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[davimack]

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The article does not provide any screenshots nor description of how to arrive at these features. It is impossible to configure them without leaving this page, which purports to be ABOUT them. This page is worse than useless; it is a distraction for other articles which might hold an answer.

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• ID: 33dfff5b-2b9e-94c7-ffa2-73719f49fb20
• Version Independent ID: 33dfff5b-2b9e-94c7-ffa2-73719f49fb20
• Content: Format board view to customize SharePoint
• Content Source: docs/declarative-customization/view-board-formatting.md
• Service: sharepoint-online
• GitHub Login: @VesaJuvonen
• Microsoft Alias: vesaj

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[omarelanis]

@davimack please remember this is a community based effort where people are putting in their own time and effort to build out a lot of these pages and resources, rather than providing negative feedback like this it would be great if you could provide some constructive recommendations on how to actually improve the page - or better yet embrace the community spirit and attempt to update the documentation yourself...

On the top right hand side of the article you will see an edit link, I've included a link directly below as well, please feel free to update the documentation to provide some more useful content, it will go through an approval process and all being well you'll get added to the contributors of the page:

https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/blob/main/docs/declarative-customization/view-board-formatting.md

[davimack]

@omarelanis Actually, I'd propose the page be deleted. It literally contains nothing of use to someone trying to use the feature. Also: I came to this page because I do not know how this thing works, so can't really contribute to the page (and, no, I'm not using the feature, because there's no documentation).

Some of the questions for this page's authors:

• How do I get to the feature?
• What's the syntax?
• Is there an example? A screenshot?
• What SharePoint version does it apply to?
• What's a "board formatter" and where can I find one?
• Are there only 3 properties of this object (whichever object this is - we're not told)?
• The description is, "you can do stuff here that you can do there" but it never says where "here" is.

I totally get that this is a community effort. This page, though, shows up in search results, and so people will visit expecting to find some means of customizing a board view. This article is a good match for that query. The page doesn't have any information at all, however.

Please review the page with "I have to define a custom layout for a board" in mind and see if you find it useful.

I would propose the page be deleted.

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