Setting Multi-Navigation Paths

Appendix: Setting Multi-Navigation Paths

This appendix provides an overview of multi-navigation paths and discusses how to:

Use multi-navigation paths.
Enable multi-navigation.
Create multi-navigation menus.

Using Multi-Navigation Paths

When you define tree structure, you also define the menu, menu bar, and default navigation pages for nodes and details. With multi-navigation, you can navigate to any of the components and pages that belong to the menu bar specified on the tree structure. For example, using the Personal Data tree, you could navigate to pages such as Personal Data, Benefits, or Salary Information.

When multi-navigation is enabled on the tree’s structure, you can click the Navigation Options link in PeopleSoft Tree Manager and select the component to be invoked when editing data on a node or detail value.

This is an example of the Node Navigation page:

Note. User navigation selections are valid only while the current tree is open. After the tree has been closed and reopened again, the default navigation is restored.

Enabling Multi-Navigation

Two tree structure fields determine if multi-navigation is available for nodes and details. These fields let the tree developer choose whether multiple navigation targets should be supported when accessing node or detail data. By default, multi-navigation is not enabled.

This is an example of the Tree Structure Properties page:

Navigation Options are hidden when the structure type is Summary.

Creating Multi-Navigation Menus

We recommend that you create special menus to be used for multi-navigation. These menus should be specific to the nodes or details and should not contain any extra visible components.

Pages that you want to display in the Navigation page should use the Menu and Bar items defined in the tree structure.

To prevent these special menus from being used for something other then tree navigation purposes, clear the Menu Installed check box on the Menu Properties dialog box in PeopleSoft Application Designer.

If the tree structure has been defined with multi-navigation flags enabled, you can select the component and page to open when editing the node or leaf data.

Note. The only components that appear in the Navigation page have the same key fields (ignoring the effective date) as the search record used for the node or detail value. Also, the override search record on the menu, if provided, takes precedence over the search record specified for the component.