Site Directory app

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Site Directory will automatically show the site the users have access to (with the exception of personal sites/OneDrive) which have been assigned a classification category.

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NOTE: The user needs to be licensed as an Office 365 user for them to be able to see the list of sites. Otherwise, they will see a constant loading indicator like this:

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Adding a new site to site directory
  1. Navigate to the home page of your intranet.
  2. At the top of the navigation bar (in the top right-hand corner), click [+ Create site]
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  3. Choose the [Team site] option in the panel
  4. Specify the Title of the site, and optionally a description

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  1. Click [Next] and provide owners and members who will have access to the site

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  1. Click [Finish].

  2. Optionally: follow the steps described below to show this site in the directory [Enabling an existing Team site to show in Site Directory]

Enable corporate branding on a new or existing Team site
  1. Navigate to the site
  2. Click [Gear] → [Add an app]
  3. Pick [sp-chrome-client-side solution] from the list
    NOTE: it’ll take a few seconds for the app to add

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Enabling an existing Team site to show in Site Directory
  1. Navigate to the site URL you’d like to be shown in the directory
  2. Create a list called “Config” (here are the quick steps on how to create a new list)
  3. Add a new item to the list with the following values:
    a. Title: SiteCat=Project

Above, the value “Project” will show up in the directory as a tag and all of the sites which have this tag will be pulled into that category. If there is more than one category for a given site, those need to be separated by a comma without spaces.

Example:
SiteCat=Project,Team

Here is an example of how the site directory will display sites:

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By default, the directory will show [All] sites the user has access to. If you’d like to enable the directory to show Favorites first, you can enable this option from the Directory App Properties.

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Known Limitations
  • Site directory will display up to 500 sites in search results, as that is the limit of how many items can be retrieved from Microsoft API

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