Company Stories Web part

Summary

This web part allows you to add images to a SharePoint List, and renders them with a UX very similar to Instagram Stories (or Twitter Reels, or [Place your Social network here]). It is a way to engage employees, showing relevant content in a well-known visual appearance.

Compatibility

Applies to

Get your own free development tenant by subscribing to Microsoft 365 developer program

Prerequisites

Before deploying your SharePoint Framework package to your tenant, you will need to deploy the @microsoft/mgt-spfx SharePoint Framework package to your tenant. You can download the package corresponding to the version of @microsoft/mgt-spfx that you used in your project, from the Releases section on GitHub. See here for more information about using Microsoft Graph Toolkit components in SPFx: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/graph/toolkit/get-started/mgt-spfx
A SharePoint list called "Stories" with the following fields:
- Image: image field type
- Content: multi-line field type
- Author: Person field type
Permission User.ReadBasic.All to the Graph API

Solution

Solution	Author(s)
react-company-stories	Luis Mañez (MVP, ClearPeople, @luismanez)

Version history

Version	Date	Comments
1.0	March 31, 2021	Initial release
2.0	March 16, 2022	Upgraded to SPFx v1.14. Issue 2442 fixed. Using latest MGT version

Minimal Path to Awesome

Before deploying your SharePoint Framework package to your tenant, you will need to deploy the @microsoft/mgt-spfx SharePoint Framework package to your tenant. You can download the package corresponding to the version of @microsoft/mgt-spfx that you used in your project, from the Releases section on GitHub. See here for more information about using Microsoft Graph Toolkit components in SPFx: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/graph/toolkit/get-started/mgt-spfx
Configure SharePoint permissions to Graph API (see Prerequisites). Suggest you to use the Microsoft 365 CLI
Clone this repository
Ensure that you are at the solution folder
In the command-line run:
- npm install
- gulp serve --nobrowser
Add the web part to the SharePoint Workbench (same Site where the List was created)

This sample can also be opened with VS Code Remote Development. Visit https://aka.ms/spfx-devcontainer for further instructions.

Features

This web part illustrates the following concepts:

Using the Microsoft Graph Toolkit react components: Person component
Using FluentUI components
Using react-insta-stories package
Using SP REST API

References

About SPFx:

Getting started with SharePoint Framework
Building for Microsoft teams
Use Microsoft Graph in your solution
Publish SharePoint Framework applications to the Marketplace
Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices - Guidance, tooling, samples and open-source controls for your Microsoft 365 development

Disclaimer

THIS CODE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

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