Integrating Web Sites in the Portal Navigation of User Roles 

Use

To enable users in the portal to access a Web site, you have to integrate the Web site in question into the navigation structure of a portal role.

The administrator only has to do this once. If you later change the navigation and publish it again, the changes are visible in the portal immediately.

Prerequisites

You are assigned to the content administrator role.

You have already published the Web site navigation. When you publish the navigation, the system generates the navigation.wpc file.

The Web Page Composer uses the URL generator service. If you want to make Web sites available externally, you have to specify a host that external users can reach in the URL generator service.

More information: URL Generator Service  

Procedure

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       1.      In the Web Page Composer, navigate to the Web site that you want to integrate into the portal navigation, and open the Site Navigation folder there.

       2.      To copy the path of the navigation.wpc file to the clipboard, choose Copy Path from the context menu for the file.  

Copying the Path

       3.      Choose Content Administration ® Portal Content.

       4.      Open a role for editing and create a folder in that role, beneath which you want to display the navigation structure of the Web site.

More information: Example: Integrating Web Sites into the Portal Navigation  

       5.      Select the folder beneath which you want to display the navigation structure of the Web site, and choose the Navigation property category.

       6.      For the property External Connector, enter the prefix wpcnavigation:// and insert the path from the clipboard.

Configuring the External Connector

This value has the following syntax:

Folder Properties

Property	Value
External Connector	wpcnavigation:///wpccontent/Sites/<MyWebSite>/Site Navigation/navigation.wpc

Make sure that the role into which you integrated the Web site has read permissions for the Web site in question.

More information: Defining Permissions for Web Sites  

Result

The Web site is contained in the role immediately once you have saved it.

The portal top-level navigation is retained in the browser cache. To view changes, choose Refresh in your browser or log off from the portal and then log back on.