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"Every day there are little things in software that we find annoying. Some write books about it, like Annoyances.org, but I thought this site would be more constructive.
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- Adam Cogan 
I am very interested in how people are accessing our services. I especially like how I can see that our users are accessing Dynamics 365 on their mobile app.
I use the browser for SharePoint a lot but love the SharePoint Mobile app more.
The initial experience is very different and it should be the same. The mobile app is better, and the start screen could be even better.
At the moment on my mobile, under the “find” tab, we see 4 groups:
#1 Suggestion for Mobile app – Make sections consistent and change from 4 groups to 6 groups
I want to see what I am using, and what the rest of the company is using, therefore I’d love to see this:
#2 Suggestion for Web app – Make SharePoint WebApp Start Page consistent
This is the first experience when people reach an intranet home – everyone clicks that 🏠home icon (see red arrow).
Many users first notice the horrible URL, e.g. https://sswcom.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx
More importantly the page’s content is pretty bad, i.e. it shows different sections and even different content compared to the mobile app.
I would love to see the same categories described above in Suggestion #1 (i.e. Sites, People, then Files).
In short, the content should be the same – whether I use the browser or mobile app
(e.g. today even just the Frequent Sites I see on the browser and on the mobile app are different – how??).
Cheers,
For our customers we get their SharePoint site pointing to Teams and vice versa… I believe it is the right thing to do but the right emoji would cause this to be more UI obvious ✨
In SharePoint there is an issue with menu customization that blocks good UX. E.g. I want to have links to both the SharePoint portals and the right Teams in the menu.
Ideally we should be able to use SharePoint and Teams official icons, i.e.:
But there doesn’t seem to be any supported way to do so!
I assume it is a bad idea to inject HTML via a custom SPFX solution or some nasty CSS… It is better to stay within the framework and have easy upgrade.
In summary I am saying that emojis do not do the job every time (BTW I do love emojis). This is one example where emojis are not as good as images.
SharePoint is important to us. It is the intranet of almost all SSW’s clients. I am suggesting that SharePoint should not be making the job of putting images in a menu, hard. It should be simple.
The goal should be to make it the same as other webparts. I’m thinking of the ‘Quick Links’ Web Part. Please allow us to add a custom image or an icon to all of our menu items.
I think URLs matter and I prefer neat ones.
I’m experiencing a weird bug on our Intranet and cannot figure out why this is happening.
Everytime I click on one of the menu items the URL shows slightly differently.
We have several portals (Team Sites) linked from our Hub Navigation:
Every single link is setup using the short URL form – i.e. not linking directly to the aspx page.
However, sometimes/often/randomly, when clicking one of the menu items, the URL is somehow rewritten to https://sswcom.sharepoint.com/sites/XXX/SitePages/Home.aspx
Moreover, clicking the Site’s “home” tile (i.e. Site Logo) will almost always toggle – yes toggle – between the two URLs…
I have noticed that, before it flicks to the “long” form, there is a weird querystring parameter being added for a split second, and then the rewrite happens:
There is inconsistency in the Person menus…
In this case the Office | Person menu should show ”Microsoft 365 E3”
And link off to https://portal.office.com/account/?ref=MeControl
See the below text from our document on how to set up the security ourselves
Whenever you create a Site Collection, two O365 groups get created (xxx-Owners and xxx-Members). For retro-compatibility, these O365 groups are automatically added to the SharePoint groups at creation time.
(Note for SharePoint gurus: O365-xxx-Members is mapped to SharePoint-xxx-members, but O365-xxx-Owners is mapped to… Site Collection Administrators! Crazy.)
SharePoint membership grants access to SharePoint resources, while access to Teams features (Channels, tabs, apps) is controlled directly via O365 groups.
The problem with this model is we cannot add AD (Active Directory) groups (or even O365 groups) within O365 groups (no nesting allowed). So, if we want to give access to two different sites to the same people (say SSWDevelopers), we must add ALL MEMBERS manually on EACH generated O365 group. That is ridiculous, and hard to maintain long term.
I would like SharePoint News to have the number of views of each item.
Hopefully you’d see growth over time.
Also, the combo (see image) could include an option to sort by “most viewed”.
From the audit result, if you double-click a line and then click “More information”, here is what you see :
Figure: audit log results detail panel after clicking “more info”
Which is great! A lot of useful information in there!
However, if you export the Audit result, here is what you get :
Figure: audit log results exported to excel
The whole “More information” data is a single column !!
It is indeed easy to format but requires extra work, and is not ideal.
Suggestion: make these information extra columns in the export!
Consider this search result:
Figure: audit log results
When I click on “Details” (or double click), I can see :
Figure: audit log results detail panel
This is terribly misleading ! The source is displayed as “/Shared Documents/xxx”, which I assumed being “sswcom.sharepoint.com/Shared Documents/xxx”, but is in fact “sswcom.sharepoint.com/sites/SSWNetworkAdmins/Shared Documents/xxx”. The displayed path is indeed relative, but relative to the site collection, not the whole tenant. Which is misleading in a “unified” log (where results can come from pretty much any site collection).
Suggestion: I would love to have options to:
The “File, Folder or Site” box shouldn’t a simple text filter.
Say I want to have results for my root site only (sswcom.SharePoint.com) – without subsites (say, sswcom.SharePoint.com/sysadmins), I have currently no way of doing it. Searching for “sswcom.sharepoint.com” will give me results that are in subsites or pretty much anything that includes “sswcom.sharepoint.com”.
Suggestion: Either implement “smart” search with the keyword (E.g. “sswcom.sharepoint.com” AND (NOT “sswcom.sharepoint.com/sysadmin”)) OR add a multi-select dropdown to pick the sources (sites, subsites, teams, etc…)
Figure: “file, folder or site” filter box at the bottom of search criteria