Comments on: When to use the Portal Site Connection http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/ Just another sharepoint geek Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:15:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shola Salako http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-444 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:51:34 +0000 http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-444 Sameer:

Thank you very much for the pointer. I greatly appreciate it.

Cheers!

Shola

]]> By: Portal Site Connection « SNR Sharepoint Blog http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-423 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:51:06 +0000 http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-423 [...] I always wondered what’s this link and how can I use it. I also found there’s a good blog and article here. [...]

]]> By: gavinadams http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-416 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:03:19 +0000 http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-416 Hi Kim,
it’s pretty much what you see is what you get.

I do like the idea of doing different links for each zone though.
That’s a great idea. I’m going to chat with one of our developers and see what he thinks.

Cheers,
Gavin

]]> By: Kim http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-415 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:02:32 +0000 http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-415 Gavin,
Is there any way to make the portal site connection relative? Different urls for the Intranet and Extranet and navigation breaks for the external users.

]]> By: Sameer Dhoot http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-388 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:47:29 +0000 http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-388 Gavin,
I am trying to do the same thing and i want to do it in a template level and only when Root Site is being created. I tried to use the ExecuteURL node of onet.xml but it only works for sub webs and not root sites. What would other way of doing it. I was thinking od Site Provisioning handler in the configuration elements of webtemp.xml file. Can you on anyone guide me to a good example on this.

Shola,

In order to set the Portal site collection for all site collections i used the code written by Bill Baer here http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/07/23/programmatically-modifying-portal-site-connection-properties.aspx

Sameer.

]]> By: Oktay Sert http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-375 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:08:35 +0000 http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-375 Thanks for post Gavin. For multiple portal sites (more than 2 :) ) lots of people using global navigation or links web part. Portal connection is realy not well-know subject.

]]> By: Shola Salako http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-369 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:13:24 +0000 http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-369 Interesting post, Gavin! I use the Portal Site Connection feature a lot, and like you, I use site collections over sub-sites in order to separate content databases and increase data recovery times.

Question for you: do you know of a way to programmatically add portal site connections on a bunch of existing site collections? Also, I am thinking of creating master pages that would be applied to various future site collections: can I programmatically add the portal site connections in the master page code?

Thanks in advance and best of regards,

Shola

]]> By: Jeremy Williams http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-364 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:38:51 +0000 http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-364 Eva- To configure this for NEW My Sites, go to your ‘mysite’. Then strip out the URL leading you to your site. (i.e. if MySite is http://www.mysite.mycompany.com/jeremy; strip it down to http://www.mysite.mycompany.com/) Add “_layouts/settings.aspx. You’ll be presented with the familiar Site Settings menu; set the Portal Site Connection, and you’re good to go. For existing site, you’ll have to enable it individually on each site.

As another note with this feature; when using it on a WSS3 only install of SharePoint, the Add to ‘My Links’ button will appear under the Action menu for your libraries and lists.

]]> By: Mohammed Mehmood Hussain http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-349 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:57:54 +0000 http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-349 Great Post Gavin,
It really help me a lot. I was bit confused portal site connection is not visible since i m the owner of site not an site collection admin.One has to be Site collection admin to make use of this option.

Thanks
Mohammed Mehmood Hussain

]]> By: Eva Rossa http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-342 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:26:17 +0000 http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/02/when-to-use-the-portal-site-connection/#comment-342 Hi Gavin

Do you know a way of enabling this for every MySite creation? Seems like each user will have to this manually via their own site. Would be nice if this link is added automatically for when MySite is created? Or even better this could be re-populated to existing MySite users so that we don’t need to send instructions to every existing users?

Please let me know

Eva

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