IE9 Jumplists with SharePoint

I installed the new Beta of Internet Explorer 9 and really liked the idea of pinning an IE tab to the taskbar. To test it I pinned the Facebook homepage to the taskbar and noticed when I right-clicked it, I also had four “Tasks” in the jumplist.

I thought it would be cool to have something similar in a SharePoint portal where I could add links to a Document Center or a Search Center. It turns out it’s actually quite simple to do - add a Content Editor webpart to the site, open the HTML editor and add this to it:

<meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=Documents;action-uri=http://intranet/docs/;icon-uri=/_layouts/images/favicon.ico"/>

In the above example, the name that shows up in the jumplist is “Documents” and it links to “http://intranet/docs”. I used the standard SharePoint “favourite” icon but you can link to any you like.

Pretty cool!