Categorize sites in SharePoint browser
A customer of ours using OnePlaceMail has many sites. In the SharePoint browser they see a lot of sites. Is is possible to categorize the sites in folders in this view?
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Cameron Dwyer commented
Great, thanks for the update
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Sven Vanoirbeek commented
Seems to be an acceptable solution for the customer
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Sven Vanoirbeek commented
Thanks i'll propose this workaround to the customer and post feedback here
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Cameron Dwyer commented
Thanks Sven.
When expanding a SharePoint site collection OnePlaceMail will show all subsites that the user has access to (based on SharePoint permissions). As in your scenario this may be a large number of sites.
I suggest you look at the "My OnePlaceMail Folders" area. This allows a user to bookmark favorite locations in SharePoint (e.g. sites, libraries, lists) and setup their own categorization heirarchy. This essentially allows a user to 'remove the clutter' of a large SharePoint implementation and just focus on the areas in SharePoint that are of importance to them.
To get started click on OnePlaceMail tab | Manage My Folders https://d37wxxhohlp07s.cloudfront.net/s3_images/874673/manage-folders-in-outlook-ribbon.jpg?1363759125
This opens the Manage My OnePlaceMail Folders window. In this window you can browse your entire SharePoint environment (left side), and create your own structure on the (right side). By adding folders for levels of categorization and then adding sites, libraries or lists from the left side onto your folders on the right side.
Once you have finished, this structure appears in all OnePlaceMail navigation areas (including Save to SharePoint, Open from SharePoint and Insert from SharePoint windows)
In addition the "My OnePlaceMail" structure is also available directly on the Outlook navigation bar allowing you to quickly drag/drop email and/or attachments to sites/libraries/lists in SharePoint.
You can also click on these folders in the Outlook navigation bar to view the content of SharePoint directly within Outlook.
The Enterprise Edition of OnePlaceMail allows the structure to be centrally defined and deployed to users (or groups of users) so that users don't need to worry about setting this up themselves. There is even the ability to have the structure be generated programmatically using your own business logic to create and deploy a dynamic user based structure using the OnePlaceMail SDK (available with Enterprise Edition). This allows full flexibility to fit with business processes. An example would be that a new Project Site is created in SharePoint and users are identified as project members. When the user next starts Outlook the new Project Site has been automatically added to the users "My OnePlaceMail" area and is immediately available to view and access. Subsequently when the project has finished, the folder may get automatically removed from Outlook.
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Sven Vanoirbeek commented
Hi
The customer has a lot of sites and is looking to somehow categorize the sites; Hete is a screenshot:
https://d37wxxhohlp07s.cloudfront.net/s3_images/873862/categorize.png?1363648163
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Cameron Dwyer commented
Hi Sven.
So that I'm better able to understand the question, can you please provide a screenshot showing how the sites are currently being displayed and also a screenshot of the location where you would like to see a categorized view of the sites?
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Thanks.