Showing posts with label configure search navigation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label configure search navigation. Show all posts

Friday, March 22, 2013

SharePoint 2013 Search: Error Adding New Search Navigation Link

Search navigation links are the main links within your search center and link to respective search result pages:


You configure these links within the Search Settings page of the site:

 
 
 You can create a new link simply by clicking on the Add Link... link:

Enter at least a Title and URL and click OK.

 
This is pretty simple. I added a few new links but when I clicked on the OK on the settings page, something went wrong:
 
 

 
I could not understand why I was getting the error for a few minutes. The reason is because, apparently, there are some rules behind the link that you provide in the URL of the navigation link:
 
a) the page must actually exist and
b) it must have at least one major version.


Once I actually created my results pages, checked them in, and published a major version, everything worked. So much for trying to put in place holders.



 

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