PnP provisioning Search Setting Verticals

Question

I manually added some custom verticals in my O365 Search Settings (in the Search Center). That's working fine in the corresponding Navigation Web Part.

But now I have to provision this verticals with PnP (in a xml template). How can I do that?

t. de groot · Answer

SearchNavigation is not in the schema at the moment.In the next hour, i will create a Powershell CSOM script to do it. When it works, i will contribute to Git.

pieter veenstra · Answer

Hi&nbsp;T. de Groot,&nbsp;Do you mean &nbsp;the Search Navigation options?&nbsp;So rather than Everything, People, Coversations and Videos you have custom links here?&nbsp;&nbsp;

t. de groot · Answer

That's exactly the situation. But how I can configure this with a&nbsp;PnP xml template is rocket science for me.

pieter veenstra · Answer

Interesting question. I had a look through the templates even when I included the search configuration with

Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Out search.xml -IncludeSearchConfiguration

These options aren't exported. It might be worth it to report this as an issue on the github site.

https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-Sites-Core

t. de groot · Answer

I Created my solution in Powershell CSOM. Now I have to recreate it for the PnP Scheme. It creates 5 custom verticals.&nbsp;&nbsp;$node1Title ="Intranet"$node2Title ="News"$node3Title ="Documents"$node4Title ="People"$node5Title ="Everything"&nbsp;$node1Url ="/sites/GI/En/search/Pages/results.aspx"$node2Url ="/sites/GI/En/search/Pages/newsresults.aspx"$node3Url ="/sites/GI/En/search/Pages/documentsresults.aspx"$node4Url ="https://xxx.sharepoint.com/search/Paginas/peopleresults.aspx"$node5Url ="https://xxx.sharepoint.com/search/Paginas/results.aspx"&nbsp;$addNodes = $true&nbsp;$Username = "info@xxx.onmicrosoft.com" #Read-Host -Prompt "Please enter your username"$Password = Read-Host -Prompt "Please enter your password" -AsSecureString&nbsp;&nbsp;$ctx = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($siteUrl)$ctx.Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($Username, $Password)&nbsp;$web = $ctx.Web$ctx.Load($web);$ctx.ExecuteQuery();&nbsp;#load navigation nodes$nav = $web.Navigation$ctx.Load($nav)$ctx.ExecuteQuery()$srchNav = $nav.GetNodeById(1040);[Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.NavigationNodeCollection] $sNodes = $srchNav.Children$ctx.Load($srchnav)$ctx.Load($sNodes)$ctx.ExecuteQuery()&nbsp;#delete navigation nodesfor ($nodeID=0;$nodeID -lt $sNodes.Count;$nodeID++)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $nNode = $sNodes[$nodeID];&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $nNode.DeleteObject()&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}$ctx.ExecuteQuery()&nbsp;#Create navigation nodes&nbsp;if ($addNodes) {$node5 = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.NavigationNodeCreationInformation$node5.Title = $node5Title$node5.Url = $node5Url$node5.AsLastNode = $false$node5.IsExternal = $true$ctx.Load($sNodes.Add($node5))&nbsp;write-host "Adding People"$node4 = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.NavigationNodeCreationInformation$node4.Title = $node4Title$node4.Url = $node4Url$node4.AsLastNode = $false$node4.IsExternal = $true$ctx.Load($sNodes.Add($node4))&nbsp;write-host "Adding Documents"$node3 = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.NavigationNodeCreationInformation$node3.Title = $node3Title$node3.Url = $node3Url$node3.AsLastNode = $false$node3.IsExternal = $true$ctx.Load($sNodes.Add($node3))&nbsp;write-host "Adding News"$node2 = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.NavigationNodeCreationInformation$node2.Title = $node2Title$node2.Url = $node2Url$node2.AsLastNode = $false$node2.IsExternal = $true$ctx.Load($sNodes.Add($node2))&nbsp;write-host "Adding Intranet"$node1 = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.NavigationNodeCreationInformation$node1.Title = $node1Title$node1.Url = $node1Url$node1.AsLastNode = $false$node1.IsExternal = $true$ctx.Load($sNodes.Add($node1))}$ctx.ExecuteQuery()

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