M365 – SharePoint Online – Enabling Global Navigation

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Background:

• I am writing article on SharePoint App Bar
• First tab (Currently Home icon as shown in below Fig) in SharePoint app bar is to have Global Navigation or link to SharePoint start page.
• I want to show the Global Navigation
• But in my case it was showing link to – SharePoint start page and not Global Navigation as shown in below Fig

• So I was wondering, why its not showing Global Navigation.
• I also couldn’t see option to Global Navigation under SharePoint settings as

• After bit research I realized that enabling Global Navigation requires SharePoint Home Site
• Once Site is Home Site we can enable the Global Navigation
• Enabling site as Home Site:
  • I am writing separate article on Home Site. I’ll publish it soon
  • We can use following PowerShell cmdlet for enabling site as Home Site

Set-SPOHomeSite -HomeSiteUrl https://knowledgejunction1.sharepoint.com/

• Once we enabled site as Home Site, to have effect of Home site – it may take some time to take effect
• Once site is Home site we could see the global navigation under SharePoint settings as

• On click of “Global Navigation” link “Global navigation settings” pane will appear as

• Once we enabled “Global Navigation” we have then option to set – Logo, Title and Navigation source either – Home site navigation or Hub or global navigation as

• There is “Edit global navigation” link available on Global navigation settings pane as shown in below fig.

• On click of “Edit global navigation” pane, left pane appears where we can add the links / labels and can enable audience targeting as well as shown in below Fig

• To add link or label to Global Navigation, click on “+” sign as shown in below fig
• On click of “+” sign “Add” popup will appear where we can specify
  • Choose an option – Link / Label
  • In case of Link – URL / Address
  • Display name – which will appear to the users
  • Audiences to target – We could specify either groups or users , limit is 1o

• Once we have enabled the Global Navigation and added the link or label – Home icon / tab on SharePoint app bar will show Global Navigation as shown following two figures

So for today that’s all about Global Navigation 🙂

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