Jan 5 (New Web Part) Advanced Analytics for SharePoint
Track your SharePoint intranet analytics like never before!
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
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Pages using Origami web part lets you:
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 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helps site owners quickly understand which components drive engagement and identify opportunities to clean up unused or outdated web parts.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: Origami Analytics for SharePoint
Jan 5 (Enhancement) Calendar has new display options
You can now show calendar events next to a month view picker to save space and arrange things to your liking:
To chose this view, switch thew toggle as shown above to alternate between display views.
More about Calendar (color-coded SharePoint calendar / Microsoft 365 Group calendar)
Jan 7 (Enhancement) Banner with News Plus can now show rolling KPIs
Thanks to a suggestion from Origami user community Banner with News Plus can show rotating KPI next to your main news story.
There are two KPI style options: Grid and Buttons
Grid style:
Buttons style:
Jan 8 (Enhancement) Banner with News now supports format without main news story
No main news story, no problem!
Simply delete main news post from the web part properties:
The web part will then show only the sidebar news like this:
And, before you ask, yes it looks great on a mobile too!
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Jan 8 (Enhancement) FAQ now let's you open link in a new window
We added a simple but useful ability to open links in FAQ in a new window if needed.
If you have any links in your FAQ, you can tell it to open them in a new window using this interface:
More about Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) web part
Jan 19 (Enhancement) Have a custom font uploaded into you SharePoint? Origami web parts will now follow fonts defined by your SharePoint font package
Many Origami web parts already let you apply a custom font to key, highly visible elements (like headings and carousels) where typography has the biggest visual impact.
Now, we’re taking this a step further.
Origami now supports your custom font across all key Origami web parts, so your typography stays consistent from top to bottom of the page.
You can upload your custom font package once (as shown in this video), and all Origami web parts will automatically inherit your font settings.
Each element of a web part (such as headings, body text, buttons etc) pulls from the corresponding font style you’ve defined, ensuring precise and predictable typography control.
Below is a visual guide showing which parts of each web part reference which font settings, so you always know exactly how your fonts are applied.
How SharePoint Fonts Are Used in Origami Web Parts
Jan 21 (Enhancement) Search Banner gets immersive mode
Search Banner is now able to get into immersive mode where the navigation becomes part of the banner with a stunning magazine-like look like this:
You can turn on immersive mode by simply toggling a switch in Search Banner web part properties and you can also specify the color of the nav and alternate logo to be more in line with your immersive experience:
More about Search Banner Web Part
Jan 22 (Enhancement) News Center can now do audience targeting
You can make it so news show only to members of specific M365 groups.
When creating a news in SharePoint, set the group in the Audience field in Page Details:
Now this news would only show to targeted audience.
More about News Center web part
Jan 26 (Enhancement) Tabs with Cards gets additional styling options
We’re adding new styling options to Tabs with Cards to give you more branding choices.
Here are the new additions:
- change background color of your card
- change title color
- change image height
- change heading font size
- make the whole card clickable
More about Tabs with Cards web part
Jan 28 (Enhancement) Search Banner auto-fade for more immersive designs
If your page is using non-white background, image transition from search banner to background may appear too sharp.
Now, you can add a custom fade color in the Search Banner web part properties:
This will create smooth transition as shown below:
Or if you prefer sharper cut, you can simply turn that option off and the design will look like this:
More about Search Banner Web Part
Jan 31 (Enhancement) Quick Links Plus now allow fast scroll for when you have lots of links
Got lots of quick links and want to fast scroll to the next batch? We’ve heard you.
You can now allow users to scroll the entire cluster of links when they click the next/previous arrows.
Turn on this function by selecting this overflow behavior in web part properties:
You can also control how much space is between your links and that will determine how many links will show per cluster:
More about Quick Links Plus web part (with personalized links)
Feb 2 (Enhancement) Search Banner gets AI Search (BETA)
Search Banner now goes beyond keyword search. Users can ask natural language questions and receive intelligent, contextual answers generated from the documents the Search Banner is permitted to read.
How it works
- Users type a question (e.g., “What is the leave request process?”).
- Copilot analyzes indexed content from the allowed SharePoint libraries.
- The banner returns clear, relevant answers—optionally alongside traditional search results.
You can Turn on AI summaries in the Search Banner web part properties.
Requirements & Notes
- Users must have a Copilot license in Microsoft 365.
- This feature uses Microsoft BETA APIs.
- During installation, you’ll be prompted to grant the following permissions:
- Microsoft Graph:
Sites.Read.All,People.Read.All,Mail.Read,OnlineMeetingTranscript.Read.All,Chat.Read,ChannelMessage.Read.All,ExternalItem.Read.All,Files.Read.All
- Microsoft Graph:
- If you don’t plan to use AI summaries, you can skip these permissions and the Search Banner will continue working for file search as usual.
This update transforms Search Banner into a conversational knowledge assistant and helps users get answers without parsing documents.
More about Search Banner Web Part
Feb 2 (Enhancement) News Center can pull multiple news views for a single category
Now, one category can pull news from multiple views, even from different SharePoint sites, and present them together when a user clicks a single button. This makes it dramatically easier to curate news by topic, audience, or initiative, without duplicating content or restructuring lists.
How it works
Setting this up is simple. When defining a category in the web part properties, just comma-separate the views you want included:
That’s it, the category will aggregate news from all selected views into one seamless experience.
