Using Multinavigation Paths
This appendix discusses how to:
Use multinavigation paths.
Enable multinavigation.
Create multinavigation menus.
Using Multinavigation Paths
When you define tree structure, you also define the menu, menu bar, and default navigation pages for nodes and details. With multinavigation, 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 multinavigation is enabled on the structure of the tree, 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 Detail Navigation page (select Tree Manager, Tree Manager, Navigation Options):
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 Multinavigation
Two tree structure fields determine if multinavigation is available for nodes and details. These fields let the tree developer select whether multiple navigation targets should be supported when accessing node or detail data. By default, multinavigation is not enabled.
This is an example of the Tree Structure Properties (PSTREESTRCTDEFN) (select Tree Manager, Tree Structure) page:
Navigation options are hidden when the structure type is Summary.
Creating Multinavigation Menus
We recommend that you create special menus to be used for multinavigation. These menus should be specific to the nodes or details and should not contain any extra visible components.
Pages that you want to display on the Detail 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 than tree navigation purposes, clear the Menu Installed option on the Menu Properties dialog box in PeopleSoft Application Designer.
If the tree structure has been defined with multinavigation flags enabled, you can select the component and page to open when editing the node or leaf data.
While populating the Detail Navigation page, PeopleSoft Tree Manager collects pages using this logic: pages appear in the Navigation Links section belong to the components that have the same key fields in their search records. There are two exceptions from this logic:
EFFDT key field is ignored during the validation.
The menu item, which points to the underlined component, can overwrite the component search record.
In this case, the logic above is applied to the overwriting search record.
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