Today marks the end of my Quick Launch customization series, and I'm afraid I must admit that I have planned poorly. On the one hand, I'm pleased that I'm wrapping up the series today, since I'll be out of the office attending a conference all of next week and won't be able to blog as a result. On the other hand, I thought that there was still so much to say about Quick Launch customization that it might take several additional columns to conclude ... and that's not really the case. As it turns out, all that's left to cover in order to complete the Quick Launch customization circuit entails covering ground that I've already essentially covered under other headings. Curiously, this mostly took place under the heading of, well, headings themselves!
You may be wondering what I mean by that. Well, here's the thing: In that earlier column on How to Edit or Delete a SharePoint Quick Launch Heading, I also covered how to move a heading up or down in the tree, as well as how to add a new link as a heading. And in a previous column, I'd covered How to Add a Quick Launch Heading.
Well, guess what? I should have realized this at the time but, given my heading-centric angle at the time (and I'm embarrassed to admit this, but hey, it's Friday so have a laugh on me), it's now become abundantly clear to me that all of those instructions that I thought at the time were specific to Quick Launch headings? Turns out they also apply to the links under the headings.
So there you have it ... to my shame, I'm afraid that this particular series must end not with a bang, but with a whimper.
Since we won't meet again until the week after next, what say we all endeavor to forget this ever happened in the meantime, shall we?
Read the entire Customize the SharePoint Quick Launch series:
Posted
May 29 2009, 04:57 PM
by
John Anderson
John Anderson joined Bamboo Solutions as Manager of Content & Syndication in May 2008 after a 12-year career at AOL. New to SharePoint at the time of his hiring, John was tasked with creating a new blog for the just-launched Bamboo Nation community in which he would document his daily SharePoint learning process. Thus was born the end user-centric SharePoint Blank, for which John authored 200 posts within a year, and which he continues to write today. Today, John writes SharePoint Blank in addition to his responsibilities as Managing Editor at Bamboo and, while he learned much about SharePoint in his first two years, he gleefully celebrates the release of SharePoint 2010 and the reset button that the new platform represents for SharePoint Blank.