Archive: 2024 Release Notes

Enhancement: 500 custom fonts now available in 'Banner with News' and 'Carousel with Links'

You can now change the heading of your banner to any of the 500 available fonts.

Carousel with Links:

Banner with News:

Other font settings are also available in web part properties:

Enhancement: 'View more' function added to Banner with news

You can now set the web part to point to a page with more news:

You can change labels and color settings as well as disable this button altogether.

Copy SharePoint Pages Across Site Collections

SharePoint out-of-the-box only let’s you copy pages within the same site but what if you designed a beautiful page on one site and now want to use it on another site?

You can with ORIGAMI Page Copy Tool!

Here is more on how this works: Copy SharePoint Pages Across Sites

Enhancement: 30,000+ FontAwesome icons are now available in Carousel with Expanding links

Use all the latest premium icons and variations!

News Center web part with category filters

Got lots of news? The News Center web part can help you categorize and tag them.

You can style the web part, set page sources and so much more, check out the details here: News Center web part

Rich Charts and Graphs in SharePoint

Communicate data visually in your SharePoint with rich Charts and Graphs

Check out more details here: Rich Charts and Graphs in SharePoint

Enhancement: Collapser and FAQ web parts now support rich text and links

You can now enter and format text within the Collapser and FAQ tabs

Check out more details here: Collapsible content

Enhancement: Show crisper images in News Center

News Center images are now crisper than ever before:

Before:

Now:

Enhancement: Finder can now show any document library on any SharePoint site

You used to be able to only show the contents of Document Libraries on the current site.
Now, you can make Finder show and search through content on any site!

Before:

Now:

More about the FInder web part: Finder (for Forms & Templates)

Enhancement: People Directory supports additional custom fields

You can now show 2 custom fields in your Popel Directory contact card, such as extension, assistant, or anything else available in your SharePoint.

You can configure these fields in web part properties like this:

More about the People Directory web part: People Directory

Quick Links Plus web part

New design and functionality for one of our most popular web parts. You can now include more FontAwesome icons, upload full-color icons, and fit more icons on the page.

Square links with FontAwesome icons:

Links with custom PNG logos:

Rounded links:

If there are too many links for the section, the web part will show slider arrows.:

More about the web part: Quick Links Plus web part

Tabs web part

If you have lots of content on the page, use the Tabs web part to organize your content neatly like this:

Pick from thousands of FontAwesome icons:

Or no icons:

You can even use rich text in your tabs.

More about the web part: Tabs web part (with rich text, images and more)

Tabs with Cards web part

Need to organize your content into adaptive cards like these? No design skills needed to make your page look this good!

More about the web part: Tabs with Cards web part

Enhancement: Calendar to highlight days on which there are events

Before it wasn’t easy to quickly see the days on which there are events right in the month view, you had to select a date range and only then events would be listed.

Now, you can see days on which there are events bolded right in the picker view, like this:

Enhancement: Comment and Like right within the News Center web part

We’re making it easier to comment and like news posts. You can now comment and like posts right within the app on the page instead of having to go to the page:

More about this web part: News Center web part

Banner plus / alert web part

Make a bold statement or show an alert with the Banner plus / alert web part.

Or:

More about this web part: Banner Plus / alert banner web part

Kudos web part

Promote your team’s accomplishments as soon as they happen to reinforce positive behavior and reward your employees!

More about this web part: Kudos and Recognitions web part

Enhancement: News Center can now read news from any site not just a current site

News Center used to be able to read news from the current site only but now it can read news from any site as long as the user has permission to it.

Simply enter full site + library + folder URL like this (https://company_tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteName/SitePages/FolderWithNews):

More about this web part: News Center web part

Enhancement: Tabs with Cards now allows you to pick an image as a header

You can now make your Tabs look like this:

The configuration is super easy:

More about this web part: Tabs with Cards web part

Top Navigation

Top navigation that’s hard to miss!
Key features:

  • Set link description
  • Set logo size, text size & colors, and background colors
  • Target links based on security groups
  • Show the same navigation across sites [coming soon]
  • Hide SharePoint site and hub navigation

More details: Large Multilevel Top Navigation (with targeting)

Enhancement: Alert now lets you choose colors of your alerts

You can now change the color of your alerts by picking from available options in the Alerts like:

More information: Important Alerts

Enhancement: Top Navigation now supports multiple levels

You can now have multiple levels in the top navigation, like this 3-level example:

This design gives users consistent behavior on both desktop and mobile.

