SHAREPOINT LIVE TILES HOW TO
SHAREPOINT LIVE TILES UPDATE

Once uploaded to image library of your choice, note imageВ URL and paste it in the respective field in Background Image Location.

SharePoint is very picky about image size, so make sure it is 150 px X 150 px to avoid issues

Best if you use PNG (transparent) graphic file.

It can physically reside in any library, but I recommend putting it under Site Assets or Site Images web, so that it is not accidentally deleted by anyone.В Few notes about specifications of the image:

Background Image Location: Here you specify the location/source of the image that resides in your SharePoint environment.

If the icon is meant to add a new request in Help Desk, you will type in ADD NEW TICKET. For example, if this icon points to your Policies Library, you type in POLICIES. This title will be layered over the image/tile, so it has to be really descriptive of what it is for.

Title Field: On the Title field, fill out the title of the icon.

To add a new icon, click New Item (this works just like any other list or library). Essentially, on every row, you need to associate your icon to a URL it will point to. You will get this unfriendly statement below, but that is obviously because you have yet to configure it first.Д¬lick on All Promoted Links View (you can also get to this view via List Settings on the web part configuration ribbon.В This will open up a list where you configure your SharePoint Tiles. While in Site Contents, click on the web part to configure it. To do this, go to Site Contents, Add an App, and choose Promoted Links Web Part). Setting up SharePoint Tiles is quite easy.В First, you need to create/add a web part to your site.

SHAREPOINT LIVE TILES HOW TO

How to setup SharePoint Tiles (Promoted links) quick launchвЂќ), but it is so much cooler to click on icons рџ™‚ The user can obviously still click on those libraries via regular means (i.e. For example, in the screenshot below, I created SharePoint Tiles (sorry, SharePoint promoted links) to link images to certain document libraries. Essentially, it is a list of graphic icons you link to URLs for easy access to certain functions.

Though I called them SharePoint Tiles, in SharePoint, they are actually called Promoted Links Web Part. What are SharePoint Tiles or SharePoint Promoted Links? However, if you are in SharePoint Online, you might want to check out this post to learn about ways to promote links in modern SharePoint pages. If you have SharePoint on-premises, this post still applies.

SHAREPOINT LIVE TILES UPDATE

Update April 2019: This article provides instructions on what is now considered вЂњclassicвЂќ SharePoint sites/pages. In this post, I provide step-by-step instructions on how to set it up. It is a great way to вЂњspice upвЂќ your site, make it more user-friendly for your end users and break away from stale out of the box look and feel. A quite useful usability feature that I like and highly recommend for your SharePoint sites is called вЂњSharePoint TilesвЂќ (also known as Promoted Links).

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