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, 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.
Last Modified: October 07