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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 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... :-)

  • Evick Van Meenen's avatar
    Evick Van Meenen
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 11, 2018

    Same issue, created newly communication site, set it up as hub site. New added links are not saved in the hub site navigation. 

    Publishing infrastructure is disabled, tried to add 10 links hoping one would stick, tried the "trick" with de "+", administator for the tenant as for the new communcation/hub site...

     

    Nothing seems to work, hub site navigation is not saving the new links, getting desperate.

     

    The stangest of all, it has worked in the past! At the begin of July, a test site was set up and the hub site nav worked fine. After testing, these sites were deleted permanently.

    Now we want to start the development of the actual intranet and hub site navigation refuses to cooperate.

    • Genevieve Cooper's avatar
      Genevieve Cooper
      Copper Contributor
      Sep 12, 2018

      Mine hasn't disappeared but I can't seem to edit it anymore.  I click on edit, I think I make the changes, I press save (at the bottom of the left hand bar) and then nothing happens. There must be a glitch

      • Melito's avatar
        Melito
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        Sep 12, 2018

        A fix for the issue of inability to edit the hub nav is rolling out now. As a workaround you can edit the hub nav from either the site content's page or any document library. 

  • Sarah Froemming's avatar
    Sarah Froemming
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 10, 2018
    I am facing this issue now. Created a Hub-Site from a newly created Communication site and can not add any links to the Hub Navigation. SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature is disabled.
    Any idea how I can fix this?
    • Gareth Jayne's avatar
      Gareth Jayne
      Copper Contributor
      Sep 11, 2018

      I'm also experiencing this issue.  I created a new communication site today and the hub site navigation isn't saving no matter how I try to do it.

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