See all sharepoint sites
I would like a option to see all sharepoint sites that i have access to.
andreas.eriksen
shared this idea
AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin
(SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint)
responded
Thanks for the feedback. It would helpful to know the specific scenarios where users aren’t able to get to the content they need.
We’ve observed that with sites shared publicly, or sites attached to a public Office365 Group, it’s not very meaningful to see every SharePoint Site a user can access, because there could be a huge number, most of which the user isn’t interested in.
Is the focus here more like “show me all sites I’m a member of”?
There is one comment that says search isn’t working, please open a support ticket for that.
156 comments
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Geraint
commented
I find it mind boggling that this wasn't included from the start. Every time a new site is added existing users have to make note of it, and any new user that is added has to be provided with all the sites that they can access.
I understand showing only all could be overwhelming, but you have lists of followed sites and frequently accessed sites so users don't always have to navigate the full list.
As I said, completely, totally, and utterly mind-boggling. -
Oliver Theinschnack
commented
This should be a standard feature. I can only see my last viewed sites. How should users get to other sites they've access to, if they are not listed anywhere?
Facing this problem way too often in support.
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Artem
commented
+1 for this, how are you supposed to find the sites you have access too (as a new user) if you can't get a list of them.
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Amanda
commented
This would be extremely valuable. I've had requests for users to see all the sites they have access to.
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Jeff
commented
In training our company to use Teams (moving away from Dropbox, Box, etc.), people have a very difficult time with the idea that there is no "root folder". I understand Teams and SharePoint is meant to be far, far more than file sharing. But for a lot of people, it's just another cloud-based file storage system. And sometimes you want to browse, not search.
If you cannot see the list of SharePoint sites available to you, then you have no starting place to browse. People need a list of all the sites they're a member of, and all the sites period (subject to some sort of permission).
You're right, a user could have so many SharePoint sites this wouldn't be used much... but employees find it disorienting to hop from silo to silo. It is occasionally invaluable to start browsing a list of everything (the SharePoint sites) so I can see if what I'm looking for is in a site I didn't know existed.
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Anonymous
commented
Unbelievable we still have to wait on this request. Users every day are being added to more sites to collaborate (not all with Teams activated) and getting lost. Half support service I provide is to find their sites/plans/channels again.
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Lily Carruthers
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When a site is shared with me and I forget to follow it immediately it is quickly lost as I access other sites so frequently. They only was I can access the folder is by searching it, but soemtime I do not know the name of the site and then I cannot find the links in my emails either. It ridiculous having to use all these work arounds. I just want to see all share point sites... Why is that so difficult?
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Anonymous
commented
+1 for this, how are you supposed to find the sites you have access too (as a new user) if you can't get a list of them.
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AlexD
commented
This is such a basic feature, I have to wonder if anyone at microsoft actually uses sharepoint themselves? Such poor user experience.
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Andy
commented
Wait what ... "contentclass:STS_Site"? Microsoft people, why is this not a button? Add this as a button, then list and filter tools can follow as others have suggested.
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PJ
commented
Even if the feature was added as a pop-out menu to see the available sites - and then allow users to add the sites to favorites after they have seen the list of possibilities. Otherwise you have to basically ask everyone around if you a member of that site, and then you still need the link to it.
MS acts like users do the right thing the first time (like clicking Follow as soon as they are in the site the first time) - unfortunately the real world shows that users do things the wrong way at least 5 times before it "clicks"
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Cat Gonzales
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This is such a basic feature needed. SharePoint is already so counterintuitive to use and frustrating to navigate. A lot of this could be eliminated by incorporating very basic tools such as viewing a list of all sites a user has access to. The lack of such a core and necessary feature holds users back and deters them from even wanting to use the application.
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Adrian Goneau
commented
When you hit the "SharePoint" icon at the top of the screen and see a list of Frequent sites and Recent sites, I expect to also see "All sites" that I have access to in an alphabetical list. The tile display might be visually appealing when viewing Frequent sites, but for all sites, you might consider a table format with columns for things like; whether you following it, last updated, owner, etc. We maintain a list to use as a site directory and I would expect there to be an out-of-the-box solution for this.
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Oleg Gerasimenko
commented
Sulution with "contentclass:STS_Site" works fine for me!
Shame on you, Microsoft not to implement this feature -
Melvin Liberty Rusli
commented
What a joke, it's 4 years already and nothing happened? How should sharepoint be the main collaboration tool if you can't even find the page you have access too? this is extremely dissapointing.
Just build an option to show all or not not taking the control to hide for all, that's not even correct in any sense.
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Jason
commented
Why has this suggestion not been implemented? I cannot believe this is still an open issue.
We just want a friggin' list of the SharePoint sites that we have access to, for cripe's sake. What is so complicated about this request?
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Steve Higham
commented
Being able to see all SP sites you're a member of would be very helpful. Also all the sites you can access.
I appreciate this might be a very large number of sites for some users. But in a small company this is not a problem.
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Anonymous
commented
Yes! PLEASE give us a function to show all sites we are a member of. How do you not already have this??
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Deepika Tyagi
commented
our business requires frequent reports on getting the list of all the site owners in our tenant. There are 50000 sites and a feature should be available for this. Also there are frequent requirements when a user changes roles, it requires admin to change their site ownerships to other person. there is no out of the box way to get that info, thus making this such an important task a painful and timetaking one.
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Fred K
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I like the explanation for not showing all sites. Maybe you should talk to the outlook developers, somedays I have a huge number of emails, most of which I'm not interested in (just cc'ed by my colleagues and stuck in email chains). I should just be prompted with a few and made to search for the rest. Just a note a hierarchical view is a great way to organize large amounts of data.
