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SharePoint cross site collection multi-tier navigation
This is likely a variation on a theme, but our current on-prem intranet employs an ASPX menu with a SiteMap provider to create a multi-level navigation across our entire intranet. We've built it into...
Here is one approach, https://dev.office.com/patterns-and-practices-detail/11128
For SPO I would follow Dean's suggestion and use PnP since there it's not recommended to modify SPO master pages...as you can see in the navigation section (http://thecollaborationcorner.com/2016/08/31/part-4-the-navigation-implementation/#.WBGc_fqLRRY), PnP proposses to use the term store for defining site navigation and of course, it can be a global navigatio...and this approach also works for SharePoint 2016
Looks interesting, but even my SPO admin account is unable to add any terms to the global term store through the admin center.
Also, apparently found a bug where if you apply a managed navigation term set to a subsite and then try to apply that term set to the root, the subsite continues to hold the setting of the managed term set and gives a warning if you try to change the navigation settings that it may alter the settings for the other site.
- You need to explicitly add your account to the term store admin role. see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Assign-roles-and-permissions-to-manage-term-sets-951216B9-81AC-4850-9EA0-7AD4C45EB231?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1
- Yeah, forgot that tidbit. So does the PnP solution enable use of the same term set across multiple site collections? That's a key ingredient in what I need.
