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Modern Team Site - Global navigation
Yes, but when you create a new Team Site, and activate the SP Server publishing infrastructure feature, you suddenly has a new link in the current navigation to a modern page called "News". But the page is empty, because the tenant has not yet got the news web part. When you then try to add a new page, a modern page is created. This is all happening in a Standard Release tenant. So some of the new modern features seems to be in "production" already. And you already got the modern look of lists and libraries. It's not the best experience for end-user that the global navigation disappears. I think Microsoft should at least support the navigation option already available in SP, before rolling out the modern parts of team sites.
Yes, I know. But the new UI is great, so I will not turn it of. :smileyhappy: I feel the end-users miss a lot of good functionality if we disable the modern UI. By the way, I think I found one way to add the top level of the global navigation to the modern UI. If you have activated the SP server publishing infrastructure feature, the moder UI still using the settings form the "Top Link Bar"-settings (/_layouts/15/topnav.aspx). If you in the Navigation-settings (/_layouts/15/AreaNavigationSettings.aspx) select Sort Automatically, the first level of the global navigation is copied to the top link bar settings.
Hey Christian,
I am having the same issues. I have tried to activate the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure, but I am unable to do so. I believe the first step in the process is to activate SharePoint Server Publishing under Site Features, then SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure under Site Collection Features. I am unable to do both. If I am able to do what you did, I think my problems would be solved! Thoughts?
I was sad to lose the drop down navigation when in a library but we can live with that. I updated all our sites to NOT have drop down nav, but there was a consistent top nav throughout the site. NOW - just last few weeks - When in a library or list the top navigation is duplicating the left navigation! So users have to go back to the home page of the site so they can navigation across the site collection. Terrible UI change. What gives?
MS, please provide guidance on how we should be navigation across site collections. Much less intuitive now.
I experience exactly the same behavior in my developer tenant. It seems like this happens when you inherit the global navigation from the parent site and have activated the publishing infrastructure site collection feature. As a workaround I have configured the global navigation on every site (just 4 sub sites), then it worked as expected. By configure a header with a hyperlink on the second level, you get the dropdown menu as well.
I really hope Microsoft sees that the failing navigation in "modern" team sites is a critical bug, that needs to be fixed ASAP!
- IMO, microsoft go ahead of itself trying to modernize, leaving out/skipping some foundational concepts that should be sharepoint 101 that are coming back to bite them. The new UI is great in theory, but in practice, I find it a pretty big mess so far. For us the pros havent outweighed the cons yet.
Its probably easier if you are toward the beginning of your sharepoint journey to adopt the modern stuff, but if you are years into it, definitely more of a challenge.
