What's New - MatchPoint Intranet

Support of external Apps

Besides Snowflakes MatchPoint Snow now provides a new way of integrating external websites. This functionality is unified under the term 'Apps'.

The Apps node in the top navigation displays the favorite apps and snowflakes of the logged in user. A click on the Apps node or the "More apps..." node takes the user to an overview page of all existing apps. The user can choose his favorites and thereby personalize his navigation within MatchPoint Snow.

Apps can be managed by app administrators specified in the MachPoint Snow Configuration in a newly introduced configuration node called App Settings. App administrators are provided with contextual actions in the right section of the app overview page:

Figure 2: Contextual Actions to manage Apps (visible only to App Administrators)

Page Size Controls

MatchPoint Snow now allows users to specify a page size on all landing pages to simplify and speed up user navigation through the content.

![The new Paging Controls in Snow]img/1.0.6/PagingAndPageSizeSelectorControl.PNG)

List of People that like an item

The new version of MatchPoint Snow comes with a feature allowing users to see who liked an item. The callout is displayed when a user hovers over the "like" / "unlike" link below the corresponding post.

Figure 3: Callout showing people who like an item

Delete timeline posts

It is now possible to delete own timeline posts and to hide inconsequential posts from the own timeline.

Figure 4: Jim's grammar isn't the best ...

Access Request handling in workspaces

With MatchPoint Snow 1.0.6 it gets easier for workspace owners to see who requested access to their workspace and to approve or decline these requests. The new version adds two new tabs to the manage participants page, visible only to workspace owners.

Figure 5: The new Access Request board in a MatchPoint Snow workspace

Note, that the 'Access Requests' tab becomes visible with the first access request to the workspace and is hidden otherwise.

The user requesting access is doing so using the SharePoint out of the box Access Denied page.

Configurable Welcome Dialog and Landing Pages

A frequently requested feature was the ability to customize the Welcome Dialog and to add or remove tabs from the Landing Pages. This is now possible by simply adjusting configurations.

Welcome Dialog

The Welcome Dialog can be adjusted in the MatchPoint Snow Configuration in the section "WelcomeScreen". Almost everything can be configured, e.g. it's possible to specify whether users can change the language, can disable the welcome screen or which action tiles are displayed.

Landing Pages

Snow's landing pages can now be configured using 'Tabbed View Configurations'. All involved config files start with: 'MP.Snow.TabbedView.*'.

Amongst others the following configuration options are available:

Available tabs
Tab order
Default tab
Visibility expression (per tab)
WebParts to be displayed (per tab)

Stay notified for specific search queries

Sometimes keeping track of new information is hard. SharePoint provides a handy yet simple solution for this problem by allowing users to subscribe to a specific search query. The user is then periodically informed about new items matching their search query.

This feature is now available from MatchPoint Snow's Advanced Search.

Additional Changes

Improved icon handling, in particular, to unify icons on landing pages and in the search
Touch devices are provided with a "switch to desktop version" on all pages and not only on the user's profile
Several bug fixes

What's New