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  1. Global Settings

Enabling and Disabling the Portal Navigation and Breadcrumbs

Overview

Portal Navigation is the top bar of options. It displays modules that have been enabled for the portal.

Breadcrumbs is the display of the path or trail separated by the > at the top of the Articles, Browse, and Solution Finder pages.

Both are meant to be of help to users during portal browsing sessions.

Their content changes depending upon the context of the user. For example, if the user is viewing an article after performing a search, the breadcrumbs display includes the user's search term. Clicking on the search term will return the user to the search results page for that term.

Enabling or Disabling Navigation and Breadcrumbs

  1. Login to Portal Administration.
  2. Click Edit in the selected portal's row in the Available Portals table.
  3. Click Configuration.       
  4. Scroll to the lines:
    <portalNavigation/>
    .
    .
    <breadcrumbs/>
  5. Enable or Disable these options as described in the table.
     

XML Section

Description

Example

<portalNavigation/>

 

Specify the portal's global navigation by setting enabled = "true."
To hide the navigation set enabled = "false".

<portalNavigation enabled="true" />

 

<breadcrumbs />

To display breadcrumbs set enabled = "true".
To hide the breadcrumbs set enabled = "false".

<breadcrumbs enabled="true"/>

Table : Portal Navigation

Users may want to disable Portal navigation if the portal is implemented within an iframe, or if a custom navigation scheme has been created in the header configuration. 

Note: The names of the modules for both the global navigation and breadcrumbs are controlled in the modules section of the configuration file.