Add, Get And Delete Quick Launch Navigation Using C#

Add new term in the quick launch

Add the below code in your Program.cs.

namespace GetNavigationNode {
class Program {
static void Main(string[] args) {
string userName = "[email protected]";
string password = "********";
string siteUrl = "https:// tenantname.sharepoint.com/sites/AssociateSite";
SecureString securePassword = new SecureString();
foreach(char c in password) {
secure Password.AppendChar(c);
}
var credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials(userName, securePassword);
using(ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(siteUrl)) {
client Context.Credentials = credentials;
Navigation NodeCollection qlNavNodeColl = clientContext.Web.Navigation.QuickLaunch;
client Context.Load(clientContext.Web);
clientContext.Load(qlNavNodeColl);
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
NavigationNodeCreationInformation newNode = new NavigationNodeCreationInformation();
newNode.Title = "Search";
newNode.Url = "https://www.google.com";
qlNavNodeColl.Add(newNode);
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
}
}
}
}

After running the code,

Add, Get And Delete Quick Launch Navigation Using C#

Get Navigation node

Add the below code to get all the term from quicklunch.

using(ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(siteUrl)) {
clientContext.Credentials = credentials;
NavigationNodeCollection qlNavNodeColl = clientContext.Web.Navigation.QuickLaunch;
clientContext.Load(clientContext.Web);
clientContext.Load(qlNavNodeColl);
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
foreach(NavigationNode navToDelete in qlNavNodeColl) {
var navNodeTitle = navToDelete.Title;
Console.WriteLine("Navigation Node is : " + navNodeTitle);
}
}

Delete Navigation Node

Add below code to remove the quick launch term

string userName = "[email protected]";
string password = "********";
string siteUrl = "https:// tenantname.sharepoint.com/sites/AssociateSite";
SecureString securePassword = new SecureString();
foreach(char c in password) {
securePassword.AppendChar(c);
}
var credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials(userName, securePassword);
using(ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(siteUrl)) {
clientContext.Credentials = credentials;
NavigationNodeCollection qlNavNodeColl = clientContext.Web.Navigation.QuickLaunch;
clientContext.Load(clientContext.Web);
clientContext.Load(qlNavNodeColl);
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
foreach(NavigationNode navToDelete in qlNavNodeColl) {
var title = navToDelete.Title;
if (title == "Search") {
navToDelete.DeleteObject();
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
}
}
}
}

After running the code,

Conclusion

From the above example of the code, we can conclude that, the CRUD operation of a quick launch navigation node in SharePoint Online using c# is very effective as it reduces the amount of time. You can also use this code for SharePoint 2019 and 2016.