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Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Sep 01, 2016
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Structured Navigation (Publishing) not supported on "Modern" Sites/Pages/Lists/Libraries

Creating a dedicated post to track this.  Lots of discussion on this from Yammer, and havent really seen this anywhere here yet..   What is the status of new "Modern" capabilities to support struct...
  • ssquires's avatar
    ssquires
    Feb 01, 2017

    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!

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Clint Lechner
Iron Contributor
Feb 28, 2017

FYI, for those people having issues where the global and current navigation is the same, an alternative is to use managed navigation for the top level for global navigation.  It seems that modern pages DO seem to inherit the managed navigation correctly.  Yes, I know, it's not perfect but things are inherited just fine that way.

 

Hey, it's a step.............

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RichardSharp11
Brass Contributor
Feb 28, 2017
I use managed navigation for Global in my production tenant. When I switch a single document library into Modern mode I am now correctly seeing the first level of drop-downs from each of the top level items, but not the second (normally displayed as fly-outs to the right of the drop-down items). Also, I have a very simple Alternate CSS that makes the width of the drop-downs a bit wider, adds a separation line between each drop-down item, and highlights in blue the drop-down item as you mouse over it - none of those effects are displayed when I put the document library into Modern mode. The drop-down items are highlighted in gray when I roll over them. Still, it is considerable progress!
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    RichardSharp11
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 28, 2017
    Also, I have one term that is marked not to display in the navigation. This is obeyed in the classic view, but in the modern view it is displayed.
    • ssquires's avatar
      ssquires
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      Mar 01, 2017
      Thanks for reporting, Richard - we'll take a look. We validated this scenario as we intend to honor all existing settings/behaviors from classic.
    • RichardSharp11's avatar
      RichardSharp11
      Brass Contributor
      Mar 01, 2017

      ssquires- I've since found more problems with the managed navigation in Global. While the navigation looks fairly normal (except for the fact that the final level of navigation, the flyouts to the right, are missing), all the links drop "/sites/SiteCollectionName/" from the URL behind them, so none work. Also, for the links displayed across the top, I have to double click on them to go to the link (which, of course, has the wrong URL). The links in the drop-downs require only a single click, but, like the others, are missing the "/sites/SiteCollectionName/" part in the middle of the URL. This is a normal tenant - nothing in first release. All using IE 11.

       

      Finallly, in classic mode, hovering over any of the links shows the URL at the bottom left of the browser. In modern mode, the URLs are not shown.

       

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