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Reaching "Sites I'm following" via the Office 365 navigation bar / toolbar
Hi everyone!
I hope I'm right here.
My organization and some of our clients want to directly access personal bookmars ("Sites I'm following") from every site or location within SharePoint. Somewhat in the way of a drop-down menue.
It should be avoided to always have to go to the SharePoint start page, so a shortcut to this site in the global navigation would not be a desired solution.
An alternative would be to have the bookmarks displayed drop-down via the Global menu
Is there already an existing feature or custom solution for this?
I used the search and looked in the Roadmap and UserVoices, but found nothing comparable.
The following request for Edge roughly describes the subject:
If there is no official feature, I would need feedback on whether this would go through developing approaches?
Thanks a lot and have a nice day!
4 Replies
Collab-Constructor_93 One option would be to add it as a Custom tile (redirecting to https://opcw365.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx?v=following) inside App launcher for your organisation. The downside is that by default it will under Admin selected Apps and each user have to manually click "Pin to launch" for it to always show in the App launcher.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/manage/customize-the-app-launcher?view=o365-worldwide
- Thank you for the idea!
I'm afraid that will be too many clicks for the end user again, but I'll pass it on anyway :)
- May I ask why browsing the SPO Home Page is not enough here? The alternative could be to develop and deploy a SPFx extension that allows to show per user the sites he/she is following
Well, the clear requirement is that end users can access their favorites directly, just like with a browser toolbar, without having to change the current page or tab.
Thanks for the reference to SPFx - Could I, for example, customize the header or global navigation (with some kind of dynamic link that displays cascading the respective favorites of the user)?
And thank you for your quick reply!
