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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 Mcdermott
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Jul 27, 2017

Hello!

 

A little late to the party here, but trying to solve for navigation on a new Modern site. In the Classic sites it was very easy and straight-forward to create a horizontal navigation bar. This allowed users to select from over 50 wiki pages in a very organized fashion. However, unless I'm missing something, I can't determine how to create a horizontal navigation bar in the modern pages environment without having to go through the Navigation menu in Site Settings. Is there not an easy "Edit Links" button that someone could use?

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ssquires
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Aug 22, 2017

Hi Peter Mcdermott - if you have sufficient permissions you should see an inline edit button that allows you to add, move, and group navigation links. From the pages library there's also an option in the context menu to add to the navigation. Take a look at this article for more details: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Customize-the-navigation-on-your-SharePoint-site-3cd61ae7-a9ed-4e1e-bf6d-4655f0bf25ca?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US (let us know if you have other questions). Thanks!

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    Peter Mcdermott
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    Aug 24, 2017


    ssquires, thank you for the link. This bullet point addressed my concern:

     

    "In SharePoint Online, you can only customize the left-hand menu on a team site at this time unless you are in classic mode."

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      ssquires
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      Aug 24, 2017
      Of course - and yes, missed your note that you were looking to edit horizontal. In modern team we're moving to a left, vertical nav only - but will materialize the classic horizontal nav if you have subsites. You can, of course, continue to edit the toplink nav bar directly, but only through classic settings/page. Thanks.

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