Here’s a quick tip to improve your Global Navigation for the new SharePoint App Bar. From what I’ve seen, most organizations will use the Hub or global navigation for the App Bar’s home link – which is the Global Nav. The root site of the tenant should be a Home Site and also a Hub…
I saw this trick during a recent webinar or session, but I can’t remember who showed it. I think it’s useful enough to share. If it’s your trick, please let me know and I’ll give you credit! Right now, we don’t have permission trimming in Hub Site navigation. It’s coming, but until it’s there sometimes…
When you create a new subsite In SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online (Office 365), you have the option to use the same permissions as the parent site or use unique permissions. If you use unique permissions, you’re taken to a page where you can set up the special groups for the subsite. Generally, this is…
Heather Waterman and I were talking about some stuff today (Name dropper, you say? Absolutely!) and she pointed out an interesting little trick with an SharePoint:AspMenu control. SharePoint:AspMenu controls are used in SharePoint to dynamically create navigational elements like the top navigation tabs. In SharePoint 2007, those tabs were rendered as pretty complicated TABLE constructs,…
If you try to make changes to your site’s navigation settings and get the error ‘The page has been modified by another author on…’ with the date and time that you just tried to make the changes, there’s a fairly quick fix. Apparently this is a known issue that Microsoft has on its list to…