Sharepoint 2013 powershell script to add 'links' list under quicklaunch

Question

I am having trouble figuring out how to add the links list from each subsite, into the quicklaunch.

I want to run a powershell script, for-*each subsite found under a site, add the "Links" list to the quick launch shortcut.

I need to take the managed-path for each subsite into consideration also.

Can someone please point me in the right direction on this?

Answer 1

Hi @spencer souvannarath ,

Do you mean that there is a list named "Links" in each of your subsites? The below code can used to add a list named "Links" to the quick launch of $weburl.

$weburl = "http://sp"                              
$list = "Links";                                          
$w = get-spweb $weburl   
                         
$ql = $w.Navigation.QuickLaunch;   
                       
$urllink= $weburl + '/Lists/' + $list                  
$cn = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPNavigationNode($list,$urllink,$true);                 
$ql.AddAsfirst($cn);  

To add list to quick launch of all subsites in bulk, as the URL of Links lists are in the format of http://<weburl>/<subsitename>/Lists/Links, you can add a variable say "$subsitenames", put all subsitenames in an array, use foreach() to traverse all subsites and set the variable $urllink. Take a reference to the below sample code.

$weburl = "http://sp"              
$subsitenames = @('subsite1','subsite2','subsite3');              
$list = "Links";              
                            
foreach($subsite in $subsitenames){   
    
  $subsiteurl = $weburl + '/' + $subsite  
  
  $w = get-spweb $subsiteurl  
    
  $ql = $w.Navigation.QuickLaunch;   
  
  $urllink= $subsiteurl + '/Lists/' + $list    
  
  $cn = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPNavigationNode($list,$urllink,$true);  
             
  $ql.AddAsfirst($cn);  
     
  $w.Update()       
}  

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