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RichardSharp11
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Re: Onedrive and Sharepoint still configuring after 24 hours.
I see this occasionally. I always tell people to use some browser other than Chrome for the first login, as I've sometimes seen Chrome not completely initialize an account profile. So, if you're using Chrome, try another browser. My other solution I consider superstition, but it has worked so many times that I still use it: I just remove the SharePoint Online and Office Online licenses from the account, save the change and wait a minute, then add those two licenses back. The next time the person logs in, it usually works.Re: UPDATE: Support for Structured/Managed Navigation enabled on Modern Pages in Classic Team Sites
PhilineVon, I agree completely -- menu item truncation and and the considerably slower interaction time with the dropdowns and flyouts make the current Managed navigation experience in Modern mode considerably less useful and pleasant than in Classic mode. If we can regain the ability to utilize CSS to customize the appearance of the dropdowns/flyouts, we would, of course, have control over this. Short of that, at least eliminating truncation would be preferable. One of the main reasons to go to Managed navigation in large sites is the lightning fast display and interaction with the menus in the Global navigation. Since links to third levels don't yet work, I'm sure this is a work in progress.Re: Editing Site Columns on Sub-Sites Doesn't modify the parent Site Column
If you are concerned specifically about Choice columns, you might consider using a site column of type Lookup, instead. Place the lookup target list of choices at the top level and don't allow sub-site admins write access to it.Re: UPDATE: Support for Structured/Managed Navigation enabled on Modern Pages in Classic Team Sites
Hi ssquires, Thanks for your response and continued efforts to resolve these issues! One note: We also have Publishing sites using Structured navigation in global, with the same concept we use in our sites with Managed navigation. In looking at those sites, we see that Structured navigation also supports three levels, just the same as Managed Navigation. All that's required is that you check the box to Show Subsites in the navigation in the Level 2 site. Then you see the flyouts just the same as you have in Managed navigation. The picture below is such a site (Classic, Publishing, Structured Global). It seems to be just the Publishing feature itself that enables the third level, which is what makes the feature so valuable! Thanks, RichardRe: UPDATE: Support for Structured/Managed Navigation enabled on Modern Pages in Classic Team Sites
Hi ssquires - Thanks for the reply. As you'll see in the description and pictures in my post on 4-Apr-2017, the site I'm working on is a Classic SharePoint site with publishing turn on for the site collection and the top level site, using Managed navigation for global and Structured navigation for the Quick Launch. It is not a Modern site, but I did create a Modern page and I set the view for the document libraries to show the Modern view to see how the navigation would appear on those pages. On other pages the navigation appears as it always has. When I'm on a modern page or a document library with a modern view, the navigation loses the flyouts (labeled level 3 in my screenshots) and does not follow the simple alternate CSS file I use simply to make each entry wider, put an outline around each entry, and add a highlight color when you mouse over an entry. The links (which omitted the "/sites/synctest/" part of each link in my earlier description) are now correct, so that's an improvement! But the existing dropdowns have no outline or mouse-over highlight color, so they're very hard to see, and the flyout level is missing. So my question is, is there work still going on that will address these issues, or is the current state the intended end state? My goal is primarily to be able to turn on the modern views for document libraries and lists in existing Classic SharePoint sites, but I can't afford to lose the functionality of our current navigation. Thanks very much, RichardRe: UPDATE: Support for Structured/Managed Navigation enabled on Modern Pages in Classic Team Sites
Hi ssquires - As far as I can see, neither structured nor managed navigation work in modern sites when the Publishing site collection feature is turned on. Is your group continuing work in this area to resolve these issues, or is this now considered the end state? Thanks, RichardRe: UPDATE: Support for Structured/Managed Navigation enabled on Modern Pages in Classic Team Sites
ssquires Perhaps it's just me, but I still see the same problems with Global navigation (Publishing turned on, using Managed Navigation (term set under the Site Collection tree), with a simple custom CSS to outline the drop-down boxes and shade them light blue on hover-over) that I've seen in the past when viewed from a Modern Document Library. It works fine when viewed from a classic page. Viewed from classic (home page of "Sync Client Test Site" site collection): Seen from a Modern Document Library: In the Modern view, there are no Level 3 flyouts, no observation of the custom CSS, and all the underlying links are wrong: they all omit the "/sites/synctest/" portion of the URL (i.e., the portion that specifies the site collection home). The only link that works is the default icon that takes you to the Home of the site. In the classic view, all the links work as expected. If I look at /sites/synctest/_layouts/15/topnav.aspx, there is only one link there, "Home", and it links to "/sites/synctest". Surely we're not supposed to have to edit that page on every site we've ever created to rebuild our navigation? Here's what my term store entry looks like: Any ideas? Thanks! Richard
