E.4 Creating a Navigation Collection Project

To create a navigation collection project:

1. Log on to your PeopleSoft content provider database in two-tier.

2. Open PeopleSoft Application Designer and select File, New.

3. Select Project as the new definition. Click OK.

4. Select Insert, Definitions into Project.

5. Select the Definition Type of Portal Registry Structures.

6. Enter the Portal Name where the Navigation Collection resides.

   Enter the content provider portal registry prefix to limit the results. Click Enter.

7. Scan the results for the folder that matches your collection name, and then click the collection object name.

8. Click Include Children in the Related Definitions.

9. Click Insert.

10. Click Close.

11. Review your results by clicking on the Application Designer Upgrade tab and double-clicking the Portal Registry Structures object type.

12. Select Insert, Definitions into Project.

13. Select the Definition Type of Images.

14. Enter the Navigation Collection prefix PS_FN to limit the results, and then click Enter.

15. Scan the results for the image names that match your Navigation Collection image names.

    These are the names that were returned in the PORTAL_ATTR_VAL column in the previous task.

16. Click the image name and then click Insert.

    Repeat for each image name that you want to include in the project, and then click Close.

17. Select File, Save Project As, and specify a project name.

18. Select Tools, Copy Project, To File…

    Note:

    If your content provider and PeopleSoft Portal Solutions database is on the same PeopleSoft PeopleTools release, you can do a direct Copy Project, To Database…

19. In the PeopleSoft Portal Solutions database, open PeopleSoft Application Designer.

20. Select File, New. For the Definition Type, select Project. Click OK.

21. Select Tools, Copy Project, From File…

22. Select the Navigation Collection project that you just copied to file.

23. Click Open.

24. Click Select All.

25. Click Options.

    1. On the Copy Options tab, select English and COMMON.

       If your PeopleSoft Portal Solutions database is a multilingual database, then you must also select the languages that you have installed on your PeopleSoft Portal Solutions database.

    2. Click OK.

26. Click Copy.

27. Review the Output window on the Upgrade tab.

    All objects should copy successfully.

28. Close PeopleSoft Application Designer.

    Note:

    You do not need to create or alter any records or views.

Note:

After you copy a project that contains portal registry structures into a database, you must delete the application server cache and stop and restart both your application server and web server for the target database.