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App Showcase: My SharePoint Sites from QuePort

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Sometimes, a simple tweak can make navigating a website so much easier. Thomas Herbst, a developer at QuePort, realized this when creating the My SharePoint Sites app.

This app for SharePoint adds quick navigation to all sites in a given site collection. Users can jump quickly from site to site from the suite bar.

Figure 1. My SharePoint Sites navigation menu as seen from the Office Store
Figure 1. My SharePoint Sites navigation menu as seen from the Office Store

This app shines when applied to a medium-to-large sized site collection. Users only see the sites they are authorized to view, so the chance of unauthorized data access from this app is lessened. The sites the user can see are mapped out in an easy to read tree. Nodes can be expanded or contracted, so only the most pertinent sites are viewed at a time.

In addition to great navigation features, My SharePoint Sites is also helpful in that it cleanly maps the information architecture for your site collection. This simplifies viewing and consolidating data. If you’ve ever “lost” a SharePoint site, or found multiple SharePoint sites that should be combined, you’ll know how great this feature is. Most of us know the pain that comes from digging through SharePoint for a site someone created long ago only to find that the information you’re looking for is on a completely different page. With this app installed, finding your data can be done in less time than it takes to grab a cup of coffee.

At $1.99, My SharePoint Sites is well worth the convenience of straightforward site navigation. Check out this app and many other great productivity tools at the Office Store.

This post was brought to you by Dorrene Brown, a Program Manager on the Office Developer Platform team at Microsoft.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2013
    How'd they do this.  I haven't seen ui extensions supported on the suite bar in the cloud app model before.  This is great

  • Anonymous
    February 03, 2014
    Hey Dave, if you like UI extensions in SharePoint, you should check out our Newsfeed Notifier www.queport.com/.../newsfeed-notifier Warm regards Robert