How to Enable Tree View in SharePoint Online – Seamless Guide!

Sharepoint is a popular platform preferred by organizations to enhance collaboration and easy communication within organizations. Large organizations may have many subsites and folders in their SharePoint site. However, accessing all the sites and viewing all the sites at once is hectic when you don’t have a tree view enabled in it. A question may arise in the mind of the site Owner about how to enable tree view in SharePoint.

What is a Tree View in SharePoint Online?

The Tree View helps to provide a quick launch section in which there is a list of all sub-sites and current site collections. It provides ease of use while navigating to many subsites, lists, libraries, and folders at once.
By this definition, you can understand the need for a tree view in the SharePoint online site. Let’s see how to enable tree view in SharePoint Online and the steps associated with enabling it.

How to Enable Tree View in SharePoint – Different methods with steps.

The tree view method can only be implemented for SharePoint Classic sites. To enable it in the modern site you need to use some third-party software and integrate it with the SharePoint framework solution.

Steps to enable tree view in SharePoint Online site –

Step 1. Login to your SharePoint site.

Step 2. Click on settings and select site settings from the opened menu.

Step 3. Now on the site settings page under the “Look and Feel section” click on “Navigation elements”.

Step 4. You can able to see the tree view section and  Check on the “Tree view” option to enable tree view in SharePoint.

Step 5. Now click on Save Changes to update the changes in settings.

After following these steps you can able to see the changes in your SharePoint site.

Note: ensure that your SharePoint site library’s list experience is checked to “Classic” 

If not then you can follow these steps 

• Click on Library Settings  
• then click on Advanced Settings
• Click on List Experience.
• And set it to “Classic”.

How to Enable Tree View in SharePoint Online Using PowerShell?

You can automate the process of enabling tree view by using PnP PowerShell cmdlets. Make sure to install PnP PowerShell on your device. Copy the cmdlets given below and paste them into your Powershell.

#Initial parameters for PnP
$SiteURL = "Copy and Paste your site URL here!"
Try {
    #cmdlets to connect SharePoint site to PnP Online
    Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -Interactive
    #now try to get the web on PnP
    $Web = Get-PnPWeb -Includes TreeViewEnabled
    #cmdlest to enable tree view
    $Web.TreeViewEnabled = $True
    $Web.Update()
    Invoke-PnPQuery
    Write-Host "Woohoo! You have learned How to enable Tree View In Sharepoint" -f Green
}
Catch {
    Write-host "oops error"$_.Exception.Message
}

Note: only works for classic sites. See the alternate solution for Modern sites.
After following all these steps your query regarding how to enable tree view in SharePoint online is solved.

Alternate Solution for Modern Sharepoint Sites

For modern SharePoint sites managing a large list of subsites is complicated and may cause a situation of false deleting, irritating for content management, and may lead to a bad user experience. To avoid this situation we propose a solution where you can migrate your subsite to another site. This solution will help to divide the old site content which is not used currently but required for future use. Then you can delete the old subsites from the current site. However, If you do not know how to delete a SharePoint site and subsite you can read the given article by clicking on the link.

To perform SharePoint Online tenant-to-tenant migration you can follow the manual method but the manual method requires expertise and prerequisites. However, Microsoft doesn’t provide any direct solution you can use vendor software to automate the process of migration. Many professionals suggested using the SysTools SharePoint Online Migration Tool which can streamline the process of migration between sites.

Conclusion

In this write-up, we have mentioned all the steps that are required to solve your query regarding how to enable tree view in SharePoint Online. However, we have mentioned a method to automate the process using PowerShell. Additionally, we have mentioned an alternate way to enable tree view in modern SharePoint sites. Go through this blog if you have any problem regarding enabling tree view in SharePoint.