I have a subsite that I have changed the "global navigation" setting to
"Display the navigation items below the current site"
This works correctly. I then need to "add a link" this is a link back to the root web site basically "/Pages/Default.asp"
I click OK and there are no errors, but the link does not get displayed and when I go back the the navigation settings the link is no longer there.
This works just fine in the root web navigation
Any ideas?
That's odd. I just tested your scenario and it worked for me. I added a 'David Button' link under the Global Navigation top-level folder after checking the Display the navigation items below the current site setting. The link appears and once I return to the Navigation Settings, it is still there.
Maybe you have cache enabled?
If you have caching turned on you may need to flush this (checking the security settings of each link is an expensive operation).
The link below tells you how to: - Configure the object cache - Flush the object cache or the disk-based cache
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101577831033.aspx
After further research, I found a bug in our custom minimal publishing site definition onet.xml that was causing the issue. The Element had a typo in it
<NavBars>
<narbar Name="SharePointTop Navbar" ID="1002" />
<NavBars>
"narbar" should be "navbar". When I fixed it, any new sub-sites created did not have this issue. I was now able sort/edit the navigation items for those new sub-sites.
In order to fix the already created sub-sites, I had to update the NavNodes table in my content db. I found a forum post hat help me:
I had to modify the t-sql statement in the above forum post to add "Quick Launch" rows for each sub-site in the NavNodes table. The next time a user tries to modify the navigation sorting/editing for a sub-site, the changes will be saved.