The QA Hub home page. A communications portal for Dublin and Du?n Laoghaire ETB with Microsoft 365

Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB) worked with Cloud Design Box to build a centralised communication and collaboration portal in Microsoft SharePoint and Teams.   In this webinar, we speak to Marcella O’Dowd (FET Quality Assurance at DDLETB) about the impact the portal is having on the way people work together in the … Read more

Cloud Design Box logo with Outlook Events in SharePoint image.

In this guide, we show you how to add the Cloud Design Box exclusive My Events web part to your SharePoint sites.   The My Events web part gives you a quick glance at your upcoming events by showing your calendar events from Outlook.   It would sit perfectly on a home page so users … Read more

How to add an FAQ section to a SharePoint page title image

In this guide, we show you how to add the Cloud Design Box Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Web Part to your SharePoint sites. The FAQ web part is an extremely versatile addition to any SharePoint site and can be customised to create an interactive FAQs section to help give quick guidance to your users.   … Read more

Free webinar: Achieve more in Teams as a MAT with Cloud Box

Cloud Design Box is partnering with Arbor to deliver two free virtual training sessions designed especially for schools, academies and multi-academy trusts (MATs).   Arbor works with over 2,500 primary, secondary and special schools and is the UK’s fasted-growing MIS community.   Arbor MIS – which is featured in both of the upcoming webinars – gives schools … Read more

Cloud Design Box logo with a digital tablet displaying assignments.

We have launched a new SharePoint web part exclusive for Cloud Design Box customers called My Assignments, allowing students to see all their current and upcoming assignments from their SharePoint homepage.   Your school’s SharePoint homepage should give students a quick overview of what’s going on in the school community, and their classroom.   Popular features of a school intranet include the latest news, an announcement from the headteacher … Read more

How exciting, SharePoint web parts can now talk to other parts of Office 365 rather than just SharePoint using the Microsoft Graph and third party APIs! With the release of the SharePoint Framework version 1.4.1, we now have preview support of the Microsoft Graph API. In this example, I’m going to create a SharePoint Framework … Read more

When using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx), we can use spHttpClient to manage our REST calls. Creating new fields (columns) in lists is like using jQuery ajax methods, first we feed in the body of our call in JSON format. [code lang=”js”] const spOpts: ISPHttpClientOptions = { body: "{‘Title’: ‘Group’, ‘FieldTypeKind’:2,’Required’:false, ‘EnforceUniqueValues’: ‘false’,’StaticName’: ‘Group’}" }; [/code] … Read more

This web part replicates the classic Promoted Links Web Part but with added features such as web part properties to change the background colour, size of background image and to select which promoted link list to use. You can download it here. For more information on the full Cloud Design Box learning platform for modern … Read more

Have you heard about the virtual Collab365 Global Conference 2017 that’s streaming online November 1st – 2nd? Join me and 120 other speakers from around the world who will be bringing you the very latest content around SharePoint, Office 365, Flow, PowerApps, Azure, OneDrive for Business and of course the increasingly popular Microsoft Teams. The event is produced by … Read more

Note: this is an updated blog post to include reference material and demos from the SUGUK meeting in Leeds on 5th September 2017. I’ve been a SharePoint designer now for over 10 years. By designer, I mean changing the look and feel of SharePoint. Not just adding simple themes, but making SharePoint, “not look like … Read more

I’ve been a SharePoint designer now for over 10 years. By designer, I mean changing the look and feel of SharePoint. Not just adding simple themes, but making SharePoint, “not look like SharePoint”. It’s a common request for companies and schools to have an intranet or communication portal which reflects their brand and identity. Although … Read more

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