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SharePoint Connections 2013 - Navigation in a Multi Site Collection environment
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Whenever you are asked to setup an intranet environment, one of the first questions that has to be tackled will be whether you will use multiple site collections to store your content. Ending up with different site collections will impact the way you can navigate and thus might require you to build custom navigation elements. Extending the top or left navigation can be done with a custom navigation provider (or providing XML or a custom NavigationProvider). Extending the breadcrumbs is a bit harder since there is no logic for you to do so. However, using the Managed Metadata as a placeholder to hold the structure, we can use JavaScript and the web services for Managed Metadata and Search to generate a custom breadcrumb and insert them before the default SharePoint version, thus generating a custom structure that works across site collections. Challenges are providing something that can compete with the out-of-the-box breadcrumb regarding performance, and the migration to SharePoint 2013 since that will provide Managed Metadata
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Navigation in a Multi Site Collection EnvironmentAlbert-Jan Schot
Albert-Jan Schot
work: Maventionblog: http://www.sharepointappie.nlmail: [email protected]: @appieschot
Agenda
Why? What? How?
Why
would you use Site Collections?
Why
Why
Scalability Settings
Scalability ‘Less’ limits Can be moved between databases Can be monitored (quota’s)
Limits and boundaries 300 Content Databases per WebApplication 2,000 Site Collections per Content Database
200 GB a Site Collection 250,000 sub sites 5000 (max 50.000) unique permissions per scope (SPList, SPWeb, SPSite)
Settings Shared permissions Shared template galleries Content Types Navigation
What
types of navigation are there?
Click to insert photo.
Top navigation
Left navigation
View selector
Breadcrumb
What
Top navigation<SharePoint:AspMenu ID="TopNavigationMenuV4" Runat="server" EnableViewState="false" DataSourceID="topSiteMap" AccessKey="<%$Resources:wss,navigation_accesskey%>" UseSimpleRendering="true" UseSeparateCss="false" Orientation="Horizontal" StaticDisplayLevels="2" MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="1" SkipLinkText="" CssClass="s4-tn" />
Left navigation<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftNavBarDataSource" runat="server" /><asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderCalendarNavigator" runat="server" /><asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftNavBarTop" runat="server"/><asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server” /><asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderQuickLaunchTop" runat="server“ /><Sharepoint:SPNavigationManager
id="QuickLaunchNavigationManager"runat="server"QuickLaunchControlId="QuickLaunchMenu"ContainedControl="QuickLaunch"EnableViewState="false"CssClass="ms-quicklaunch-navmgr">
View selector<h1 name="onetidProjectPropertyTitle">
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderSiteName" runat="server"><SharePoint:SPLinkButton runat="server" NavigateUrl="~site/" id="onetidProjectPropertyTitle"><SharePoint:ProjectProperty Property="Title" runat="server" /></SharePoint:SPLinkButton></asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</h1><span id="onetidPageTitleSeparator" class="s4-nothome s4-bcsep s4-titlesep"><SharePoint:ClusteredDirectionalSeparatorArrow runat="server" /> </span><h2>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea" runat="server" /></h2>
Breadcrumb<SharePoint:PopoutMenu
runat="server"ID="GlobalBreadCrumbNavPopout"IconUrl="/_layouts/images/fgimg.png"IconAlt="<%$Resources:wss,master_breadcrumbIconAlt%>"IconOffsetX=0IconOffsetY=112IconWidth=16IconHeight=16AnchorCss="s4-breadcrumb-anchor"AnchorOpenCss="s4-breadcrumb-anchor-open"MenuCss="s4-breadcrumb-menu">
How
can managed metadata help you?
“Navigation should be easy, very easy”
How Clients & Projects Document Management Employees work on different clients (and projects)
Collaboration Portal1 site collection / client
1 subsite / project
Webtemplates for both
Only custom code for breadcrumb
How Termset with region / location Location to store info in Template for Clients / projects Custom code for breadcrumb Custom code for ‘overviews’
Demo
Recap ContentType and Pagelayout with term Webtemplate to define navigation settings Custom code to render ‘our’ breadcrumb
Future Term itself does not map to a node No ‘friendly’ urls Will require migration
Still only a basic breadcrumb in 2013
Q&A
Code example
SPConnections13.zip
