Via Jaap Vossers: Jaap has pulled it off again. Just recently he created yet another solution which enriches the standard SharePoint UI: introducing the SharePoint QuickLaunchExtender.
SharePoint QuickLaunchExtender extends the standard capabilities of the Quick Launch menu with a couple of new features. First of all you can expand/collapse the different sections. This resembles the Accordion Left Nav Feature by Paul Grenier.
Then you can expand the different sections accordion style:
Last but not least you Jaap has provided a third option to add a filter-as-you-type filter which allows you to filter the Quick Launch menu options as you type.
I think QuickLaunchExtender does some great job helping you declutter your UI. Especially when there are many things you would like to present to your users using the Quick Launch menu, SharePoint QuickLaunchExtender might be just the thing you were looking for to keep it manageable.
SharePoint QuickLaunchExtender is a great Feature: no doubt it. What I really like about it is that there is an Application Page which allows you to configure how you want your Quick Launch menu to look like.
Check out SharePoint QuickLaunchExtender by Jaap Vossers @ CodePlex.
February 17th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
This looks great, thanks for the heads up. We have a couple clients who may be interested in this. Does this require the AJAX.NET extensions, or anything else as far as dependencies?
February 17th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
@Peter Mularien: I'd say it's JavaScript (jQuery) only, but the one who should give the answer is the author himself. I'll try to reach him to post here an answer.
February 17th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Hi Peter,
Waldek is right. It only depends on the jquery javascript library, which is just a .js file. it is included in the install so you dont have to worry about that.
More advanced users have the option to deal with loading the library themselves if they wish.
Jaap
February 18th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Jaap/Waldek,
Firts of all I'd like to say this is a fantastic addition to the SP toolket and I'm very grateful to you guys for sharing it with us. I've been using something similar from the endusersharepoint.com seminars that Mark Miller holds. Paul Grenier contributed a bunch of really useful jquery scripts. There is one that addresses the quick launch that has a few features that would be really useful if they could be combined into yours.
I have a suggestion: the ability to view components in the quick launch can be set visible or hidden by diplaying as 'block' or 'none':
.ms-quicklaunchheader (view all site content)
.ms-recyclebin (recycler)
.ms-navheader (section headers)
.ms-navitem (section items)
If these can be turned on/off through the config screen on the quick launch extender that would save adding another webpart to the page just to manage all of the attributes of the quick launch. It would take quite a few steps out of the development process for people putting sites together also. Just a thought for you… Its great that you guys are doing this but, for me, those slight alterations would change quickpartextender from "nice to have" to "don't leave home without it"
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I came across this great add-on on your blog here as well as through codeplex. I really want to install this but am not technical enough to know how to deploy a .wsp file (which is what is needed to get this working). Nor do I know how to roll it back if I want to un-install it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Do I correctly assume that you are an end-user? WSP's are meant to be deployed by SharePoint admins and you need to have access to the SharePoint server in order to install and deploy a WSP package. You can find some more information on this subject @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa544500.aspx
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I am not an end-user, I am the system admin. I have direct access to the server but have never deployed a WSP before.
From what you sent me, I take it that these are the commands for installing the solution?:
stsadm -o addsolution -filename bin\SharePointAjax.wsp
stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs
stsadm -o deploysolution -name SharePointAjax.wsp -immediate -allcontenturls -allowGacDeployment -allowCasPolicies
stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs
stsadm -o activatefeature -name SharePointAjax -url http://localhost
July 10th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Hi, thanks for this great piece of functionality. I have a question: I have deployed QuickLaunch Extender onto a MOSS publishing portal. It works for all QuickLaunches in _layouts but not on the portal itself ie team sites. I have deployed the wsp globally. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Gary
July 10th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
@Gary: QuickLaunch Extender hasn't been made by me but by Jaap Vossers. Please contact him with any solution-specific questions.
February 10th, 2010 at 9:37 am
Hi,
i had deploy your quick launch Extender on to my project and it was working fine but my problem is i am using form based authentication in my website when i deploy the QuickLaunchExtender solution its work well with the user who having Site collection administrators rights but when i tries to open from members log in it won't work.
pls help me !
Regards
Ashraj
February 10th, 2010 at 10:15 am
@ashrajleo: Ashraj, I suggest you contact the author of that solution @ http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/about/ and post your question there.
April 8th, 2010 at 11:44 pm
Hey , nice Solution ,i loved it . Will be great if you can tell me how can i add a + sign right next to the documents or lists or lets say parent menu so users know it has some options under it . thanks in advance .