and no high-maintenance code solution was going to cut it.

What I learned? There aren’t a lot of free solutions out there for quick quiz creation and embedding in SharePoint. And the ones that are out there don’t look the greatest. Then I remembered Microsoft Forms has a quiz function! Don’t these look great? Even better – you can embed in SharePoint Server/On-Prem or SharePoint Online/O365!

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Microsoft Form’s quiz capabilities are incredible. In five minutes you can create a quiz that looks good, is easy to update and has features ordinarily only available with a premium subscription through other services. And as seen above, you can embed the results as well, making voting fun or showing a group how everyone is performing as a whole on a topic quiz. Here are some of the great features you get with Microsoft Forms:

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February 14, 2018December 31, 2018

Embedding Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) reports in SharePoint

If you’re on-premises and looking to embed a Power BI Report Server report in SharePoint, you’ll find it’s not as easy as O365 embeds. But it’s certainly possible; here’s how:

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August 16, 2017August 16, 2017

Alerts/notifications for SharePoint site newsfeed webpart posts & replies

One of the greatest business value features of a site newsfeed webpart would obviously be to know when people are participating, asking questions, etc. This way moderators or other interested parties could go in and respond in a timely manner. And while there’s no straightforward way to get these notifications from the webpart itself, there’s a workaround. Follow these steps once you have a newsfeed webpart on your site (by default, most team sites have them already).
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March 19, 2017March 18, 2017

Remove select/de-select checkmark column, column headers, edit/new options, and border in SharePoint list view web parts

tooltiplinkedtitles In a recent post, I discussed hyperlinking URL title text and adding tooltips. I used the above screenshot which also illustrates what we’ll accomplish in this post which is to remove the select/deselect checkmark column, column headers, toolbar edit/new options and chrome border. This leaves us with a simple title and list. Pick and choose what you’d like to remove for your specific needs, and let me know if you run into any issues.

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March 18, 2017

Creating hyperlinked titles with tooltips in SharePoint link lists using SharePoint Designer workflow

tooltiplinkedtitles Let’s put those link lists to good use. I wanted one master or parent link list with a number of views. I would then use those views in different list view web parts across my site, removing the toolbar (view/edit/add options), column headers, chrome border and select/deselect checkmark column so that essentially I had a section of my page with a header/chrome title like “HR Forms” (removing default link to “parent” list) and then just a list of hyperlinked form titles with tooltips providing more info on each form as seen above. This post will cover how to get the hyperlinked title text with tooltip. Another post coming soon will cover the “clean-up” of the list view web part so that you’re left with a title and list items alone. Continue reading “Creating hyperlinked titles with tooltips in SharePoint link lists using SharePoint Designer workflow”

March 11, 2017

Including or excluding multiple property filters in SharePoint search results web part query

In one of my projects, we built a directory largely based on this article with content created by Stacy Deere-Strole of Focal Point Solutions. Something we ran into was wanting to include multiple departments in our base search query (not refiners, as that only narrows our results instead of expanding them). We also wished to eliminate multiple results in the JobTitle property within the query text. While this is a simple solution, hopefully it will save you some trial and error in writing your search language.

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