Tip of The Week: Navigation Collections

Navigation Collections provide a flexible tool for building alternative taxonomies of the contents stored in your portal registry. These alternative taxonomies, or groupings of links to portal content, can then be deployed to different users or groups of users, creating navigation that specifically addresses users' business needs.

While using the system, users as required to access some set of pages depending on his/her role in the organization. These logically related pages can be clubbed and put together as a Navigation Collection. PeopleSoft has delivered many such collections and are readily available for use across functional modules.

The links in navigation collections provide an alternate method of accessing content in the portal registry. A navigation collection is a published compilation of these links. A link in a navigation collection is a pointer to a content reference or folder reference in the portal registry; however, it does not store the contents of the content reference or folder reference. Navigation collection links store only the references needed to construct a URL at runtime to redirect output to the original content reference or folder reference. These references include the portal link, folder reference link, or content reference link.