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Introducing a SharePoint app bar that features global navigation
Microsoft is introducing a SharePoint app bar in SharePoint online that will feature global navigation in your SharePoint modern communication and team sites.
The SharePoint app bar brings a consistent navigation experience to every site on your intranet, featuring quick access to important sites across the organization with global navigation, personally relevant sites, news feed and the files.
Enabling and customizing global navigation in SharePoint requires a home site.
Read more about:
- SharePoint app bar experience
- Key Highlights
- Impact of SharePoint app bar on page customizations
- How to disable the SharePoint app bar?
- How to enable the SharePoint app bar?
- Release Timeline
Link to article: Introducing a SharePoint app bar that features global navigation
You can disable the SharePoint app bar temporarily using PowerShell until October 31, 2021.
To run the PowerShell commands you will need either Global administrator or SharePoint administrator privileges. Follow below steps:
- Download the latest version of SharePoint online PowerShell
- Then, run the following command with administrator privileges:
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- I don't see the app bar nor the global navigation option link. Although we are on targeted release for everyone in the tenant. I wonder the use of targeted release any more!
- When will this be available on my tenant? I am in Asia Pacific.
I have already set our communication site as Home Site, and it has been more than 48 hours, we still don't see Global Navigation as one of the settings on our Home Site. - attacker ran global as local use webkit
Looks like Microsoft delayed the rollout of SharePoint app bar and global navigation to make some additional changes before standard rollout. Note from Microsoft:
Still not rolled out on our European tenant, targeted release.
Current roadmap states are inconsistent.
- Viva Connections Desktop shows as rolled out - For us it's current ability is showing a SharePoint page in Teams - frankly speaking that's something that's been possible before.
- SharePoint: App Bar shows as "in development" and to be rolled out in May. And of course not on our tenant. Someone claims here that it should have been rolled out by mid March for targeted release. - well it's not.
- The global navigation feature... - well if I'm an SP admin and don't see "Global Navigation" on the home site's settings - it guess, it hasn't been rolled out.
This docs.microsoft article as well as numerous MS marketing articles all convey that it's all there - it has been like this for weeks and we are definitely not the only ones.
Dirk-Official They have postponed the rollout. You can see the current status here: https://ganeshsanapblogs.wordpress.com/2021/02/24/introducing-a-sharepoint-app-bar-that-features-global-navigation/
- That means Viva Connections currently is just a SharePoint page in Teams.
Obviously postponing the rollout doesn't mean postponing the marketing. 32.5k users have visited the article "Install Viva Connections today" - no word about a postponed rollout - just numerous frustrated comments. Not a good start...
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/install-viva-connections-today/ba-p/2245410
When using Global Navigation with Extended Header and Hub Sites, the Hub site move from top to the bottom of the background image/header. This only happen in the site I set as a Home site. The rest of the sites that are associated to that particular Hub, the hub menu still on top zone of the header. Does not look as the image they are presenting when using Hub sites. Is that the correct behavior? users will need to see if the hub menu is on tob or at the bottom depending on the page they are? does not feel consistent.
Utter terrible design! The entire SharePoint online development team need to go back to website design school to learn some desperately needed fundamentals in website UI design.
ganeshsanap
Is there a 'good' reason to make us use the app bar? We already have an app bar of sorts in our tenant as a result of an accelerator or overlay (whatever you choose to call a piece of software that expands on the existing SharePoint Online offering) and it is much more flexible and has a lot more functionality right now than this. I don't want to have one app bar fighting another app bar later this year because someone at MS decided we 'must' have this new, limited functionality app bar.
Please allow us to disable this one until we're ready to use it, don't dictate that we use new features when it compromises a service offering that already exists in our own tenants.Mark, I feel that pushing customers to use such a significant UX change is a bit rough. Can the decision to force this change on us please be reviewed?
- Agree - this needs to be done the way a competent company would do it ie an OPT IN feature.
- Is the plan for global navigation to be implemented into the Android and IOS apps? Similar to the mobile browser experience?
- Can someone tell me how to get a clickable Home link in the App bar Global Navigation without duplicating the link displayed in the global navigation?
Colleen Parker Did you enable the global navigation in SharePoint app bar?
If global navigation is enabled, home icon will show you the global navigation links and if it is disabled, the home icon will link to the SharePoint start page.
When you set up a home site, you can enable and customize global navigation in SharePoint app bar and you can add the navigation links from "Global navigation settings" as per your requirements.
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ganeshsanap I've enabled the Global Navigation in the SharePoint app bar and have set in the main hub site to use the "Hub or global navigation" option. Like many people who have complained, I do NOT want to use the Home site navigation option because my other business lines have unique menus that do NOT include items in the primary company "hub" site.
I've attached a screen shot with callouts. Basically what I want doesn't appear to exist.
