Chapter 11: Managing Navigation and Understanding Governance
What’s In This Chapter?
- SharePoint navigation on the Team site, the Portal site, and the Publishing site
- Navigating the Workspace
- Developing governance policies and procedures
This chapter begins by walking you through the various types of navigation and the SharePoint navigation features. We show you how to configure navigation so your users can easily access the tools and content they need.
In exploring navigation, it will become clear that an organization can benefit by implementing some type of strategy to ensure consistency. Users find it disconcerting when similar sites have different layouts or behavior; they find it easier to navigate if common menus or features are standard across the SharePoint environment. Navigation is one area of SharePoint where a commitment to strong governance can help ensure consistency.
The second part of the chapter shows you how to develop governance policies and procedures that ensure that your SharePoint environment is able to consistently provide a robust, stable working environment for your users. Good governance requires input from across the organization — management, designers, developers, and end users as well as SharePoint administrators. We explain the process by which governance is created and maintained, and give some examples of areas such as navigation where governance policies are useful.
Navigation
SharePoint has several different types of navigation that can be ...
