I was wondering if any one knew of a way to create a html based representation (map) of a site collection for reference purposes. I have been asked to look into this as we want to turn off our old SharePoint 2007 server and not copy the content into our new SharePoint 2013 environment. It would only be used for auditing purposes. I know it is probably a long shot, but if anyone knows of any software that can crawl a site collection and create a html representation of it.
Update
I got some good answers on this discussion which I have just shown my boss. I have just been told that the people involved want to be able to see the content in the site collection not just the map. So what they are looking for is some software that can crawl the site collection and then save it in some type of format (html?). Turn off the old SharePoint server, and when they want to browse to their old content when desired, without having the SharePoint server on. Basically have their Site Collection for lookup purposes outside of SharePoint. Please don’t shoot the messenger, but I have been tasked to see if this is possible. Any help would be grateful.
Why not use the Web Site Map in Visio? just provide the starting URL and specify how many levels and links and let it rip!
It depends on how “deep” the map needs to be. If you just need the sites and pages, you could use one of the many tools for generating a Google sitemap. This would give you an XML file that you could use some custom XSLT to display it in HTML.Â
Alternatively, there are some options for using Visio to create a diagram if HTML isn’t strictly required.
when it is a overview of site collections, just copy & paste from within the Central admin….
if it is from within a site collection… just map the site collection to a network drive and use tree.com (default dos / command prompt util) to give a tree view of your library, pipe it to a text or html file and youre all set.Â
