Limitations and Additional Considerations

Unified navigation can be used with these limitations and additional considerations in PeopleTools 8.54:

  • Configuration of unified navigation must be completed on the portal system with associated configuration steps performed on the content provider system. Use of unified navigation features (for example, navigation to remote content references) must also occur on the portal system.

  • Navigation to menu items on content provider systems is supported through the portal system's main menu only.

    Note:

    You cannot use homepage menu pagelets such as the Enterprise Menu pagelet or the Main Menu pagelet to navigate to remote menu items. The remote folders are hidden and will not appear in these pagelets.

  • Pagelet icon images used in remote pagelets must be copied from the content provider system to the portal system. In addition, if both systems do not use the same style (for example, one uses TANGERINE, and the other uses a custom style), the cascading style sheets (CSS) must be copied from the content provider system to the portal system.

  • Templates for remote content references must conform to the standards outlined in this document.

    See Considerations for Remote Content.

  • Do not use the following special characters in the labels for a remote folder: { } #.

  • Unified navigation supports same portal integration only—for example, EMPLOYEE portal to EMPLOYEE portal, CUSTOMER portal to CUSTOMER portal, or PARTNER portal to PARTNER portal, and so on.

  • You should always use the content provider system's portal host node to create remote folders or import pagelets.

  • Remote dashboards must conform to the standards outlined in this document.

    See Considerations for Remote Content.

  • The minimum release required to implement unified navigation on a content provider system is PeopleTools 8.54.