The CorasWorks Workplace Suite offers several navigation web parts, each of which is described below.
• Special Site Navigation
• Up To Navigation
• Workplace View Advanced
The SPS Workplace View Advanced is discussed in a separate help topic.
NOTE 1: If you are interested in viewing the help for any of these components running on the Workplace Suite Winter 2007 for SharePoint 2007, click on one of the following links:
NOTE 2: The Winter 2006 release included a number of new navigation features that are discussed in detail in the Capabilities Guide and several papers on the CorasWorks Central site. To learn more about cascading menus, the Dynamic Page Title web part, and more, click here to access the Documentation tab in Central’s Support area and scroll down to the Winter 06 section. Central’s Knowledge Base also contains a great deal of helpful information for several releases of the Workplace Suite. You will need an ID and password to access any of this information. If you do not have one, please contact us at support@corasworks.net.
Special Site Navigation (SSN)
The CorasWorks Special Site Navigation™ web part allows you to create dynamic navigational menus for your SharePoint sites. You can use multiple instances of this web part on a page to manage multiple navigation areas. CorasWorks commonly uses it to manage the menu bar at the top of the page, the tabs, and either the views on each tab or cascading menus from each tab. Additional uses are of course possible.
You can create navigation menus for a specific site, or you can create a global menu that can be used across all of your SharePoint sites. The menu items for the Special Site Navigation web part are stored within one or more lists, rather than within a page, so you can point several iterations of the Special Site Navigation web part to the same list(s) to obtain their menu settings. (Multiple navigation lists are supported as of the Winter 2006 release.) With this structure, the menu systems you build are dynamic and can be updated from a single location, so you can make changes across several pages at once just by modifying a single navigation list.
In addition, as of the Winter 2006 release, this web part recognizes cross-site groups and Active Directory groups for each SSN list, so you can make tabs invisible to users that are not part of the identified cross-site groups.
TIP: One of the most powerful uses of this web part is to create a global menu for your workplace. You can use this web part at the top of each page of your site templates and point all of them to a single list in a single location. Change the list, and all menus will automatically and immediately update throughout the system.
Up To Navigation (UTN)
The CorasWorks Up To Navigation™ web part is a replacement for the SharePoint Up To Link, which is located in most SharePoint sites. When a user places their mouse over this web part, a drop-down navigation menu is displayed that shows links to all of the parent sites within the current site hierarchy. With this web part, users don’t have to move back up through a hierarchy of sites one site at a time.
Workplace View Advanced (WVA)
CorasWorks Workplace View Advanced™ is a tree view web part that shows the lists and sites available to the user in the current site. It also provides account administration options and site administration options, depending on user access and the web part’s property settings.
With this web part, users can do the following:
• Access menu options for the current site and navigate to sub-sites one or more levels below the current level.
• Access My Account Administration and set their alerts, password, and email/display name controls.
• See a complete list of lists, directly access each list, and create new lists.
• See a description and link to each sub-site, if any exist.
• Add this web part to a framed page, change the target location for any link in the web part, and change the homepage URL (i.e., default.aspx).
• Specify a URL to another site that resides on the server and retrieve a tree view display of that web site for remote administration and/or navigation.
In addition, administrators can perform the following tasks:
• Enable or disable Central Configuration
• Work with site/list/web part catalogs
• Manage users and permissions
• Maintain site titles and descriptions
• Create and delete sites
• Other administrative tasks
Last Modified: July 07