Displaying Full Navigation in QuickLaunch Menu

Question

I'm using managed terms for QuickLaunch navigation in SP2013. By default, it seems to only to display "contextual" links (that is, when I go to a sub-pages, the top level links and their children all disappear, leaving only sibling and child pages.) I saw this post in which the asker seems to have the opposite problem. How do I get the complete navigation to appear on all pages?

Answer 1

I've done that before using a Delegate Control.

Assuming you already have a Farm or Sandbox solution, add an Empty Element to your project and put the following in your Elements.xml file.

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
  <Control Id="QuickLaunchDataSource"
Sequence="50"
ControlClass="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalSiteMapDataSource"
ControlAssembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c">
    <Property Name="SiteMapProvider">CurrentNavigationTaxonomyProvider</Property>
    <Property Name="ID">QuickLaunchSiteMap</Property>
    <Property Name="TreatStartingNodeAsCurrent">true</Property>
    <Property Name="StartingNodeOffset">2</Property>
  </Control>
</Elements>

Adjust the StartingNodeOffset to the depth you want the navigation to start at. In your case it might be 1.

Add the element to a Feature.

Deploy the solution.

Activate the feature.