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Danger, Will Robinson! I hit a limit on the Quick Launch menu

Original Publication Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Filed Under: Tips and Tricks

 

For the workshops I’m delivering this week, I have created a sandbox environment so each participant can crash and burn at my expense instead of on their production server. I display their site in the Quick Launch bar so they can have easy access.

As we got started tonight, one of the students pointed out that her name was not on the Quick Launch. Sure enough, it wasn’t there. I remembered creating it, so I checked in the Site view and it was definitely there. Just to be safe, I deleted the site and recreated it to see what happened. Nope, nothing showed on Quick Launch.

Then it occurred to me: her name started with a ‘Y’. Looking a little deeper, a name that started with a ‘W’ didn’t show up either. Bingo. They were at the end of the list and once the list exceeded forty, the menu list was truncated on the Quick Launch bar.

So, does that mean I have to limit my cumulative workshops this week to forty participants? No way! I just get them access to the site through the Sites and Workspaces menu and everyone is a happy camper.

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7 Responses to “Danger, Will Robinson! I hit a limit on the Quick Launch menu”

  1. Michiel Lankamp on October 25th, 2007 1:32 am

    Hi Mark,

    What you are descripting is in fact a limit on the datasource provider for the quicklaunch, the default limit is to only enumerate only 50 subsites. You can change this behavior in web.config, for each of the dataproviders you can change the DynamicChildLimit property. If you set this to 0 there is no limit.

    Hope this works for you!

  2. Mark Miller on October 25th, 2007 9:44 am

    Michiel,

    Thanks for the information. Your reply makes perfect sense. I also appreciate the link to your blog, http://www.lankamp.net/.

    Nice work.

    Regards,
    Mark

  3. Chris Quick on October 25th, 2007 3:53 pm

    Mark,

    Wow! I don’t know that I would have ever experienced this in my normal course of operations, but I can see this eventually becoming a problem with some of my end users who will want to “make it easy” for everyone to find content on their sites. I’ve bookmarked this one for my training and support staff!

    Chris

  4. Jim Cunningham on November 6th, 2007 1:58 pm

    We have encountered the 50 subsite limite as well. Unfortunately, the solution of modifying the web.config DynamicChildLimit for each of the dataproviders leaves me baffled. Is there a reference where I can find more detail?

    Thanks,

    Jim

  5. Mark Miller on November 7th, 2007 2:59 am

    Jim,

    I have sent an email to Michiel to see if he can clarify for you or point you in the right direction.

    Mark

  6. Michael Boggs on March 18th, 2009 9:16 am

    Mark,

    Did you ever hear from Michiel? I also could use some guidence on working with the web.config for DynamicChildLimit.

    -Mike

  7. EndUserSharePoint on March 18th, 2009 11:50 am

    Michael – Did you ping his blog? — Mark

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