Tutorial: Creating Custom Navigations and Page Templates in Webcenter R11 (PS3/PS4/PS5) (Doc ID 1352800.1)

Last updated on JULY 25, 2023

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Purpose

In this document we show an example of how to build a basic portal structure using WebCenter Spaces by building a navigation model and adding it to a page template.

A navigation consists of links pointing to the content of the portal, or to external resources.
Some examples of navigation include:

• Tabs or menus along the top of each page.
• Tree structures or links on the side of each page.
• Breadcrumbs showing the path a user has taken to reach the current location in the portal.

Navigation can be broken down into two main concepts:

• The navigation model.
  This defines the content, structure, and metadata of the navigation.
  This can be seen as: "What is displayed in your navigation".
• The navigation visualization.
  This determines how the navigation appears on the pages of the portal, say as a menu, a tree, or breadcrumbs.
  This can be seen as: "How is displayed".

More information on how to create custom navigations and page templates is here:

• Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Spaces
  11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0)
  11 Working with Navigation
• Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Spaces
  11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0)
  12 Working with Page Templates

This exercise will create a navigation that will fetch all pages in the user's home space and display it as tabs along the top.

This document has been tested with WebCener PS3 (11.1.1.4.0) and PS4 (11.1.1.5.0) releases.

Scope

This document is intended for Portal designers who need to build navigation models and page templates for WebCenter Spaces.

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