- [Instructor] When you create a new communication site,
either topic or showcase,
you automatically get a hero web part.
And it behaves differently,
it has a different layout in the two different sites.
Let's switch first to the topic site.
This is a hero web part.
And it has five tiles.
One, two, three, four, five.
Although you could set up this web part to have one tile,
two tiles, one through five tiles.
And you would simply do that by editing.
And edit this web part,
and choose a different number of tiles.
And notice as you do, the web part is modified.
The other choice is layers.
And layers is the approach that's used in the showcase.
With layers what you have,
is you have different layers on top of each other.
If we had for example two layers,
we'd end up with two web parts, one and two.
You have choices up to five layers,
depending on how many different items you want
to link to in a showcase.
I'm going to simply discard my changes
here on the topic site.
And we'll go over to our showcase.
Where currently we have exactly the right number of items,
but let's make sure we have what we want.
If I edit the hero web part,
I have layers and I have three of them.
One, two, three.
And I'll have some space on the page below that
and notice it's showing you
that there's extra space left below the three layers.
Two layers more space and at four
and five layers take up the whole page.
So if I wanted to have five different items
that I was going to showcase,
I would simply choose five layers.
One, two, three, and two more.
Hero content and hero content.
Let's return however to our three layers.
Even though the layers are the default in a showcase
and the tiles are a default in our topic format,
you can use any version that you would like to use.
So if I wanted to change here in my topic site, I could.
And decide to use layers.
And here where I already have layers I could choose
to insert an entirely new section
with the different web part in it.
Perhaps one column and then choose to insert a hero web part
because I don't need to use only the web parts
that are allowed to me.
Here's a new hero web part.
And if I select it, it's in tiles
and I can say no I'd like this one to be in layers,
but only two more layers.
Again very easy to add new web parts in tiles or layers,
or modify the layout
to change tiles to layers, layers to tiles.
Or to change the number of layers and tiles,
that I'm displaying in the web part.
I'm going to return to the version that was last saved,
when this page was last created
and I'll see you in the next movie.