Set SharePoint 2013 Navigation Settings from PowerShell

Hi everyone,

I just got a large SharePoint 2013 site to set up and wanted to set all the sites navigation settings through Windows PowerShell.

It seems to be quite easy, but when I set the “Current Navigation” settings to Structured the UI (user interface) settings page do not show these settings – it Works though, but is a bit confusing. Actually nothing is checked in the boxes, but for now I am good – hope I found out why this is happening. Anyone knows this?

I use the script below to connect to a site Collection, set this navigation settings and afterwards all sub sites. This script do not handle Metadata Navigation.

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# Powershell script by Jesper M. Christensen
# Blog: http://JesperMChristensen.wordpress.com
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# Set the SharePoint 2010 and 2013 Navigation Settings on Sites
#
# SetupNavigationSettings.ps1 version 1.0 - Edited January 2013
#
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Write-Host -ForegroundColor White "Set the SharePoint 2010 and 2013 Navigation Settings on Sites"

#Set the Site Collection
$SPSite = Get-SPSite -Identity "http://extrico-demo2.dev.extrico.local/sites/demo1"

#Go through each site in the Site Collection
foreach ($SPWeb in $SPSite.AllWebs)
{
if ($SPWeb.IsRootWeb)
{#Process the root web
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Gray $SPWeb.Url":" -NoNewLine
#Save the AllowUnsafeUpdatesStatus property value
$AllowUnsafeUpdatesStatus = $SPWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates
$SPWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = $true

#Set the Publishing Web
$SPPubWeb = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($SPWeb)

#Global Navigation Settings
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.InheritGlobal = $false
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.GlobalIncludeSubSites = $true
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.GlobalIncludePages = $false
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.GlobalDynamicChildLimit = 21

#Current Navigation Settings
#
# -Display the same navigation items as the parent site: InheritCurrent = $true and ShowSiblings = $false
# -Structural Navigation: Display the current site, the navigation items below the current site, and the current site's siblings: InheritCurrent = $false and ShowSiblings = $true
# -Structural Navigation: Display only the navigation items below the current site: InheritCurrent = $false and ShowSiblings = $false
#
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.InheritCurrent = $false
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.ShowSiblings = $true
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.CurrentIncludeSubSites = $false
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.CurrentIncludePages = $false
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.CurrentDynamicChildLimit = 21

# Sorting
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.OrderingMethod = "Manual" # "Automatic" "ManualWithAutomaticPageSorting"
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.AutomaticSortingMethod = "Title" # "CreatedDate" "CreatedDate" "LastModifiedDate"
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.SortAscending = $true

#Update the Publishing Web Navigation Settings
$SPPubWeb.Update()
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green " Done"
}
else
{#Process all sub-webs to the root web

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Gray $SPWeb.Url":" -NoNewLine

#Save the AllowUnsafeUpdatesStatus property value
$AllowUnsafeUpdatesStatus = $SPWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates
$SPWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = $true

#Set the Publishing Web
$SPPubWeb = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($SPWeb)

#Global Navigation Settings
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.InheritGlobal = $true
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.GlobalIncludeSubSites = $true
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.GlobalIncludePages = $false
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.GlobalDynamicChildLimit = 21

#Current Navigation Settings
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.InheritCurrent = $false
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.ShowSiblings = $true
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.CurrentIncludeSubSites = $false
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.CurrentIncludePages = $false
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.CurrentDynamicChildLimit = 21

# Sorting
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.OrderingMethod = "Manual" # "Automatic" "ManualWithAutomaticPageSorting"
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.AutomaticSortingMethod = "Title" # "CreatedDate" "CreatedDate" "LastModifiedDate"
$SPPubWeb.Navigation.SortAscending = $true

#Update the Publishing Web Navigation Settings
$SPPubWeb.Update()
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green " Done"
}

#Revert the AllowUnsafeUpdatesStatus property value
$SPWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = $AllowUnsafeUpdatesStatus

#Dispose the SPWeb object
$SPWeb.Dispose()
}

#Dispose the SPSite object
$SPSite.Dispose()

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