He said, before i let you go. Yes its like sittin in you class. I swear i listend all the content and it is great. Thanks a lot. Every time clark said, dont do this i catched my mind thinking of this workaround before. Haha. Again thanks a lot!!!
I am grateful for the simple, yet impactful approach to your presentation. Thanks to your current videos, I am better prepared to put together an effective and comprehensive Intranet for our organization.
Very informative and appreciated! Could you please adjust your picture in picture, or remove it altogether at points? There's a few times where your picture-in-picture is blocking text in your slides or blocking what buttons you're clicking on.
Great series. Looking forward to part 5! For my current company intranet i'm leaving out the local navigation as much as i can because of the lack of breadcrumb due to the new flat structure recommended by microsoft. So i tend to put all my links in the global nav, would love to hear your views on this particularly on the breadcrumb (or lack of)...
thank you for checking out this video. You have a very interesting point with the breadcrumb...honestly this has been a non-issue for us so far. I actually did not notice it missing. To your point though, since everything is "flat" and with the mega menu exposing so much content with a single click...majority of the time a user should be 1, and at most 2 levels deep with content. With a mobile first, cloud first stratregy...the expectation is that the user will be using the "back" button (on their respective devices) to get back to "familiar" ground...thus eliminating the need for the breadcrumb. I would recommend taking another look at removing the local nav. I think the local nav will be essential to navigation within an "area". So if "Pay & Benefits" (aka HR) is an area (site collection), then the local nav will highlight key information within that area (i.e. Benefits, Payroll, End of Year Tax Documents, Vacation Policy, Make a Change, etc...). Hope this helps
@@DeShonClark very valid points, no breadcrumb definitely makes sense for mobile. My mind is shifting to the new modern sharepoint thinking but its just trying to get business users thinking this way too. Definitely will revisit the local nav and you make a valid points in the video about taking time to plan the navigation. Keep up the good work bro!
Hi Deshon, thank you for all of your videos that are clean and focused and very informative. We have a specific situation that is to do with the navigation strategy and on our Information Architecture. This is what we have. Our intranet is on the SharePoint 2013 On-Prem farm. We have let users create site collections based on a couple of templates (slightly modified Team site templates). This was probably a mistake and now it's too late and we have to live with that 15000+ site collections. We are now ready to migrate over to SharePoint Online. We are thinking grouping the Business Units (BU) together first, and then on each BU, have sites for each Directors under that BU and then migrate the logical On-Prem site collections under these directors. This will lead to a heavy load of links. Do you have any idea on how we can plan for a Global navigation for this kind of scenario? Have you come across with Navigation hierarchy of over 1000 site collections in a SharePoint farm? Your help with this would be greatly appreciated.
so sorry for just now seeing this. There is NO navigation structure that will accomodate 100+ site collections. Nor will any user understand the structure that would make it useful. There are some solutions on how to manage this, navigation is will be 1% of the solution. The key is to understand why there are so many site collections and how the users are using them (most of the time it is for projects), secondly, there needs to be some type of search solution created to enable users to search for the sites they use the most, and lastly there needs to be some strategy implemented (retention policies, site collection life cycle) to help identify the old and abandoned sites and "archive them"
Thanks for this series. Like your MasterPage development for SP 2013/SP 2016, this is very useful series. Can the lookbook be used in on-premises environment?
thanks for watching, the lookbook will be available for SharePoint 2019 on prem as this is the first on-prem version that supports modern SharePoint "pages". Just note that not all of the modern web parts used in the lookbook will be available in SharePoint 2019 as SharePoint 2019 will always be two to three versions behind SharePoint online.
