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To enable edit links SharePoint 2013 – Your site shouldn’t inherit navigation from the parent site. It’s available only for the “Structural Navigation” option under “Navigation Settings” on publishing sites. You may have custom CSS deployed which hides “Edit Links”!
Why are my edit links not showing up?
If it’s not a permission problem: Check if Link inheritance is activated. If so the “edit links” button won’t show up and you won’t be able to edit the links. You can do it on the parent site though. On the right window there’s a section that says “Share”, “Follow”, and a frame. Click on the frame and links should populate.
When to use edit links for structural navigation?
Here are a few points we need to see: Edit links will be available for a few site templates like Team Site, Publishing sites, Personal Site, Project site, My Site Host. The link will be available for users having Edit permission or more than Edit Permission. The link will be available for “Structural Navigation” for publishing sites.
The link will be available for “Structural Navigation” for publishing sites. The link will not appear in the subsite if your subsite is inheriting navigation from the parent site. If you are migrating a site from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2013, then in some sites you might not see the link.
The link will not appear in the subsite if your subsite is inheriting navigation from the parent site. If you are migrating a site from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2013, then in some sites you might not see the link.
Why is my edit column not showing in SharePoint?
Consider the following scenario: You’re using the new look and navigation experience for document libraries in SharePoint Online. You add the Edit (link to edit item) column to the view. However, when you view the library by using the new look and navigation experience, no link is present for items in the library.
To Edit Properties of the file/item you can click the ellipsis (…) for an item in the list, select more, and then click Properties to edit the item. or Select the item in the select and click on Information Panel (i)