Trying to retrieve all existing language resources of a global navigation Title in SPO

[rolfm-siemens-com]

Hello Community,
We have set up global navigation in one our QA tenants and now want to transport the navigation structure to the Productive tenant. Copy process works fine but we saw, that some of the navigation topics have multi lingual titles and I need to transport them also.

Retrieving navigation node with
$item=Get-PnPNavigationNode -connection $sourceConnection -Id $navItem.Id
result is
AudienceIds :
Children :
CurrentLCID : 1031
Id : 2020
IsDocLib : True
IsExternal : True
IsVisible : True
ListTemplateType : NoListTemplate
Title : Länder
TitleResource : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserResource
Url : http://linkless.header/
Context : PnP.Framework.PnPClientContext
Tag :
Path : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ObjectPathIdentity
ObjectVersion :
ServerObjectIsNull : False
TypedObject : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.NavigationNode

This Navigation node has a title in

• german 'de-de' "Länder"
• english 'en-en' "Countries"

TitleResouce property shows
Context : PnP.Framework.PnPClientContext
Tag :
Path : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ObjectPathProperty
ObjectVersion :
ServerObjectIsNull :
TypedObject : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserResource

Now I need to retrieve all existing language instances of that title

tried with
$item.TitleResource.GetResourceEntries()
-no response
$item.TitleResource.GetValueForUICulture('de-de')
-no Response

I assume I need to load / retrieve the content somehow, but I do not have any idea here.
I assume that the process will be the same for all multilingual properties.

Every help is much appreciated.
Environment is pnp.powershell V1.8.0

Best Regards,
Rolf.

[agtenr]

I'm encountering the same issue.
@erwinvanhunen, Can you shed some light on how to work with multilingual navigation node?

Thanks in advance!

[LeonArmston]

Hi @rolfm-siemens-com & @agtenr

I think you are misingg that after the methods you call for GetResourceEntries and GetValueForUICulture you need to run Invoke-PnPQuery to execute the method.

$node = Get-PnPNavigationNode -Id <ID of navigation element>


$germanTitle = $node.TitleResource.GetValueForUICulture('de-de')
Invoke-PnPQuery
Write-Host "German Title Is: $($germanTitle.Value)"

$ResourceEntries = $node.TitleResource.GetResourceEntries()
Invoke-PnPQuery
$ResourceEntries #Resource Entries In This Variable

Which results in the output below showing the German translation using GetValueForUICulture and the all the title resource entries (showing English, German and Spanish translation).

Hope this helps

[agtenr]

@LeonArmston Thanks for the information. This makes it very clear.

Do you know if there is a way to create new navigation nodes with multiple languages?

[LeonArmston]

Create new Navigation node using Add-PnPNavigationNode then you can add translations by using the method SetValueForUICulture like below:

$node = Get-PnPNavigationNode -Id 2058

$node.TitleResource.SetValueForUICulture('de-DE','Meine Werkzeuge')
$node.Update()
Invoke-PnPQuery

[agtenr]

@LeonArmston, you are a lifesaver. Thanks for this information! Might be useful to add this to the documentation!