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Introducing a SharePoint app bar that features global navigation
Microsoft is introducing a SharePoint app bar in SharePoint online that will feature global navigation in your SharePoint modern communication and team sites.
The SharePoint app bar brings a consistent navigation experience to every site on your intranet, featuring quick access to important sites across the organization with global navigation, personally relevant sites, news feed and the files.
Enabling and customizing global navigation in SharePoint requires a home site.
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- SharePoint app bar experience
- Key Highlights
- Impact of SharePoint app bar on page customizations
- How to disable the SharePoint app bar?
- How to enable the SharePoint app bar?
- Release Timeline
Link to article: Introducing a SharePoint app bar that features global navigation
You can disable the SharePoint app bar temporarily using PowerShell until October 31, 2021.
To run the PowerShell commands you will need either Global administrator or SharePoint administrator privileges. Follow below steps:
- Download the latest version of SharePoint online PowerShell
- Then, run the following command with administrator privileges:
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- Please rethink adding "Lists" to the SharePoint App Bar unless it can be a choice whether to show it. We have many lists in our company that people interact with via a PowerApp or an approval Flow, but they don't ever need to see the actual list. Why would we want them to? Exposing recently visited lists so readily is inviting trouble and confusion for non-power users.
- This is a very good point. In addition to approval flows and other "behind the scenes" uses, we've added a variety of lists that are used to display a filtered subset of cards on a Home Site page. People don't need to be directed to view these full lists, as that could cause confusion.
Perhaps there could be a property of a list (particularly in SharePoint, less of a concern for personal lists) to hide it from feeds and such other than to populate web parts on published pages. So long as they can be found in Site Contents, we can still direct those who need access to find the lists without requiring a direct URL.
- Hey folks, I need to activate the bar, but my powershell says that the cmdlet is not available. i have the SPO-Powershell version 16.0.20324.12000 . What can I do to activate the bar for my customer?
- Can someone tell me how to get a clickable Home link in the App bar Global Navigation without duplicating the link displayed in the global navigation?
Colleen Parker Did you enable the global navigation in SharePoint app bar?
If global navigation is enabled, home icon will show you the global navigation links and if it is disabled, the home icon will link to the SharePoint start page.
When you set up a home site, you can enable and customize global navigation in SharePoint app bar and you can add the navigation links from "Global navigation settings" as per your requirements.
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ganeshsanap I've enabled the Global Navigation in the SharePoint app bar and have set in the main hub site to use the "Hub or global navigation" option. Like many people who have complained, I do NOT want to use the Home site navigation option because my other business lines have unique menus that do NOT include items in the primary company "hub" site.
I've attached a screen shot with callouts. Basically what I want doesn't appear to exist.
- I both love and hate this feature at the same time. For my intranet portal this is perfect, I would barely have to do much to get this how I want it.
However we have built another portal for our volunteers (10,000) the base of which are not tech savvy by any means so we have spent considerable time and money customizing a few site collections to work like an application. The volunteers see nothing but giant buttons and can't click away from the site. They would also have NO business accessing our intranet portal or any other section we have setup. So for this "app" I would love the ability to turn off the app bar all together.
We also have project sites that are totally separate from the other two sections I mentioned and also would not have the same navigation or be connected to our intranet portal. So for this section I would love the ability to keep the power bar but customize the global nav.
We need the ability to customize it a bit more or turn it off where needed so I am not left scrambling to try and figure out the best work around for our volunteer section. I have turned it off in our live tenant and am working on testing it out in our dev tenant for now.- I've turned it "off" globally - because it's too intrusive for something of such limited value - by using our custom stylesheet injected with an SPFx extension. You could try that option and target the sites you want to hide it on.
- Yeah I think this is the way to go. I already have this on another site where I wanted to hide things via css. It's such a pain to have to go around something that was already working for us smoothly. Thanks for the suggestion Matt.
- Is the plan for global navigation to be implemented into the Android and IOS apps? Similar to the mobile browser experience?
- Hello - Can i ask a question about the availability of this within the iOS SharePoint app. Will this be available at some point?
ganeshsanap
Is there a 'good' reason to make us use the app bar? We already have an app bar of sorts in our tenant as a result of an accelerator or overlay (whatever you choose to call a piece of software that expands on the existing SharePoint Online offering) and it is much more flexible and has a lot more functionality right now than this. I don't want to have one app bar fighting another app bar later this year because someone at MS decided we 'must' have this new, limited functionality app bar.
Please allow us to disable this one until we're ready to use it, don't dictate that we use new features when it compromises a service offering that already exists in our own tenants.Mark, I feel that pushing customers to use such a significant UX change is a bit rough. Can the decision to force this change on us please be reviewed?
- Agree - this needs to be done the way a competent company would do it ie an OPT IN feature.
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ganeshsanap This global nav bar does nor respect dark mode settings - am I missing something?
David Slight No, you are not missing anything. This is the how it is currently.
I have noticed this too in one of my site. SharePoint app bar does not change with theme change but the inner global navigation changes with theme selection. Here's how it looks on my site:
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Utter terrible design! The entire SharePoint online development team need to go back to website design school to learn some desperately needed fundamentals in website UI design.
When using Global Navigation with Extended Header and Hub Sites, the Hub site move from top to the bottom of the background image/header. This only happen in the site I set as a Home site. The rest of the sites that are associated to that particular Hub, the hub menu still on top zone of the header. Does not look as the image they are presenting when using Hub sites. Is that the correct behavior? users will need to see if the hub menu is on tob or at the bottom depending on the page they are? does not feel consistent.
