Problem with Top Level and Detailed Navigation ...

[Former Member]

I'm having a really strange problem relating to top-level navigation and detailed navigation. I started working with the portal a couple of months ago, and managed to change the number of levels in the TLN bar from two to one and the detailed navigation panel from three to two. I was successfull in getting this to work.

Now, I want to change these values back to there initial value, and for some reason, I am unable to get the changes to work. I have followed the three steps as indicated in the administrators guide on the SAP help portal (1. Change the properties for the top-level navigation; 2. Open "desktop innerpage" and change the properties for the detailed navigation; 3. Change the properties for the content area).

Furthermore, I have noticed some interesting things happening. When I open the default framework page, and go to edit the Top-Level Navigation properties, I now see the "number of display levels" attribute twice, with two seperate values, the old one and the new one. When I refresh the property panel a second time, I now only see the attribute once, but I see only the old value. The same thing seems to be happening for all of the other properties that I have recently changed related to this.

Even stranger is that when I select the preview button, the portal looks like I would expect it to look. However, when I log out and log back in, the portal is not changed. I have cleared my history and temporary internet files in IE.

Any suggestions are welcome!

Regards,

Rick

[Former Member]

Problem Solved ... I was changing the incorrect "default framework page". For some reason, our portal installation contains two. The correct page was not located where the administrators guide suggested it would be, rather it was under the "Content Provided by SAP" folder.

[Former Member]

Hi Richard

Would it be fare to say, you are the "Detailed Navigation expert"?

Anyway, heres a question; I cannot find the place where you set the default width of the detailed navigation.

So if you have enetries in the detailed nav. it just hide the text, and does not come up with horisontal scroll bars. The best would be if there was a place, where it is possible to set the default with of the Detailed Nav...?

(I am aware of the option "wrap text", but that looks stupid..)

Thank you very much

Steen C.C. Hammer

[Former Member]

I would recommend having a look at the System Administration/Portal Display tab and then select your default theme for editting. Select the Navigation Panel Element. Here you will have many options for customization, but alas you will not have a default witdth option, at least not in my version of the portal. You will have the option to change font sizes, image widths, etc. which I believe make it possible to indirectly change the default width. For example, I reduced the size of the icons in the detailed navigation list from 12px to 2px and that bought some real estate. As another idea, you may be able to add a "spacer" image (just create a plain white image in paint of the appropriate width) in the tray footer. There are plenty of other options that may work for you. Also, in my version of the portal (EP6 SP2) the user is able to expand and retract the size of the navigation bar in the navigation bar header, although this may be a little annoying. Hope these ideas help.

[Former Member]

Hi Richard

Your problem seems to be very interesting.

I tried this and in my portal no error is coming. Try to change the values back from the content area to the toplevel navigation.Let me know if it works

Regards

Geogi

[Former Member]

Hi George,

Thanks for the response. If I understand correctly, you are suggesting that I change the "TLNNumOfDisplayLevels" attribute for the "Content Area" Iview in the "Desktop Innerpage" Page, which is step three in the enterprise portal's administrators guide as to how to do this. I've actually tried this a number of times, varying the order that I change the values, etc. Unfortunately still no luck. I'm wondering if this is a problem with the portal that perhaps a later SP would have possibly resolved.

Any additial ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Rick