We recently just moved to O365/SP Online, and I have a question.
I've been able to figure out how to set up drop-down style Top Navigation menus on my site. Obviously I've turned on Publishing Sites, and have set them up via Site Settings - Navigation, and I've been able to set up Top Nav drop-down menus in two different ways:
1. Just by selecting "Structural Navigation" with checked "Show subsites" under Global Navigation, then did the Edit Links thing to drag sub-site links into one global heading link (thus creating a drop-down).
2. Selecting "Managed Navigation", then using the Term Store Management Tool, set up Term Set's to create the drop-down.
My question is about the #2 method of doing this, and user permissions. Suppose in the Top Nav link "Properties", there are three items in this drop-down: Site A, Site B, Site C. Test User has permissions to Site A (assigned by AD groups) only. Setting up the drop-downs using #2 will show ALL sub-sites listed under "Properties", but clicking on a site that Test User cannot access will deny them access. That's good.
Doing this exact same thing via #1, the only thing that appears when Test User hovers over the Top Nav link "Properties" is Site A, the other two don't even appear.
So my question here is: Is there a way using the #2 method using Term Sets that this would/could mimic #1, so that when Test User with only Site A access, hovers over Properties and only sees Site A? I assume that this is normal when using Managed Navigation and Term Sets?
I'm trying to determine the best way to set up Top Nav and drop-downs, as we'll have over 30 sub-sites just for our "Properties" site collection alone, and users are used to just seeing the property they have permissions to when hovering over "Properties".