We’re very pleased to announce the latest iterative version of Kira, v1.8, which contains a number of fixes and improvements. Here are two brand new features we’ve introduced in this update.
Navigation Path – improved editing experience
SharePoint Online has a ‘flat’ site structure – all a site’s pages are stored in one folder. Kira’s “Linked Pages” feature lets users group pages into a virtual hierarchy by tagging similar pages with the same parent tag. When you tag a page in this way, our navigation component – known as Navigation Path – will automatically appear on that page.
Kira V1.8 enhances this feature to give you a better editing experience and let you specify the sort order of the Linked Pages, something which was not previously possible.
In the new editing experience, you can add, edit, and delete navigation path tags. You can then load the other pages with the same parent tag, specify and save the sort order. This ordering is immediately reflected in the Navigation Path component.
Why we did it
Customers told us the Linked Pages editing experience was too limited and needed to support custom sorting. We agreed and invested time and thought into improving this component so that all our customers could benefit.
Do users need to do anything?
The new Navigation Path editing feature is available in Kira 1.8. If your organisation has a Kira subscription and you have already been upgraded to Kira 1.8 then you already have this feature. If you have not been upgraded to 1.8 yet, or would like to find out more, then please get in touch.
Custom List Forms
Our brand new Custom List Forms component lets you add a form to your intranet which feeds directly into a custom SharePoint list.
You can add this new web part to any page, and specify:
- the list type (new list, edit existing list, or display list)
- the list you want to connect to, and
- how you would like to launch the list form
You can then specify the order of the form fields by dragging and dropping them, or even removing the fields all together.
The component can be added directly into the page, or you can set it to display a button that, when clicked, launches the form in a separate panel.
For more advanced SharePoint users, the component includes advanced features such as listening for a window event before launching the form, and listening for dynamic web part data to launch the form. This lets you launch the form automatically under certain conditions.
Why we did it
While there are advanced form editing interfaces in Microsoft Forms and PowerApps, SharePoint currently doesn’t offer any lightweight ways of customising list forms. This is particularly noticeable when trying to do simple things like rearranging the order of the fields, or hiding specific fields from the view. We’ve stepped in to plug this gap with our own component.
Do users need to do anything?
The new Custom List Forms feature is available in Kira 1.8. If your organisation has a Kira subscription and you have already been upgraded to Kira 1.8 then you already have this feature. If you have not been upgraded to 1.8 yet, or would like to find out more, then please get in touch.