The portal maintains a navigation hierarchy for each user, based on the roles to which the user is assigned. The hierarchy indicates the pages to which the user can navigate.

Web Dynpro provides a variable, WDPortalNavigation, which you can use to navigate from the current page in which the Web Dynpro application is running to any other page in the portal. There are methods for performing the following:

The methods are similar to the navigation methods supplied by the client-side navigation API, such as doNavigate(). For more information about navigating using client-side eventing, see Navigation API.