New WikiPakk Children Display Web Part and Usage Metrics
The latest WikiPakk release v2.9.0 addresses two often mentioned use cases.
Children Display Web Part
You can now use the Children Display web part to show child pages of the current page.
Note
The Children Display web part is a new web part. So, there are now two WikiPakk web parts available - Children Display, and the Page Tree Editor.Take this page tree for example:
Now, placing the Children Display web part on the Testspace Migration page shows all of its four children:
The hierarchy information for the Children Display web part is the same as for the page tree and breadcrumb.
The Children Display web part makes it super easy to navigate to child pages.
This three-minute video shows how it works:
Optional Usage Metrics Recording
How much value are your users getting from WikiPakk?
I understand that this question needs to be addressed to allocate budget for a solution like WikiPakk.
WikiPakk has now optional telemetry built in that can be switched on to record usage metrics. It’s turned off by default and needs to be explicitly configured.
When turned on, all data stays within your SharePoint tenant. And again, by default it’s off.
This eight-minute video shows how to set it up:
Above video walks you through:
- setting up a central site to store the data
- pointing WikiPakk to this central location
- creating the SharePoint list that is used to store the data
- watching recorded usage events
Note
Your central site might already have been configured if you chose to store your WikiPakk license key there.Please check the WikiPakk Telemetry article for additional permission-related steps you need to take: How to Set Up Telemetry.
Addressed Issues
The breadcrumb sometimes showed the previous page after navigating. This has been addressed.
The page tree editor web part sometimes failed to save a drag operation. This has been fixed.
Furthermore, the breadcrumb bar was shown when embedding a page using the Embed web part. This has been addressed. When the embed URL contains the IsDlg or env query parameters the breadcrumb bar now stays hidden.
Other Changes
You can now check for updates by clicking the Check for new version link in the about dialog:
Both the Children Display and Page Tree Editor web part got a loading indicator providing better visual feedback than before:
How to Update
The update is available from Microsoft AppSource.
This article shows how to update: Update WikiPakk.
After the update, there should now be two WikiPakk web parts available:
- Children Display (WikiPakk)
- Page Tree Editor (WikiPakk)
Staged Deployment
In case of a staged deployment you will have to update the WikiPakk solution in both the site collection app catalog of your staging site, and the tenant app catalog.If you don’t see the two web parts, then you still need to update to the latest version. Refer to Check the Current and Available Version of WikiPakk for details on how to check which version you are on.