Web Content Navigator - VLab Showcase
Navigation: Web Content Navigator
Web Content Navigator: Accordion
- Communication
- Content
- Look n Feel
- Navigation
- Technical
Web Content Navigator: Tree
- Communication
- Announcements
- Blogs
- Feedback and Suggestions
- Forums and Email
- Wiki
- Content
- Asset Publisher
- Auto-Update Web Services
- Doc and Media
- Forms and Polls
- Google Content
- Media Gallery
- RSS Aggregator
- Timeline
- Video Content
- iFrames
- Look n Feel
- Banner
- CSS
- Examples of Scope
- How To
- CSS Definition
- CSS Guidance
- CSS Situation
- CSS Title Bar
- Examples of Scope
- Liferay Templates
- Portlet Borders
- Navigation
- Category Navigation
- Icon Grid
- Left-side Nav
- Page Hierarchy
- Tag Navigation
- Web Content Navigator
- Technical
This is the "front page" of the Web Content Navigator approach being showcased. This is just a Web Content article, which can be located anywhere in the Web Content organizational structure. The portlet that contains this content can be configured to display any web Content Article as its "front page".
This example of a Web Content Navigator page uses the web content article structure that is used by this Showcase Community to manage the common web content elements of each Showcase page:
- Title
- Definition
- Situation
- Guidance
The order of the entries in the outline is configurable as well, so it need not be alphabetical.
What is Web Content Navigation?
A Web Content Navigator is an outline-based presentation of a hierarchical data structure. The presentation style can be either a tree structure or an "accordion", where selections in the outline expand the selection's sub-categories and collapse any other previous selection(s). Selections of web content articles in the Web Content Navigator present the selected resource in another portlet. Whereas a basic Navigation Portlet will help the user navigate through pages, a Web Content Navigator applies to a structured Web Content presence.
What is it good for?
Web Content Navigators are good for when a community has 2 or more tiers to its Web Content data hierarchy. More specifically, a Web Content Navigator may be good for things like User Guides and other well organized documentation in html form.
How Do I Use It?
The VLab User's Guide has a great Web Content Navigation section that describes the steps needed in order to use a Web Content Navigator and its associated content.