Sharepoint customizes navigation feature so that user can navigate to a different location and access them quickly. You can add, edit, or remove links on the left-hand menu (Quick Launch menu), the top menu (Top Navigation Node) through edit links.
In this blog, we are going to create structural navigation node that is root node having subnodes in both top navigation and quick launch.
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
namespace StructuralNavigationNode
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
ClientContext ctx = new ClientContext("http://portal/sites/site1");
string password = "Password";
SecureString secureString = new SecureString();
foreach (char c in password.ToCharArray()) secureString.AppendChar(c);
ctx.Credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials("user@domain.com", secureString);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
Web web = ctx.Web;
NavigationNodeCollection quickLaunchNodeColl = web.Navigation.QuickLaunch; // we are getting all quick launch node collection
NavigationNodeCollection topNavNodeColl = web.Navigation.TopNavigationBar; // we are getting all top navigation node collection
NavigationNodeCreationInformation quickLaunchNodeCreation = new NavigationNodeCreationInformation();
quickLaunchNodeCreation.Title = "QuickLaunchNode";
quickLaunchNodeCreation.Url = "http://www.softreeconsulting.com/";
quickLaunchNodeColl.Add(quickLaunchNodeCreation); //we are creating root quick launch node
ctx.Load(quickLaunchNodeColl);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
NavigationNode quickLaunchParentNode = quickLaunchNodeColl.Where(n => n.Title == "QuickLaunchNode").FirstOrDefault(); //retrieving parent quick launch root node for which we will add sub nodes
NavigationNodeCreationInformation quickLaunchNodeCreationInformation = new NavigationNodeCreationInformation();
quickLaunchNodeCreationInformation.Title = "QuickLaunchSubNode";
quickLaunchNodeCreationInformation.Url = "http://www.softreeconsulting.com/about-us/";
quickLaunchParentNode.Children.Add(quickLaunchNodeCreationInformation); //we are creating sub quicklaunch node
quickLaunchParentNode.Update();
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
NavigationNodeCreationInformation topNavNodeCreation = new NavigationNodeCreationInformation();
topNavNodeCreation.Title = "TopNavNode";
topNavNodeCreation.Url = "http://www.softreeconsulting.com/";
topNavNodeColl.Add(topNavNodeCreation); //we are creating root top navigation node
ctx.Load(topNavNodeColl);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
NavigationNode topNavParentNode = topNavNodeColl.Where(n => n.Title == "TopNavNode").FirstOrDefault(); //retrieving parent top navigation root node for which we will add sub nodes
NavigationNodeCreationInformation topNavNodeCreationInformation = new NavigationNodeCreationInformation();
topNavNodeCreationInformation.Title = "TopNavSubNode";
topNavNodeCreationInformation.Url = "http://www.softreeconsulting.com/about-us/";
topNavParentNode.Children.Add(topNavNodeCreationInformation); //we are creating sub top navigation node
topNavParentNode.Update();
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
}
}
}
After code executed, you can see root navigation with their respective subnodes created successfully.
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