Setting the top level navigation sort order with PowerShell

Question

I've created a few sites using this command,

> New-SPWeb -url "http://server" -Template "STS#0" -Name "test99" -Description "test99" -UseParentTopNav

The sites are appearing in the navigation bar as expected but not in the order I would like them.

With this page _layouts/AreaNavigationSettings.aspx under Navigation Editing and Sorting I can change the order they appear in, but is this possible using PowerShell?

I found this page - managing-quick-launch-current - which appears to do something similar with QuickLaunch. But it doesnt appear to manually set the sort order.

Answer 1

The following URL gives an example.

Below is a small adaptation :

$url = "http://localhost:29688"
$topsite = Get-SPSite $url; 
$topweb = $topsite.OpenWeb()
$topnavs = $topweb.Navigation.TopNavigationBar


//this adds removes the first  navigation item in the topNav andadds it as a child itemn of the "Solutions" item
 $node0 = $topnavs[0]
 $node0.Children.Delete($node0.Children[0])}
$node1 = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPNavigationNode -argumentlist @("Solutions", "/solutions", $False)
$node1 = $node0.Children.AddAsLast($node1)