Hi Kenny, First off, I'm curious about building the project in version 9.1 instead of the more recent 10.1 version.
The limitation of 8000 refers to the maximum recommended number of pages to be displayed in the navigation for a project. If more pages are added, nothing will blow up or break, but there is a chance of performance degradation. The navigation manager has a lot to offer. It provides a much cleaner project structure, eliminates the need for active template code, and improves performance across the board. However, a repeatable pattern for the navigation menus is almost a must. When I was a PM, I would tell my customers that if they were going to fight and fight when it came to planning the CMS implementation, it should be this one. As with all aspects of the product there are workarounds, but for 90% of the site it should be the same. For the 10% of the site, you can use option lists and standard fields to perform logic on how the navigation menus should be different. This should be a very clear option like "show siblings" or "show children" if you're nervous about the number of items displayed. -Emily Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Kenny Dendow <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:31:07 To: RedDot CMS Users<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Navigation Manager Flexibility 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en.
