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Structured Navigation (Publishing) not supported on "Modern" Sites/Pages/Lists/Libraries
Brent Ellis (and others) - good news! We're finally pushing out a fix to support structured and managed navigation on modern pages/apps in classic sites.
With this update, if you have enabled publishing on a classic team site, your structured or managed navigation nodes will now render correctly in the modern pages (both global and current navigation), including any scoped or audience-targeted links. We haven’t pulled all the classic settings into the modern panels yet, so when you need to edit the navigation nodes the edit link will direct you back to the classic settings page (/areanavigationsettings.aspx).
We hope this unblocks folks who have been eager to move to the modern UX. Do try it out let us know if you have any questions. Thanks!
Sean,
"assuming you have enabled publishing feature on a classic team site" Are you referring to activating SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure and SharePoint Server Publishing? Currently, I am creating a Communication site, and I can create a sub site, but the sub site does not inherit navigation from the parent site. I believe activating the above would solve the issue, but I cannot even do that.
MicrosoftHi Paul Martello - correct, I was referring to the classic publishing feature. No, unfortunately that scenario isn't supported at the moment as the communication site doesn't use/display the top link nav bar (which is what would be inherited down to the subsite). Even enabling classic publishing wouldn't fix this - and you can't activate it as it conflicts w/ the new publishing model. We are evaluating how to best support sub sites in the new modern site templates, but nothing we can share at this time. Your best workaround is to manually add the reference links you need to the sub site.
I have done that, but when selecting the link back to the homepage, the top navigation does not appear until I refresh the page.