My Favorites
The component that brings together the news, contacts, documents, and apps in the SharePoint intranet you want to keep at hand.
What is My Favorites
My Favorites is a web part that collects your favorite contacts, FAQs, news, apps and documents in one single point on the SharePoint intranet. This allows you to immediately find contents you saved in the different web parts of your SharePoint intranet. Thanks to this feature, such contents will always be at your fingertips and you will not waste time on searches. My Favorites automatically updates with content saved in the SharePoint web parts where contacts, FAQs, apps, communications and documents are published.
This web part is divided into five sections, which bring together favorites from:
The People Directory
The FAQs pages
The Company Apps web parts
The News Archive
The Company Documents web parts
The web parts listed above offer the user the possibility to save items as favorites thanks to a star icon. The user just needs to click on this symbol to add contacts, FAQs, apps, news or documents to the corresponding favorites lists. The sections which compose My Favorites collect all the items the user marked as favorites. The company can decide to activate all the sections or just some of them, according to its needs.
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Add the My Favorites web part to a SharePoint page
If your page is not already in edit mode, click Edit at the top right of the page.
Click on it and, in the web part search box, enter Favorites to quickly find and select the My Favorites web part, which is named IAI-Myfavorites.
Configuration
People Settings
In this section, you are asked to configure the web part so that it shows the user's favorite contacts in the dedicated area. Therefore, you need to enter information on the People Directory, which is the component that collects company contacts.
First of all, enter the link of the site where the People directory list is stored.
Then, select the People directory list from the drop-down menu.
In the third field, enter the link of the site where the People directory favorites list is stored.
In the fourth field, select the People directory favorites list from the drop-down menu.
Finally, enter the link to the page where the People Directory web part is installed.
FAQ Settings
In this section, you are asked to configure the web part so that it shows the user's favorite FAQs in the dedicated area. Therefore, you need to associate the Faq list and the Faq favorites list with the webpart.
Click on Configure to open the configuration panel and configure the lists.
Enter the URL of the site where the Faq list is stored.
Enter the URL of the Faq list in the required format.
Enter the URL of the site where the Faq favorites list is stored.
Enter the URL of the Faq favorites list in the required format.
You can configure as many lists as you want. If you have multiple Faq lists, repeat the steps described above for each list. When you have completed the configuration, click on Save to close the panel.
Settings Apps
In this section, you are asked to configure the web part so that it shows the user's favorite apps in the dedicated area. Therefore, you need to associate the Apps list and the Apps favorites list with the webpart.
Click on Configure to open the configuration panel and configure the lists.
Enter the URL of the site where the Apps list is stored.
Enter the URL of the Apps list in the required format.
Enter the URL of the site where the Apps favorites list is stored.
Enter the URL of the Apps favorites list in the required format.
You can configure as many lists as you want. If you have multiple Apps lists, repeat the steps described above for each list. When you have completed the configuration, click on Save to close the panel.
News Settings
In this section, you are asked to configure the web part so that it shows the user's favorite news from the News Archive in the dedicated area. Therefore, you need to associate one or more lists of favorite news with the web part.
Click on Configure to open the configuration panel and configure the lists.
Enter the URL of the site where the list of favorite news is stored.
Enter the URL of the list of favorite news in the required format.
You can configure as many lists as you want. If you have multiple lists of favorite news, repeat the steps described above for each list. When you have completed the configuration, click on Save to close the panel.
Documents Settings
In this section, you are asked to configure the web part so that it shows the user's favorite documents in the dedicated area. Therefore, you need to associate one or more lists of favorite documents with the webpart.
Click on Configure to open the configuration panel and configure the lists.
Enter the URL of the site where the list of favorite documents is stored.
Enter the URL of the list of favorite documents in the required format.
You can configure as many lists as you want. If you have multiple lists of favorite documents, repeat the steps described above for each list. When you have completed the configuration, click on Save to close the panel.
Fill in the remaining fields as follows:
Insert the internal name of the language managed property if it has been manually edited. By default, the internal named used to get localized documents is owstaxIdIAILanguage. Filling in this field is optional.
Decide whether to show or hide the download icon, which allows users to save documents on their computers. By default, the download icon is not displayed in the web part. If you want to show it, change the default option from Yes to No. When the configuration of the web part is complete, the download icon, which is identified by an arrow, will appear to the right of the document title.
Viewing options
In this part of the configuration, you can decide to hide one or more sections of the web part and customize the title of each section.
For each section, you are asked whether you want to hide it. You can do this by activating the corresponding option, which will change the default value from No to Yes. By default, all the sections are visible.
You also have the possibility to customize the title of each section. To do so, type the name you would like to use in the corresponding box. If you do not write customized names, the web part will use the default ones, which are: "Favorite people", "Favorite FAQ", "Favorite apps", Favorite news", "Favorite documents".
For example, you can change the title of the people section from "Favorite people" to "Favorite contacts".
The last option allows you to hide the web part when there are no favorites to be displayed.
Once the configuration is complete, the web part looks like this:
The component allows you to interact with individual resources to:
Access tabs with your contacts' details: if you click on a contact, you will be redirected to that contact's profile section on the People Directory Page.
View answers to your frequently asked questions: if you click on a FAQ, a box will appear showing you the question and the full answer.
Use the apps for your daily activities: you just need to click on a button to access the link associated with it.
Delve into the news that interests you: if you click on a news, you will access the full news post.
Read or download your documents: to read a document, you just need to click it; to save the document on your computer, you need to click the download icon, identified by an arrow.
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