Shantha Kumar T
SharePoint Navigation Providers – Part 1
I want to share with you all, about navigation features in both WSS3.0 and MOSS. SharePoint Navigation features called Navigation Providers are enabled in the root directory of webapplications’s web.config file to access widely. These named Navigation providers are added to the <SiteMap> element under <System.Web> Section.
Named Providers are defined under WSS3.0 are,
· SPNavigationProvider
· SPSiteMapProvider
· SPContentMapProvider
· SPXmlContentMapProvider
· SPXmlAdminContentMapProvider*
*This named procedure only available in Central Administration webapplication
All the above providers share the same namespace called Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation
MOSS included some named providers in addition to the WSS3.0 named providers.
· AdministrationQuickLaunchProvider
· SharedServicesQuickLaunchProvider
· GlobalNavSiteMapProvider
· CombinedNavSiteMapProvider
· CurrentNavSiteMapProvider
· CurrentNavSiteMapProviderNoEncode
· MySiteMapProvider
· MySiteLeftNavProvider
· SiteDirectoryCategoryProvider
· UsagePagesSiteMapProvider
Provider Names:
AdministrationQuickLaunchProvider:
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Assembly |
Microsoft.Office.Server.UI |
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Namespace |
Microsoft.Office.Server.UI |
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Class Name |
Microsoft.Office.Server.Web. AdministrationQuickLaunchProvider |
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Description |
QuickLaunch navigation provider for the central administration site |
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Assembly Path |
GAC |
SharedServicesQuickLaunchProvider:
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Assembly |
Microsoft.Office.Server.UI |
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Namespace |
Microsoft.Office.Server.UI |
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Class Name |
Microsoft.Office.Server.Web. SharedServicesQuickLaunchProvider |
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Description |
QuickLaunch navigation provider for shared services administration sites |
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Assembly Path |
GAC |
PortalSiteMapProvider:
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Assembly |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing |
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Namespace |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation |
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Class Name |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation. PortalSiteMapProvider |
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Description |
Provides PortalSiteMapNode objects that represent a merging of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0SPNavigation store and dynamic site structure, including sites and pages. This Provider has four navigation providers to merge with WSS3.0 Providers. |
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Assembly Path |
..12ISAPI |
*The each different value of NavigationType property in PortalSiteMapProvider object represents the following providers. There are Current, Global & Combined navigationtypes.
GlobalNavSiteMapProvider:
NavigationType: Global
Description: Include SPNavigationNodes from navigation in the TopNavigationBar collection of Windows SharePoint Services; respect global inheritance and include or hide settings.
CombinedNavSiteMapProvider:
NavigationType: Combined
Description: This is attached to the global navigation or top navigation menu by default.
CurrentNavSiteMapProvider:
NavigationType: Current
Description: Gets the PortalSiteMapProvider object that is attached by default to the current navigation or Quick Launch, respect to current inheritance settings and include or hide settings.
CurrentNavSiteMapProviderNoEncode:
NavigationType: Current
EncodeOutput: false
Description: Gets the PortalSiteMapProvider object that is attached to the breadcrumb navigation by default.
*Gets or sets whether to HTML-encode the Title property of each PortalSiteMapNode object.
