Allow users to select from a set of links to display on page

Question

We are wanting to create a feature on our intranet where viewers (with Read access) can select from a predefined set of links to show on part of our homepage (e.g show the 5 links from 10 available) and have these selected links show the next time the visit the page (or until they change them).  While I have been able to do this using HTML, JavaScript and cookies. 

Is there a SharePoint feature/s available to do this (cookies are not reliable in our environment)?

Answer 1

Hi Gibbo McCool,

there is not out of the box feature in sharepoint for achieving you requirement, but it is possible to be implemented on development , let me give you programmatic options 

1- options #1 

 A) Create links list ( list contains all links)

 B) if possible , create profile service application in your organization , then create a custom property in the profile service called it , say Selected Links.

C) Create 2 Custom Web part, 

     C-1) one webpart for listing all the links in a gridview , then the user can select the links to be displayed in the                home page when he visit the page , then on submitting the form , get the IDs of the links , and save them              in the custom profile property which you created in previous step

     C-2) the second webpart , retrieve the IDs of the selected links from the custom profile property , then getting                 the corresponding  links title from the links list 

 

2- options #2 

 A) Create links list ( list contains all links)

 B) Create another custom list for saving the selection of the links of each user .

C) Create 2 Custom Web part, 

     C-1) one webpart for listing all the links in a gridview , then the user can select the links to be displayed in the                home page when he visit the page , then on submitting the form , get the IDs of the links , and save them              in the custom list (we created in the previous step) with the user login id .

     C-2) the second webpart , retrieve the IDs of the selected links from the custom list , then getting the                              corresponding  links title from the links list 

    

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Answer 2

Hi Gibbo,

As Ahmed Madany mentioned, there is no OOB feature to achieve your purpose. If you think his suggestion is useful, you could mark it as an answer.

Best regards,

Allen Bai 

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