Hi DeShon. Thank you for the great series. I was wondering how you added the formatting to the different links in your navigation i.e. making Ordering A Device bold and bigger text. Cheers
Hello, thank you for your Videos, they are really helpful in building our new Intranet with SharePoint. I have a question: Is it possible to get to applications outside of SharePoint directly? For example, I'd like to create a button on the Hub-Site, which opens our ERP-System.
thanks again for watching!! I think I understand when you say "opens an ERP-system". There are several options for this. If it is a direct link, this will work. But if the link points to an "internal system" that requires authentication, this link will only work if the user is logged onto the company's network (i.e. if they are browsing on their phones or off the network, then the link will not work). If you need to show the ERP screen embedded inside of a SP page, then this may require a custom web part that will allow you to in an external system. In short, you may need to get creative to make this work, and just be aware of linking to "internal" systems, as there may be scenarios where the link does not work
Thank you for this great series! Im evaluating CMS called Akumina used as front dev and admin tool for Spo, did you hear about it? If yes what do you think about it? Thanks
Hey there! I'm glad you're finding the series helpful. Yes, I have heard of Akumina. It is a popular CMS (Content Management System) used as a front-end development and administrative tool for SharePoint Online. While I don't have personal experience with Akumina, it has gained a positive reputation in the industry for its capabilities in customizing SharePoint. I would recommend doing some research and possibly reaching out to others who have used it to get more information and insights. Let me know if you have any other questions!
In the "Change the Look" menu I cannot see the options for Footer and Mega Menu. Can you help me with that? Btw, thanks to your videos I'm building my intranet.
Hi DeShon, you're videos are great, BTW. Do you recommend having a professional Microsoft Designer come in to build the Intranet or task an employee with the project?
Hey, thanks for watching, I think you can handle this with an internal resource, usually someone in Marketing or advertising will have the eye needed to make it look polished
Hi DeShon, for your 'Forms and Templates' column would you link directly to the documents e.g. 'letterhead'? I am looking to do this but there doesn't seem a way to open the document in a new tab? Thanks.
Hey there! Thanks for your comment. In the video, I didn't specifically mention linking directly to documents in the Forms and Templates column. However, you can definitely do that by adding the direct document links as navigation links. As for opening the document in a new tab, SharePoint Online currently does not have a built-in option to do that for navigation links. But, you can try using some custom JavaScript or jQuery code to achieve this. Let me know if you need more details on how to do that, and I'll be happy to assist further!
Hey Courtney, thanks for watching...I believe the same is available in Business Premium, I'm not 100%. I usually play with E3 and E5 tiered licensing. I am not familiar with the differences with Biz Premium
Gotcha! Thanks for the response. I’ve seen in some of your other videos you ask for suggestions on video content... Maybe you’ve already done this but I think something addressing how to use a main hub as a template ( same layout, document library, lists, folder structure, etc) but keep the data in each hub site that is connected to the main hub separate. So that, for instance, hubsite1 users can’t search and find documents/data that live in hubsite 2 ( different set of users) although they’re both connected to the same main hub. Thanks again for another great video!
I have used the site web part in the past....its useful for tracking the sites visited by the current user. Unfortunately I have seen web parts come and go...I've used the saved news web part before, but now I can locate it...so it would not surprise me if you saw this and now can't find it.
Haha, that's quite a coincidence! It seems like the topic of navigation pitfalls hit close to home for you. Feel free to share any experiences or insights you have regarding navigation strategies in your company. I'd love to hear more from you!
He said, before i let you go. Yes its like sittin in you class. I swear i listend all the content and it is great. Thanks a lot. Every time clark said, dont do this i catched my mind thinking of this workaround before. Haha. Again thanks a lot!!!
thanks for watching...I really do appreciate you!
Just found all your videos - currently in the process of building out our company hubs/spokes. These videos have great content and extremely useful.
Awesome! Thanks for watching. Keep me.posted on how it goes
This is a gold mine, thank you Sr!
thanks for watching
I am grateful for the simple, yet impactful approach to your presentation. Thanks to your current videos, I am better prepared to put together an effective and comprehensive Intranet for our organization.
thank you for watching...I really do appreciate it.
Another great video. Thank you!
thanks again for watching LaConya. I need to get on your calendar...I'll email you today.
