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How To Add Banner Thumbnails in ShortPoint Design Elements

Thumbnails that show banner images from your site page, news post, and news link can be added to ShortPoint design elements in your SharePoint modern page.


You can see an example here:




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Prerequisites:

  • You must have images in your page banners and news posts;

  • You have added an image to your news link;

  •  If not, the default image will be shown as a thumbnail.


Follow these steps


Step 1: Go to Site Pages


Go to Site Contents > Site Pages:




Step 2: Add Banner Image URL column

Banner Image URL is not shown in Site Pages by default.


Click Add column and choose Show/hide columns in the drop down. In the Edit view columns window, select to show the Banner Image URL column values and click Apply.




Step 3: Add or edit a web part and insert Image Lists


Now we can add or edit a web part to insert a ShortPoint Image List as shown below.



Step 4:  Connect to your Site Pages


In the Connect tab select Current Site from the Connection Type options.



Choose Site Pages in the List/Library drop-down. Press the green Connect button and wait for the connection to load.


Note: To find out more about the Connect Feature in ShortPoint, please read this article: ShortPoint Connect: Basic Tutorial




Step 5: Use Items mapping to show banner thumbnails


Items mapping will now be available in your Items tab. Choose what information to show in your page’s news section.


Note: To find out more about the Connect Feature in ShortPoint, please read this article: ShortPoint Connect: Basic Tutorial


Choose the values you want to appear in your Image List from the dropdown.




In the Image field, select Banner Image URL URL in the dropdown.


In this example, we are mapping the Title field to show the name of the page, the Subtitle field to show the author, the Description field to show when the news was created, and the Image field to show the banner thumbnail.


Click Preview once done.





The preview window will show how your banner thumbnails will appear. Click Insert once done.




Content will now appear with banner thumbnails in your page:




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