Using Rollups
Rollups are another way of bringing together content from other sites. The MOSS Site Aggregator web part rolls up documents in other sites and displays them in a single pane with a tab bar across the top, as shown in Figure 9-6.
Figure 9-6. Using the MOSS Site Aggregator web part to roll up documents
Rollups give you a view of the content in other sites. The Site Aggregator web part displays the documents modified by and the tasks assigned to the current user within a particular site. My Sites include a Site Aggregator web part to help users manage their documents and tasks across projects.
To add a project site to the Site Aggregator web part on your My Site:
Navigate to your My Site.
On the SharePoint Sites web part, click Sites → New Site Tab. The web part displays the "Create a new site" tab pane.
Complete the pane, as shown in Figure 9-7, and click Create. SharePoint adds the tab to the web part.
Figure 9-7. Use this web part on your My Site to keep track of projects you worked on
Modifying the Site Aggregator
The default Site Aggregator web part displays the _layouts/MyInfo.aspx page from each site. That page is global to all sites, and it's the part that determines what appears in the web part's display pane.
To change what appears in the display pane, complete these tasks: ...
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