Sep 2 (Enhancement) Anniversaries Live gets faster loading of birthdays feed
We’ve heard your feedback! Some customers noticed that when there are many birthdays in the list, the web part could take minutes to load. To fix this, we’ve added birthday and month caching.
The Birthday List now loads much faster for all users.
Page admins can refresh the cache anytime with the new “Refresh Birthdays” button.
Enjoy a smoother, faster experience!
More about this web part: Anniversaries, New Hires, and Birthdays (automatic feed from Microsoft 365 and Azure/EntraID)
Sep 10 (Enhancement) People Directory can now pull Mobile Numbers from Entra ID
Previously, there was a long-standing issue where mobile phone numbers stored in Entra ID did not automatically sync with SharePoint , since SharePoint had its own separate “Mobile Phone” field. This often led to confusion and inconsistent contact information across your directory.
What’s New
Based on a customer request, Origami People Directory will now pull mobile phone numbers directly from Entra ID by default — ensuring accurate and up-to-date contact details across your organization.
Configuration Options
- Prefer using the legacy SharePoint Mobile Phone field? You still can!
- Want to hide or show the Entra ID Mobile Phone field? Use the new toggle in the Origami People Directory settings to control visibility.
More about People Directory: People Directory for SharePoint
Sep 10 (Enhancement) Hide Disabled Accounts from Entra ID in Origami People Directory
We’ve made it even easier to keep your People Directory clean and up to date.
Previously, the directory relied only on a SharePoint field to determine which users were inactive and should be hidden.
What’s New
You can now automatically hide users who are marked as “Account enbaled” in Entra ID — based on popular customer requests.
This helps ensure that inactive or deprovisioned users no longer appear in your directory.
How to Enable
Use the new toggle in the Origami People Directory settings to enable this filter.
More about People Directory: People Directory for SharePoint
Sep 15 (Enhancement) Calendar Audience Targeting for Events
By popular request, you can now target events to specific audiences in SharePoint.
This means you can make an event visible only to members of selected Microsoft 365 (M365) groups which is perfect for department-specific events.
When creating an event in SharePoint, simply set the desired group in the Audience field:
Only users who belong to this M365 group will see the event in the calendar.
More about the Calendar: Calendar (color-coded SharePoint calendar / Microsoft 365 Group calendar)
Sep 22 (Enhancement) Calendar can now pull events by SharePoint View
You asked, we delivered. The Origami Calendar web part just got a major boost in flexibility.
Until now, the Calendar pulled in all events from your chosen calendar. But starting today, administrators can take it to the next level:
Set a View URL — including any filters or custom views you’ve created.
Display Events from that View Only — giving you full control over which events appear in the Calendar.
This means your Calendar can now adapt perfectly to your audience:
- Highlight department-specific events on a department page even if those events are in the same list as all the other events🔧
- Focus on location-based schedules for specific location page🌍
- Or display only the categories that matter for specific page🎯
Here is how you’d specify the view URL for an existing view:
More about the Calendar web part: Calendar (color-coded SharePoint calendar / Microsoft 365 Group calendar)
Sep 24 (Enhancement) New sample pages added
We’re excited to introduce new pre-built sample pages that come packaged right inside Origami!
When installing Origami, simply select the “Add Sample Pages” option in the installation wizard, and you’ll instantly have access to ready-to-use intranet page examples.
These sample pages are designed to help you:
Explore Origami’s web parts in action
Jump-start your intranet design with proven layouts
Customize faster instead of starting from a blank page
Sep 25 (Enhancement) Finder lets you pick gradients for folders
You can now give your folders a fresh new look by applying gradient colors:
Want to go back to basics? Simply clear the gradient to return to a solid single color.
This update gives you more flexibility to match your brand style and make your folders stand out.
More about the Finder: Finder (for Forms & Templates)
Sep 25 (Enhancement) News Center can now show descriptions and open news posts in new window
Thanks to your feedback, we’ve just added two highly requested updates:
- Open news in a new window
- Display news descriptions (when available)
It’s easy to enable these in the web part properties:
- New window option
Show descriptions option
More control, more flexibility 
More about the News Center web part: News Center web part
Oct 1 (Enhancement) Collapser now lets you save text in rich format
Until now, the Collapser automatically stripped out formatting to keep pasted text clean. While this worked for plain text, it made rich content like tables, styled lists, and links lose their structure.
Based on your feedback, we’ve added a new option: Preserve formatting.
You can now toggle this preference when editing so that pasted content looks exactly the way you want it to.
Example: Pasting from Word or a website will now keep the formatting when displayed on your SharePoint page.
In the editor:
On a published page
With this update, you can choose between a clean, stripped-down paste or fully formatted content.
