Comments on: SharePoint QuickLaunchExtender

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:15:28 +0000

@ashrajleo: Ashraj, I suggest you contact the author of that solution @ http://blog.vossers.com/index.php/about/ and post your question there.

By: ashrajleo

ashrajleo — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:37:42 +0000

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

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:35:44 +0000

@Gary: QuickLaunch Extender hasn't been made by me but by Jaap Vossers. Please contact him with any solution-specific questions.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:01:25 +0000

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

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:13:33 +0000

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

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:06:37 +0000

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

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:53:24 +0000

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!

By: Mick

Mick — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:22:31 +0000

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"

By: jaap

jaap — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:17:02 +0000

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

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:57:45 +0000

@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.