As I was looking through the script include code to see how favorites limits worked, I ran into another table that was a part of that script. The table sn_ex_sp_favorite_content_config holds the different types of things that can be evaluated as portal Favorites. This is interesting because it will help to come up with solutions for various things that need to be displayed on the portal. From the default list on this table, I'm going to omit Article and Topic and run through the content that can be favorited from the other tables starting with Applications.
Applications are records that are stored in the sn_ex_sp_pro_web_application table and are accessible from Employee Center > Web Applications on the left navigation menu. An example of one of these records is if you go onto the "Pay and time" Topic on Employee Center, ADP is an associated application to this Topic page. There's field to hold the application URL, an icon and criteria to control visibility. The URL field is interesting here because anything you can squeeze into this field as far as systems, return addresses and deep links are all fair game for what can go here.
Once active, these Applications show up on the right side of the Topic page, but they can't be favorited from the Topic page.
You will need to click View All at the bottom of the widget on the Topic page to access the full list. From there, it can be added as a favorite.
They can also be accessed from the My applications widget on the home page.
