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Christian Enghaug
Dec 12, 2016Brass Contributor
Modern Team Site - Global navigation
Hi All, I currently work with a customer that have a site collection with sub sites, where they use a global structural navigation of the sub sites in two levels (with dropdown). I want them to ta...
Christian Enghaug
Dec 12, 2016Brass Contributor
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.
Brent Ellis
Dec 13, 2016Silver Contributor
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.
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.