Comments on: Aggregating across SharePoint Site Collections

By: DunxD

DunxD — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:25:13 +0000

The fact that tools like this are a de facto requirement for using Sharepoint in an Enterprise depresses me. One of Microsoft’s marketing ploys for Sharepoint is that it allows you to leverage your documents and data across the whole enterprise. However, once you installed Sharepoint you quickly discover that if you create multiple site collections for whatever reason, you have reenforced the silos within your organisation because your data is trapped within those Site Collections which likely reflect organisational structure. The solutions. Spend another $800 on a tool that will enable you to do what you paid already for in Sharepoint. Or rebuild all your team sites under the same Site Collection – which kind of begs the question, why did Microsoft create Site Collections?

The lesson I have learnt from this is not to trust Microsoft’s marketing. Sharepoint 2010 sounds fabulous, but I now expect to repeatedly be disappointed by functionality gaps such as this one.

By: ÁghyBlog » links for 2009-09-19

ÁghyBlog » links for 2009-09-19 — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:28:22 +0000

[...] Aggregating across SharePoint Site Collections | End User SharePoint Many SharePoint specialists consider it a best practice to use many site collections in their environments than to have one big site collection. Each site collection can be assigned its own content database and therefore makes backup and restoration of SharePoint data more efficient than try to back up one huge database. This can however cause you other problems such as isolated content types, and difficulty in rolling up data from lists and libraries that are distributed through multiple site collections. (tags: sharepoint2007 webpart tools data user-interface site-collection) [...]

By: Ram

Ram — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:48:12 +0000

HI Brett,
I have tried your web part and i have a question.
I have 2 site collections. One Site Collection is using IT Template which comes with sharepoint. I have a List called “Service Requests” in this Site Collection. in this List i have 2 views called Open SR’s(group by resolution type and collapsed b default) and second view called Closed SR’s(group by resolution type and collapsed b default).
Now in my second site collection i am using your web part to retrieve data from my first site collection. I added 2 Lightingtools webparts and i can retrieve both open and closed SR’s. But problem comes when i want to expand the treeview of my open or closed SR’s. It just says “Loading…”.
second problem i observed was :
I made both the views expanded by default and came to the page in second site collection where i added the web parts. First was open SR and second was closed SR webpart. Here the problem starts.When i tried to collpase the second web part, it was collapsing the first web parts (open SR’s).
Do yo have thoughts on this.
I appreciate your help.

Thanks, Ram.

By: David Cavins

David Cavins — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:22:21 +0000

most cross site aggregators I have seen get slow when you add in too many data sources that are too far away. I like the idea of being able to use XSLT to customize the layout. CorasWorks is more powerful but does not allow this type of control.

By: Alex Angas

Alex Angas — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:10:48 +0000

Hi Brett,

I like that the tool seems to give a lot of power to end users. But if necessary a dev can still come in and customise with XSLT.

Presumably querying across entire site collections can be time consuming. How does the web part handle this? Does it perform some sort of caching?

Thanks,

Alex.