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PnP provisioning Search Setting Verticals
Hi T. de Groot,
Do you mean the Search Navigation options?
So rather than Everything, People, Coversations and Videos you have custom links here?
That's exactly the situation. But how I can configure this with a PnP xml template is rocket science for me.
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
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.I Created my solution in Powershell CSOM. Now I have to recreate it for the PnP Scheme. It creates 5 custom verticals.
$node1Title ="Intranet"
$node2Title ="News"
$node3Title ="Documents"
$node4Title ="People"
$node5Title ="Everything"
$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://theodevcons.sharepoint.com/search/Paginas/peopleresults.aspx"
$node5Url ="https://theodevcons.sharepoint.com/search/Paginas/results.aspx"
$addNodes = $true
$Username = "mailto:info@theodevcons.onmicrosoft.com" #Read-Host -Prompt "Please enter your username"
$Password = Read-Host -Prompt "Please enter your password" -AsSecureString
$ctx = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($siteUrl)
$ctx.Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($Username, $Password)
$web = $ctx.Web
$ctx.Load($web);
$ctx.ExecuteQuery();
#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)
$ctx.ExecuteQuery()
#delete navigation nodes
for ($nodeID=0;$nodeID -lt $sNodes.Count;$nodeID++)
{
$nNode = $sNodes[$nodeID];
$nNode.DeleteObject()
}
$ctx.ExecuteQuery()
#Create navigation nodes
if ($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))
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))
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))
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))
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()