Creating a top link bar navigation in MOSS site programmatically

Hi All,

If we want to add top link navigation bar programmatically in our site, we can do it with programmatic support also.

First let’s have a look at from where we can do it from GUI.

Go to Site Settings-> under look and feel -> Navigation, in that point to Global Navigation and add Heading and write it down the address and other information. Once you are done with it, you can see new Tab coming up at top navigation bar and once you click on that, it will take you to the your provided address.

So the question is now how to do it programmatically. Here is the answer for that.

Here is a way. We have to get TopNavigationBar of the site first.

Let’s have a look at the demo code.

SPWeb objWeb = SPContext.Current.Web;

SPNavigationNodeCollection topNavigationNodes = objWeb.Navigation.TopNavigationBar;

This gives us the collection of all top navigation node of the site.

Now we want to add one more navigation bar to it.

SPNavigationNode objItem = new SPNavigationNode(“{Caption}”, “{URL}”, false);

And then finally add it to the Collection. Here we have a choices. Like simply add, addAsFirst, AddAsLast. Here we will add link as First.

topNavigationNodes.AddAsFirst(objItem);
objWeb.Update();

That’s it. You are done.

Now when you run the code, you can see one more link coming up at the top navigation bar and when you click there it will take you to the page mentioned by you in the URL parameter.