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Customize My Profile Tabs for SharePoint 2010

If you have a requirement to add, edit, or delete the tabs within the my profile pages its actually quite easy.  The default tabs are:

  • Overview
    • URL: /my/person.aspx
  • Organization
    • URL: /my/OrganizationView.aspx
  • Content
    • URL: /my/personcontent.aspx
  • Tags and Notes
    • URL: /my/_layouts/thoughts.aspx
  • Colleagues
    • URL: /my/_layouts/MyContactLinks.aspx
  • Memberships
    • /my/_layouts/MyMemberships.aspx

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You can manage these tabs by navigating to the My Site Host http://sitename/my/ or the the my profile page http://sitename/my/Person.aspx.

Click on Site Actions > Site Settings > Look and Feel > Quick Launch

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You will notice that all of the tabs are managed as quick launch links. This will allow you to easily add, edit, and delete tabs.

If you want to customize the look of the tabs to be vertical or place it somewhere else on the page you simply have to modify the person.aspx page within the My Site host Site collection.

Open up the site (http://sitename/my/) in SharePoint Designer 2010, and click on All Files.

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Notice that 3 out of the 6 .aspx files are managed in SharePoint and the other three are stored on the server in the following location: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS

Check out the person.aspx file and edit in advanced mode.

The tabs on the profile page are actually a SharePoint:AspMenu menu control. Which has a horizontal orientation and a unique “s4-sn” css class to give it its unique look and feel.

<SharePoint:AspMenu
     ID="MySiteSubNavigationMenu"
     Runat="server"
     EnableViewState="false"
     DataSourceID="MySiteSubNavDS"
     AccessKey="<%$Resources:wss,navigation_accesskey%>"
     UseSimpleRendering="true"
     UseSeparateCss="false"
     Orientation="Horizontal"
     StaticDisplayLevels="1"
     MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="0"
     PopOutImageUrl=""
     SkipLinkText=""
     CssClass="s4-sn">
  </SharePoint:AspMenu>
  <SPSWC:MySiteDataSource
     ShowStartingNode="False"
     SiteMapProvider="MySiteSubNavProvider"
     id="MySiteSubNavDS" 
     runat="server"/>

This control is placed on all 6 of the aspx pages to give the effect that a user is simply changing the content on the page by clicking on a different tab and not actually going to a different page.

The key is to keep that consistency throughout your custom profile pages so that the user does not get confused when navigating the tabs.

Comments

tatyaso said…
Changing the "default.aspx" in Sharepoint personal Mysite to "xyz.aspx"


i.e. i want to change the url of

http://server/personal/user/default.aspx to some other url.
JimNJ72 said…
What if you want to change the top portion that displays the profile fields. Does that need to be changed on all 6 pages or is it centrally located somewhere other then in Person.aspx?
Erik Swenson said…
JimN72,

Yes you will have to make those changes for all of custom pages if you want a seamless experience for the users when navigating between the different pages.
c_marius said…
I think you have to consider that if you activate publsihing features, then you have to use the Navigation features to change the headings, etc.
Anonymous said…
Hi,
How to customize the 3 files in LAYOUTS directory ?

Can you write a blog about changing global nav area in MySite (DelegateControl )?
Andreas said…
Thanks for the info didn't know it is so easy to remove the tabs...
Anonymous said…
How can we attach an Event Receiver to 'Add Colleagues' event.
Anonymous said…
Thanks for Gr8 article !!

Is it possible to modify the MySite link with MyProfile link and when Myprofile page opened then we should show default tab as Content ? Please provide me steps to achieve the above functionality.

Cheers,
Raj
Unknown said…
Thanks you share with me this great post.It is very useful for me.Thanks a lot.....bookmarks
Ofer Gal said…
So how do you include extra properties added to the profile?
I got the idea of new page under a new tab. I do not see a way to add my multi value properties.

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