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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.
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.
Why are edit links missing in SharePoint 2013?
If you are migrating a site from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2013, then in some sites you might not see the link. Mostly because the site may be created by using one deprecated template like a blank site template. We can be able to hide Edit Links option by using simple CSS in the page (or master page) like below:
Scenario: There can be a requirement where we have to create multiple views of the same list and the names of the views are given on the left-hand side like the left navigation. And when clicked on the links on the left navigation we get directed to their respective pages on the site. Step-1: Creation of lists 1.
If you do not see Global navigation in the Settings pane on the home site, you may not have site owner permissions (or higher) to the home site. Switch the Enable global navigation toggle to On.
What happens when global navigation is disabled in SharePoint?
If you choose to keep global navigation disabled, the home icon will link to the SharePoint start page. When global navigation is disabled, the home icon will link to the SharePoint start page. Customizing global navigation requires a home site. Site owner permissions (or higher) to the home site are required to enable global navigation.