HTTP Request to update SharePoint navigation node

[Max_Power]

 Dear experts 😊

Inspired by this post I started thinking about creating the complete navigation menu with Power Automate.

But while thinking about a concept I came across a peace which I can't solve by my own.

I want to update the title of an existing navigation node.

To achieve this I tried the follwing: 

When I run the flow, no error occurred, but the outputs "Update" part is "null" as you can see below:

I also tried the "PATCH" method as an alternative to the "POST" method, but the outputs were the same 🥴 

Maybe you, @Expiscornovus, may also know the answer like you did in the post that I mentioned above?

Thank you all for your suggestions ❤

[Expiscornovus · Accepted solution]

Hi @Max_Power,

This should be possible with a POST request and an X-HTTP-Method MERGE in the headers. 

Try something like below.

URI

_api/Web/Navigation/GetNodeById(<NodeId>)

Headers

{
  "Accept": "application/json; odata=verbose",
  "Content-Type": "application/json; odata=verbose",
  "If-Match": "*",
  "X-HTTP-Method": "MERGE"
}

Body

{ 
 "__metadata": { type: "SP.NavigationNode" }, 
 "IsExternal": true, 
 "Title": "Power Automate", 
 "Url": "https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Power-Automate/ct-p/MPACommunity" 
 }

[Max_Power]

Thank you so much @Expiscornovus 😎👌👌

It worked perfect!

[Anonymous]

Are you able to share the part of your power automate task where you dynamically retried the node ID for the Top Navigation Bar link you are updating? I am working on a similar automation for a SharePoint online site and would like to use this method, but I am not sure how to go about retrieving NodeID's for the navigation bar links in order to do this.

[nebumathew]

Hi, 

I have been trying from my end, however, the URL and isExternal is not getting updated. The title is getting updated successfully. 

Can you help on this ?

Regards,

Nebu Thomas Mathew