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Christian Enghaug

Brass Contributor

Dec 12, 2016

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...

SharePoint Online

Bronze Contributor

Mar 09, 2017

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?

Oliver Bartholdson

Brass Contributor

Apr 25, 2017

Same experience here. I can get Structural navigation to work properly, but Managed Navigation throws and "Access Denied".

Helios Comms
Iron Contributor
May 01, 2017
Well I'm glad I found this thread because I was pulling my hair out with all the modern pages, not just the Office 365 site. Our first problem was that global navigation entries (inherited through the entire tree) were duplicated so one got "Library Library Admin Admin" etc on the top bar - but only on modern Wiki pages. That bug appears to have now been fixed as the global navigation is now working as expected on modern Wiki pages. But my client has recently had to switch to using Office 365 groups as Microsoft have turned off new site mailboxes (lead balloon time) and I've just noticed that the global navigation menu is missing from Office 365 groups as shown below. And "Site settings" isn't there either. From a quick read of above, it appears the root global navigation settings isn't being inherited. I'm guessing because it's a completely different weird hidden site collection?

Office 365 user interface experience does appear rather rushed!

BTW - why is the standard Edge spell checker disabled in this editor?

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