Cross-Product Features | Configure the Navigator and icons on the Home page for navigation

Start on the Home page.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to configure the Navigator and the icons on the home page for navigation. I’ll create a group and then a page entry to open a custom AppUI that I already created using Visual Builder Studio. But before we get there, let's take a quick look at the icons you can use to open work areas.

Highlight the work area icons in the Apps section.

Based on the selected tab, you get work area icons for a group of related tasks.

Highlight the Tools tab.

Highlight the work area icons under the Tools tab.

You can also use the Navigator to open the same work areas, which we find under the same groups as the tabs on the home page.

Click the Navigator icon.

Highlight Tools. Click Tools.

Now let’s configure the navigation. To begin with, we must activate a sandbox so that we can test the changes and then make them available to the users.

Click Configuration > Sandboxes.

Create a sandbox, add the Structure tool to it, and then activate it. Or just activate an existing sandbox that has the Structure tool in it.

Highlight the Configure sandbox.

Click Enter Sandbox.

Now let’s get to work. We’ll create a new group and add page entries in it.

Click the Home icon.

Highlight the area above the global header with the sandbox information.

Click the Navigator icon and select Configuration > Structure.

Give a name to the group and select an icon for it. You may decide to set it as visible and then save and close the group.

Click Create > Create Group.

In the Name field, enter My Group.

Search for and select the icon for the group.

In the Show on Navigator field, select Yes.

Click Save and Close.

We’ll then move a predefined page entry into the new group that we created.

On the Navigation Configuration page, expand the Me group, click the Move To icon for the predefined page entry, Connections.

Select My Group to move this page entry into the new group, My Group.

Let’s now create a page entry that opens an application built using Visual Builder Studio.

Click Create > Create Page Entry.

Give a name to the page entry and select an icon for it. You may want to place this page entry in the new group you created.

In the Name field, enter My Page Entry.

Search and select the icon.

In the Group field select My Group.

You can show this page entry on the Navigator and home page.

In the Show on Navigator field, select Yes.

In Show on Springboard field, select Yes.

And set the page entry to open the application that you created using the Visual Builder Studio. By default, the value of the Focus View ID would be /index.html. To link your application to v1 VB apps, which are VB Studio pages, select one of these, ORA FSCM UI, ORA HCM UI, or ORA CRM UI. To link your application to v2 VB apps, which are Unified VB Studio Pages, select ORA FSCM UI.

In Link Type field, select VB Studio Page.

In the Focus View ID field, enter /index.html.

In the Web Applications field, select ORA_FSCM_UI.

To secure the custom entry in the same way as an existing entry, copy and paste the secured Resource Name value from an out-of-the-box entry. Note you can’t create a new resource. Select the application stripe as hcm, crm, or fscm.

Highlight the Secured Resource Name and Application stripe fields.

Optionally, enter values for the product family, VB Studio Flow ID, VB Page Name, and VB App UI of your application.

Click Save and Close.

Now we see a new group with its two page entries on the Home page.

Click the Home page icon.

Click My Group.

Highlight the page entries.

And the same on the Navigator.

Click the Navigator icon and show the new group and its page entries on the Navigator menu.

After I publish the sandbox, my changes are now good to go!

In Configuration field on the sandbox bar above the global header, select Publish.

In the Publish Sandbox window, click Yes.

Click Publish.

Thanks for watching.