[OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory
Hi Ishai - great to hear from you J I designed and implemented one such soluition - farm wide 'site directory'. As you know with Sharepoint the implementation chosen depends on how many sites/items you're playing with at any point in time. (e.g. while lists can hold 300K - 500K items in folders. What's practical for the user? How to locate these in a view? Paging items etc. - in contrast to a handful of items, these techniques are fine) For this reason I decided to use implicit searching to return back a list of 'top level' sites through a custom web part - tree views are nice too. We used folders and subfolders to represent the heirachy. This presented a familiar view to the users to what they're used to. Also Search took care of permission trimming in the search results. The custom web part went off and grabbed additional descriptive information about the Site if requested (this was set via a Web Part property) As we all know - there's a bunch of ways to do this. We had pretty aggressive deadlines around all this - it did the job. Hope this helps, Cheers, Mick. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 2:09 PM To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: [OzMOSS] Farm level Site directory Just wondering how many people implemented a master site directory, and if anyone wants to share any interesting ways they used to do that. I have a friend overseas who is looking for options for a customer. --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
[OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory
Thanks Mick - good to hear from you too! Yeah, search is a great way to solve many problems - I have forwarded this to my friend and maybe they will do the same... Ishai Sagi Solution Architect Information Management MVP Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Direct:02 8001 7717 Fax: 02 8001 7778 Mobile: 0423 791 728 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.uniqueworld.nethttp://www.uniqueworld.net/ Blog: www.sharepoint-tips.comhttp://www.sharepoint-tips.com/ innovative business solutions that make a difference From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mick Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:07 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Hi Ishai – great to hear from you J I designed and implemented one such soluition – farm wide ‘site directory’. As you know with Sharepoint the implementation chosen depends on how many sites/items you’re playing with at any point in time. (e.g. while lists can hold 300K – 500K items in folders. What’s practical for the user? How to locate these in a view? Paging items etc. – in contrast to a handful of items, these techniques are fine) For this reason I decided to use implicit searching to return back a list of ‘top level’ sites through a custom web part – tree views are nice too. We used folders and subfolders to represent the heirachy. This presented a familiar view to the users to what they’re used to. Also Search took care of permission trimming in the search results. The custom web part went off and grabbed additional descriptive information about the Site if requested (this was set via a Web Part property) As we all know – there’s a bunch of ways to do this. We had pretty aggressive deadlines around all this – it did the job. Hope this helps, Cheers, Mick. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 2:09 PM To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: [OzMOSS] Farm level Site directory Just wondering how many people implemented a master site directory, and if anyone wants to share any interesting ways they used to do that. I have a friend overseas who is looking for options for a customer. --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
[OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory
Also it is not a site directory solution From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 3:30 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Aaron, that product is for sharepoint 2003 (atleast based on the video and documentation available on the echo site). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Saikovski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 3:16 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Hi Ishai, Maybe this is what you are after? http://www.echotechnology.com/products/SiteListings/Pages/default.aspx hth, Aaron From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 2:09 PM To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: [OzMOSS] Farm level Site directory Just wondering how many people implemented a master site directory, and if anyone wants to share any interesting ways they used to do that. I have a friend overseas who is looking for options for a customer. --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
[OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory
thought it might be worth a look.. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 3:34 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Also it is not a site directory solution From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 3:30 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Aaron, that product is for sharepoint 2003 (atleast based on the video and documentation available on the echo site). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Saikovski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 3:16 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Hi Ishai, Maybe this is what you are after? http://www.echotechnology.com/products/SiteListings/Pages/default.aspx hth, Aaron From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 2:09 PM To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: [OzMOSS] Farm level Site directory Just wondering how many people implemented a master site directory, and if anyone wants to share any interesting ways they used to do that. I have a friend overseas who is looking for options for a customer. --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
RE: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory
