Sharepoint Migration Tool Json Example

Moving from SharePoint on-premises to online is more than just lifting and shifting your documents. For many companies, it represents an opportunity to improve practices for collaboration, sharing, and records management.

The main element to an effective SharePoint migration is consistency. Throughout this technique, your team must trust that they can find the information they need. You can achieve this by implementing a SharePoint global navigation before your move. Even though you’re not planning on moving to SharePoint Online, having a SharePoint navigation system helps your team find what they want fast. It could even increase adoption of SharePoint and other tools internally.

In this website post, we’ll review three ways you can use Navo to simplify your SharePoint navigation for a smooth migration process.

Global Navigation in SharePoint

Global navigation in SharePoint refers to a menu that spans across your site collections. Your options for global navigation in SharePoint Online are limited, and relatively non-existent in SharePoint on-premises. This gap is normally filled up with custom code maintained by developers on staff or through expensive third-party systems.

Managed metadata term sets give you the ability to generate navigation that becomes contextual to each user. However, it does not focus on group-connected SharePoint sites. In addition, it requires manually applying the navigation to every site.

Hub sites give you a drop-down menu option that is managed from one place, but it’s not actually global navigation. A site must be from the hub to receive the menu, and each site can only be associated to one hub. There is absolutely no global hub site.

Custom code is always a choice for SharePoint Online and on-premises. However, it requires a developer to generate, support, and maintain code on a continuing basis and is bound in functionality (and often in user experience and design).

Global Navigation with Navo

That’s why we created Navo. Navo allows administrators to quickly build a company megamenu and display it on any SharePoint site in your tenancy. It’s managed in one easy place with a drag-and-drop editor and design functions to help match your internal branding. The best part? Navo can be added to your on-premises environment plus your SharePoint Online classic and modern sites. End users will experience consistent navigation when you migrate, change, and update sites behind the scenes.

You will discover three key uses for our on-premises version of Navo:

- Your organization is using SharePoint on-premises with no plans to go online and is searching for a global navigation tool for your on-premises collections.
- Your organization is using SharePoint on-premises which is not likely to migrate those sites online. However, any new sites will be created in SharePoint Online. You’d such as a global navigation system that can bridge your site collections together.
- Your company is actively migrating to SharePoint Online and needs a global navigation to limit the necessity to communicate changes as workloads get shifted.

We’re Using SharePoint On-Premises And We’re Not Leaving

Hey, that’s OK! We’re not here to convince that you leave your on-premises environment. However, we know that your options for global navigation on-premises are slim-to-none. Navo for SharePoint on-premises allows you to create your global navigation online using our drag-and-drop editor. Once you’ve created your navigation, export our custom code to increase your SharePoint environment and viola! Seamless, global navigation for your whole team.

We’re Using SharePoint On-Premises And We’re Adding Online

We love that you’re thinking about adding new sites and content to SharePoint Online! And we love that Navo provides a bridge in the middle of your on-premises and online site collections. Your team will experience a regular navigation without worrying about whether they’re by using an on-premises or online site collection. Create your menu using our drag-and-drop editor and quickly deploy to all of your classic and modern sites in SharePoint Online using our tenant wide mode.

For the on-premises menu, you’ll export a file (in JSON format) to upload into the SharePoint on-premises environment. Your team will never spot the difference when navigating between on-premises and online!

We’re Migrating to SharePoint Online

Yay! SharePoint Online has tonnes of great features (including security trimming) which make it worth the move. Migrations provide a great possibility to modernize your systems, update procedures, and ensure you’re complying with security and resource management best practices. But migrations can be tricky for reasons beyond their technical nature. Your team may be left feeling lost, unsure of how to locate the various tools and information they need. Determining which sites should be accessed on-premises or online can be confusing and frustrating. Adding global navigation to your migration plan can help ease a lot of your migration stress!

Use Navo to bridge your SharePoint on-premises and online site collections which means that your team has a consistent experience when moving between your tools. You’ll build your menu system online and export our custom code into your on-premises SharePoint environment. As sites are moved to the cloud, you’ll update the links in Navo. Because of this your team sees the same menu label and icon, however they are directed to the shiny new SharePoint Online site. Once your on-premises sites have been replaced, you can retire that tenancy without worrying about associates who might still be trying to gain access to old sites.

Setting Up Navo On-Premises

Setting up Navo on-premises is simple! You’ll use our drag-and-drop editor to generate your navigation menu in simply a couple of steps. When you’re finished, automatically apply your menu to all or any of your classic and modern sites online using our tenant-wide mode or pick and choose the sites you want to deploy to.

Next, you’ll export our custom script into the on-premises tenancy to implement your new global navigation menu without coding required! Users can move between SharePoint Migration on-premises and online without saving bookmarks, copying links, or opening multiple tabs.

The benefits of global navigation are endless, whether your planning a migration or not! Your team will receive a fast, reliable way to access the various tools and information they need, saving time and frustrations. Give your team a steady navigation across all your SharePoint site collections with Navo!