Great videos! Love how you think.
Thanks Audrie, this really means a lot coming from you. I've learned so much from your series on PowerApps and formulas....very creative!
Very informative and appreciated! Could you please adjust your picture in picture, or remove it altogether at points? There's a few times where your picture-in-picture is blocking text in your slides or blocking what buttons you're clicking on.
Thanks for watching, thanks for the feedback I'll keep that in mind
Great series. Looking forward to part 5!
For my current company intranet i'm leaving out the local navigation as much as i can because of the lack of breadcrumb due to the new flat structure recommended by microsoft. So i tend to put all my links in the global nav, would love to hear your views on this particularly on the breadcrumb (or lack of)...
thank you for checking out this video. You have a very interesting point with the breadcrumb...honestly this has been a non-issue for us so far. I actually did not notice it missing. To your point though, since everything is "flat" and with the mega menu exposing so much content with a single click...majority of the time a user should be 1, and at most 2 levels deep with content. With a mobile first, cloud first stratregy...the expectation is that the user will be using the "back" button (on their respective devices) to get back to "familiar" ground...thus eliminating the need for the breadcrumb. I would recommend taking another look at removing the local nav. I think the local nav will be essential to navigation within an "area". So if "Pay & Benefits" (aka HR) is an area (site collection), then the local nav will highlight key information within that area (i.e. Benefits, Payroll, End of Year Tax Documents, Vacation Policy, Make a Change, etc...). Hope this helps
@@DeShonClark very valid points, no breadcrumb definitely makes sense for mobile. My mind is shifting to the new modern sharepoint thinking but its just trying to get business users thinking this way too. Definitely will revisit the local nav and you make a valid points in the video about taking time to plan the navigation. Keep up the good work bro!
Hi Deshon, thank you for all of your videos that are clean and focused and very informative. We have a specific situation that is to do with the navigation strategy and on our Information Architecture. This is what we have. Our intranet is on the SharePoint 2013 On-Prem farm. We have let users create site collections based on a couple of templates (slightly modified Team site templates). This was probably a mistake and now it's too late and we have to live with that 15000+ site collections. We are now ready to migrate over to SharePoint Online. We are thinking grouping the Business Units (BU) together first, and then on each BU, have sites for each Directors under that BU and then migrate the logical On-Prem site collections under these directors. This will lead to a heavy load of links. Do you have any idea on how we can plan for a Global navigation for this kind of scenario? Have you come across with Navigation hierarchy of over 1000 site collections in a SharePoint farm?
Your help with this would be greatly appreciated.
so sorry for just now seeing this. There is NO navigation structure that will accomodate 100+ site collections. Nor will any user understand the structure that would make it useful.
There are some solutions on how to manage this, navigation is will be 1% of the solution. The key is to understand why there are so many site collections and how the users are using them (most of the time it is for projects), secondly, there needs to be some type of search solution created to enable users to search for the sites they use the most, and lastly there needs to be some strategy implemented (retention policies, site collection life cycle) to help identify the old and abandoned sites and "archive them"
Thanks for this series. Like your MasterPage development for SP 2013/SP 2016, this is very useful series. Can the lookbook be used in on-premises environment?
thanks for watching, the lookbook will be available for SharePoint 2019 on prem as this is the first on-prem version that supports modern SharePoint "pages". Just note that not all of the modern web parts used in the lookbook will be available in SharePoint 2019 as SharePoint 2019 will always be two to three versions behind SharePoint online.
Hi DeShon. Thank you for the great series. I was wondering how you added the formatting to the different links in your navigation i.e. making Ordering A Device bold and bigger text. Cheers
This is a header in the mega menu, it's formatted this way automatically
Hello, thank you for your Videos, they are really helpful in building our new Intranet with SharePoint.
I have a question: Is it possible to get to applications outside of SharePoint directly? For example, I'd like to create a button on the Hub-Site, which opens our ERP-System.
thanks again for watching!! I think I understand when you say "opens an ERP-system". There are several options for this. If it is a direct link, this will work. But if the link points to an "internal system" that requires authentication, this link will only work if the user is logged onto the company's network (i.e. if they are browsing on their phones or off the network, then the link will not work). If you need to show the ERP screen embedded inside of a SP page, then this may require a custom web part that will allow you to in an external system. In short, you may need to get creative to make this work, and just be aware of linking to "internal" systems, as there may be scenarios where the link does not work
Thank you for this great series! Im evaluating CMS called Akumina used as front dev and admin tool for Spo, did you hear about it? If yes what do you think about it? Thanks
Hey there! I'm glad you're finding the series helpful. Yes, I have heard of Akumina. It is a popular CMS (Content Management System) used as a front-end development and administrative tool for SharePoint Online. While I don't have personal experience with Akumina, it has gained a positive reputation in the industry for its capabilities in customizing SharePoint. I would recommend doing some research and possibly reaching out to others who have used it to get more information and insights. Let me know if you have any other questions!
In the "Change the Look" menu I cannot see the options for Footer and Mega Menu. Can you help me with that?
Btw, thanks to your videos I'm building my intranet.
Sounds like you may not be configured for First Release. The mega menu and footer nav are still in public preview
Hi DeShon, you're videos are great, BTW. Do you recommend having a professional Microsoft Designer come in to build the Intranet or task an employee with the project?
Plus your communication skills are great.
Hey, thanks for watching, I think you can handle this with an internal resource, usually someone in Marketing or advertising will have the eye needed to make it look polished
Great!
Eduardo, let's catch up next week.
@@DeShonClark for sure!
Send me a MS Teams Invite!
Let's cook up that project!
Hi DeShon, for your 'Forms and Templates' column would you link directly to the documents e.g. 'letterhead'? I am looking to do this but there doesn't seem a way to open the document in a new tab? Thanks.
Hey there! Thanks for your comment. In the video, I didn't specifically mention linking directly to documents in the Forms and Templates column. However, you can definitely do that by adding the direct document links as navigation links. As for opening the document in a new tab, SharePoint Online currently does not have a built-in option to do that for navigation links. But, you can try using some custom JavaScript or jQuery code to achieve this. Let me know if you need more details on how to do that, and I'll be happy to assist further!
DeShon, how can you easily reduce the ‘white space’ to the left and right of a page?
This is a tricky one...they don't enable us to easily incorporate css
Hi! Great video as usual! Question..why did you reference E3 account. The same can be done with Business Premium correct?
Hey Courtney, thanks for watching...I believe the same is available in Business Premium, I'm not 100%. I usually play with E3 and E5 tiered licensing. I am not familiar with the differences with Biz Premium
Gotcha! Thanks for the response. I’ve seen in some of your other videos you ask for suggestions on video content... Maybe you’ve already done this but I think something addressing how to use a main hub as a template ( same layout, document library, lists, folder structure, etc) but keep the data in each hub site that is connected to the main hub separate. So that, for instance, hubsite1 users can’t search and find documents/data that live in hubsite 2 ( different set of users) although they’re both connected to the same main hub. Thanks again for another great video!
Great suggestion, I'll take a look
Have you used Site web part? My current job we are in GCC High and I can't find Site Web Part for some reason. Any help Thanks
I have used the site web part in the past....its useful for tracking the sites visited by the current user. Unfortunately I have seen web parts come and go...I've used the saved news web part before, but now I can locate it...so it would not surprise me if you saw this and now can't find it.
I can't find how to create the global menu / HUB. Any tips?
This is on the SharePoint admin screen. You have to be a SharePoint administrator role.
Funny....I almost died when I saw the name of my company in the 3rd mistake. :)
Haha, that's quite a coincidence! It seems like the topic of navigation pitfalls hit close to home for you. Feel free to share any experiences or insights you have regarding navigation strategies in your company. I'd love to hear more from you!