Contributors
The web part that highlights page contributors, making it easy to recognize editors, track updates, and identify subject matter experts.
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The web part that highlights page contributors, making it easy to recognize editors, track updates, and identify subject matter experts.
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Contributors is one of the web parts designed by intranet.ai to help companies create a corporate knowledge base in SharePoint Online. Creating a corporate knowledge base provides numerous benefits, such as quick access to information, reduced time waste, standardized information, knowledge retention, and more effective collaboration.
The Contributors web part is designed to enhance knowledge-sharing by automatically displaying users who have contributed to a page. Specifically, the web part identifies users who have clicked Edit and then republished the page. Additionally, it allows for manual customization, enabling administrators to add or remove users as needed. By highlighting key contributors, this web part makes it easier to track updates, recognize editors, and quickly identify subject matter experts, fostering transparency and collaboration within the organization.
Contributors is essential for creating a well-organized knowledge base on SharePoint Online. For additional tools to enhance your knowledge base, refer to the manuals for , , and .
If your page is not already in edit mode, click on Edit at the top right of the page.
Hover your mouse above or below an existing web part. You will see a line with a circled +, like this: .
Click on it and, in the web part search box, enter Contributors to quickly find and select the Contributors web part, which is named "IAI - Contributors".
Click the Edit properties button on the left of the web part to open the property pane and set options such as General Settings and View Settings. See below for more information on each of these sections.
The view settings allows you
By opening this first configuration, you will see the following options:
Do you want to hide the background? You can choose to hide or display the webpart background The default setting is “No”. This means that, by default, the webpart is characterized by a white background. If you enable this option, the white card background will be completely removed, allowing the content appear directly on the page. As a result, the webpart will be transparent, showing either the selected background image or the chosen SharePoint page color.
Do you want to hide the background shadow? You can choose whether to show or hide the background shadow. The default setting is “No”. This means that, by default, the webpart is characterized by a subtle depth effect that can make the webpart stand out more against the rest of the page. If you enable this option, the shadow behind the background will be removed, giving the web part a flatter, cleaner look without any depth.
Select the type of background shadow If you decide to set the background shadow, a further configuration will appear and you can select the style from High Contrast, Light, or Dark options.
If you select High contrast, this option creates a strong, bold shadow effect that provides a high level of contrast between the background and the content.
By choosing the Light background shadow, it will create a soft and subtle effect, giving a more delicate and gentle depth to the background.
Finally, the Dark background shadow style provides a darker, more intense effect, adding depth and emphasizing the background even more.
Enter the application title Thanks to this configuration, you can customize the application title. If you keep it blank, SharePoint will show the default title “Contributors” at the top left angle of the webpart.
Do you want to hide the title? Here you can select whether to show the webpart title or hide it. If set to visible, the web part title will appear on the left side.
The General settings are as follows:
Add users: this property allows administrators to manually select and add users to the Contributors section, even if they have not edited the page.
A common scenario for using the Add users property is when a subject matter expert provides critical input for a knowledge base article but does not edit the page directly. In this case, an administrator can manually add their name to acknowledge their contribution and make it clear who to contact for further insights.
Hide users: this property enables the removal of specific users from the list, even if they have edited the page.
The Contributors section is displayed as follows:
Hovering over a user's profile picture allows you to see their email address and contact them via email or Teams.
