Cosúil le cineálacha comhairleoir go leor SharePoint, I’ve been exposed to a lot of SharePoint functionality. Roinnt uaireanta, I dive pretty deep. Other times I just notice it as I’m flying by to another set of menu options. One of those is "self-service site creation." I haven’t had a need for it until this week.
An tseachtain seo, I need to solve a business problem which I think is going to become more common as companies loosen up and embrace more direct end user control over SharePoint. Sa chás seo, I’ve designed a site template to support a specific end user community. Folks in this community should be able to create their own sites at will using this template whenever the urge strikes them.
I recalled seeing "self-service site creation" before and I’ve always tucked that away in the back of my head thinking that "self service site creation" Tá brí lingo SharePoint, ar ndóigh go leor, something like "turn me on if you want end users to be able to create sites when they want to."
Mar sin,, Cas mé é ar, triail a bhaint amach agus le haghaidh dom, it’s not creating sites. It’s creating site bailiúcháin. Pretty big difference. That’s not what I want, ní ar chor ar bith.
It is possible to let end users create new sub sites via a custom permission level. This is exactly where I would have gone in the first place except that the label "self-service site creation" label deceived me. Via twitter, I learn that it’s deceived others as well 🙂
Tá mé fós ag obair amach conas a chur ar fáil le beagán de phróiseas níos sruthlínithe agus ag fanacht amháin amach as an bosca, but there’s a definite path to follow. Just don’t get distracted by that label.
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