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Coming 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 MehtaAug 03, 2017
Microsoft
Interesting - are you looking to simply display read-only information? Tell us more about what/how you'd do.
- AnonymousAug 04, 2017
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.
- John PelusoAug 04, 2017Iron Contributor
Hi Tejas-- we have built a system with additional layers of governance for a site. Currently, for classic mode sites, we plop an App part on the page with this functionality, but we would like to move to a more integrated way of showing this info-- especially for modern sites. For example, here is a graphic of our site card. There is a tab that shows ownership info, a tab that shows site metadata, a tab showing policy and automated lifecycle status and a tab for launching additional managed self-service requests for the site...
Policy TabRequest TabOwnership TabMetadata Tab