Navigation in SharePoint is generally considered the menu elements (top navigation bar, quick launch, bread crumbs, etc) and the links contained therein. Navigation is one aspect of Informaiton Architecture.

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Cross Site Collection Navigation

We are using SharePoint for our Intranet. We will have a site collection for the Intranet. Then a site collection for each department in the business. I.E. HR, IT, Finance. We are creating a custom ...
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IIS URL Rewriting … Left Navigation selected link is not highlighted

When URL rewriting is implemented then the left navigation is not highlighting the selected link. Example: Actual Link - /company/pages/home.aspx Rewriting Link - /company/home When using the ...
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“View all site content” Site actions menu link missing

For some reason the "View all site content" link in the Site Actions menu is missing for sites that do not use the Publishing feature. The moment I enable the Publishing feature for the site the link ...
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Breadcrumb not showing parent site

I am using SharePoint 2010 at the moment. For some stupid reason when I create a sub-site and I am inside that sub-site the breadcrumb does not show the parent site. It stops at the current site ...
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How to enable sub menu on the global menu?

We recently signed up for Office 365 and are in the process of building out oure SharePoint site. We started with the default site, a Team Site and have built out the following site map: Site Sub ...
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Content deployment un-hiding navigation items?

SharePoint 2007 Enterprise, SP2, no post-SP2 CUs. We have a pretty standard staging -> production content deployment job that runs nightly to move over any new or modified content that had been ...
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Navigation Providers, Data Sources and Menu Controls

Can someone please provide a definitive explanation of the roles and responsibilities of Navigation Providers, Datasource controls and Menu controls? You seem to be able to apply filtering and ...
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Programmatically add menus to SPWeb.Navigation.QuickLaunch does not work

I'm trying to add some menus to the "Quick Launch" navigation and it does not work. I'm using the following code: var ql = myWeb.Navigation.QuickLaunch; SPNavigationNode m1 = new ...
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How do I showing a user's site memberships in the top navigation bar?

I have a site setup which has a common shared root site. But the subsites (site collections on a managed path) aren't for all users. I want the main site's top navigation bar to show the main site ...
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Menu Navigation in SharePoint 2010

I am in a process of gathering requirements of a portal based on multiple departments using SharePoint 2010 Enterprise. I've noticed on some portals where there is a top bar and a tab called ...
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How to add quick launch to the blog site in SharePoint 2010?

I want to remove the default blog navigation which is categories and archives and just create custom links with the SP navigation feature in All Site Settings. The problem is that in blog sites, the ...
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Change root node of TopNavigationMenu dynamically?

I have a main site with five subsites and they are all using the same masterpage. The main site is a national site and the subsites are local copies (same lists, libraries, pages, subsites etc). One ...
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Not all pages have a side navigation on the left

On my site for some reason the left navigation doesn't always show up on every page - even though they use the same master page. I've searched Google and through all of the site settings trying to ...
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Redirect a subsite home link to the root site collection home page

I often get requests to have the link of the home logo on a subsite link to the home page of the root site collection? I can't see any native way of doing this with the SharePoint navigation but ...
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Where do “My site” and “My profiles” links come from?

Under the personal action menu, there are two links : My site My profile I'm trying to understand how they are generated and by which component/feature. However the highest container in the ...
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Top Link Navigation is not supporting link with Long url

I have main site with Top Navigation Menu created using Site Collection Settings > Navigation (under Look and Feel). I'm trying to add a long link to navigation links in Site Collection Settings > ...
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How can I create a dynamic list based navigation?

I have a question regarding sharepoint 2007 custom top navigation. How can I create this kind of navigation? (dropdown with customizable <li> content.) I know that sharepoint uses table for ...
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Page Viewer Webpart Hides the Top Navigation Menu

I have added a page viewer webpart and pointed it to a network share. The top navigation menu now hides behind this webpart. I have tried setting the z-index on the menu container as well as the ...
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Treeview navigation

I have a need to display SharePoint content as a treeview. What are the available options? I'd rather use a solution that doesn't require server side implementation (hosted SharePoint), and works on ...
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Navigation setup for site pages

I have a navigation defined in Site actions -> Look and Feel -> Navigations. I have a home page (Root page) - Home.aspx. Let's say I have created two more pages like A.aspx and B.aspx. Now I would ...
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How do I override the ASP Menu Control in the TopNavBar.ascx

I am implementing a global navigation solution. The issue is this; long story short (I can elaborate on it if you wish): All pages in the _layouts directory override all the content in the ...
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In breadcrumb site listed twice moss 2007

On some of our pages the breadcrumb lists a site twice in a row. the first one is a link, the second is not. The pages have different payout pages. Has anyone seen this, or know how to fix it?
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How do I apply master page changes to all subsites in SharePoint 2013?

I realize similar questions have been asked, but master pages have changed somwehwat in SharePoint Server 2013, and this is actually several questions in one. I've read lots and lots of articles, and ...
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How to change global navigation SP Foundation

I would like to ask, how I can to change default page or change global navigation in SP Foundation. I have first web collection "Home" then I have second web colletion "MY PAGE" and my second web ...
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Issue with standard navigation in Chrome

The standard <SharePoint:AspMenu navigation on our SharePoint 2010 site works fine in all browser but Chrome. When I hover over a menu item I can't see the sub menu items like Contact Us -> ...
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Go to specific page in large list

I got a list that have about 200 items and growing. Is there a way to navigate to a specific page of that list? Something similar that are on forums all over. Or a dropdown? We are using Sharepoint ...
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Key Filters: Always boolean AND? Possibility of adding user-controlled OR?

