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The Navigation widget is a flexible and powerful tool that builds menus on Page Builder pages and in the navigation header. You can add links to content homepages, specific content, personal tools, and more. With our built-in templates, you don't need any programming or design skills to start creating beautiful menus in your intranet.

  • Title: The widget title appears at the top of the widget.
  • Alphabetical sorting: Check to automatically alphabetize the navigation items.

Navigation Item

Property Description
Icon An icon for the navigation item.
Title The title of the navigation item.
Item type The navigation item type. See the table below for more details.
Item Type Description
URL The page the navigation item links to.
Paste a link to content to automatically populate a content item.
Group A group of navigation items. Drag other navigation items into the group. Set the following options:
  • Alphabetical sorting: Check to automatically alphabetize the items in the group.
  • Use logged in user's first name as widget title: Check to use the user's first name as the group header.

Note: The Group item type is only available when the template has a group template defined.
Sub menu An expandable menu of navigation items. Drag other navigation items into the sub menu. Set the following options:
  • Alphabetical sorting: Check to automatically alphabetize the items in the sub menu.
  • Use logged in user's first name as widget title: Check to use the user's first name as the sub menu header.

Note: The Sub menu item type is only available when the template has a sub menu template defined.
Content List A link to the content type page of a space. Set the following options:
  • Space - The space to link to
  • Content type - The content in the space to link to
Content Search for content.
Create A link to create a specific content type. Set the following options:
  • Space - The space to create content in. Select Not Specified to open the select space modal.
  • Content type - The content type to create
Personal A personal page. Select the type. (e.g. my Activity Stream, Bookmarks, Calendar, etc.)
Javascript Code to run.

Navigation Item — Advanced

Field Description
Custom CSS class A CSS class to append to the navigation item.
Open in new tab Check to open the link in a new tab.
Show button text Check to display the navigation item title as the text
Use logged in user's avatar as foreground image Check to use the user's avatar as the foreground image. (Requires a template that uses {{Contents.ForegroundImageURL}})
Use logged in user's first name as widget title Check to display the user's first name as the navigation item text.
Show pending count Check to show the number of pending items.
Note: Only available for the Personal type - Connections, Required Reading, and Workflow.
Foreground image Upload an image to use as the foreground image. (Requires a template that uses {{Contents.ForegroundImageURL}})
Background image Upload an image to use as the background image. (Requires a template that uses {{Contents.BackgroundImageURL}})

Add Navigation Item

Save Navigation Item

Edit Navigation Item

Delete Navigation Item

While editing the navigation item:

After saving the navigation item:

Templates

Block Navigation List Template 

The Block Navigation List template displays link in a vertical block design.

Default Unordered List Group Template 

The Default Unordered List Group template displays groups in a Navigation widget using the Default Unordered List Template.

Default Unordered List Template 

The Default Unordered List template displays links in a list.

Dropdown Menu Template 

The Dropdown menu template displays links with icons.

Dropdown Section Template 

The Dropdown Section template displays links with icons.

Dropdown Sub Menu Template 

The Dropdown Sub Menu template displays a flyout menu of links with icons.

Launch Pad 1 Template 

The Launch Pad 1 template displays links and images in a grid.

Nav - Banner Navigation Template 

The Nav - Banner Navigation template displays links with images to the left.

Nav - Icon Blocks (2 Column) Template 

The Nav - Icon Blocks (2 Column) template displays links and icons in a 2 column layout.

Nav - Icon Blocks (Pills) Template 

The Nav - Icon Blocks (Pills) template displays links and icons in a vertical list.

Nav - Icon Blocks (Wide) Template 

The Nav - Icon Blocks (Wide) template displays links and icons in a horizontal grid.

Nav - Image Blocks Template 

The Nav - Image Blocks template displays links with images to the left.

Zeppelin Header - Icon Blocks Group Template 

The Zeppelin Header - Icon Blocks Group template displays a link in the header that opens a dropdown menu.

Zeppelin Header - Icon Blocks Template 

The Zeppelin Header - Icon Blocks template displays header links as icons.

Advanced

Field Description
Icon Select an icon to display with the widget (Requires a template that uses {{IconCSSClass}})
Custom CSS class A CSS class to append to the widget
Show Header Check to show the widget's header, which includes the title
Show Footer Check to show the widget's footer
Hide Container Border Check to hide the widget's border
Use logged in user's first name as widget title Check to display the user's first name as the widget title

Roles

Choose the roles that can view this widget.

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