Left menu/submenu expand and/or collapse default behavior setting
In modern view sites, the current left menu/submenu default behavior for submenu items is set to collapsed (this was changed from expanded about a year ago). There should be a way to select the default left menu/submenu expansion and contraction behavior either at the menu level, or at the very least at the site level. The current behavior of collapsed hides much of the functional items available on the site, that is, unless users have expanded the left menu enough to where they have committed the menu structure to memory - a tiresome exercise.
Brent Boozer
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Ignacio Ortiz
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We are getting to 2 years after, is this something coming?
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Minoo Malik-Bawroski
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Allow the site owner, not just the admin to control the behavior because most of the time admins are not UX professionals. I want to really see the studies Microsoft has conducted to make these useless changes or is it just one morning someone decides let me play with the features and mess everything for everyone else, who cares! ?
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p
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The menu should be expanded and highlighting the correct link location in the menu when following a link from another page.
Currently the menu stays collapsed and the user is kept guessing where they are within the page. -
Jayabalan Rathakrishnan
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Agreed, not having the option confuses the user when it changes from expanded to collapsed automatically. We need an option to define what should be the default behaviour.
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Anonymous
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Please provide a setting to expand or collapse.
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Justin
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I fully agree, please let us choose whether we want the quick launch menus collapsed or expanded by default.
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Max
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As there is still no solution from Microsoft (!!!) - I just used this one - easy to install and to deploy and it will just open and show all sub-links at the left navigation: https://www.tecconsult.at/products/sharepoint-auto-expand-left-navigation/
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Mark Gort
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Please fix this issue. From usability it's common sense to have a menu, that is configurable (always expand or always collapsed). Also it would be nice if there is a option to place empty headings in the left menu.
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Malte Ehlers
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This is just annoying and unfortunately part of the "hide everything" trend, we see it on LinkedIn as well, where they want to hide parts of everything. It all just requires more clicks in the end. Especially for navigational purposes it should be customizable.
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Anonymous
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I agree, let admin control the menu behavior setting.
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Lyle Howard
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However possible bring back the 'Classic View' in SharePoint. Forcing us to migrate to another version of software isn't the issue. Taking away functionality the worked in the past from our customers is the issue. I vote to bring back the 'classic view' in the left navigation menus.
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Claire
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Totally agree - one size does not always fit all - let this be a site setting which can be controlled by the site admins - I can't imagine this will be a huge change to apply so please lets get it done quickly!
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vinod
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I don't understand MS..most of the other products when released with newer version come up with user-friendly and most helpful features, but MS SP comes with depreciating the existing handy features. Kinda weird !
We need that back. -
Duncan
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Comon' Microsft. Listen up. This needs to be set back - we used to be able to do it.
We want it back!
Please!
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Russell Gove
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We have a mix of modern and classic pages on a site we migrated. The Classic pages all diplays with expanded left nav, and the Modern all display with collapsed left nav. Its looks very unprofessional. We need to be able to control this via an admin setting.
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Håkon Lunde
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I agree, let admin control the menu behavior setting.
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Anonymous
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I absolutely agree that the site administrators should be able to select the default mode. While I greatly prefer the Expanded state for my web sites, I can easily see how some people with many more items in the QuickLaunch menu would prefer that the default is Collapsed. One size does not fit all.
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Marcin
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It is not some huge development problem, magical trick... Just do this, Microsoft!
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Anonymous
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Let admin control the menu behavior setting
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Anonymous
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The main complaint from users at our company after migrating from SP 2013 is the collapsed menus. We would love for them to have the option for expanded by default