Hmmm, assuming a site directory is a treeview style view of all the site collections/webs and document libraries on a web application, then we have pretty much completed one to compliment one of our products. However, given the comments about marketing this morning I cannot mention any details! ;-) But if your client is interested in buy vs build, let me know. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ishai Sagi Sent: Thu 10/25/2007 3:34 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Also it is not a site directory solution From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 3:30 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Aaron, that product is for sharepoint 2003 (atleast based on the video and documentation available on the echo site). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Saikovski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 3:16 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Hi Ishai, Maybe this is what you are after? http://www.echotechnology.com/products/SiteListings/Pages/default.aspx hth, Aaron From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 2:09 PM To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: [OzMOSS] Farm level Site directory Just wondering how many people implemented a master site directory, and if anyone wants to share any interesting ways they used to do that. I have a friend overseas who is looking for options for a customer. --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
Re: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory
My guess would be he wants a centralized list of ALL sites on the Farm, not just on one web applicatoin. EG if you have three web applications defined, each with 10 sites, a central list of all 30 of those sites. The way we have done this sort of thing (but with a different purpose in mind) was using: -a custom content type -a custom feature creating a list with only 1 item (and event handlers to cancel adding/removing... only updates were allowed) of that content type -a customized page which does a query for all of that content type (using the search API, not just the default web parts) As long as they all have the same SSP it works nicely. OUR purpose was to allow sites to be typed and to have status information, and thus you could filter based on this, but it would also RESULT in giving you a list of all sites on the farm. If your content type contained fields like category descripion etc then it could REALLY serve to create a site directory. Unfortunatly it's a bit of custom coding, but not too much, mostly just the glue. I can give more details if anyone is interested. On 10/25/07, Aaron Robertson-Hodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, assuming a site directory is a treeview style view of all the site collections/webs and document libraries on a web application, then we have pretty much completed one to compliment one of our products. However, given the comments about marketing this morning I cannot mention any details! ;-) But if your client is interested in buy vs build, let me know. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ishai Sagi Sent: Thu 10/25/2007 3:34 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Also it is not a site directory solution From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 3:30 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Aaron, that product is for sharepoint 2003 (atleast based on the video and documentation available on the echo site). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Saikovski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 3:16 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Hi Ishai, Maybe this is what you are after? http://www.echotechnology.com/products/SiteListings/Pages/default.aspx hth, Aaron From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 2:09 PM To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: [OzMOSS] Farm level Site directory Just wondering how many people implemented a master site directory, and if anyone wants to share any interesting ways they used to do that. I have a friend overseas who is looking for options for a customer. --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
RE: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory
Bill - this is exactly the sort of answer my friend is looking for - thanks. Does anyone else on the list want to share? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 3:51 PM To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: Re: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory My guess would be he wants a centralized list of ALL sites on the Farm, not just on one web applicatoin. EG if you have three web applications defined, each with 10 sites, a central list of all 30 of those sites. The way we have done this sort of thing (but with a different purpose in mind) was using: -a custom content type -a custom feature creating a list with only 1 item (and event handlers to cancel adding/removing... only updates were allowed) of that content type -a customized page which does a query for all of that content type (using the search API, not just the default web parts) As long as they all have the same SSP it works nicely. OUR purpose was to allow sites to be typed and to have status information, and thus you could filter based on this, but it would also RESULT in giving you a list of all sites on the farm. If your content type contained fields like category descripion etc then it could REALLY serve to create a site directory. Unfortunatly it's a bit of custom coding, but not too much, mostly just the glue. I can give more details if anyone is interested. On 10/25/07, Aaron Robertson-Hodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, assuming a site directory is a treeview style view of all the site collections/webs and document libraries on a web application, then we have pretty much completed one to compliment one of our products. However, given the comments about marketing this morning I cannot mention any details! ;-) But if your client is interested in buy vs build, let me know. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ishai Sagi Sent: Thu 10/25/2007 3:34 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Also it is not a site directory solution From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 3:30 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Aaron, that product is for sharepoint 2003 (atleast based on the video and documentation available on the echo site). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Saikovski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 3:16 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: Farm level Site directory Hi Ishai, Maybe this is what you are after? http://www.echotechnology.com/products/SiteListings/Pages/default.aspx hth, Aaron From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 2:09 PM To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: [OzMOSS] Farm level Site directory Just wondering how many people implemented a master site directory, and if anyone wants to share any interesting ways they used to do that. I have a friend overseas who is looking for options for a customer. --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered
