The team maintains a Projects list with columns for Status, Budget, Region, and an end date. Someone asks for a dashboard on the site home so that users can stop manually opening the list and row-counting. The immediate response is to use Power BI. However, the tenant does not have any Power BI Pro licenses…
Every few months SharePoint gets a feature that makes me stop and test it before I believe it. This time it is HTML pages. For years the answer to “can I put my own HTML on a modern SharePoint page” was mostly no. The old Content Editor and Script Editor web parts are gone. The…
You want a band of announcements that rotates across the top of your intranet, so people see the important ones without hunting for them. A payroll cut-off, a VPN maintenance window, a mandatory patch. Here is a web part for it. A rotating band of announcements, colour-coded by severity. It reads a SharePoint list. The…
You have a SharePoint list and you want a simple bar chart from it on a page. Tickets by status, requests by category, that sort of thing. You do not want to stand up Power BI just for that. Here is a web part that charts a list directly. A bar chart built straight from…
You want the local weather on the intranet home page. Today plus a short forecast, for whatever city you choose. Here is a web part for it, and it needs no API key. Current weather and a three-day forecast for a city. The weather comes from the open-meteo.com API, which does not need a key….
You want people to thank each other on the intranet. A simple form to send kudos, and a wall that shows the recent ones. Here is a web part that does both. A give-kudos form and a recognition wall in one web part. It reads and writes a SharePoint list. The list needs a Title…
You want the latest news from across your SharePoint sites in one place on the home page, not just from the current site. Here is a web part that rolls it up. Recent news pulled together from across the organisation. It has two modes. Point it at a News list for reliable, curated results from…
You want to spotlight one person on the intranet each month. Their photo, their name, and a line about why. Here is a web part for it. A spotlight card for the person of the month. It reads a SharePoint list. The list needs a Person column Employee, a text column EomMonth for the month,…
You want a quick poll on the intranet. One question, a few options, and a live bar showing how people voted. Here is a web part for it. One question, a few options, live results. It saves each vote to a SharePoint list. Every vote is one list item whose Title is the option the…
You want a live countdown to something on the intranet. A company kickoff, a go-live, a deadline. Days, hours, minutes and seconds, ticking down. Here is a web part for it. Days, hours, minutes and seconds to your event. There is no list to set up. You give it an event name and a date…