Activate the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure
A SharePoint Online tutorial by Peter Kalmström
 SharePoint
Online has various featues that are not enabled by default
when the root site in the site collection is a team site.
One of them is the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure.
When it has been activated, several new features become
available in the site collection. Some of them are immediately
obvious, while others are visible only through the links
on the Site Settings page or in galleries or libraries.
In the next eight articles we will have a look at some features
that require activation of the SharePoint Server Publishing
Infrastructure.
In the demo below Peter Kalmström, CEO and Systems Designer
of kalmstrom.com Business Solutions, explains how to activate
the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure for the
site collection. Peter also shows how this gives you more
navigation options to choose from.
Activate the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure
for a site collection
- Click on the settings gear and select Site settings.
- In the Site Collection Administration group, click
on the link 'Site collection features'.
- Scroll down to SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure
and click on the Activate button.
The activation of the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure
takes a few minutes, but after that you can see that the
Look and Feel group in the Site Settings has become different.
Instead of the links to the Quick Launch and the Top link
bar, there will be one Navigation link. It opens a page
with more options than before, for example to open a link
in a new window and to select audience for the link. We
will have a closer look at these options in the next few
demos.
Another benefit of enabling the SharePoint Server Publishing
Infrastructure are that you can use the
Content
Query web part. This web part searches the site collection
or specified sites and not the index, so it is suitable
for content that is often changed.
When you have activated the SharePoint Server Publishing
Infrastructure for a site collection, you can also
activate the SharePoint Server Publishing feature for
a site within that site collection, which gives you more
powerful layout options.
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