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Phillipe Nelson
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May 07, 2018

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 availa...
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Juipt
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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.
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freddiech
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Mar 03, 2021
I am experiencing the exact same thing after changing the root level into a HubSite-enabled Communication Site, the «edit» option on the global navigation bar is gone missing. I have verified that all sites are associated with the affected HubSite. Please advise.
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    Melito
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    Mar 03, 2021

    freddiech Juipt GrouchoM 

     

    Want to make sure I understand the exact repro, so I have a few questions:

    1. Seems like your swapping your root site with a different comm site. Is the comm site a hub before the swap or afterwards?

    2. How was the comm site you're swapping to the root created?

    3. At the root previously was there another comm site or a classic team site?

    These details will help me track down the issue. Thanks so much for reporting this. 

    • freddiech's avatar
      freddiech
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      Mar 04, 2021

      Melito 

      - Thank you for your quick response.

       

      1. Based of published documentation from Microsoft found here , I first unregistered the Comm Site as a Hub Site, replaced the root site (via PowerShell), and then re-registered the site as a Hub Site.

       

      2. It was created in the SharePoint Admin Center -> Sites -> Active Sites -> "+ Create" -> Comm Site.

       

       

      3. The previous root was a classic Team site.

       

       

       

    • Juipt's avatar
      Juipt
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      Mar 04, 2021
      Hi Melissa,
      Thank you for responding! My answers are pretty similar to freddiech except for the PowerShell part and site creation:
      1. Based on "Modernize Root Site documentation, I also first unregistered the Comm Site as a Hub Site, replaced the root site (via Sharepoint admin center), and then re-registered the site as a Hub Site.

      2. It was created in the SharePoint App Home Panel > "+ Create" -> Comm Site.

      3. The previous root was a classic Team site.
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      GrouchoM
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      Mar 08, 2021

      Melito Juipt freddiech 

      It's not explicit in this thread but I am gathering that the auto-enabled top nav across the hub sites is geared to occur with specific configurations ..is that correct?  And please lmk if that is clearly laid out somewhere...or is this a glitch we are working through??  What I read portrays the top nav as common to all hub associated collections...and yet it's not there.  Is that only true to hubs that are also the root site?

      I see some info dealing with this here https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint-ama/i-need-an-enterprise-landing-page/m-p/175135#M369 but not definitive replies...

      Now, I am able to manually embed a link in the top nav of my team-hub (without O365 groups) to associated sites, however navigation is not appearing out of the box .

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