Please add feature to allow a searchable page tag that could be used to bypass listing specific pages when generating a sitemap using A1SG. This would be geared more towards internal intranet sites as opposed to public facing internet websites.
Rationale:
SharePoint allows for all kinds of pages to be on a site. There are webmaster/site developer/chrome/template type pages, that one may want to filter from the actual "data" on the site.
In these cases it would be beneficial to have a way to filter these pages from a sitemap which is exposed to the business visitors coming to the site. They are interested only in their pertinent data, and the
ability to find what they need quickly, without having to wade though a bunch of things that are not applicable to them, such as the layout template pages.
If there is a naming standard for pages in the site's URLs then that would possibly allow for some current filter that you have in place for URLs (you asked about this in a previous email). If there are several
types/naming stds in play for pages to be filtered, then using URLs will require compound logic to achieve what a simple single tag would fulfil. However, if that naming standard is not in place, the using a URL name as a filter will not work period.
Having a specific filtering tag somewhere on the page (I don't know where this would be put, but it would have to be wherever tags on pages are in SharePoint (2010 and up) which makes perfect sense.
We are mandated to use Vanilla SP – No designer) that would allow bypassing of the pages with
this tag, would seem to be the best way to accomplish this.
Once filtered, the sitemap displayed would only contain relevant pages to the business user.
The better the site is built and accessible the more likely the users are to use it, come back to it, and tell their
friends about it.
The site we are building is already a hard sell within the organization (Enterprise Architecture), so I f we can get visitors there at least once and provide them a good experience, they are more likely to come back and pass along the good word.
Cheers!
Garry
