SPO - Add Document Library to Quick Launch using Powershell

Question

As part of an SPO site creation script, I'm trying to get newly created document libraries automatically added to the Quick Launch navigation links.

I'm running this code:

$SPOCredentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($userName,$password)

$Ctx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($siteUrl)
$Ctx.Credentials = $SPOCredentials

$web = $Ctx.Web
    $navColl = $web.Navigation.QuickLaunch
    $newNavNode = New-Object 
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.NavigationNodeCreationInformation
    $newNavNode.Title = "External Documents"
    $newNavNode.Url = "External Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx"
    $newNavNode.AsLastNode = $false

$navColl.Add($newNavNode)

    $web.Update()
    $Ctx.Load($navColl)        
    $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()

But it's returning this:

format-default : The collection has not been initialized. It has not been requested or the request has not been executed. It may need to be explicitly requested.
+ CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [format-default], CollectionNotInitializedException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.CollectionNotInitializedException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.FormatDefaultCommand

Any ideas please?

Thanks

Answer 1

You also need to initialise the Navigation Node collection.

Just add $Ctx.Load($navColl.Add($newNavNode)) to the script

Modify your code as below so that it looks something like :

$web = $Ctx.Web
$navColl = $web.Navigation.QuickLaunch
$newNavNode = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.NavigationNodeCreationInformation
$newNavNode.Title = "External Documents"
$newNavNode.Url = $siteUrl + "External Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx"
$newNavNode.AsLastNode = $false

$Ctx.Load($navColl.Add($newNavNode))
$Ctx.ExecuteQuery()