Object-Based Navigation 

Object-based navigation, which is built on top of the standard portal navigation mechanism, provides a more flexible way of creating portal navigation links and for performing navigation.

OBN enables you to specify a generic navigation link – such as specifying that you the link will display a customer details page – without having to know the exact location of the page in the portal. The page that the portal displays when a user clicks the link is determined at runtime, based on administration settings.

Backward Compatibility

OBN implemented in SAP NetWeaver 7.0 is supported in the current version. This includes the following:

●      Applications that use the OBN API from SAP NetWeaver 7.0 run in the current version.

●      Business objects that implemented a dummy alias in SAP NetWeaver 7.0, after being migrated, appear in the object-based navigation editor to enable administrators to assign to them operations and assign to the operations navigation targets.

Instead of systems with a dummy alias, the current version provides a context business object that is not tied to a system. For more information, see OBN Terminology.

Dependencies

In order to use the APIs in this section, you must create the following dependency reference in your project:

SC	DC
EP-PSERV	tc/ep/navigation/api