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Modern Team Site - Global navigation
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.
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!
- Christian Enghaug
I am doing the same thing which is to enable publishing features and setup navigation. However, the global navigation is not inheriting to sub sites. Did you have the same issue? Did you setup global in each sub site manually?I'm having different issues with enabling metadata global navigation in my tenant.
I've successfully enabled the publishing site collection features, but whenever I want to switch to metadata navigation I get "Access Denied" for our root sharepoint online site collection.
I'm Global Admin, Site Collection Admin and have manually assigned me Owner Permissions for the root site. Still Access Denied.
Anyone else?
