Microsoft 365 – SharePoint: Future Update – Collaborate on SharePoint Pages and News with coauthoring.

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Greetings for the day!!! Good news for SharePoint publishers / authors / editors.

Today sharing future update related to SharePoint.

Future Update – Collaborate on SharePoint Pages and News with coauthoring.

Before this Future Update

• Only one author can edit a page or news at the same time.
• While an author is editing a page, no other user can edit until the author publishes or saves the draft.

Details

• It is now possible that multiple authors can edit the SharePoint page or news at the same time.
• The ability for multiple authors to edit the same Page at the same time, without having to take turns.
• Authors can see real-time changes made by others as they happen in Pages, sections and web parts.

Demo

• Here, we are using two users, those will edit the same page.
• Login with these two users to same site – https://knowledgejunction1.sharepoint.com/sites/LearningPortal
  • User 1 : Prasham Sabadra – prasham@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com
  • User 2 : Shweta Parakh – KnowledgeJunction@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com

• Next step is – User 1 is editing the home page as

• Next step – At the same time (while User 1 is editing the page), let User 2 start editing the same page as

• From above image, please note the color of profile icons. Both are marked with a pink circle. This indicates both users are editing the page at the same time.
• If we will navigate to User 1 account, we will see there details like as in image below.

• On User 1 page, we will also see an update from User 2 changes. Real time updates.

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124853 – SharePoint: Collaborate on SharePoint pages and news with co-authoring

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