Hi,
I'm about to create a new project using 9 SP1. Previously, I have been
using the old method of using a list and container for left navigation
and subnavigation. While it works well, it clutters the structure in
SmartTree with containers, lists and anchors, and is a bit of a time
consuming process to build the subnavigation pieces and reference the
lists. Navigation Manager appears to be the most common and officially-
supported way of rendering navigation. With more recent versions of
Management Server, Navigation Manager has a more important role in
SmartEdit. With that, I wanted to reevaluate my game plan before
starting the project.
Question: There was a post by Henry (Javahand) regarding an 8000 page
limit in Navigation Manager on 7.5. Is this still the case in 9 and
10?
OpenText's documentation and (excellent) articles by Kim, Markus and
Paul imply that navigation templates are only usable by level-based
navigation. The navigation for the site I am working on will not have
consistent levels for displaying the navigation.
For example:
Homepage (Level 0)
---------
About Us
Responsibility
Research
Products
Homepage > About Us (Level 1)
_________
About Us
Our Values
Leadership
How We Operate
Views and Positions
Responsibility
Research
Products
Homepage > About Us > Views and Positions (Level 2)
----------
Views and Positions
Access and Affordability
Innovation
Quality and Safety
Sales and Marketing
Homepage > About Us > Views and Positions > Innovation (Level 3)
----------
Views and Positions
Access and Affordability
Innovation
Intellectual Property Protection
Evidence-based Regulatory Environment
Global Business Environment
Homepage > About Us > Leadership > North America (Level 3)
_________
About Us
Our Values
Leadership
Europe
North America
Canada
United States
How We Operate
Views and Positions
Responsibility
Research
Products
There is no steadfast rule that every second or third level will have
the navigation segmented and only the sibling and child pages
displayed. It depends on how many children that page has, and whether
the navigation should be segmented like a microsite. In the old
navigation method, you would simply not reference the segmented page's
navigation list to a parent list.
Question: Can Navigation Manager-driven site structures be displayed
as flexibly as those using the old list/container method? If not using
navigation templates, could you do this using render tags on the
master page?
Sorry for the long post, but it's probably better to know in advance
before investing too much time headed down the wrong direction.
- Kenny
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