Have you ever wondered how to quickly make important announcements available in SharePoint?
You’re in the right place. In this post, you’ll learn a simple way to highlight important messages across your SharePoint Modern Pages.
Implementation in SharePoint
We built this with a straightforward SharePoint App Extension.
Top and bottom placeholders
SharePoint provides two placeholders out of the box. For important announcements, we naturally chose the top placeholder so messages appear right at the beginning of the page.
The second option is the bottom placeholder, which, as you’d expect, appears at the end of the page.
A more eye-catching display with React
To make the banner stand out, we added a small React component. Using react-smooth-marquee, the message scrolls across the page like a ticker, ensuring it gets noticed. Here’s an example of what it can look like:
Authoring important messages
All messages are managed in a simple SharePoint list.
This makes it easy to create, edit, and publish announcements with minimal effort.
By setting a start and end date, you can schedule messages precisely.
You can also publish multiple messages at the same time; the extension takes care of displaying them separately.
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