Tiles WebPart SP2013

Introduction

SP2013 has lot of new features. Tiles web part is one of them. It has a nice look and feel which attracts users. There can be such a scenarios where we need to provide a quick links section, the Tiles web parts is the perfect match for such requirements. This article will walk you through how we can implement tiles web parts and use of JQuery to meet our specific requirements.

Scenario

In a SharePoint site, a quick links section has links to important pages, sub sites, externals links, and important documents of our site. The links will have their names and URL associated with it. These links should open in a new tab, new window, same page, in a pop up as per the requirements. Each links should have nice look and feel with background image.

This is how the Tile web part will look like:

Implementation Steps

I will not talk much about it. J Let’s start with the implementation now.

STEP 1: Select add an app form Site settings.

STEP 2: Select promoted links.

STEP 3: Give a proper name. I have given a name “Quick Links”.

STEP 4: Select Quick links app it will redirect you to Tiles.aspx page. To add items (links) to the list, click on All Promoted links.

STEP 5: Click on new item to add an item to the list.

STEP 6: Fill below details.

6.1 Title

6.2 Background image location: Image URL to be displayed

6.3 Description: will be shown as a short description on mouse hover event of a tile.

6.4 Link location: target URL for click event

6.5 Launch Behavior: In page Navigation or Dialog or New tab

6.6 Order: Sequential position

Similarly add other items to the list.

STEP 7: Edit a page where you want to add the Tiles web part and click on add web part. Select the Quick Launch.

That’s it guys, it will show you the Quick Launch Tiles web part like this:

Summary

This is how we can implement Tiles web part in SP2013. It has another name as Promoted Links. In the next blog I will show you, how we can implement a role based menu to show the specific tiles to specific users depending upon users permissions. Happy reading. Have a great day ahead.

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