How To Create Structural Navigation Nodes In Quick Launch And Top Navigation

SharePoint offers the customization of the navigation feature so that the users can navigate to the different locations 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 SharePoint.

 

In this blog, we are going to create a structural navigation node that is the root node having subnodes in both - top navigation and quick launch.

 

The code block for this is mentioned below.

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("[email protected]", 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();
        }
    }
}

Output

 

 

 

After the code is executed, you can see the root navigation with its respective subnodes created successfully.