Srikanth SharePoint Blog

Hi All, In my last post I had a situation to create secondary site collections from subsites and I used "EXPORT/IMPORT" option to complete that. But, after doing that I had a situation where the "Global" navigation and "Current" navigation are not matching with the subsite and this secondary site collection has its own navigation. I had no problem adding links to "Current "Navigation. But, when it came to Global Navigation, The current site will be the first button, and My clients want to see the same navigation as the primary site collection. To avoid the "HOME" button from that seconday site collection I added this piece on my CSS file to hide the "HOME" button. .s4-tn li.static > a{ display: none !important; } .s4-tn li.static > ul a{ display: block !important; } This will hide the "HOME" button and now you can add the links in "Navigation" and it shows the same navigation as the primary sit...

Hi All, I had a site collection with 120 subsites under it and wanted to make secondary site collections from it as the database is growing larger than expected. (Ofcourse, it was one idiot idea to make all the sub sites under one site collection). I used "Export/Import" option from central administrator. I know its not that big , but still wanted to share. 1. Export sub site to a drive Under Central Administrator---Back up and Restore---Export a site or a list. Browse the path of the sub site and give the path where you want to store the exported file and give appropriate name with .cmp extension for the file. Once the export is finished, Go to that folder and you need to see the bunch of .cmp files and one "export" log file. 2. Create a secondary site collection (I know it is not mandatory to write about creating secondary site collection here, I know you guys know about it) 3.  Import the content to secondary site collection Import-SPWeb -Identit...