Problem with Detailed navigation panel - Default folder entry

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are using EP 7.01.

Problem : we have 'role' called 'equity' which has got 'folder1' in it. This 'folder1' has got 'folder2' in it and 'folder2' has got 'folder3' in it and 'folder3' has got 'folder4' in it.

folder 4 has got iView  named as 'home'.

It is like this.

role-->folder1-->folder2-->folder3-->folder4.

Now we are making the 'folder1' property 'entry point' as 'Yes' and we are making the 'iView' (which is inside folder4) property 'Default entry to folder' as 'Yes'.

So now we are seeing 'folder1' in the top level navigation and 'folder2' in next level navigation. 'folder3' is coming as the first item in Detailed Navigation. Till here it is OK. But we are getting "no content available" message in the Content area. We are actually expecting the iView to get displayed as we have set the iView property 'Default folder entry' to Yes.

If we have single folder in Detailed navaigation the it is working as expected...but if we have folder with in folder in detailed navigation then it is not picking up the iView...

Hope my question is understandable.

This is very urgent for us so please let me know the solution if anyone has got one.

[detlev_beutner · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The property "Default Entry for Folder" does not work over a hierarchy (it's a pity, I know your requirement very well). The problem is that folders should have this property too (or something similar), but they don't. I think I requested such an implementation around seven years ago, but all these enhancements for the detailed navigation have been tricky, so that it seems this one got too complicated.

Hope it helps nevertheless
Detlev

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Then what will be the alternative approach??

Regards,
Atul

[dao_ha]

Hi Venkata,

Just for curiosity, why do you need to go through 4 levels of folder before finding the 'Home' iView? Do you have any other objects in each of those folders 1-2-3? I believe the folders (in the role) are not considered 'content' but rather navigation nodes; hence, they won't show up in the 'Content Area'. That's why it'd work when you have only a single folder (with the 'Home' iView as the default entry). You'd need to have some 'content' in each of those parent folders (folders 1, 2 & 3). If you don't want to see the message 'No content available ...', for cosmetic purpose, you can throw into each of these folders a dummy iView (e.g. a company logo in a KM iView) and make it the default entry for each of these folders.

Hope it helps.

Dao