How to use SharePoint Pages and WebParts in your OneDrive

Microsoft, REST, SharePoint Online, Webparts

As we anticipate the next generation of OneDrive, it’s essential to remember that the current version also boasts a variety of hidden features that can be activated with just a few clicks. Have you considered creating your own personal intranet within OneDrive by incorporating SharePoint pages and web parts? Explore the possibilities!

Every OneDrive in a Microsoft 365 tenant is technology wise just another SharePoint Site Collection. Therefore nearly all of the features available in a normal Site Collection can also be activated in your OneDrive. The following manual shows how to enable the usage of SharePoint Pages in a OneDrive. Enabling this feature helped me to use the super helpful custom WebPart spfx-rest-api-tester. This allowed me to try out some SharePoint REST API endpoints directly inside my OneDrive (instead of going the long way by using Postman).

Manual: Enable Pages and WebParts

To be able to use a WebPart in OneDrive you need to execute some extra steps because the usage of SharePoint Pages is disabled in OneDrive by default. The easiest way to achieve this is by enabling the so called Site Pages Site Feature as described below:

  • Open any OneDrive Site collection and copy its base url (e.g. https://yourTenantUrl-my.sharepoint.com/personal/YourUserNameGoesHere)
  • Attach the following to additional path to the url and navigate to it: /_layouts/15/settings.aspx (e.g. https://yourTenantUrl-my.sharepoint.com/personal/YourUserNameGoesHeresetting/_layouts/15/settings.aspx).
  • Click Site Features in Area Site Actions.
  • Find Feature Site Pages and enable it by clicking Activate-Button.
  • Go to /_layouts/15/settings.aspx from step above again and click Site Libraries and Lists in Area Site Administration.
  • Click Customize Site Pages.
  • Click Site Pages or copy the property Web Address and navigate to it.

Now you are ready to go and can start adding as many SharePoint Pages and add them with any content and WebParts available in your tenant.

Manual: Add Pages and WebParts

To add a page you only need to execute some small steps.

  • Click + New and the click Site Page.
  • Add any WebParts to your page (by clicking the + button of an areain my example REST API Tester).
  • Give the page a title and and publish the page by clicking the Publish button.

Afterwards the page is ready to be used.

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