Edit Navigation Options

Use this page to specify the default navigation style for this experience definition, and to select additional custom links users see as part of the portal’s navigation scheme.

Under Navigation Type, choose a navigation scheme:

• Horizontal Combo Box Drop-Down Navigation. Menus appear across the top of the page in Windows-style combo boxes.

• Tabbed Section Left Vertical Navigation. Menus appear as tabs across the top of the page. Click the tab to display the menu items on the left side of the page.

• Left Vertical Navigation. Menus appear on the left side of the page.

• Mandatory Links Only. Menu includes mandatory links if present and the Administration link (to administrators), but no communities, My Pages, or Directory navigation. Do not apply this setting to the Administrators' experience definition.

• No Navigation. No menu is displayed, but users can still log in and out and administrators can still access Administration. Do not apply this setting to the Administrators' experience definition.

• Horizontal Drop-Down Navigation. Menus appear as drop-down lists that extend vertically using JavaScript-driven dynamic menus.

• Low Bandwidth and Accessibility Navigation. Navigation used by the low-bandwidth and accessibility modes of the portal. This is used by those modes no matter what navigation is selected by the experience definition for standard mode.

• Portlet-Ready Navigation. This disables all navigation areas except the header and footer. Use this option only if you are using portlets (usually header or footer portlets) to provide custom navigation using navigation tags. For information on navigation tags, see the Customizing Experience Definitions topic in the Oracle WebCenter Interaction UI Customization Guide, which is located on the Oracle Technology Network at http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/bea.html.

Notes:

• If you have written your own navigation styles, they should also be available from this page.

• Vertical navigation styles lessen the page width available for portlets on My Pages and community pages.

• The experience definition you log into might have a different navigation style than the experience definition you are creating. To make sure that the experience definition you are creating has the appropriate appearance, log in as one of its members.

Under Edit Links, add and modify links to Web pages, experts, documents, and community pages. Links you add are displayed to users as part of their navigation options when they log in.

• Click Add Links to add links to Web pages. To learn more, see Web Links.

• Click Add Experts to add links to experts. To learn more, see Experts.

• Click Add Documents to add links to documents and document folders in the Directory. To learn more, see Documents.

• Click Add Pages to add links to community pages. To learn more, see Community Pages.

• To remove links, select the links you want to delete and click .

• If this is a copy of another experience definition or if this experience definition has been copied, you see a warning that the navigation links are shared between the experience definitions. Any changes you make to these links are reflected in the linked experience definitions. If you do not want to share these links, click Separate.

• To select or clear all link boxes, select or clear the box under Navigation Link Heading.

• When you add navigation links, they display in a new menu, similar to the My Pages menu. To change the menu heading, type the text in the Navigation Link Heading box.

Note: You might have access to resources to which members of your experience definition do not have access. If users do not have access to a resource listed as a navigation link, they will not see the link.

• To display the page associated with this help topic:

1. Click Administration, then navigate to an administrative folder.
2. Open the Experience Definition Editor:
• To create a new experience definition:
1. Open an administrative folder.
2. In the Create Object menu, click Experience Definition.
• To edit an existing experience definition:
1. Navigate to the experience definition you want to edit.
2. Click the experience definition name.
3. On the left, under Edit Object Settings, click Edit Navigation Options.