Welcome Box
The component to increase visits to the SharePoint intranet by offering content and useful links for users' activities.
What is Welcome Box
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.
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Add the Welcome Box 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 IAI Welcome Box to quickly find and select the IAI - Welcome Box web part.
Once added, it defaults to the following view, where two icons (my profile and bell) appear in the buttons below the image.
Configuration
Profile Settings
User link: In this section, you can input the link to the My Profile 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.
Open the page: you can choose if you want to open the link on a new page or on the current page.
Please note: these sections are not mandatory to fill out.
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Left Icon Settings
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
Insert the icon. Please see here the corresponding code via mouse over it.
For example: People (icon of two people)
You can also create custom icons, upload the images to SharePoint and insert the link of the image uploaded to SharePoint in this section.
To create the icon URL, follow these steps:
Upload the picture to the Site Assets folder in the Site contents (or any other folder on your intranet).
In the Site Assets document library, select the picture. (1)
Click on the Info icon at the top right of the screen. (2)
Click on the Path icon to copy the URL of the icon. (3)
Finally, paste the icon URL into the required field.
You can also choose whether to open the link in a new window or on the current page when the button is clicked.
Right Icon Settings
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
Insert the icon. Please see here the corresponding code via mouse over it.
For example: Phone (phone icon)
You can also create custom icons, upload the images to SharePoint and insert the link of the image uploaded to SharePoint in this section. To create the icon URL, follow the steps described above.
You can also choose whether to open the link in a new window or on the current page when the button is clicked.
Please note: the button links can be changed at any time and are visible to all users.
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