Sharepoint 2013 Navigation Tutorial Videos for Beginner

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Highlights

• Ribbons Introduction
• Creating Custom Actions
• Creating Drop Down Menus
• Top Links and Quick Launch Bar

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Ribbons Introduction

• Graphical control element.
• In 2007 Microsoft introduced ribbons in its
  products
• Uses tabs to represent various sets of controls,
  eradicate the need of numerous parallel toolbars.
• Also called as non tabbed toolbar.
• It is feature which replaces the file menu
  options.
• Ribbons changes depending on Microsoft products.
  EX Word, Excel.

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Creating Custom Actions

• Creating SharePoint Ribbon Custom Actions using
  Visual Studio 2012 is as follows
• Create a new SharePoint App project.
• In Add New Item menu select Ribbon Custom Action
  and name it.
• Also a new Menu Item Custom Action template
  appears above the ribbon custom action.
• A question will appear like where do you want to
  expose the custom action with two options one is
  Host web and other one is App web.

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Creating Custom Actions

• App web maintains all parts of applications and
  Host web is a site that hosts applications.
• Choose App Web and then a specific List
  Instance.  App web keeps all the instances in a
  list. Click Next and specify the settings to
  generate a button control for ribbon.
• Click finish. Now Visual Studio generates the
  XML. Selecting the list item, will expose the
  action in the ribbon.
• Click on the Ribbon Action, then redirect to app
  home page. Custom actions has been created.

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Creating Drop Down Menus

• Creating drop down menus for sub sites is as
  follows
• Go to the Central Administration page.  Click
  on Create site collections under application
  management.
• Click on Publishing tab and choose  Publishing
  Portal template from Select a template and
  Click OK. New site has been created.
• Now go to the Site Settings and in Look and Feel,
  click on Navigation.
• Choose Structural Navigation Display the
  navigation items below the current site.

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Creating Drop Down Menus

• Choose the Publishing site template for the sub
  site and create a sub site
• Again go to the Site Settings and in Look and
  Feel, click on Navigation.
• Choose Structural Navigation Display the
  navigation items below the current site.
• create a sub site2 with publishing site template.
• Return to your top level site.  You will now see
  that there is a drop down menu that allows you to
  navigate to your sub sites.

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Top Links and Quick Launch Bar

• Top link bar assist the users to navigate from
  one site to other sites in the site collection by
  displaying a row of tabs at the top of pages in
  the site.
• Top link bar varies depending on publishing
  features are enabled for a site collection. It
  also called as global navigation and can add,
  edit, and remove top links.
• In site actions menu choose site settings, from
  there on Look and Feel column, click Top link
  bar.
• To add a new link, click New Navigation Link.
  Type the URL, description for the link.

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Top Links and Quick Launch Bar

• To edit a link, click the Edit button beside the
  link that you want to edit  and make any
  necessary changes.
• To remove a link, click the Edit button beside
  the link, click on Delete, and then click OK.
• Quick launch bar contains links to select lists
  and libraries of a site. Useful to navigate among
  various locations of a site. It also called as
  current navigation
• Can add, delete, or change and hide links to sub
  site pages on the Quick Launch.

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Top Links and Quick Launch Bar

• Adding, editing, deleting a quick launch heading
  on a publishing site as follows
• On the site actions choose site settings, next
  select Look and Feel section, click Navigation.
  In the Navigation Editing and Sorting section,
  click the desired heading under Current
  Navigation.
• If you want to add a heading, click Add Heading.
  Or you wanted to edit a heading, select the
  heading, and then click Edit. If you want to
  delete a heading, click Delete.
• Next Web dialog box appears, keep a title, URL,
  and description then Click Ok.

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