Hub Navigation is a SharePoint feature that allows you to create a centralized navigation menu for a Hub site and automatically share it across all associated sites, providing users with consistent navigation and a unified experience.

Common Use Cases

• Enterprise intranet navigation: provide consistent, organization-wide navigation across multiple sites
• Department and functional hubs: connect HR, IT, Finance, Operations, and other departmental sites under a single navigation structure
• Project and program portfolios: organize multiple project sites under a hub for easier access and discovery
• Regional or business unit portals – Standardize navigation across geographic or business-focused site collections

Benefits

• Consistent user experience: users see the same navigation structure across all hub-associated sites
• Centralized management: update navigation once at the hub level and have it reflected everywhere
• Improved findability: helps users understand where they are and easily discover related sites and resources
• Scalable design: new sites can be associated with a hub without reworking navigation

Key Considerations

• Hub association is required: only sites associated with a hub inherit hub navigation
• Manual navigation management: associating a site with a hub does not automatically add it to the hub navigation; links must be added manually
• Hub-specific navigation: each hub has its own unique navigation, which does not propagate or carry over to other hubs
• Navigation visibility: by default, users see all hub navigation links, but links can be hidden from specific audiences using audience targeting
• Menu styles: hub navigation supports both cascading menus and mega menu layouts
• Hub navigation vs. Site navigation: Sites can still maintain their own local navigation alongside hub navigation