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Phillipe Nelson's avatar
Phillipe Nelson
Copper Contributor
May 07, 2018

HUB Site Top navigation suddenly disappeared

I created a HUB site early last week.  It took the rest of the week for the global TOP link show up and even then, I was not able to add any additional links.  Only the default "home" link was availa...
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Genevieve Cooper's avatar
Genevieve Cooper
Copper Contributor
Jun 11, 2018

Can you please explain what you mean by "As a workaround, you can click on the + on the edit nav experience".  Or else advise me if being unable to edit the nav bar is a bug that will be fixed for everyone.  I am completely unable to edit the nav bar on my hub site. I can see 'Add link' at the top but when I click on it and then add a link and a description and save it does nothing. I have waited days for something to appear with no luck. I've tried Settings > Hub site settings but there is nothing there about the navigation bar - just the hub site navigation name. I'm on Mac and have SharePoint admin permissions. thank you. 

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Jun 11, 2018
Wait I just figured it out, you can't use the New link window that pops up when clicking add link, that's the part that seems bugged. Click cancel, then click the + in the menu on the left, then add the link and it saves fine. Just Don't use the one that comes up when clicking Add link initially.
  • Genevieve Cooper's avatar
    Genevieve Cooper
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 12, 2018

    Thank you! I've been struggling with this for days but it has now worked. I used the + sign and I also tried a different browser. 

    • Phillipe Nelson's avatar
      Phillipe Nelson
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 23, 2018

      Sorry for the late response, been on PTO and all of these notices were going to my junk folder.  Thanks to Outlook.  Whatever was going on, the SPO folks behind the scenes fixed it.  Turns out that when a communication site was created they where auto activating the " 

      SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure" under site collection features.  Once the site was turned into a HUB, that feature broke the primary communication site navigation and other features.  It also affected the TOP navigation in odd ways.  Turning off or deactivating the publishing infrastructure feature brought everything back to normal. 

      This has since been fixed and now when a communication site is created, the publishing infrastructure feature is NOT active by default.

       

      • Meena Makwana's avatar
        Meena Makwana
        Copper Contributor
        Sep 13, 2018

        Activating and Deactivating  site collection publishing infrastructure on team site collection which is linked to HUB site resolved my issue. You need to use different browser and update the top navigation link on HUB site using settings.aspx. It is easy to crack this issue using all the information provided by each contributor + combine them and implement.

         

        Thank you to all for sharing... :-)