Favorite locations

You can add your favorite SharePoint locations to your Favorites list, making it easy to navigate to them.

The yellow star in the sidebar’s status pane indicates that the current location is in your Favorites list; a white star indicates that it is not. Click the star button in the status pane to add or remove a location from the Favorites list.

To add a location to your Favorites list:

1. Navigate to the location you want to save in the Favorites list.
2. Click the arrow next to the Favorites button and select Add to Favorites.
   
3. In the Add Favorite dialog, enter a Name for the new favorite location, or accept the breadcrumbs as the name.
   
4. Optionally:
   1. Check Follow library/folder updates to receive updates on changes made in this location, i.e. documents were added or changed.
   2. Check Follow subfolders to receive updates on subfolders as well. 

Alternatively, click the white star in the status pane, to add the location to the Favorites list.

Which SharePoint locations can be added to the Favorites list?

You can add these types of locations to the Favorites list:

• Sites.
• Document libraries.
• Folders.
• A selected view of a SharePoint location.
• A location filtered by tags.

To navigate to a favorite location:

Click the arrow next to the Favorites button and select the name of the favorite location you want to navigate to.

To follow / unfollow a favorite location:

1. Navigate to the location you want to follow / unfollow.
2. Click the arrow next to the Favorites button and select Follow folder/library updates / Unfollow folder/library updates.

To add Office document libraries to your favorites list:

When a social server is configured, harmon.ie automatically tries to add your Office document libraries to your favorites list.

• When working with SharePoint 2010, harmon.ie adds the document libraries defined via the SharePoint 2010 ribbon button Connect to Office to your favorites list.
• When working with MOSS 2007, you must define your links in a group called Document Libraries in My Links, to add them to harmon.ie favorites list.

Office document libraries added to the favorites are indicated in the favorites list with a special icon ().

When you first navigate to a favorite location that was added from Office document libraries, you are prompted to add the location as a harmon.ie favorite. If the site of this location was not registered yet, you are first prompted to add the site.

To edit a favorite location:

1. Navigate to the location you want to edit.
2. Click the arrow next to the Favorites button and select Edit Favorite.
3. Rename the location, or change the follow library/folder updates settings.

To remove a location from your Favorites list:

1. Navigate to the location you want to remove from the Favorites list.
2. Click the arrow next to the Favorites button and select Delete from Favorites.

Alternatively, click the yellow star in the status pane, to remove the location from the Favorites list.

Note: When you remove a location from the Favorites list, it is being unfollowed; You stop receiving updates of changes in this location.

To organize your favorites list:

Click the arrow next to the Favorites button and select Organize Favorites. The Organize Favorites dialog opens:

• Select a favorite location and click Delete, to delete it from the favorites list.
• Select a favorite location and click Edit, to rename it or change the follow library/folder updates settings.
• Select a favorite location and click the up / down arrows to move it up or down the favorites list.