People teams
Recognition and awards
Give employee recognition and long service awards a consistent home.
Content Creation
Spotlight for SharePoint
Give recognition, news, and key announcements the attention they deserve, without hijacking the reader's page.
Spotlight features news, recognition, and announcements in a curated or list-driven set, with scheduling and a pause control.
At a glance
Spotlight rotates real news and recognition items, and an auto-rotating box on a product page would distract more than it explains.
Spotlight gives recognition, news, and key announcements the attention they deserve, without letting a rotating banner take over the page a reader came for.
- Manual curation or a live list or search query
- Scheduled start and end dates per item
- Pause control, plus motion-free layouts
Rotation, scheduling, and the pause control are all configurable per instance.
Capabilities
What Spotlight does
- Manual or dynamic
- Curate items by hand, or drive the list from a SharePoint list or search query.
- Scheduling
- Set start and end dates so featured items retire themselves automatically.
- Layout choices
- Present a single hero item, a rotating set, or a static grid of highlights.
- Pause control
- Rotation includes a clearly labelled pause and resume control for every visitor.
- Rich item cards
- Combine image, headline, summary, and a single clear call to action.
- Theme aware
- Follows your SharePoint theme while preserving text contrast over images.
Accessibility conformance
Spotlight is developed and tested against WCAG 2.2 AA and is suitable for inclusion in an accessibility conformance report.
- Automatic rotation can be paused, stopped, and resumed, satisfying Pause, Stop, Hide.
- Rotation stops automatically when focus or the pointer enters the component.
- Slide changes are announced politely and never steal focus from the reader.
- Previous and next controls are native buttons that meet Target Size (Minimum).
- Text over imagery keeps at least 4.5:1 contrast through an adaptive overlay.
- Rotation is disabled entirely when the visitor prefers reduced motion.
In practice
Where teams use it
Communications
Leadership messages
Feature leadership updates on the intranet home page without crowding it.
Events
Campaign promotion
Promote a campaign or event and let it retire itself on the closing date.
Department leads
New joiner introductions
Introduce new colleagues to the department in a predictable place.
Overview
What Spotlight does
Rather than run a rotating carousel here, this is what the web part does and how teams configure it.
What it is for
Spotlight gives recognition, news, and key announcements the attention they deserve, without letting a rotating banner take over the page a reader came for.
Key features
- Curate items by hand, or drive the list from a SharePoint list or search query
- Start and end dates so featured items retire themselves
- A clearly labelled pause and resume control on any rotation
- Static grid and single item layouts that render with no motion at all
What your team gets
- Announcements stay current without someone remembering to remove them
- Readers who find movement difficult can stop it, or never see it at all
- Recognition gets a consistent home instead of a one-off page edit each time
Screenshot placeholder The static grid layout with three featured items. Image to be supplied.
Screenshot placeholder Spotlight 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
Spotlight 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 Spotlight 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
Can rotation be turned off completely?
Yes. Choose the static grid or single item layout and the component renders with no motion at all.
Who can change the featured items?
Anyone with edit rights on the page, or on the source list when the dynamic mode is used.
Does it support multiple languages?
Yes. It follows SharePoint multilingual page variants and inherits the page language.
Put users in the spotlight
Tell us about your environment and we will confirm licensing, rollout steps, and an accessibility conformance summary for your records.