Modify the Top or Left Navigation Bar in a Publishing Site
In
a publishing site, the navigation settings for both navigation bars are
in the same page. To get to the navigation management page, open the
Site Settings page and click the Navigation link in the Look and Feel
section of the page. The Site Navigation Settings page opens, as shown
in Figure 4.
On the Site Navigation
Settings page, you can define what links and headings each navigation
bar will have—and you can add, remove, or change the order of those
links. The top navigation bar is referenced on this page as Global
Navigation, and the left navigation bar is called Current Navigation.
In a subsite, this page has more options, as you can see in Figure 5.
Here, you can set whether the site should display the same top or left
navigation options as its parent site or whether it should have its own
set of navigation bar links.
The
first option on the page is whether the navigation bars should show
subsites under the current site and whether the navigation bars should
show pages.
Add a Link to the Top or Left Navigation Bar
To add a link to either
navigation bar, click the Global Navigation node (for the top navigation
bar) or Current Navigation node in the Navigation Editing and Sorting
box. Then click the Add Link option in the menu. This selection opens a
dialog where you can specify the link to be added (see Figure 6).
In
the Title box, you can specify what text the link displays to the user.
Also, you can either type in a link or browse to a page in the site by
using the Browse button. You can also specify whether the link is opened
in a new window when clicked.
Add a Heading to the Top or Left Navigation Bar
In a publishing site, you can
add headings to both the top and left navigation bars. A heading in a
publishing site can be a link or just text that can have other links
under it.
Note
Unlike a heading in the left
navigation bar in a non-publishing site that must be a link, in a
publishing site the heading doesn’t have to be a link. Instead, a
heading can just be a container for links, without allowing users to
click it in the navigation bar.
To add a heading, simply
click the Global Navigation node (for the top navigation bar) or Current
Navigation node in the Navigation Editing and Sorting box. Then click
the Add Heading button in the menu. The dialog that pops up is the same
as the one for adding a link (refer to Figure 13.13), but unlike with adding a link, in this case you can keep the URL setting empty if you don’t want the heading to be a link.
Edit a Link or a Heading in the Top or Left Navigation Bar
To edit a link or heading
from either navigation bar, click the link or heading in the Navigation
Editing and Sorting box, and then click the Edit button on the toolbar.
The dialog for the link’s setting opens, allowing you to specify how
this link should behave (refer to Figure 6).
Remove a Link from the Top or Left Navigation Bar
To remove a link from either
navigation bar, click the link in the Navigation Editing and Sorting
box, and then click the Delete button on the toolbar.
Change Which Heading a Link Is Under
To select the heading for a link
in a publishing site, move the link up or down in the Navigation Editing
and Sorting box until it is under the heading you want. Select the
link, and then use the Move Up and Move Down buttons (refer to Figure 4) to move the link in or out of headings.
Note
Unlike links in the left
navigation bar in a non-publishing site that must be under headings, in a
publishing site you can have a link exist in the root (not under a
heading). Simply move the link to be under either Current Navigation or
Global Navigation.
