Tired of the boring old Quick Launch?

Then try Bob Mixon's replacement Quick Launch! This is tres cool so thumbs up from me (and I didn't even know he was working on this). Not only does it look exactly like the default Quick Launch (meaning you could go and replace it on everyone's site without them knowing, sneaky huh?) but check out some other cool features he's added:

  • The ability to turn any set of lists on or off. So if you chose to not display Surveys, simply turn it off.
  • The ability to display separation lines below the grouping headers.
  • The ability to display an Actions section with access to manage site settings, users, content, and alerts.
  • The ability to display icons next to items
  • And, the best of all features, the ability to dynamically add any items to the quick launch bar (with your own groupings) through a standard SharePoint list.

You totally have to check it out here. Go. Go now. What are you waiting for?

Published Thursday, December 22, 2005 9:31 AM by Bil Simser

Comments

# re: Tired of the boring old Quick Launch?

Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:31 PM by anon coward
> What are you waiting for?

heh, how about a link that correctly points to the location of the download?

:D

# re: Tired of the boring old Quick Launch?

Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:37 PM by Bil Simser
Can't provide one as there is no direct download. You need to contact Bob to get access to the beta.

# re: Tired of the boring old Quick Launch?

Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:05 PM by Bob Mixon
Thank you Bil. Just so everyone knows, the download will be available when the beta is over. I don't want to put code out there that may have a few bugs. This is the purpose for a beta!

Bob Mixon

# re: Tired of the boring old Quick Launch?

Thursday, December 29, 2005 3:31 AM by Kristian Kalsing
The menu items are also aware of the current user's security permissions. Users will not be exposed to links they cannot follow. Cool stuff!

I've always considered this to be a major shortcoming of WSS.