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HUB Site Top navigation suddenly disappeared
I created a HUB site early last week. It took the rest of the week for the global TOP link show up and even then, I was not able to add any additional links. Only the default "home" link was available. Now today, I suddenly have a different screen to manage navigation but any change I make fails with "permission denied". But I realized something else was wrong, the top navigation links at the top of the home page to the site, under the page titile, is now gone. This used to show the same items as the left nav column but horizontally. The left nav does show on subpages but not the home page. Just to add to my frustration, if I add a links in the
"Structural Navigation: Editing and Sorting" , the link works even though I get the permissions error. Anyone else having problems?
my hub navigation hasn't disappeared, but I am unable to edit it. When i click "Add Link", the edit screen opens up in the left column but it is empty. Any link I add never saves.
- That is exactly what happens for me.
So our of frustration I clicked [Add link], then repeatedly added a link numerous times over and over again and finally a link stuck!. Now I can edit them and it appears to be working as intended.
- Melito
Microsoft
Phillipe Nelson are you still experiencing issues? Are you using a modern site template (communication or team) or a classic site as your hub site?
Reach out to me as i want to get to the bottom of the issues you're having.
- I am having the same issue, after I switched my root with a hub communication site.
Changing browser doesn’t help and global admin also cannot see edit button on global navigation. I am an ootb administrator so Powershell is not an option. I don’t know what to do.
Have you figured this out? I am working on a demo hub site (communication site) and have the same problem. I can add links but they are not showing up. I am not seeing my associated sites (communication site and standard team site) that are associated. I added them last week.
Another Redmond shambles.
Top navigation links in hub sites and their child sites randomly disappearing and re-appearing.
For over a decade SP on-prem has had navigation providers able to deliver a comprehensive solution to hierarchy traversal UI / UX, along with the good ol' "Portal Uplink". And now MS re-invents the wheel in the most Billy Basic piece of functionality ever, and it doesn't even work.
And all those MVP Redmond brown-nosers were hollering "Hubba-Bubba-Lubba" in excitement at the announcement of Hub Sites!
Will they ever learn?
- Melito
This is a bug that a fix is in progress of rolling out to you. I will provide an update once the fix is fully rolled out.
As a workaround, you can click on the + on the edit nav experience, then adding your links and clicking save.
Can you please explain what you mean by "As a workaround, you can click on the + on the edit nav experience". Or else advise me if being unable to edit the nav bar is a bug that will be fixed for everyone. I am completely unable to edit the nav bar on my hub site. I can see 'Add link' at the top but when I click on it and then add a link and a description and save it does nothing. I have waited days for something to appear with no luck. I've tried Settings > Hub site settings but there is nothing there about the navigation bar - just the hub site navigation name. I'm on Mac and have SharePoint admin permissions. thank you.
Still not working here for myself or my clients... Cannot add links to the top nav. Click the 'Add link' in the top nav, then the + on the left menu, type in the link and display name, click 'Save' and it disappears with no link added. Repeat as much aas you like with the same outcome. Tried in Edge and IE, still doesn't work.
Checked with my clients and can't edit their hub nav either, same issue.
Created a new site in SP admin, converted it to a hub site using the Register-SPOHubSite command, and tried again... nope, still not working.
Guessing that hub sites are broken at the moment? Is there any MS updates on the situation? Presenting a big problem for my clients that are using this...
I am also experiencing similar. The top navigation used to allow me to add links and labels in the user interface. This allowed me to make sub links under the Labels. Now it has a drop down, but no way of adding or changing links below it. When I select Edit, it takes me to the Navigation Settings page. I followed the suggestion to use Powershell to un-register, and re-register the site and changed the Publishing setting in Settings. Now when I select Edit to add a Link, I get the 404 page not found error. I'm going to give it an hour, then try again. I hope this works.
