The Quick Launch navigation provides a quick and easy way for users to navigate to items in the site. This video shows the different ways you can customize the items in the Quick Launch and also discusses some best practices around using the Quick Launch
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Great overview! My assumption from watching this video is that the Global Navigation feature is no longer available. I see they took off the word Navigation and we will be selecting Quick Launch.
We made full use of the Global (across the top) and will have to think of a way to configure all the header & drop downs we created. If you know of any supporting documentation pertaining to this or workarounds, I’d love to hear about it.
Discovery! I just logged onto my SP2013 site and see that there is a “Top Link Bar”. The additional links that would drop below as in SP2010 is not available. I wonder/assume you could somehow program this to achieve these results? Let me know if anyone can share how to do this!
Nothing out of the box I believe. Programatically probably…
[...] One of the tutorials in this set, “Working with the Quick Launch”, has been entirely updated in a separate video tutorial for SharePoint 2013 titled Managing Quick Launch Navigation in SharePoint 2013 Team Sites. [...]