Hi all
I’m searching info on how to go about integrating a dynamic graphical view of all sub-sites under a given site collection
this site map would ideally be
– graphical (like a mind-map)
– dynamic (timer or event based ?) so that whenever a sub-site is added/deleted somewhere the graph gets updated.
– clickable, clicking a node brings you to the sub- site
This is not an administration tool, but should be integrated in the end-user facing UI
Does this already exist ? (I would hope), maybe SP 2013 out of the box ? (remember I’m a beginning beginner in SP) or to develop ?
thanks
thanks DanTron, some good pointers in there to get me started.
I am not sure if we have any out of box functionality for this and again it depends what level of graphical user interface you want. If you would like to go through custom development route, there can be many ways as I did this graphical view of Sub Sites and Site Collections hierarchical view of all farm using Silverlight few years ago but I will not recommend going that route as you know silverlight is not getting that much media these days.
However, now we have app model in 2013 and this could be good project for developing an App using Javascript and you can leverage HTML5, CSS3 and javascript to create any killer graphical UI for this view.
>>I’m searching info on how to go about integrating a dynamic graphical view of all sub-sites under a given site collection
Well, why would you need that at all? What’s the business case and purpose of that?
Hi Danny,
I’m having a hard time accepting that Visio can’t do this OOTB… but I’m sure someone’s come up with something clever.
For the SharePoint Web Part / Page / HTML version, see relevant links below:
(let me know if you come across anything similar)
http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/tip/Creating-a-SharePoint-site-map-using-out-of-the-box-features
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/381586/SharePoint-Site-Map
http://www.glynblogs.com/2010/07/generate-a-sitemap-for-sharepoint-2010-using-powershell.html
http://spsitemap.codeplex.com/
Sharepoint Diagram Tool found at http://www.softwareprocessengineering.com/
