Managed Navigation for SharePoint Site

Here are the six steps to achieve the managed navigation on site.

What is Managed Navigation?

• The managed navigation feature in SharePoint Server 2013 enables you to build navigation for a publishing site that is derived from a SharePoint managed metadata taxonomy.
  
  
• Managed navigation also lets you create friendly URLs without changing the structure of your site.
  
  
• Using managed navigation you can create the Multilevel Navigation.
  
  
• Before you map the managed navigation make sure to activate the publishing feature in your team site, community site, etc.

Steps:

Here are the steps to map the managed navigation on site,

Step 1: Go to your SharePoint site.



Step 2: Then select “Site settings” from your gear menu.



Step 3: On the Site Settings page, select the “Navigation” from "Look and Feel" section as in the following screenshot:



Step 4: Select the Managed Navigation from “Global Navigation” in Navigation Settings page.



Step 5: Select the term set which you want to map from “Managed Navigation: Term set“


Step 6: Finally click “Ok” to save the navigation settings.



Successful term sets will be mapped to your site collection.



And also you can create multilevel navigation using term set.


Limitation

• You need to create termsets for each site Collection.

Summary

In this article we explored how to use the managed navigation in SharePoint online sites.