Microsoft KB Archive/925974

= The tab on the top link bar is not selected when you connect to a subsite after you enable the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature in SharePoint Server 2007 =

Article ID: 925974

Article Last Modified on 7/25/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

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SYMPTOMS
Consider the following scenario. You use SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration to create a new site collection at the root of a Web application. Then, you create one or more Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 subsites in the site collection. Links to the top-level site and to the subsites are displayed as tabs on the top link bar of the top-level site. When you click a tab on the top link bar, the tab is selected, and you connect to either the top-level site or to a subsite as expected.

However, after you enable the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature on the top-level site, you experience the following symptoms:
 * The name of the tab that represents the top-level site changes. For example, the name of the tab changes from Home to the name that you specified as the title of the top-level site.
 * When you click the tab that represents a subsite on the top link bar, you connect to the subsite as expected. However, the tab for the subsite is not selected. Instead, the tab for the top-level site remains selected.



CAUSE
When you enable the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature, the name of the tab that represents the top-level site uses the title that you specified for the top-level site. This is expected behavior.

The tab selection issue occurs if the URL of the Welcome page of the top-level site is not set to /Default.aspx. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 assumes that the URL of the Welcome page of the top-level site is set to /Default.aspx.



WORKAROUND
To work around the tab selection issue, use one of the following methods, as appropriate for your situation.

Method 1
Configure the Welcome page of the top-level site to use the Default.aspx page. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Click Site Actions, point to Site Settings, and then click Modify All Site Settings.
 * 2) Under Look and Feel, click Welcome page.
 * 3) In the Welcome Page box, click Browse, click Default(default), and then click OK.

Method 2
Enable the Show subsites option on the top-level site. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Click Site Actions, point to Site Settings, and then click Modify All Site Settings.
 * 2) Under Look and Feel, click Navigation.
 * 3) In the Navigation Editing and Sorting area, click the link that represents the subsite, and then click Delete.
 * 4) In the Subsites and Pages area, click to select the Show subsites check box, and then click OK.

Method 3
Change the navigation URL for the subsite to point to the relative URL. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) On the top-level site of the site collection, click Site Actions, point to Site Settings, and then click Modify All Site Settings.
 * 2) Under Look and Feel, click Navigation.
 * 3) Under Global Navigation click the heading for the subsite whose tab is not being correctly highlighted, and then click Edit.
 * 4) Change the URL so that it points to the relative URL of the subsite without /default.aspx . For example, change http://server.fqdn/sites/it/PLC/default.aspx to /sites/it/PLC.
 * 5) Click OK.

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