More about the Collapser web part: Collapsible content
Oct 1 (Enhancement) Quick Links Plus can now be set so that you see them all at once
Previously, when you added more quick links than could fit in a row, the extras would appear in a carousel, requiring users to click the “>” arrow to see them.
Thanks to feedback from one of our Origami users 
, you now have another option: Show all links at once.
Just toggle the new Overflow setting in the web part properties, and all your quick links will display together:
Perfect for when you want everything visible upfront.
More about the Quick Links Plus web part: Quick Links Plus web part (with personalized links)
Oct 2 (Enhancement) Finder will now reuse colors specified in the palette if there are more folders than colors defined
Until now, if you had more folders in Finder than colors defined in your palette, you had to manually assign extra colors, or else default colors were applied.
With this update, Finder will now automatically reuse your existing palette colors when there are more folders than colors defined.
That means no more extra setup, just a simpler, cleaner experience with consistent colors across all your folders.
More about the Finder: Finder (for Forms & Templates)
Oct 3 (Enhancement) Copy Pages across sites now supports root sites
Page Copy tool used to only allow copying pages between sites that had “/sites/” in the URL and not the root site. Now you can copy from and to the root site as well!
More about the copy tool: Copy SharePoint Pages Across Sites
Oct 9 (New Web Part) Origami Analytics -- Early Access
Get ready to see your SharePoint intranet like never before!
With Origami Analytics, you can instantly track page visits, unique users, and engagement trends across your organization — all through two powerful, ready-to-use reports:
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Site Visits by Department – uncover which teams are most active and how engagement evolves over 7, 30, 90 days, or a full year
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Page Visits & Trends – spot your most popular pages and monitor how readership changes over time
Origami Analytics is now in the early access stage.
To participate, please add your organization to the waitlist (open until October 30, 2025):
Register for Origami Analytics early access
More about Origami Analytics: 🚀 BETA: Origami Analytics
Oct 9 (Enhancement) Top Navigation now supports right to left alignment
You can now align top navigation to the right to accommodate for regional preferences and design options.
The default is still left-to-right and the setting can be changed in Navigation settings:
More about Top Navigation: Main/Top Navigation (with targeting)
Oct 10 (Enhancement) Quick Links Plus now supports right to left alignment
Just as with Top Navigation, Quick Links Plus will now let you align buttons to the right to accommodate for regional preferences and design options.
This will only work if you place the buttons into Full-With section and set overflow to “Stacked”
The default is still left-to-right.
More about Quick Links Plus: Quick Links Plus web part (with personalized links)
Oct 18 (Enhancement) Analytics now shows most popular Origami web parts on your site and lets you drill down to pages using them
We’re adding another powerful insight to Origami Analytics!
With Report 3: Pages using Origami web part, you can now:
See a list of all Origami web parts and how many pages across your site use each one
Drill down to view the exact pages where a specific web part is used
This new report helps site owners quickly understand which components drive engagement — and identify opportunities to clean up unused or outdated web parts.
More about Origami Analytics: 🚀 BETA: Origami Analytics
Oct 27 (Enhancement) Navigation will now let you set spacing between items
We’ve added a new capability to give more space for your navigation items, based on customers request:
When navigation style is set as Horizontal Navigation, you can control the space to give desired distance to your nav items:
More about Origami Top Navigation: Main/Top Navigation (with targeting)
Oct 28 (Enhancement) Tabs with Cards now has additional style options
The Tabs With Cards web part now includes a new Tab Style setting, giving you more flexibility in how your tabs appear.
You can now choose between:
- Minimal tabs – a clean, subtle style (default)
- Prominent tabs – a bolder, pill-shaped style with clearer contrast for active and inactive states
This allows designers to match the visual weight of tabs to the tone of their page — whether you prefer a simple, understated layout or a more visually defined navigation.
Try it under → Tab Style → Minimal or Prominent tabs
More about Tabs with Cards: Tabs with Cards web part
Nov 7 (Enhancement) Quick Links Plus get an option to add more space between links
Thanks to a request from Origami community member, you can now add more space between your Quick Links with the slider option below.
More about Quick Links Plus web part (with personalized links)
Nov 12 (Enhancement) Navigation will now let you show a breadcrumb trail
Thanks to a suggestion from Origami user community, we’ve added a new way to help employees always know where they are in the intranet.
Introducing Breadcrumb trail, now available across your Origami intranet sites!
When users click through navigation links, they’ll now see a breadcrumb trail just below the header.
This path shows exactly where they are within the site structure — for example:
Home → Company Resources → Forms & Templates → Pay Adjustment Request
It’s a simple but powerful way to stay oriented and navigate back to previous sections without losing context.
To turn it on, go to navigation settings as shown belo:
More about Main/Top Navigation (with targeting)