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ssquires
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Mar 28, 2017

UPDATE: Support for Structured/Managed Navigation enabled on Modern Pages in Classic Team Sites

Hi everyone! Thank you for the feedback around wanting to move to the “modern” team site experiences, and needing support for structured/managed navigation. We’re pleased to announce that we have add...
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Peter-Ross Cuthbert
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Jun 07, 2018
A little late to the conversation here, but I was just wondering if any updates have been released on being able to set an item in left nav to be without a link? This is specifically for instances where you have a parent item that is purely descriptive and shouldn't link to anything, almost like a grouping and would only apply to first level items. Any feedback would be appreciated :)
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PhilineVon
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Jun 07, 2018
It still works if you are using classic team sites. When managing the navigation (Site Settings > Navigation) for a parent item use "add header" (the file icon), give it a name no link needed. For the child item then use "add link" and make sure these are indented under the header.
The good thing about parent items with no links is that the whole menu expands if you select it. This does not happen when the item has a link attached to it, you have to select the arrow next to it for that to happen.
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    Peter-Ross Cuthbert
    Brass Contributor
    Jun 07, 2018

    Sorry should have specified, my previous message is only in relation to the modern experience pages and sites made with the new Team/Communication/Hub template that don't support SharePoint Server Publishing features and thus no managed navigation.

     

    In these new sites, you only have access to "Edit Links" and it does not allow you to leave an item without a link. Inputting something like "#" just causes it to default to the root site collection.

     

    A way to add a "Header" item through the modern experience "Edit Links" needs to be added.

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