In a usability test just now, I learned that the Key Filters part of Metadata Navigation operate on boolean AND. A document has to match all filters in order to appear. Do I have any control over ...
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How can I get a tree view for content types out of the metadata navigation hierarchy in a document library?

I have a hierarchy of content types that's currently two levels deep, and could go to three. These are for legal documents and may ultimately be used as templates in Word... which is why I opted to go ...
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Dynamic, code based, breadcrumbs are not working in SharePoint 2010

I am currently porting an application from SharePoint 2007 to 2010. As a single page can be invoked in different contexts, we rely on a code based SiteMapResolveEventHandler to dynamically populate ...
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Linking sub menus to variations

I have a publishing site with variations, the directory structure is laid out like this: en-us -products --product1 --product2 -contact us -news euro -products --product1 --product3 -contact us -news ...
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Feature Stapling and SPWeb.Navigation (Top Nav bar or quick launch) changes not applying

I am using feature stapling to add a feature to all sites in a web application. This feature creates a list, creates a site page, creates a webpart, adds the web part to the site page, and then it is ...
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How to create a hierarchy of pages?

Just started using sharepoint and it seems quite user friendly. For example, on the left bar, there is a "[+ Add new page" link. It then presents a dialog that lets me name my name page. The problem ...
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Hiding Left Nav

I am trying to hide the left nav on secondary pages in my SP 2010 pub site. I can do it just fine with an tag around the nav table, but then on the secondary pages it doesn't hold it's width when it ...
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Hide items in Sharepoint Treeview

Any idea to hide non-site items in the Sharepoint 2010 tree view control? Or the only chance is to develop our own control and integrate it on the master page? there's this link but it doesn't seems ...
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Overriding GlobalNavigation Delegate control

I have overridden the GlobalNavigation delegate control and have been very pleased with the results. Now I would like to remove my global navigation from application pages that display in iframes ...
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Managed Metadata Navigation always redirecting to “start.aspx#null”

I'm trying to use Managed Metadata Navigation for cruising around my site. Right now I have a couple of team sites. In the target settings I set the navigation URL to: ...
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Can not update Navigation programatically

I have following code var subWeb = newWeb.Webs.Add(subsite.Url, subsite.Title, subsite.Title, 1033, PublishTemplate, false, false); subWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true; subWeb.Update(); PublishingWeb ...
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Non Linkable Navigation Headers

In SharePoint 2007, can first level headers in the navigation pane be non linkable? I don't want users to click on the headers and see the back-end.
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what is the best way to create a top navigation based on Geographic location of the user

I am trying to create a dynamic top navigation based on the users geographic location. How do can achive it? what is the best solution for that. I was wondring to use custom profile properties, is it ...
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How to hide recent in the navigation

In SP2013 you have the recent entry in the navigation. Is there an easy way to automatically hide/remove this entry?
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Strange jitter on menus in chrome

In chrome, when I put my mouse over any of the menu items below, the menu starts jumping up and down, and I cannot choose any item. Has anyone else seen this? It happens in Chrome, but not FireFox ...
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Display navigation from another site collection

How can we display the top link navigation from another site collection at MySite? We now have a custom master page with some custom code but it only shows the current site menu. We want it to show ...
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Unable to Browse Global Navigation or use Manage Site Content and Structure

Have a customer site which has gone through a migration, I noticed post migration its not possible to Browser Global Navigation or use the Manage Site Content and Structure. I've got a dump of the ...
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SharePoint 2010 Current Navigation subsite not showing parent items

I have a site structure as such: [site collection] -sub 1 ----sub sub 1 --------page 1 --------page 2 ----sub sub 2 --------page 1 --------page 2 -sub 2 ----page 1 ...
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Customize Quick Lanch navigation

I have to create web control that can be placed to master page. This control should display Quick Launch navigation from web that is defined in control properties. Also this page should contain own ...
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Do Sandboxing solutions support PortalSiteMapProvider?

According to these two articles, Sandboxing supports 'Navigation'-- http://www.sharepointusecases.com/index.php/2010/03/introduction-to-sharepoint-2010-sandbox-solutions-for-site-collection-owners/ ...
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Is it possible to restrict the Terms shown in the MetadataNavigationHierarchy?

I have the following scenario: A Term Set setup called "Projects" The first level of terms under "Projects" are all names of Clients (eg. ClientA, ClientB, ClientC...) The second level of terms ...
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Is there a maximum number of entries for the Navigation Editing and Sorting control?

Is there an upper limit to the number of item that are displayed in the Navigation Editing and Sorting control in the ‘Site Navigation Settings’ page? I have 49 items in the global Navigation and 54 ...
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TOP Site Navigation Broken. How can it be fixed?

Does anyone have any idea on how I can fix the navigation? I tried to go into Site Actions-->Site Settings --> Navigation but that page is not loading. I already tried the Enable/Disable publishing ...
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Breadcrumbs Navigation Requirement Changed

Scenario I have 20's of site in a single site collection we can say "portal A", Now I have list of site collections, let me explain it using a tree Now we are creating breadcrumb navigation using ...

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