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MicrosoftComing soon - New capabilities from Site information panel (Change site icon and delete site)
Hi Tejas-- any chance this information panel will be extensible? We'd love to surface some of our added functionality for site management through an interface like this rather than having customers visit 2 different UI elements.
Ditto. We have some information we manage about the site through a custom feature we've built in house. Being able to add that to the Site Information panel would be great!
Tejas MehtaInteresting - are you looking to simply display read-only information? Tell us more about what/how you'd do.
Some of the details we present are read-only, and others can be managed by the Site Owner.
Before we create site collections, we have our users fill out a form to indicate details about their site. Some of those attributes are things like a Site Owner (who manages the site), Data Owner (responsible for the content of the site), and a data classification (in alignment w/ confidentiality). We also use some of the data for lifecycle management- having users "renew" their site, or give us authorization to clean up their site when it's no longer in use.
Some of these details are used to provision the site collection through a powershell script and activate features based on their selections (for example, confidential sites may have more auditing features in place), and others are used to help us govern the sites and communicate with the appropriate people, rather than try to guess who to talk to when there are multiple users in an Owners group. From an administrative stand-point it makes our lives much (MUCH) easier.
We display site owner information, data classification, and more in a web part we've created so it can help both site visitors with understanding their site or knowing who to talk to, and us when we're troubleshooting or managing it. Site Owners can also come back and use the form to update who owns the site when things change or to request additional features.
