Hi Kenny,
It looks like to me that you want to display the parent page, the
current page and it's siblings, and the current page's children,
except that you don't want to show the current page's siblings that
come after the current page. If you would remove that exception, that
is allow all of the current page's siblings to be shown, then my
navigation template would work for you with very little if any
tweaking.
eg.
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
Quality and Safety // note that this page did not show in your post
Sales and Marketing // nor this one
If this is acceptable to you, let me know and I will send along my nav
template code.
Casey
On Jan 13, 6:18 pm, Jian Huang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kenny,
>
> Looks like Kim beat me to the reply, but since I already typed all of
> the following...
>
> Short answer: yes, I usually call it "Sliding Window Navigation", and
> a client is already using it herehttp://www.nalco.com/expertise.htm
>
> Long answer:
>
> Navigation Manager can be used in 2 ways:
>
> Level based and Search based.
>
> Level based navigation is quick to implement and render since it
> starts rendering from root, and each level just renders differently
> based on rules for each level.
>
> Search based navigation requires more programming attention and
> rendering power because it first traverses the project structure to
> the current page, look up and down (side ways) for siblings, and ONLY
> look down from current page for children page.
>
> Best practice so far?
>
> Use level based navigation to write out your entire site map, use
> Javascript/AJAX load the entire site map and render left navigation
> according to your current page location, which can be found via
> breadcrumb.
>
> -Jian
>
> On Jan 13, 6:03 pm, kimdezen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Kenny,
>
> > Short answer is yes - it can be as flexible.. however does require a
> > little bit of tweeking
>
> > Theres two ways to do this:
> > 1. Create individual navigational areas that will display links in the
> > appropriate manner for each section of your site. You can create any
> > nunber of navigational template (with appropriate logic) to build up
> > these areas. Each area is assigned a different name (or ID) which you
> > then plug into the areas of the site where you want it to be
> > displayed.
>
> > 2. To create different structures for each section of you site using a
> > single navigational area, i would suggest creating placeholder 'flags'
> > within your top sectional pages. The value of these flags can then be
> > acceessed by render tags within the navigational templates, and
> > depending on the value - you can render the links accordingly. More
> > messing around involved (and may incur a performance hit).. but if you
> > need to output a consistent primary navigational area across all site
> > pages or a sitemap - but the links are displayed different per each
> > section of the site - this would be the only way you can do it.
>
> > Hope that helps..
>
> > Cheers,
> > Kim
>
> > On Jan 14, 8:31 am, Kenny Dendow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > 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- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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