To help you in the quest to avoid scavenger hunts at work, Microsoft now has a way for you to integrate your SharePoint Lists and Pages with Microsoft Teams.

7 Steps to Add SharePoint Lists to Microsoft Teams

1. Go to Microsoft Teams channel.

2. Select the “+” symbol on the menu.

3. ‘Add a tab’ dialog will appear.

4. Select SharePoint under ‘Tabs for your team’. If SharePoint is not visible, you can find it by typing in the search box at the top right. 

5. Select the pages and list appearing on the tab.

6. Choose the SharePoint page you want to integrate into teams and click ‘Save’. You can also alert your team about the new tab by clicking keep the Post to the channel about this tab selected.

7. Your SharePoint page will then appear as a Tab in teams. See below image to know how a list will appear when added as a tab.

You can see a list in the tab using the same process. Also, you can  add new items to the list in the tab or you can click the ‘Open in SharePoint’ button.

Final Thoughts:

SharePoint pages are great way to share organizational news, documents, ideas etc., while SharePoint lists are a great for collaboration. if you are a Microsoft Teams user and want to have your SharePoint pages and lists in your teams channel you need to follow this blog.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to our SharePoint team at contact@beyondintranet.com

Intranets are making great strides with their new modern communication sites and are likely to continue. Most organizations use intranets to share a quick fact or an update, or maybe a landing page about a department or working group. For medium- and small-scale organizations this may suffice, however, the larger enterprises need something robust and scalable. 

 The Need for Modern Experience 

Technology has stepped forward swiftly in the last decade as we have moved towards digitization, cloud transformation, robotics, and analytics. Market developments and competition have altered commercial enterprise goals dramatically as their legacy systems are getting a face-lift, they are moving from servers to clouds, a static web-page to a responsive layout and beyond.  

Talking about the legacy corporate intranets, they lack front-end experience and diverse content editor roles. Microsoft realized the need for a modern SharePoint framework and decided to put an end to any updates to the old installations. This leaves many organizations with Intranets having very basic templates that are very nondescript and still doesn’t support accessibility by default. They introduced Modern SharePoint which is a development framework which emphasizes user experience, collaboration and efficiency, and most importantly, isn’t developer-intensive. The fundamental changes are mostly done on the client’s front instead of the server and don’t require manpower and investment for the CSS, JavaScript, and web parts. 

 Capabilities of Modern SharePoint  

-Attractive, brand-specific designs that come with hub-wide navigation with increased search capabilities across all departments. 

-On-site customization within an existing hub become possible along with the easy installation of web parts with conditional formatting.  

-Automate repetitive tasks, assign site design permissions and make sure whatever is done to the intranet stands approved. 

-Turnkey solutions with noteworthy cost savings for democratized intranets that no longer require developer intensive tasks. 

-Smooth migration of complex sites that host monolithic designs and complex navigation.  

Purpose of a Modern SharePoint Intranet  

Modern SharePoint empowers you to do so much beyond simply communicating general procedures using a portal that serves are a repository for documents; it gives you the ability to design functional sites, pages, and web parts. With modernization comes innovation, collaboration and efficiencies that support activities within a working environment.  

Webinar on Modern SharePoint 

Beyond Intranet is hosting its first webinar on Building Smart Intranet using Modern SharePoint. This will be a 30- minute free session which will expose the limitations of legacy Intranets and take a deeper dive into the features of Modern SharePoint. The webinar will be a live session followed by a short QnA session.  

 Audience 

While this session is directed toward anyone wanting to learn Modern SharePoint features, all are encouraged to attend.  

TOPIC: Building Smart Intranet…. Simplified With Modern SharePoint  

WHEN: August 21st, 2019 @ 1 pm EDT 

WHO: Dave Brown, Bhupendra Singh, and Vijay Mangtani  

WHAT: Tips and feature demonstrations of Modern SharePoint  

 Find speaker details and other information here: 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

Microsoft has started the roll out of the modern theming capability in Office365. Other than changing the themes, now you have awesome capabilities to customize the Header, Footer, and Navigation on your Modern Communication sites. On Teams site, you only get options to change the Theme and Header, but not the footer and navigation.

Today in this article, we are going to discuss the step-by-step process of how you can customize different elements of your Modern Communication sites:

a. Themes

b. Header

c. Navigation

d. Footer

Let’s get started.

Note: Change the look settings are located under Settings in the top right corner of your SharePoint site.

1. Change the theme

This attractive SharePoint Site theming option allows user to apply custom or default themes to all Modern sites (Communication or Team sites) to deliver new engaging and familiar looks.

You can refer to our previous blog, How to get Custom Theme for your Modern SharePoint site, to learn more about how customization can be done to change themes.

1. After you select and apply a new theme, you can do further customization in that.

2. Click on Customize.

3. Select the Main and accent color of your choice and save changes to apply.

4. You will see that the selected color is applied all over your new theme.

2. Change the header

You can now easily customize the layout, logo and background color of your site header by this option. Check out how.
1. On your site, click Settings and then click Change the look > Header. You will get a menu for header for customization.

2. Select either the Standard header layout or the Compact option which moves all header content to a single line. Check out the basic difference between standard and compact type header.

3. Click Change to add a site logo.

4. Select a header background to change the background color of your site header.

5. Click Apply to save your changes.

3. Change the Navigation

Customization features on Navigation allow users to change the Navigation layout to either Mega menu style or cascade style.

1. On your site, click Settings and then click Change the look > Navigation.

2. Click on the selected option and click save to apply changes.

3. Mega menu

Mega menu lays down the navigation menus into a large container which spreads across the screen. It is helpful when you have several sub-menus one under the other.

4. Cascade

Cascade lays down the sub-menus one under the other in a compact style. This is helpful when you have very selective and fewer menu items.

Notes:

* The megamenu style is only available on SharePoint hub sites associated with Microsoft Teams or on Communication sites.

* To change your navigation links, see Customize the navigation on your SharePoint site.

* Links added to the 3rd level when using the megamenu style will display as a single vertical list only.

4. Change the Footer

The next customization ability recently developed within the SharePoint modern sites is the ability to customize site footers, which provides additional site navigation, other links, legal documents, or social media sites at the bottom of the website. You can now show or hide a footer, add or edit a logo, add a link, or show Footer name with this new feature.

1. On your site, click Settings and then click Change the look > Footer.

2. Toggle the switch to On to add a footer to your site.

3. Click Upload to add your logo image to the footer. The image is automatically resized.

4. To add a name for your footer, toggle the switch to On and enter the name.

5. To add or change links in the footer, click Edit footer navigation links. You can add one level of up to eight links or labels. For more information about adding or editing navigation links, see Customize the navigation on your SharePoint site.

6. Click Apply to save your changes.

Note: The site footer feature is only available on Communication site pages. They are not available for list pages, library pages, or other pages on your site.

Try on your own or ask for help!

Isn’t it simple to customize your Modern SharePoint site with branded theme, header footer, or navigation styles? Just try the simple steps and let us know how it went.

Even if you face any challenges, the Beyond Intranet SharePoint team of expert developers is always there to help. Connect with us at contact@beyondintranet.com and we will respond to you as soon as we can.