MySiteMapProvider:
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Assembly |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal |
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Namespace |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal |
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Class Name |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal. MySiteMapProvider |
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Description |
MySite provider that returns (MyProfile links) areas and based on the current user context. |
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Assembly Path |
..12ISAPI |
MySiteLeftNavProvider:
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Assembly |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal |
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Namespace |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal |
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Class Name |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal. MySiteLeftNavProvider |
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Description |
MySite Left Nav provider that returns areas (Quick Launch) and based on the current user context. |
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Assembly Path |
..12ISAPI |
SiteDirectoryCategoryProvider:
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Assembly |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal |
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Namespace |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls |
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Class Name |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls. SiteDirectoryCategoryProvider |
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Description |
SiteDirectory Category Provider returns the Category nodes present in the SiteDirectory Sites. |
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Assembly Path |
..12ISAPI |
UsagePagesSiteMapProvider:
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Assembly |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal |
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Namespace |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Analytics |
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Class Name |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Analytics. UsagePagesSiteMapProvider |
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Description |
Provider for navigation in Portal Usage pages |
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Assembly Path |
..12ISAPI |
SPNavigationProvider:
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Assembly |
Microsoft.SharePoint |
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Namespace |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation |
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Class Name |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation. SPNavigationProvider |
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Description |
Provides a base class for Windows SharePoint Services site-map providers that are specialized for SharePoint site navigation. Node “sid:1002” represents the QuickLaunchBar, Node “sid:1025” represents the TopNavigationBar |
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Assembly Path |
..12ISAPI |
SPSiteMapProvider:
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Assembly |
Microsoft.SharePoint |
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Namespace |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation |
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Class Name |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation. SPSiteMapProvider |
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Description |
Provides the SiteMapNode objects that constitute the global content breadcrumb, which represents objects in the site hierarchy above the current site. |
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Assembly Path |
..12ISAPI |
SPContentMapProvider:
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Assembly |
Microsoft.SharePoint |
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Namespace |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation |
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Class Name |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation. SPContentMapProvider |
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Description |
Provides methods and properties for implementing a site map provider for contents of a Windows SharePoint Services site. This class provides the SiteMapNode objects that constitute the content breadcrumb, where “content” referes to the lists, folders, items, and list forms composing the breadcrumb. |
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Assembly Path |
..12ISAPI |
SPXmlContentMapProvider:
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Assembly |
Microsoft.SharePoint |
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Namespace |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation |
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Class Name |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation. SPXmlContentMapProvider |
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Description |
Provides methods and properties for implementing a site map provider for contents of a Windows SharePoint Services site. This class provides the SiteMapNode objects that constitute the content breadcrumb, where “content” referes to the lists, folders, items, and list forms composing the breadcrumb. |
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Site-Map Path |
../ApplicationRootDirectory/_app_bin/layouts.sitemap |
SPXmlAdminContentMapProvider:
Available to only Central Administration application
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Assembly |
Microsoft.SharePoint |
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Namespace |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation |
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Class Name |
Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation. SPXmlContentMapProvider |
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Description |
Provides methods and properties for implementing a site map provider for contents of a Windows SharePoint Services site. This class provides the SiteMapNode objects that constitute the content breadcrumb, where “content” referes to the lists, folders, items, and list forms composing the breadcrumb. |
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Site-Map Path |
../CentralAdministrationRootDirectory/_app_bin/admin.sitemap |
soon I will come with a deep details about each navigation Providers.
Hey kumar, good information. recently i have a clinet requirement where i need to do the left navigation enhancements, basically we have sites and subsites structure and global bavigation tab structure has deeper sites untill 4 levels.
and the problem is when we are using a left navigation by selecting a particular global navigation ( which is a Tab from top level navigation structure), we can keep the sturcture inly to 2 levels after the two levels left navigation os completely changing to a structure where we can actually see only the sites under that particlar site but not the structured pathe from which it actually originated from. if you are not clear ….
this is the structure i have:
this is my global navigation:
site1 site2 site3
s1.1 s2.1
s1.1.1 s2.2
s1.1.2
s1.1.3
s1.1.3.1
s1.1.3.2
s1.2
s1.3
this is coming up in the left navigation when i clik on site1 tab
s1.1
s1.1.1
s1.1.2
s1.1.3
s1.2
s1.3
and if i clik again on s1.1.3 i am getting the following structure for left navigation
s1.1.3.1
s1.1.3.2
and the whole pathe for the entire directory structure is missing in the leftnavigation..
so I am trying to achieve this condition,,
can you please give me a suggestion as where needs to look to make a change sort of speak. please send me any thing that you feel appropriate for my condition to my email.. nveeragoni@gmail.com
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Hi,
i have a requirement to change the user name in the breadcrumb for MySite. Generally the bread crumb displays the site collection admin name, is it possible to change?
regards
Bhargavi