Enable Mysite Breadcrumbs

The more you learn about Sharepoint the more you understand you don't know. Want your users to be able to nav back to your portal more easily? Thanks to Marc for pointing out the breadcrumb option for Mysite Portal connections. Much easier than editing the master template.

By default, a SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) My Site page does not contain a link back to the portal it serves.  This leaves users confused about how to get back to the main portal other than using the Back button in their browsers.

There is a simple fix for this.  From the My Site page, choose Site Actions/Site Settings.  Under Site Collection Administration click on Portal Site Connection.  Click on the radio button next to Connect to portal site and enter the URL and name for the portal site.  (Example: http://server/portal/ and Portal Name).  Click OK to save.  (See this link at Microsoft Support for how to accomplish this programmatically.)

Now, every user will see the portal name (in the example above, Portal Name) in the breadcrumbs on the top left of the My Site page.  Problem solved.

Comments

[ashley]

but this setting only apply to that user. may i know how to set it to all users? thanks

[jack c]

my thoughts too, ashley. If you configure this it seems to only affect the specific user account that you are logged in as? If you do this logged in as the 'System Account' will this make the changes for everyones MySite?

[mark]

If you make the change at the root site it will propogate to each new site on creation. If you need to change existing mysites write a console app to iterate through each site and update the portal string.