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The SharePoint app bar experience Enable global navigation to allow users to easily navigate to important intranet resources anywhere in SharePoint. When global navigation is disabled or not configured, the home icon links to the SharePoint start page. Specific SharePoint app bar tabs cannot be disabled.
Local navigation is the set of links on a web page that provide a mechanism for visitors to navigate a subset of a larger website. Local navigation is the counterpart to global navigation and can be especially useful for providing an easy and consistent way to access specific pages within a section of a website.
What is global navigation?
Global navigation is a region of the graphical user interface reserved for buttons, links, search bars, or any other design element affording movement from one set of content to another. This area may include titled sections, dropdown menus, buttons, module and/or navigation tabs, search bars, and homepage links.
The four global GNSS systems are – GPS (US), GLONASS (Russia), Galileo (EU), BeiDou (China). Additionally, there are two regional systems – QZSS (Japan) and IRNSS or NavIC (India).
That means that you would build navigation once at the root of your site collection (your top-level site) and it will propagate down to subsites below. The idea behind Top Link Bar (I also call it Global) Navigation is that users can access any site in the same site collection with just one click.
What’s the difference between global and local navigation?
Global navigation refers to the top navigation which is there at the top side on your page, and local navigation is on the left side of the page. Local navigation is as per the content of your local site.
If your site has been customized by the site owner, the left-hand menu or top menu may not be available for editing. In SharePoint, you can only customize the left-hand menu on a team site at this time unless you are in classic mode. Select your version of SharePoint below for the steps to customize the navigation on your SharePoint site.
Page navigation and site navigation display differently. The links that you see in site navigation are static on every page in the site. The navigation links on individual pages are accessed only when the viewer lands on the page.