Ishai's post - Showing "my links" on a web page has explained how you can use the QuickLinksMicroView web part to show users "my links" on SharePoint web part page.

The web part looked great when I first added it to the web part page, but it wasn't long before I discovered some of "bugs" in this web part. Bugs or by design?

I will show you what those bugs are by using following configurations: Two groups, 6 links in the first group and 3 links in the second group.

Now let's change the default "Number of rows to display" value from 10 to 2

Click Ok and see what it gets us.

1. "Show/Hide additional links" hyperlink will not work without "portal.css" CSS registration

As you can see there is a "show 4 additional links" hyperlink at bottom of the first group (Don't worry about the second group for now, I will get to that later).  Click on the link toggles the display text (hide/show 4 additional links) without change the number of displayed items in group (no actual hide or show for additional items).

The problem here is More...

Microsoft Office Online -

By using the My Links menu, you can easily add new links, reorganize your links, access sites where you are a member, and click links to save them to you My Links list.

You can use this feature when you have "My Site" setup and running in your SharePoint Shared Services.

Problem

Let's say you have following two site collections setup for your SharePoint intranet site and My Site.

Intranet - http://intranet/

My Site - http://mysite/

When user is accessing manage links page by clicking on My Links, Manage Links menu on Intranet site, the menu control redirects user to

http://mysite/_layouts/MyQuickLinks.aspx

And you probably don't want this to happen, because of following reasons

• You want to hide My Site from user, but you still want to use My Links feature.
• You don't want user to navigate away from current site collection when they clicked on the Manage Links menu.
• You want MyQuickLinks.aspx page to inherit and use current site theme.
• You are experiencing the MOSS SP1 bug I described in last post.
• OR you just want to customize it to navigate to the any URL

Goal

The goal here is obvious. To customize the navigate URL of Manage Links. In the example above, user should be redirected to

http://intranet/_layout/MyQuickLinks.aspx

Solution

You'll need following three things to achieve the goal

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