Add Sharepoint Navigation links with audience targeting through powershell

Below is the powershell command to add Navigation links in SharePoint.This was tested in SharePoint 2013 environment.This script will check if the link is present in the site if not it will add the links along with audience targeting



$snapin = Get-PSSnapin | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq "Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell" }

if ($snapin -eq $null) {

Write-Host "[INIT] Loading SharePoint Powershell Snapin"

Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell"


}

　
 $Web = Get-SPWeb http://testWebapplication:7777

$TopNav = $Web.Navigation.TopNavigationBar

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "Creating Navigation links ......................."



$Heading = $TopNav | where { $_.Title -eq "Link1" }

if($Heading -eq $null)



{
  $newLink = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPNavigationNode -ArgumentList @("Link1", "/Lists/CreateNewPublication/DocProjects.aspx");

$Heading = $Web.Navigation.TopNavigationBar.AddAsLast($newLink)

$Web.Update()





}

　
 $Heading = $TopNav | where { $_.Title -eq "Search" }

if($Heading -eq $null)


{
 $newLink = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPNavigationNode -ArgumentList @("Search", "/SitePages/Search.aspx");

$Heading = $Web.Navigation.TopNavigationBar.AddAsLast($newLink)

$Web.Update()


}
 $Heading = $TopNav | where { $_.Title -eq "Google" }

if($Heading -eq $null)


{
  $newLink = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPNavigationNode -ArgumentList @("Google", http://www.google.com);

$Heading = $Web.Navigation.TopNavigationBar.AddAsLast($newLink)

$Web.Update()


}
 $Heading = $TopNav | where { $_.Title -eq "Yahoo" }

if($Heading -eq $null)



{
  $newLink = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPNavigationNode -ArgumentList @("Yahoo", http://yahoo.co.in);

$Heading = $Web.Navigation.TopNavigationBar.AddAsLast($newLink)

$Heading.Properties["Audience"] = ";;;;" + "IK,IL,R,C"

$Heading.update()

$Web.Update()





}
 $Heading = $TopNav | where { $_.Title -eq "Reports" }

if($Heading -eq $null)



{
  $newLink = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPNavigationNode -ArgumentList @("Reports", "/SitePages/Reports.aspx");

$Heading = $Web.Navigation.TopNavigationBar.AddAsLast($newLink)

$Heading.Properties["Audience"] = ";;;;" + "PM,TL,IL,C"

$Heading.update()

$Web.Update() 



}   $Heading = $TopNav | where { $_.Title -eq " Help" }

if($Heading -eq $null)

{
  $newLink = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPNavigationNode -ArgumentList @(" Help", "/Lists/HelpLibrary ");

$Heading = $Web.Navigation.TopNavigationBar.AddAsLast($newLink)

$Web.Update()


}
 Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "Navigation link creation completed"

Pause