NOTE 1: This topic applies only to the Winter 2006 and later Special Site Navigation (SSN) web part. If you are working with a prior release, please see SSN Admin: Sites and Lists Tab (Summer 2005) or SSN: Web Part Properties instead.
NOTE 2: Winter 2006 features are available when the SSN web part is used without any custom displays. When custom displays are used, as is the case with “tubby tabs,” Winter 2006 features are not enabled and the web part reverts to Summer 05 functionality.
NOTE 3: Winter 2006 includes a number of new features that are discussed in detail in the What’s New document, 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 both Winter 2006 and earlier releases. 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.
The administration interface includes a Sites and Lists tab that is used to select the lists, top-level list view, and columns to utilize to manage navigation.
This field is used to define the URL for the site where the list(s) for the navigation structure is located. This can be any SharePoint site that resides on the same server as this web part. If this field is left blank, it will default to the URL where the web part is placed.
The format for the URL is http://Site-URL/SiteName.
Examples:
• http://www.sitename.com/
• http://www.sitename.com/site1
• http://www.sitename.com/site1/site1a
To remove selected URL from this area, highlight the URL you want to remove from the box below this field and click Remove.
This property works in the same manner as the Use Relative URL property on the Workplace View Advanced web part. When it is selected, the Site URL is parsed and reassembled based on the current server, ignoring the domain name. This allows you to export navigation menus for use on a different server.
For example, say an SSN on the portal.corasworks.net server has a Site URL of http://solutions.corasworks.net/ssn/. When the Use Relative URL option is enabled, the “http://solutions.corasworks.net” portion is replaced with the current domain name. For example, lists from http://portal.corasworks.net/ssn/ can be used.
This drop-down is used to identify the name of each list you want to use to manage the navigation structure. This includes any lists you have created and marked as “hidden.”
You can reference multiple lists, and set up the appropriate security for each navigation list, restricting visibility and access with security controls. In this way, users will only see the navigation options to the areas you want them to be able to access. Both cross-site groups and Active Directory groups are supported.
All of the navigation lists you want to reference in a single instance of the SSN web part must exist on the same site; you cannot identify multiple URLs.
When you utilize multiple navigation lists, the SSN web part looks at the contents of all of the lists you select on this tab and meshes them together to determine what should be displayed, ignoring any duplicate list items that have the same page title and page link.
This drop-down shows all of the navigation lists selected for use with this instance of the web part. To remove a list, just click on it to highlight it. The page is refreshed and the selected list is removed from the drop-down. An option to Remove All Lists is also available.
This field is used to identify the name of the list view that manages the top level (starting point) of the navigation structure.
This property cannot be set to “All Items” if you plan to use cascading menus. The navigation list can have an All Items view, but the List View property must be set to the name of a specific view that represents the top level of your cascading menu.
This field is used to identify the names of the columns that correspond to each required display element of the navigation structure; each field name should be separated by a pipe (|). These columns come directly from the named list and are used to display the link title and a link to where the link should go. These columns must be part of the List View identified above.
If using cascading menus, this property must include the name of the child view column. For example:
Display|Page Title|Page Link||Child View
The Group field is no longer needed here; it is simply kept in the SSN list template for backward-compatibility. The place where the Group field used to be named in the List Fields property can be left blank by using another pipe (|) character, as in the example above.
For more information on cascading menus and how to set up your navigation list(s), please see the CorasWorks Workplace Suite Capabilities Guide. A paper on cascading menus is also available in the Support section of CorasWorks Central.