Welcome Box
The component to increase visits to the SharePoint intranet by offering content and useful links for users' activities.
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The component to increase visits to the SharePoint intranet by offering content and useful links for users' activities.
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Welcome Box is a welcome space to greet users in your SharePoint intranet, where you can say hello and provide quick access to recommended resources and/or the personal profile. Thanks to this feature, you can encourage personal profile completion and increase site visits by offering helpful content and links for your colleagues' daily tasks.
If your page is not already in edit mode, click Edit at the top right of the page.
Hover your mouse above or below an existing web part and you'll see a line with a circled +, like this:
Click on it and, in the web part search box, enter IAI - Welcome Box to quickly find and select the Welcome Box web part.
Once the web part is added, it defaults to the following view, with two default icons displayed on the buttons below the image.
In this section, you can link the user's personal profile to the Welcome Box web part.
Select where to open the page: you can choose to open the link on a new page or the current page.
In this section, you can customize the text of the welcome message. Three placeholders are supported:
{givenName}: the web part replaces this placeholder with the user's name;
{surname}: the web part replaces this placeholder with the user's surname;
{welcomeText}: the web part replaces this placeholder with a localized text which changes according to the current time: - From 6 AM to 1PM: "Good morning" - From 1PM to 6PM: "Good afternoon" - From 6PM to 6AM: "Good evening"
You can choose whether to include all placeholders or select just one or two. If you leave this field blank, Welcome Box will only show the user's name and surname, which is the default behaviour of the web part.
In this section, you can customize the left button by choosing a link and an icon.
Insert the link to associate with the left button.
For example: https://intranetai.sharepoint.com/sites/iai-demo-saas/SitePages/SystemPages/MyProfile.aspx
For example: People
You can also choose whether to open the link on a new page or the current page.
In this section, you can customize the right button by choosing a link and an icon.
Insert the link to associate with the right button.
For example: https://intranetai.sharepoint.com/sites/iai-demo-saas/SitePages/SystemPages/People-directory.aspx
For example: Phone
You can also choose whether to open the link on a new page or the current page.
Click the Edit button on the left of the web part to open the property pane, which has four sections: Profile Settings, Settings, Left Icon Settings and Right Icon Settings. See below for more information on each of these sections.
Insert user link: here you can input the link to the page (if available). If you fill in this field, you'll be able to access the above-mentioned section by clicking on the profile picture.
Type the name of the icon. You can find the list of the available icons.
Insert the icon. You can find the list of the available icons.
