💡 [Feature]: Add Site Collection Dropdown for Site Collection App Catalog Creation

[nicodecleyre]

🎯 Aim of the feature

Replace the current manual site collection URL input with a dropdown list when creating a site collection app catalog. Currently, users must manually enter the site collection URL, which can lead to errors and requires them to know the exact relative URL. This feature will provide a dropdown populated with all available site collections from the current tenant where the user is logged in, automatically excluding site collections that already have a site collection app catalog configured.

📷 Images (if possible) with expected result

🤔 Additional remarks or comments

• The dropdown should be searchable/filterable to help users quickly find their desired site collection
• Display site collection titles alongside URLs where possible for better user experience (e.g., "Marketing Site - https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing")
• Add a loading indicator while fetching site collections from the tenant
• Consider pagination or virtual scrolling for tenants with a large number of site collections
• Show a clear message if no eligible site collections are found (i.e., all site collections already have app catalogs)
• if an error occured, let's use the fallback to allow the user to manual enter the site collection relative url

[Adam-it]

lets remove the hacktoberfest label until this issue is ready to be implemented with 'help wanted' label.
I will review it ASAP

[Adam-it]

Solid idea @nicodecleyre and I really like it.
To only comment some of the additional comments:

🤔 Additional remarks or comments

• The dropdown should be searchable/filterable to help users quickly find their desired site collection

This is kinda native behavior when it comes to what in the picker. If we try to type VS Code automatically filters out the options that match the text by contains. The only problem, which we would need to additionally develop, is if we would only load first 20 sites and when use would type part of the site title we would dynamically run an API call to SharePoint to retrieve matching sites.
So to sum up even though VS Code supports it by default we still would need to develop a mechanism to fetch additional sitecollections that match by name

• Display site collection titles alongside URLs where possible for better user experience (e.g., "Marketing Site - https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing")

good idea 👍

• Add a loading indicator while fetching site collections from the tenant

good idea 👍

• Consider pagination or virtual scrolling for tenants with a large number of site collections

TBH I am not sure if VS Code pickers have something like that 🤔. What I noticed for example when you pick a theme for VS Code which is like a loot of those, VS Code only loads 20-30 most popular and when you type a theme name it dynamically loads the VS Code theme that match by name. I think we should do the same approach

• Show a clear message if no eligible site collections are found (i.e., all site collections already have app catalogs)

👍

• if an error occured, let's use the fallback to allow the user to manual enter the site collection relative url

Totally. Very good point

Other than that I have not other comments and I think we may open it up

[harshithsaiv]

Hi @Adam-it I am interested in taking up this issue can i work on this ?