SharePoint Hub Navigation Not Working

Question

In SharePoint 365, I have a hub site and numerous child sites with that hub site specified as the parent.

However, when setting up hub navigation, when I add "Associate Child Hubs" none of the child hubs appear in the list. The only link that comes up is the hub site itself.

I have tried removing all hubs and recreating/reassociating them. Tried Mega Menus and Traditional. Nothing seems to make them work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

• Brad

Answer 1

Hi, JinweiLi. I was traveling, but will be able to try your solution this week. Thanks for the follow-up.

Answer 2

Hi BD,

Welcome to the Q&A Forums.

One thing to clarify please. Are you allowing any time for the changes to apply to the associated children sites? On occasion I've had to wait a little bit before changes became visible.

Thanks
Steve

Answer 3

Thanks for responding. This has been a problem spanning several weeks, so yes.

Not sure if it is relevant, but I also turned off navigation caching in an attempt to see if that made a difference, but no luck.

Answer 4

Hi @B D ,

I suggest you could try to use PnP-PowerShell to add "Associate Child Hubs".

#Config Variables  
$TenantSiteUrl = "https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com"  
$HubSiteURL = "https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/Intranet"  
$SiteURL = "https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/2020projects"  
   
#Connect to PnP Online  
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $TenantSiteUrl -Credentials (Get-Credential)  
   
#Associate Site collection with HubSite  
Add-PnPHubSiteAssociation -Site $SiteURL -HubSite $HubSiteURL  

If you want to add multiple sites to a Hub site, please try to use this code:

#Config Variables  
$TenantSiteUrl = "https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com"  
$HubSiteURL = "https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/Operations"  
$SitesToConnect = "https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/Ops","https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/OpsV2","https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/OpsV3"  
   
Try {   
    #Connect to PnP Online  
    Connect-PnPOnline -Url $TenantSiteUrl -Interactive  
   
    #Get the Hub site  
    $HubSite = Get-PnPHubSite -Identity $HubSiteURL  
   
    #Get all sites connected to the Hub  
    $SitesConnectedToHub = Get-PnPHubSiteChild -Identity $HubSiteURL  
   
    #Associate each Site collection with HubSite  
    ForEach ($Site in $SitesToConnect)  
    {  
        #Check if the site is alreay connected with the Hub  
        If($SitesConnectedToHub -contains $Site)  
        {  
            Write-host "$Site is Already connected to Hub Site" -ForegroundColor Yellow  
        }  
        Else  
        {  
            Add-PnPHubSiteAssociation -Site $Site -HubSite $HubSiteURL  
            Write-host "$Site Connected to HUB Site Successfully!" -ForegroundColor Green  
        }  
    }  
}  
catch {  
    write-host "Error: $($_.Exception.Message)" -foregroundcolor Red  
}  

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Answer 5

@Jinwei Li-MSFT , unfortunately, while the script did work to associate child hubs, nothing appears in navigation under Associated Hubs or Associated Child Hubs.