Configure Hello Web Part

Configure Hello Web Part

Hello Change the display message welcoming users to your SharePoint site according to the time of day (i.e., Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening).

When you first add the web part to a page, you will automatically see the greeting in a aqua colored font. You have several options in the configuration tool pane to change not only the font color, but other formatting as well.

Hello.jpg Step Action Result
1. You can set up a greeting for the morning time frame; depending on how the server time is set, users arriving at the site will see a morning greeting up until noon server time. GM.jpg
2. Enter an afternoon greeting; you do not have to enter a different greeting for afternoons but you can. GA.jpg
3. The evening greeting is also an option. GE.jpg
4. Pull down the drop-down selector to see the variety of font colors to display the users’ names. FontColors.jpg
5. By checking this box, you can bold the name of the user visiting the site. GE-BoldMaroon.jpg
In this example, the font color was changed to maroon and Bold was checked.
6. You can set the font of the user’s name in italics when you check this box. GE-Ital.jpg
In this example, the User’s name is in italics, but not bold.
7. And you can underline the user’s name by checking this box. GE-BoldItalUnderline.jpg
In this example, the font color selected is maroon and all three boxes were checked; the user’s name results in being bold, italics and underlined.
8. Always click the Apply button before you click the OK button to save your changes.