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The Best OOTB Cross-Site Collection Navigation Solution for SharePoint Online

**UPDATE: This post is now outdated & I suggest using SharePoint Hub Sites to get Cross-Site Collection Navigation I will start by saying:   This solution sucks, but I've done my fair share of research/testing/swearing so you don't have to.  This is the best option you can currently achieve with OOTB (Out-of-the-box) functionality. Problem:  Many large companies moving to SharePoint Online have the same problem.  They have enough data that it needs to be spread out across multiple site collections.  How the data should be split up is a different story .  The fact is, they would like to have consistent Global Navigation across all site collections. Reasons why you would want the same global navigation across all site collections:  Visibility of everything that exists within the SharePoint Online Tenant Consistent navigation simplifies the User Experience, allowing them to be comfortable in any Site Collection without having to remember a ...

SharePoint 2010 - Access List / Library Data Across Web Applications

We can do this using jQuery.js and SPServices.js Only issue is that you will most likely be forced to receive a notification every time the page loads: "this page is accessing information that is not under its control" I found that although it's possible the solution was not ideal, but have not yet found an alternative.  However I thought I would provide it in case anyone else has a need for it. The code below will retrieve the list item information from the Page library at http://intranet.  CAML query retrieves the most recent 4 articles from the Page library and the last line appends the HTML statement to the page. The HTML statement that is created grabs the value of the FileRef Field and places it inside a div. ---------------------------------------------- $(document).ready(function() {   $().SPServices({     operation: "GetListItems",     async: false,     webURL: "http://intranet",     listName: "Pages", ...