2026 (Jul - Dec) Release Notes

Jul 23 (Enhancement) Kudos web part now lets recognize employees for company values

Kudos web part will now let you set company values for which employee recognitions would be posted. This can be done right in web part properties:

These values will then appear when someone choses to recognize an employee or a team:

As a result when the value is selected and posted, the card will appear like this:

Additionally, you can show a value filter so that employees can filter kudos by company values:

More about Kudos and Recognitions web part

Suggested by Origami Connect user community: Enhancement - Kudos webpart - #2 by origami

Jul 24 (Enhancement) New template designs added

We’ve added 4 new designs to Origami Installer which you can get in seconds:

Homepage

Homepage or News Center

New Employee Onboarding

Employee Benefits Portal

Note that some of these examples may utilize newer web parts or web part options released after your purchase date. You may not have all the options these examples rely on. You can still install these samples. If there is difference how some pages look, please confirm that you have the latest web parts and versions.

Aug 6 (Enhancement) News Center web part can now be used in Full-Width section

News Center web part has been always a key to a great homepage. We have now added the ability to use News Center in SharePoint Full-Width section so that you can show more news stories on a page and build beautiful page layouts like this one:

More about News Center web part

Suggested by Origami Connect user community: News Center - Enable for full-width sections

Aug 7 (Enhancement) Anniversaries web part lets you hide new employees from anniversary feed

You can now make it so employees with less than 1 year in tenure will not be shown in the anniversaries feed:

More about Anniversaries, New Hires, and Birthdays (automatic feed from Microsoft 365 and Azure/EntraID)

Suggested by Origami Connect user community: Anniversary Webpart: Ignore recently hired employees

Aug 10 (Enhancement) Calendar can show events from shared mailbox and resource mailbox

You can now show events coming from a shared mailbox or resource mailbox:

More about Calendar (color-coded SharePoint calendar / Microsoft 365 Group calendar)

Suggested by Origami Connect user community: The ability to display a 365 shared, user or conference room calendar on a sharepoint site.

Aug 24 (Enhancement) Banner with News Plus lets you select where the thumbnail image comes from

You can select where your news post thumbnail will come from.


If you select:

  • Thumbnail: it will come from page details → thumbnail
  • High resolution: it will come from the first image found on the news page (like an image web part)

More about Banner with News Plus

Suggested by Origami Connect user community: Banner With News Plus: Thumbnail photo option

Aug 31 (New Web Part) Service Requests

Give your SharePoint intranet a central service desk where employees can easily submit, track, and resolve IT, HR, or Facilities requests directly within SharePoint.

:television: Watch a 5-min video about this web part

This web part is available as a service add-on and for customers on the Priority service plan.
Please contact your account manager for enrollment details.

More about SharePoint Service Requests web part

Aug 31 (New Web Part) Service Request Manager

Empower departments to track and resolve their own service requests directly within SharePoint.

:television: Watch a 5-min video about this web part

This web part is available as a service add-on and for customers on the Priority service plan.
Please contact your account manager for enrollment details.

More about SharePoint Service Request Manager web part

Sep 2 (Enhancement) Heading web part gets more alignment options

New option for alignment will let you align the text and optional decorative element either to the Left, Center, or Right:

More about Heading and separator web part with custom font for SharePoint

Suggested by Origami Connect user community: Heading Alignment

Sep 2 (Enhancement) Tabs with Cards lets you overlay tabs to create new designs

You can now create a new immersive design patterns like this one:

This pattern gives you immersive banner while also enabling to put more content right at the top of the page.

The configurations used for this design are as follows:

More about Tabs with Cards web part

Sep 10 (Enhancement) Calendar web part shows Display Name for shared M365 calendars

If you’re using Origami Calendar to display shared mailboxes, the web part will now show their display name to make the source of events more readable
The display name can be changed in M365 Admin like this:

If this is a calendar in your Outlook, it can be renamed like this:

More about Calendar (color-coded SharePoint calendar / Microsoft 365 Group calendar)

Suggested by Origami Connect user community: Display names for Calendars in Events web part

Sep 11 (Enhancement) Tabs with Cards additional styling options

You can set additional styling options for active tabs as shown below:

More about Tabs with Cards web part

Suggested by Origami Connect user community: Tabs with Cards | Selected Tab Options