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Use

The portal offers a comprehensive navigation environment for retrieving the information that you need to perform your business functions. The navigation experience is determined by factors such as the navigation type that has been defined and which navigation iViews are available to a specific role.

Integration

Navigation is implemented with standard portal components, iViews, and pages, shipped within the initial portal content.

Top-level navigation and detailed navigation run in iViews that are shipped as part of the Ajax Framework Page ( com.sap.portal.AFPpage ). For more information, see Ajax Framework Page .

Features

  • The portal supports an ActiveX control-free environment, which may affect navigation performance. For more information, see Enabling an ActiveX-Free Portal .

  • The navigation structure of your portal reflects your role structure.

    • The entries in the top-level navigation and detailed navigation iViews are compatible with the content that has been assigned to your roles.

    • Since roles have built-in permissions, the only constraints on your navigation operations are those imposed by the permissions inherent to your role. For more information, see Portal Permissions .

  • Opening a page or iView displays both its content and any navigation iViews associated with the content. These are displayed in the navigation panel and contain assorted links to relevant information. For more information, see Navigation iViews .

  • You can configure various levels of top-level navigation. For more information, see Top-Level Navigation .

  • The Navigation Zoom feature enables you to display a subset of the navigation hierarchy. Clicking a navigation zoom point replaces the main portal screen with the defined subset of the navigation hierarchy where the navigation nodes above the navigation zoom point are hidden, and the nodes below the navigation zoom point are displayed in top-level and detailed navigation. For more information, see Configuring Navigation Zoom .

  • It is possible to launch the portal with a specific page. When that is the case, all the associated navigation iViews align themselves accordingly and display the information relevant to the launched page. For more information, see URL Navigation .

  • The portal offers a navigation mode based on business objects from back-end systems. Navigation is achieved by means of attached operations that implement associated iViews. For more information, see Object-Based Navigation .

  • The portal supports various types of caching for enhanced navigation performance. For more information, see Navigation Caching .

    Note

    We recommend that you familiarize yourself with some of the other factors and issues affecting navigation performance. For more information, see Portal Page at Runtime .