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Phillipe Nelson
Copper Contributor
May 07, 2018

HUB Site Top navigation suddenly disappeared

I created a HUB site early last week.  It took the rest of the week for the global TOP link show up and even then, I was not able to add any additional links.  Only the default "home" link was availa...
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Alex Zakhodin's avatar
Alex Zakhodin
Brass Contributor
May 28, 2019

Melito , Hi.

 

I know it is an old issue... My new client has similar issue. I can't edit global navigation on the communication hub site, that was created 2 days ago. If I try to edit global navigation it takes me o the Navigation Setting page (https://fidelitone757.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet/_layouts/15/AreaNavigationSettings.aspx).

Any workarounds offered in this post (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/HUB-Site-Top-navigation-suddenly-disappeared/m-p/191249#M17342) do not work.

 

I appreciate any advise. Thank you.

 

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Melito
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May 28, 2019

Alex Zakhodin , can you confirm a few things, your hub is a communication site so publishing features are not enabled? Also if you try to edit from the document library or site contents pages does that work? Thanks for your patience, this will help me track down the issue as I'm not able to reproduce from my side. 

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    Alex Zakhodin
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    May 30, 2019

    Melito  I tried different things, and I think I'm OK now. 

    I suspect my issue started when I registered my hub site using SPO Admin, and not PowerShell. The registration through the SPO admin activated unnecessary features on the site collection. When I tried to disable publishing infrastructure I was getting an error. 

    I was able to resolve my issue by:

    1. Unregistering my hub site using PowerShell

    2. Registering it again using PowerShell (it still had non-modern navigation)

    3. Removing infrastructure publishing feature from site collection

     

    It took a little bit of time but after these steps eventually new modern navigation appears.

    Thank you for your response and desire to help!

    Melito wrote:

    Alex Zakhodin , can you confirm a few things, your hub is a communication site so publishing features are not enabled? Also if you try to edit from the document library or site contents pages does that work? Thanks for your patience, this will help me track down the issue as I'm not able to reproduce from my side. 

     

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