sharepoint 2013 top navigation menu with sitecollections

Question

I have a SharePoint Site called ProxymGroup which has multiple affiliates and departments. I created the webApplication and added 2 managed Paths of type WildCard called Affiliates and Departments.

Under affiliates i needed to create 3 site collections and under departments 2 other SiteCollections. So, here i have the links for the siteCollections:

http://MyHostName/affiliates/SiteCol1 ... and http://MyHostName/departments/SiteCol1 ... etc.

My goal is to display all that hierarchy in theTopNavigationBar menu of the siteCollection because when i activated SharePoint server publishing feature and checked Show SubSites in navigation tab under site sittings it only showed me the subsites, not the siteCollections created under this site.

How can i do please to get that hierachy shown in my TopNavigationBar menu???

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

as far as I know there is no ootb way to show information in the navigation shared among site collections. each site has its own master page and can only display subsites, not other site collections.

alternatively, you can create a powershell script that sets the same navigational items for all the existing site collections, adding links for all the existing sites in all menus of all sites

...or just create subsites

Answer 2

Go to Site settings -> Look and Feel -> Navigation and you can add links manually and change the hierarchy as you want , Please check below image for same.