SPS Workplace View Advanced (SPS WVA) is a navigation component that was created to be used by SharePoint Portal Server users in portal areas and sub-areas. It contains all of the functionality and features of the standard Workplace View Advanced, plus it has the ability to understand and show sub-areas of SPS in an organized, hierarchical tree-view and see top-level site collections. This is beneficial because it allows structured navigation of the portal, its sub-areas, and site collections.
As with the standard Workplace View Advanced web part, users can do the following:
Access menu options for the current site and navigate to sub-sites one or more levels below the current level.
Access My Account Administration and set their alerts, password, and email/display name controls.
See a complete list of lists, directly access each list, and create new lists.
See a description and link to each sub-site, if any exist. Sub-areas are displayed in order by creation date.
Add this web part to a framed page, change the target location for any link in the web part, and change the homepage URL (i.e., default.aspx).
Specify a URL to another site that resides on the server and retrieve a tree view display of that web site for remote administration and/or navigation.
In addition, administrators can perform the following tasks:
Work with site/list/web part catalogs
Manage users and permissions
Maintain site titles and descriptions
Create and delete sites
Other administrative tasks
NOTE 1: Please do not attempt to place the SPS Workplace View Advanced web part on a WSS site. It will not work correctly and it may cause errors. The standard Workplace View Advanced web part should be used on WSS site collections. The standard WVA can also be used with the SPA WVA to provide a complete navigation system from the portal down through sub-sites.
NOTE 2: Before the Spring 07 release, the SPS Workplace View Advanced was available only in the Developer edition of the Workplace Suite. As of the Spring 2007 release, it is available in all editions of the Suite.
Last Modified: July 07