Performance note
When you pull multiple views, the web part makes multiple API calls. With a 2 or 3 views this is barely noticeable, but loading time can increase if many views are combined, so we recommend using this thoughtfully for the best performance.
More about News Center web part
Feb 2 (Enhancement) Banner with News KPIs will now let you connect to Excel
Just as with regular KPI web part, Banner with News will now let you grab data from Excel. Simply point to excel file like this:
Here is how to set it so specific data cells are retrieved: KPI and Metrics web part (without targeting)
See section titled “Connect to Excel file”.
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Feb 3 (Enhancement) Banner with News automatically pull all news from the site
Thank to a suggestion from Origami user community, we’re adding a more consistent way to pull news from the site.
When you toggle Source of News to “Pull from this site”, the news will be pulled in the following order:
- Latest news according to Modified Date will become the Main news banner. If a new post has been published, it will push the previous “Main news banner” to the sidebar.
- Second latest will become sidebar (first position)
- Third latest will become sidebar (second position) etc
More about Banner with News
Feb 6 (Enhancement) Banner with News can now pull news from SharePoint view and another site
Thanks to Origami user community requests, we’ve added a capability to Banner with News and Banner with News Plus to pull news by SharePoint view from current or another site (as long as users have access to that site).
To configure this, simply copy and paste your full SharePoint view URL like this:
More about Banner with News
Feb 10 (Enhancement) Quick Links Plus get glassy
Quick Links Plus have never looked this good with textured background as they do now with glass style:
This style can be turned on right from the web part properties:
More about Quick Links Plus web part (with personalized links)
Feb 13 (Enhancement) Banner with News Plus gets a glass style option
Banner with News Plus is also getting an option for glass style:
You can still continue using Standard style if you like it or try glass for darker backgrounds to see what you like more.
Mar 4 (Enhancement) People Directory to allow pulling office location from Entra ID by default
For many organizations Office Location is often stored in Entra ID, and to make configuration simpler we added a new default to People Directory to ensure it takes location values from Entra ID and not SharePoint User Profile.
You can override this behavior by using the toggle below:
More about People Directory for SharePoint
Mar 5 (Enhancement) News Center can now sort news by First Published date
As per request from the user community, we’re adding the ability to sort news by the first date the news was published. This is different from creation date, as the news can be created and drafted over several days until it’s first made official and published.
This setting can be controlled here:
More about News Center web part
Mar 5 (Enhancement) News Center gets additional styling options
As per request from Origami user community, we’ve added additional color swatches to control more web part elements.
The color swatch panel now includes these options:
More about News Center web part
Mar 6 (Enhancement) Anniversaries (live) now gets additional feed formatting options
As per request from Origami user community, we’re adding additional formatting options for the anniversary feed.
Here are all the options now available:
More about Anniversaries, New Hires, and Birthdays (automatic feed from Microsoft 365 and Azure/EntraID)
Mar 18 (Enhancement) Top Navigation can hide SharePoint site navigation per site
Origami Top Navigation allows you to hide SharePoint top nav for more uninterrupted look using this toggle:
Previously, this toggle would apply to each site that that the navigation is shared with.
Now, you can apply this setting individually on each site or leave it as-is, which is a default.
More about Main/Top Navigation (with targeting)
Mar 21 (Enhancement) Top Navigation logo will accept custom redirect URL
You can now decide where users are taken when they click on the logo in the Origami Top Nav.
More about Main/Top Navigation (with targeting)
Mar 27 (Enhancement) Tabs with Cards get visual tags
You can now highlight certain cards with relevant tags:
This is optional and the tag can be entered in the Card Detail:
More about Tabs with Cards web part
Mar 31 (Enhancement) Sidenav gets new styling options
We’ve added a number of styling options to Sidenav based on Origami user request.
Here is a visual summary:
More about Side Navigation (Table of Contents for SharePoint)
Apr 6 (Enhancement) Banner with News Plus gets new immersive mode
Your Banner with News Plus will now look even more impressive with the new immersive mode where the navigation becomes part of the banner with a stunning magazine-like look like this:
You can turn on immersive mode by simply toggling a switch in the web part properties and you can also specify the color of the nav and alternate logo to be more in line with your immersive experience:
More about Banner with News Plus
Apr 8 (New Web Part) Compliance Dashboard (Beta)
You can now track Mandatory Read completion across multiple pages and sites in a single view:
You can even drill down to see users have completed the Mandatory read and who didn’t:
More about Compliance Dashboard
Apr 8 (Enhancement) Top Navigation gets a language picker
If your SharePoint site supports multiple languages and you’ve already enabled the SharePoint multilingual homepage feature, you can display the available languages in the Origami top navigation like this:
Enabling this feature is simple: just go to the Origami top navigation settings and toggle it on:
More about Main/Top Navigation (with targeting)
Apr 13 (Enhancement) Calendar gets a glass-style
We’ve added glass style to help calendar look slicker on a darker background:
You can select glass style here:
More about Calendar (color-coded SharePoint calendar / Microsoft 365 Group calendar)
Apr 15 (Enhancement) Carousel with Expanding Links gets a glass style for quick links
Glass quick links are now available for the Carousel with Expanding Links:
Open state:
To use it, simply select the style as shown below:
More about Carousel with Expanding Links