Policy owners
Policy pages
Give every policy a named, accountable owner readers can see and contact.
Content Creation
Page Authors for SharePoint
Build trust in your content by showing who owns a page, who contributed, and when it was last reviewed.
Page Authors shows the accountable owner, the contributors, and the review dates for a page, using profiles from your directory.
At a glance
Page Authors reads live profiles from your directory, so a sample card would show invented people.
Page Authors shows who owns a page, who contributed to it, and when it was last reviewed, so readers can judge whether the content in front of them is still trustworthy.
- Name, title, department, and photo from your directory
- Review dates so readers can judge currency
- You choose which profile fields appear
In your tenant the card is populated from Microsoft Graph, with the fields you choose to display.
Capabilities
What Page Authors does
- Microsoft Graph profiles
- Pulls name, job title, department, and photo directly from your directory.
- Owner and contributor roles
- Distinguish the accountable owner from everyone who has edited the page.
- Review dates
- Show the last modified and next review dates so readers can judge currency.
- Contact actions
- Offer chat, email, or call actions that respect your tenant policies.
- Graceful fallbacks
- Handles missing photos and departed users without breaking the layout.
- Privacy controls
- Choose exactly which profile fields are displayed for your organisation.
Accessibility conformance
Page Authors is developed and tested against WCAG 2.2 AA and is suitable for inclusion in an accessibility conformance report.
- Author cards use list semantics so screen readers announce how many people are listed.
- Profile photos are decorative, with the person's name always available as text.
- Contact actions are native links and buttons with unambiguous accessible names.
- Dates are written in full rather than relying on relative phrasing alone.
- Cards reflow to a single column at 400 percent zoom without loss of content.
- Focus order follows the visual order of each card and its actions.
In practice
Where teams use it
Knowledge managers
Knowledge base articles
Publish review cycles so readers know how current an article is.
Project teams
Project spaces
Give readers a quick route to the right contact for the workstream.
Governance
Content ownership programmes
Track who owns what across sites as part of a governance programme.
Overview
What Page Authors does
This web part is only meaningful against real directory data, so here is what it shows and how it behaves.
What it is for
Page Authors shows who owns a page, who contributed to it, and when it was last reviewed, so readers can judge whether the content in front of them is still trustworthy.
Key features
- Profile details pulled from your directory through Microsoft Graph
- Last modified and next review dates shown alongside the owner
- Field-level privacy controls over exactly what is displayed
- A fallback to the stored display name when someone leaves the organisation
What your team gets
- Readers can tell current guidance from a page nobody has touched in years
- Content owners are visible, so questions reach the right person directly
- Pages flagged for reassignment surface before they quietly go stale
Screenshot placeholder An author card with owner, contributors, and review date. Image to be supplied.
Screenshot placeholder Page Authors on desktop and mobile. Image to be supplied.
Environment
Compatibility and requirements
Items marked To be confirmed are pending final product documentation and are not a statement of support.
| Microsoft 365 | Any Microsoft 365 subscription that includes SharePoint Online. |
|---|---|
| SharePoint | SharePoint Online modern pages, including communication sites and team sites. SharePoint Server support: To be confirmed |
| Microsoft Teams | To be confirmed Availability as a Teams tab has not yet been published. |
| SPFx version | To be confirmed Supplied with the release notes for your package version. |
| Browsers | Current versions of the browsers supported by Microsoft 365 on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. |
| Devices | Desktop, tablet, and mobile. Layouts reflow for narrow screens. |
| Permissions to install | A SharePoint administrator uploads the package to the tenant app catalogue. Site owners then add the web part to a page. |
| API permissions requested | To be confirmed The permission set requested at deployment is listed in the installation guide. |
| Other requirements | No server-side components, database, or additional licences beyond your existing Microsoft 365 subscription. |
Trust
Security and privacy
Page Authors runs inside your tenant as a SharePoint Framework solution and follows the permissions already assigned to each page.
Data handling
Content and settings are stored with the page in SharePoint. The web part does not create a separate data store.
External services
The web part renders content from your own tenant. Any external service is one your authors choose to embed.
API permissions
Permissions requested at deployment are listed in the installation guide and approved by an administrator before use. Details to be confirmed
Tenant and access control
Content inherits SharePoint permissions. Readers see it only if they can already open the page it sits on.
Getting started
From order to published page
Purchase
Send us your tenant details and user count. We confirm licensing and issue the package and licence key.
Install
A SharePoint administrator uploads the package to the tenant app catalogue and approves the requested permissions.
Configure
Site owners add the web part to a modern page and set its options in the property pane.
Use
Authors edit the content while editing the page. Changes publish with the page, with no further deployment.
Your package
What you receive
Product
The Page Authors SPFx package, ready to upload to your tenant app catalogue.
Updates
Fixes and improvements released during your licence term, with release notes for each version.
Support
Email support for installation, configuration, and troubleshooting questions.
Documentation
Installation, configuration, and author guidance written for SharePoint administrators and site owners.
Licence
A tenant licence key and the licence terms for your records and procurement review.
Accessibility evidence
A conformance summary covering WCAG 2.2 AA testing, available for your accessibility reporting.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
What permissions does it need?
Read access to basic user profiles through Microsoft Graph. Your administrator grants consent once during installation.
What happens when someone leaves the organisation?
The card falls back to the stored display name and flags the page for owner reassignment.
Can we hide job titles?
Yes. Every profile field is individually configurable to match your privacy requirements.
Show ownership on every page
Tell us about your environment and we will confirm licensing, rollout steps, and an accessibility conformance summary for your records.