About Unified Navigation

Important:

Any PeopleSoft system can serve as the designated portal system in a cluster; PeopleSoft Interaction Hub is not required for unified navigation.

Unified navigation provides a framework to federate multiple PeopleSoft applications as a cluster under a designated, central portal system. Using the delivered Configure Unified Navigation navigation collection, you can configure and federate portal registries from content provider systems into a unified system. Your administrators and users will log into the central portal system to access local resources on the portal system as well as remote resources made available through unified navigation. Once unified navigation is configured, your users and administrators will be able to:

  • Access remote content references and resources, which includes:

    • Accessing remote navigation pages through the main menu of the portal system.

    • Adding remote content references as Favorites on the portal system.

    • Accessing remote dashboards through the main menu of the portal system.

    • Accessing remote WorkCenter pages with remote pagelets through the main menu of the portal system.

    • Creating related content service definitions in the portal system using either local or remote content references.

    • Creating related content services in the content provider systems using content references local to that system.

    • Assigning local (to the portal system) or remote content references (from a content provider system) as related content services (or related actions) to content references on the portal system.

    • Assigning local (to the content provider system) or remote content references (from a different content provider system) as related content services (or related actions) to content references on the content provider system.

  • Synchronize user system profiles, or user personalization data, or both from the portal system to the content provider systems.

In this example:

  • The URL in the address field indicates that the portal system is the current system and that the content resides on a content provider node (HRMS).

  • The page header (Home and Sign out links, search, and so on), the main menu, and homepage tabs are generated by the portal system. This ensures that portal functions and navigation remain local to the portal system.

  • The content in the target area of the page comes from the content provider system. (If the content reference in the content provider system is defined with a specific template, then the content is also rendered using that template.)

  • Related content services defined for the remote content reference are displayed. In this example, the related content has been defined as related actions.

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