While in Site Contents, click on the web part to configure it. To do this, go to Site Contents, Add an App, and choose Promoted Links Web Part). Setting up SharePoint Tiles is quite easy. First, you need to create/add a web part to your site. How to setup SharePoint Tiles (Promoted links) quick launch”), but it is so much cooler to click on icons 🙂 The user can obviously still click on those libraries via regular means (i.e. For example, in the screenshot below, I created SharePoint Tiles (sorry, SharePoint promoted links) to link images to certain document libraries. Essentially, it is a list of graphic icons you link to URLs for easy access to certain functions. Though I called them SharePoint Tiles, in SharePoint, they are actually called Promoted Links Web Part. What are SharePoint Tiles or SharePoint Promoted Links?

However, if you are in SharePoint Online, you might want to check out this post to learn about ways to promote links in modern SharePoint pages. If you have SharePoint on-premises, this post still applies.

Update April 2019: This article provides instructions on what is now considered “classic” SharePoint sites/pages. In this post, I provide step-by-step instructions on how to set it up. It is a great way to “spice up” your site, make it more user-friendly for your end users and break away from stale out of the box look and feel. A quite useful usability feature that I like and highly recommend for your SharePoint sites is called “SharePoint Tiles” (also known as Promoted Links).

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