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Configuring navigation text

Edit the Navigation Configuration Component to configure where navigation text is derived from.

About this task

Procedure

  1. Access the Content Manager Explorer Web site.
  2. Expand the 100 Master Publication and navigate to the Folder Building Blocks/Settings/Core/Site Manager/.
  3. Open the Navigation Configuration Component.
  4. In the Metadata tab, specify the following properties:.
    • Type of Navigation:
      • Localizable—based on Component content/metadata field values (navigation text is derived from the Components on the Page rather than the Page, so you can localize the navigation without localizing the Pages).
      • Simple—based on Page and Structure Group titles
    • Page Template—used for External Links. Configure the Page Template used to identify a dummy page used to create external links in the navigation
    • Navigation Text Field Paths— for Localizable navigation, you can configure the XML name of field(s) from where to read the navigation titles from Components on the Page. The field is a comma-separated list of paths to the (metadata) fields of the Components on the Page.
  5. Select Save and Close to commit your changes.
  6. Publish the changes:
    1. Expand the 400 Example site Publication.
    2. Navigate to the Home Structure Group.
    3. Republish the _Navigation Page.

Results

Navigation logic for Localizable

When Type of Navigation is set Localizable, the following logic is used to determine what text to show in a navigation element for a given page:

  1. Go through each Component on the Page.
  2. Look for content or metadata fields matching the XML field names configured in the Navigation Text Field Paths configuration setting (for embedded fields, use a forward slash, for example standardMeta/name).
  3. If there is no match, move to the next Component on the Page.
  4. If there no Components that match, use the Page Title (without numeric prefix)
Navigation logic for Simple
When Type of Navigation is set Simple, the navigation text comes from the Page title with any numeric prefix removed.
Navigation text for Web site sections
The navigation text used for Web site sections (Structure Groups) is always the title of the Structure Group with any numeric prefix removed