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Phillipe Nelson's avatar
Phillipe Nelson
Copper Contributor
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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Evick Van Meenen's avatar
Evick Van Meenen
Copper Contributor
Sep 11, 2018

Same issue, created newly communication site, set it up as hub site. New added links are not saved in the hub site navigation. 

Publishing infrastructure is disabled, tried to add 10 links hoping one would stick, tried the "trick" with de "+", administator for the tenant as for the new communcation/hub site...

 

Nothing seems to work, hub site navigation is not saving the new links, getting desperate.

 

The stangest of all, it has worked in the past! At the begin of July, a test site was set up and the hub site nav worked fine. After testing, these sites were deleted permanently.

Now we want to start the development of the actual intranet and hub site navigation refuses to cooperate.

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Genevieve Cooper
Copper Contributor
Sep 12, 2018

Mine hasn't disappeared but I can't seem to edit it anymore.  I click on edit, I think I make the changes, I press save (at the bottom of the left hand bar) and then nothing happens. There must be a glitch

  • ITSOFIE's avatar
    ITSOFIE
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 13, 2022

    Is there a way to auto populate the Child sites connected to the hub in the hub navigation menu?

     

    Melito 

  • LesegoMM's avatar
    LesegoMM
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 29, 2021
    Hi, How do you edit the hub nav from the site content's? Im also experiencing the same issue
  • Alex Zakhodin's avatar
    Alex Zakhodin
    Brass Contributor
    May 30, 2019

    Melito  I tried different things, and I think I'm OK now. 

    I suspect my issue started when I registered my hub site using SPO Admin, and not PowerShell. The registration through the SPO admin activated unnecessary features on the site collection. When I tried to disable publishing infrastructure I was getting an error. 

    I was able to resolve my issue by:

    1. Unregistering my hub site using PowerShell

    2. Registering it again using PowerShell (it still had non-modern navigation)

    3. Removing infrastructure publishing feature from site collection

     

    It took a little bit of time but after these steps eventually new modern navigation appears.

    Thank you for your response and desire to help!

    Melito wrote:

    Alex Zakhodin , can you confirm a few things, your hub is a communication site so publishing features are not enabled? Also if you try to edit from the document library or site contents pages does that work? Thanks for your patience, this will help me track down the issue as I'm not able to reproduce from my side. 

     

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    Melito
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    May 28, 2019

    Alex Zakhodin , can you confirm a few things, your hub is a communication site so publishing features are not enabled? Also if you try to edit from the document library or site contents pages does that work? Thanks for your patience, this will help me track down the issue as I'm not able to reproduce from my side. 

  • Alex Zakhodin's avatar
    Alex Zakhodin
    Brass Contributor
    May 28, 2019

    Melito , Hi.

     

    I know it is an old issue... My new client has similar issue. I can't edit global navigation on the communication hub site, that was created 2 days ago. If I try to edit global navigation it takes me o the Navigation Setting page (https://fidelitone757.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet/_layouts/15/AreaNavigationSettings.aspx).

    Any workarounds offered in this post (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/HUB-Site-Top-navigation-suddenly-disappeared/m-p/191249#M17342) do not work.

     

    I appreciate any advise. Thank you.

     

  • Evick Van Meenen's avatar
    Evick Van Meenen
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 12, 2018

    Also works for me Melissa!

    Thank you for sharing this approach.

  • Joel Baker's avatar
    Joel Baker
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 12, 2018

    Thanks for that Melissa, that works...

  • Melito's avatar
    Melito
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    Sep 12, 2018

    A fix for the issue of inability to edit the hub nav is rolling out now. As a workaround you can edit the hub nav from either the site content's page or any document library.