Adding own search verticals is a common task in the Search Configuration in SharePoint. Here I want to share a code sample for achieving this programmatically. I hope, this model can be added to SPMeta2. First of all, Search Verticals are dedicated Search Results Pages and links to them. How to add them manually is described on technet: How to add a custom search vertical to your search results page in SharePoint 2013 There is no API in CSOM for that.

I think, powershell is the best way to do configurations you have to do once. Adding some links to global (top) navigation is one of them: asnp microsoft.sharepoint.powershell $w = get-spweb http://takana $l = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPNavigationNode("Smells like team spirit", "/pages/teamspirit.aspx") $w.Navigation.TopNavigationBar.AddAsLast($l) Feature receiver The alternative is to create a web scoped feature and provide properties: public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties) { var web = properties.Feature.Parent as SPWeb; var prop = properties.

If you encounter problems while customizing global site navigation in a custom site definition for SharePoint 2010, you probably can solve it by adding the necessary navbar element in navbars section of the onet.xml: <NavBar Name="$Resources:core,category\_Top;" Separator="&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;" Body="&lt;a ID='onettopnavbar#LABEL\_ID#' href='#URL#' accesskey='J'&gt;#LABEL#&lt;/a&gt;" ID="1002" /> It solved the problems for me :). Comments from Wordpress.com Chilly - Nov 3, 2012 How did you edit the Onet.XML file? What if this is only happening on one site in a whole site colleciton will this help this site as well.

If you have a custom site definition and want to have a link to RootWeb, just add NavBarPage to your module: <Module Name="OrklaRootBlank" Url="" Path=""> <File Url="default.aspx"> <NavBarPage Name="$Resources:core,nav\_Home;" Url="~site" ID="1002" Position="Start" /> </File> </Module>