Comments on: Save time with a Custom Navigation Collection and Pagelet

By: vgopidi

vgopidi — Thu, 12 May 2011 23:30:47 +0000

Thanks Dan & Tipster.. awesome post.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:54:57 +0000

how do you add a hyperlink to a pagelet. I want to link to how-to documents

By: JustMe

JustMe — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:00:01 +0000

That was it! I guess I’ve worked with S&C differently in the past and had a mindset…

Thanks!

By: Tipster

Tipster — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:51:24 +0000

Maybe I’m not following. Are you trying to create a new folder to hold some custom nav collections (so when you select Personalize Content from the Homepage your new Collections appear under a new folder – once you’ve granted security, obviously)?

If so, I thought you look under Structure and Content, Portal Objects, Pagelets. It’ll list the existing folders, you just add a new one.

By: JustMe

JustMe — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:41:37 +0000

I did, but that is how you set up new menu items – what I am looking to do is to create a couple standard collections for a client that is easily distinguished from vanilla collections – I would call the category folder something like “Co XYZ navigation collections”… For now, I put my collections in the “PeopleSoft Applications” folder…

By: Tipster

Tipster — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:31:18 +0000

@JustMe … have you tried adding a folder under Portal > Structure and Content? Look under Portal Objects.

By: JustMe

JustMe — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:19:33 +0000

Hi – great tip and confirmed to work in tools 8.5!

Question I can’t seem to figure out is – I would like to create a custom “pagelet category folder” and place the navigation collection in there in order to keep all custom collections together. Where is the folder definition found??? This is step 8 of publishing…

By: SKG

SKG — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:05:00 +0000

I have created a custom Navigation Collection with custom components, but when i click on the custom component the left side menu navigation changes and takes me to the original navigation for the component. Can anyone let me know what needs to be fixed on the custom components.

TIA

By: Tipster

Tipster — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:38:56 +0000

Nice find Dan. Thanks for coming back and posting it here.

By: Dan Koepf

Dan Koepf — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:57:55 +0000

Thanks for that answer. However in the mean time I’ve found another way to do this without resorting to SQL. (I didn’t try your technique) Peoplesoft delivers the ability to require the pagelet. If you navigate to PeopleTools, Structure and Content and then get to the point where you see this on the top line:

Root >Portal Objects >Homepage >Tabs >

And then select the “Tab Content” tab. You can then choose the pagelet behavior “Req-Fix” on the pagelet that you want to force on everyone’s homepage. It worked well.