
Understanding SharePoint 2010 Navigation
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SharePoint Server Publishing Navigation
SharePoint Server has more robust navigation settings available to publishing sites. To follow along
with this section you will need a SharePoint Server publishing site. You can learn more about creat-
ing a SharePoint Server publishing site from the beginning of Chapter 5.
The fi rst difference, compared to SharePoint Foundation navigation, is that instead of two differ-
ent menu items under Site Settings, SharePoint Server publishing sites have just one option titled
Navigation. This one settings page has options for both the global navigation and the current navi-
gation. These typically correspond to the top and left navigation, respectively, but they can be rear-
ranged from a custom master page. Also, by default SharePoint Server sites can show multiple levels
of dynamic top and left navigation. These are displayed as either drop-downs for the top navigation
or fl y-outs for the left navigation. When subsites are created they are automatically displayed as
dynamic navigation items for the top navigation.
One common question that comes up with SharePoint Server publishing sites is
whether you can manually create multiple levels of dynamic navigation items
from the Navigation Settings page. This menu only allows you to manually cre-
ate one level of heading that has one level of links below it