More details: Large Multilevel Top Navigation (with targeting)

Embed Plus web part

Embed reports from various sources like Tableau etc, slides from Canva, or other systems using Embed Plus web part.

More details: Embed Plus web part

Enhancement: News Center now lets you hide social reactions

You can now hide social reactions:


To do that, simply toggle web part properties as shown below:
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Related manuals: News Center web part

Enhancement: Anniversaries web part now lets you track anniversary years

You can now show anniversary years updated dynamically like this:

To do that, simply toggle web part properties as shown below:
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Related manuals: Anniversaries, Milestones and Birthdays web part

Promo Alert Banner

Instantly grab attention with a beautiful alert banner on your SharePoint site!

Key features:

  • Set rich text, font size & colors, and background colors
  • Target alerts to specific security groups
  • Show the same alert across multiple SharePoint sites

More about this feature: Promo Alert Banner for SharePoint

Enhancement: Additional color options or the top navigation

You can now change the color of the navigation bar and the flyout:

Related manuals: Large Multilevel Top Navigation (with targeting)

Button Plus web part

Create an engaging call to action on your pages that’s hard to miss!

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Related manuals: Button Link Plus

Enhancement: Top Navigation now has new color options

You now have even more color options to make your navigation align closer to your brand:

This enhancement fixes some behavior in the mobile view as well.

More details: Large Multilevel Top Navigation (with targeting)

Enhancement: Tabs with Cards now let you hide top-level tabs

Sometimes you only have one tab and only want to see cards.
Now you can hide the tabs, like this:

More information: Tabs with Cards web part

Enhancement: Heading web part now lets you link to the section

Every time you use a heading web part, you can grab a link to it, like this:

When you use this link, it lets you jump directly to that section on the page.

More information: Heading and separator web part with custom font for SharePoint

Enhancement: Kudos now lets you change system language

You can change the language used for labels and prompts inside the web part by going to web part properties and updating labels here:

More information: Kudos and Recognitions web part

Enhancement: Timeline and Process web part now lets you resize the timeline

If you’d like to resize the web part to fit into a smaller section and not wrap the timeline graphic to the next line, you can use the Size web part property to scale the whole graphic like this:

More information: Process and Timeline (without targeting)

Enhancement: Quick Links Plus now have a new mobile view

The new view on the mobile lets mobile users get to the correct link faster:

More information: Quick Links Plus web part

Enhancement: Search Banner now lets you find documents from multiple libraries and sites

You can now search across multiple libraries and sites, simply configure the source in your web part properties like this:

Add/Remove Source Libraries:
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Now, you can set one or more libraries from current or another site, like this

More information: Search Banner Web Part

Enhancement: Heading now comes with beautiful text gradient options

Make the page one of a kind with the beautiful gradient headings:

More information: Heading and separator web part with custom font for SharePoint

Enhancement: Calendar now lets you filter events by category

If you have a lot of events for a particular range, you can let users filter events by category, like this:

To set this up, simply go to web part properties under Change Colors & Styles and set the Show category filter toggle to On like this:

More about this web part: Calendar (color-coded SharePoint calendar / Microsoft 365 Group calendar)

Enhancement: Slick banner

The Slick banner now gets a new look and a few new options:

More details here: Slick Banner web part

Enhancement: Banner half-image

The Banner half-image now gets a few new options to help you position the image easier:

A few new options to help you set font and color:

More details here: Banner (Half-image)

Enhancement: Finder can now show files that are not in folders

By default, the Finder will not show files that are outside of folders.
You can change that, so that if there are files outside a folder, the user can click the button as shown below to see those files:

More details here: Finder (for Forms & Templates)

Enhancement: Kudos web part now allows to show/hide emojis

You can allow posting emojis along with the recognition if you toggle this option first:

More details: Kudos and Recognitions web part

Enhancement: Carousel with Expanding Links now supports premium FontAwesome icons

You can now pick premium icons in for your quick links in Carousel with Expanding Links:

More details: Carousel with Expanding Links

Enhancement: Carousel with Expanding Links now supports multiple CTA labels for each slide

You can now have a different CTA button text for each of the carousel slides so your button text is relevant to the message on the slide:

More details: Carousel with Expanding Links

Enhancement: Search Banner now lets you hide folders while to search for all content within them

You can now hide folders coming from document libraries. Users won’t be able to refine the content coming from the specific folder but the results will come from all folders.