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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:

/department/production/SitePages/Homepage.aspx

So far so good. But due to the MDS, the link I'm actually redirected to is (mind the null):

/department/production/layouts/15/start.aspx#null

which of course should be:

/department/production/layouts/15/start.aspx#/SitePages/Homepage.aspx

Back to the term store: I tried setting the target URL to /department/production/ which is not a valid URL according to term store. I also tried the URL including the hash # but that URL also is not valid. So I'm stuck with using the above mentioned URL.

Anybody has any clue how I can set the URLs correctly without being redirected to null? (Sometimes it does work, when I visited the site once before it is redirecting to the correct URL).

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I believe is because Managed Metadata Navigation is actually only meant for Publishing sites (definition is in Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation namespace), e.g. Topic pages, Friendly-pages - not particularly tested yet, but i've only used it as such.

MSDN also states "Managed navigation APIs are built into the taxonomy and publishing libraries in SharePoint 2013. " (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163978.aspx#SP15_ManagedNav_HowManagedNavWorks)

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  • That could very well be. Interesting. I though it could be leveraged to be the one-size-fits-all navigation... Back to custom SiteMap providers?
    – Dennis G
    Feb 10, 2013 at 23:07
  • It depends, it is meant to be created somewhere, and used elsewhere, sort of a "global navigation", centrally administered
    – Marius Constantinescu - MVP
    Feb 10, 2013 at 23:10
  • Well I did create it on a publishing site. There are some team sites in the navigation though...
    – Dennis G
    Feb 10, 2013 at 23:23
  • That is not the issue, but the issue is that your links need to point to Pages/mypages.aspx (Publishing). By the way, did you tried deactivating the MDS feature in your Site Settings
    – Marius Constantinescu - MVP
    Feb 11, 2013 at 7:53
  • Sure I could deactivate MDS and I would have normal links - but that defeats the purpose of MDS ;-) I thought there is some way I'm missing.
    – Dennis G
    Feb 11, 2013 at 15:57
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You have to deactivate the Feature Minimal Download Strategy. When the Feature is active Links work correct if oppening another tab. Without the Feature Links always work correct

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