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One of the portal object editors accessed from the context menu of an iView or Page, or from the Edit drop-down list of any iView or Page editor. The purpose of the Object-Based Navigation Editor is to attach to, remove from, or edit the business object operations associated with the current iView or Page (from which this editor is opened).

 

Access to portal content is role-based, and a user may have more than one role. Additionally, an iView may be associated with multiple business object operations, and an operation may be implemented by multiple iViews. Given this a situation, a user, launching an iView based on a business object, may have quite a large operation pool, presenting the portal runtime with conflicts as to which iView to launch. The Object-Based Navigation Editor offers an additional interface for prioritizing operations during runtime.

Attaching Operations and Editing Priorities

The main purpose of the Object-Based Navigation Editor provides the ability to associate operations with iViews from the iView side, and to edit the priority of these operations within the context of the iView. The operation priority defined within the iView context takes precedence, only for this iView, over the priority assigned to it from the Business Object Editor.

For more details, see the OBN introduction, Object-Based Navigation and Business Object Editor.

Structure

The OBN Editor displays in tabular form the operations implemented by the current iView. The columns of the table are as follows:

  • a radio button for selecting specific operations

  • Operation Name

  • Display Name - as the operation appears in runtime

  • Business Object - the name of the business object to which the operation belongs

  • Priority

Below the table are the following buttons:

  • Remove - Detaches the selected operation from the current iView. (It does not delete the operation, which remains attached to its business object.)

Adding Operations

Operations are added by right-clicking an operation in the Business Objects folder, and choosing Add Operation to iView from the operation context menu.

All changes are preserved by choosing the Save button at the top of the editor.