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GroupTiles for SharePoint Add-in Support

Instructions

Download and Install GroupTiles Add-in

Step 1: Purchase and Download the Add-in: (Requires Tenant or Farm Admin rights)

  1. Go to Microsoft AppSource.

  2. Sign in using your Microsoft Account.

  3. Select “Add” from the catalog to add to your O365 Tenant or SharePoint Farm.

 

To Add the Add-in

Step 2: Go to the root site and add the Add-in from the Site Contents area, just as you would any other Add-in (Requires Site Collection Admin rights).

  1. Navigate to Site Contents.

  2. Select “Add an App”.

  3. Navigate to the icon marked “GroupTiles by SmartData” and click on it to add the dd-in to your Site.

  4. Click "trust this app."

Add the Add-in to a Page

  1. Edit the page to add the Add-in as a web part.

Navigate to Site Contents.

Click on 'add an app' and select it from your Add-in library.

​​To Use the Add-in:

Navigate to the Site Collection page. GroupTiles by SmartData Add-in uses Search to automatically generate the most recent version of the Site Collection. 

Key Features:

  1. Security trimmed: Display of site will be security trimmed and will only display sites where the current user has a minimum of ‘View’ permission.

  2. Touch-friendly Navigation: GroupTiles display provides ‘Touch-friendly’ Tile images as navigation by providing hyperlinks to the sites that are shown.

  3. Site Usage Information: Hover over a Tile image to display the site 'Description’ of that Group or Team site. 

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Navigate to the icon marked “Group Tiles by SmartData” and click on it to add the

Add-in to your Site.

Hover over a Tile image to display the 'Description' of that Team or Group Site.

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