Hi All, I have a SharePoint site with a large number of subsites, each with their respective document folders. I have transitioned to the new Modern Pages experience, and whilst promising, I note by default my root page displays an expanded Quick Launch Menu, resulting in the user having to scroll to find their next link. An example can be seen below: Is there an option or a method to have these Quick Launch subsites collapsed as their default behaviour please? I note Microsoft advised of such a solution for the classic experience here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms466994(v=office.14).aspx, but I cannot find a solution for the Modern experience. Any help greatly received! Thanks, Darren

Well, this particular "feature" has caused me nothing but grief since it went live. My users (who are new to SharePoint online) are already trying to get to terms with our navigation and structure and the menus collapsing every time is causing them real issues. I also have site owners that have changed the templated navigation (against policy) so that everything at the top level so it doesn't collapse. Please, please, please Microsoft - offer the option to enable/disable this nightmare! I agree that some will want this and that's why you changed it in the first place, but you've pleased one group of users and alienated another set.......

We have noticed this as well. Some users are asking for them to be expanded others are happy for them not to be expanded. It would be a great feature to have the option and it is disappointing that this has been changed without any warning.

Yep - warning would have been nice - not everyone out in the world of SharePoint wanted the menu's collapsed, in fact this has already caused issues with my new users, who are confused as to where all the sub options have gone. I appreciate that others out there don't feel the same and that's why Microsoft made this change - but why no notice - and why isn't there an option to change it back? Does anyone have any guidance they can give on how we might revert to the menu's being expanded by default?

Totally agree!!! There should be an option to allow site admin to control the left navigation collapsed/expended by default.

I have spent some time looking into this and there does not appear to be anything that can be done, out of the box. Happy for someone to prove me wrong though.

Can you set the Quick Launch Menu as to default as collapsed with Modern Pages?

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UrbanCurry
Copper Contributor
Mar 16, 2022
Darren O'Leary

Try this - add dashes to the sub pages, and position how you want them in order

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PASTE SYMBOLS TOO
Max89
Copper Contributor
Oct 14, 2019
As there is still no solution from Microsoft (!!!) - I just used this one - easy to install and to deploy and it will just open and show all sub-links at the left navigation: https://www.tecconsult.at/products/sharepoint-auto-expand-left-navigation
- Tobias1995
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 27, 2019
  Agreed, this feature is limiting/stalling our migration to the cloud as for some sites we need to configure it as on or off depending on the content.
  Max89
PhilineVon
Steel Contributor
Nov 14, 2017
Couldn't agree more. It's these simple things which makes us hold the rollout to modern pages. Hope to see this looked into soon.
- Darren O'Leary
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 13, 2017
  Just a quick update - I've noted our SharePoint homepage
  
  PhilineVon wrote:
  Couldn't agree more. It's these simple things which makes us hold the rollout to modern pages. Hope to see this looked into soon.
  
  now appears to have a collapsed Quick Launch list as default.
  
  I haven't made any changes that would effect this, so I guess Microsoft has noted feedback and changed the default behavior.
  - Andrew Silcock
    Steel Contributor
    Dec 14, 2017
    We have noticed this as well. Some users are asking for them to be expanded others are happy for them not to be expanded.
    
    It would be a great feature to have the option and it is disappointing that this has been changed without any warning.
Deleted
Aug 25, 2017
I agree, this is a must have. Especially sins the Top nav doesnt adopt at all to the mobile experience, well it simply dissepears. Leaving us to use the quickluanch for all the navigation if we want to claim to have a "mobile" experience.
- Julie Sanders
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 03, 2017
  It would be great if MS could address this issue. It is happening in one client's tenant. They had Publishing activated so we could use the drop down top navigation. We've turn that off to improve page load and work better with modern libraries. But since the patch in March we've had this mess with the left nav show subsite nav detail. I've opened a ticket with MS and I was sent to this discussion forum. I will also add something to the user voice, but seems like a bug to me. Super messy and difficult for users.
jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Jun 07, 2017
AFAIK, we don't currently have a way to do this in the modern UI. Bear in mind that the link you have included in your post is for SP OnPremises.

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Can you set the Quick Launch Menu as to default as collapsed with Modern Pages?

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