You use the element design options of a navigator element
to determine how to display the results a navigator.
- Select Expand current navigator branch one level to
display the content items and site areas one-level below the current
site area in the navigator.
- Select Expand navigator to display current site
area to display all the parent site areas from the start
site area down to the current site area.
- Specify paging options for the navigator element.
- Enter the number of items that are displayed in each
navigator page.
- Enter the number of the page to display first.
- Enter the maximum number of results pages to be included
in the navigator design.
- Enter the number of results pages to read ahead when
using a page navigation element. For example, if you enter 3, the
page navigation element calculates results up to 3 pages ahead of
the current page. Increasing this number improves the accuracy of
the page navigation element. Lowering this number improves the performance
of the page navigation element when rendered.
Note: To display multiple navigator pages, you need to use a
page navigation element. This is referenced within the header or footer
of the navigator design.
Note: Changes to paging
options are not visible to users until the session cache has expired,
or a user starts a new session.
- Select Distinguish items with no children to
add a design field for content items and site areas that contain no
children. All other site areas in the navigator use the other component
designs. You can use an Alternate Design tag in your navigator design
to distinguish between the current site area or content item. See
the navigator design examples for more details.
- Select Show header, footer and separator fields
for each result design to enable separate headers and
footers for each design field, with the exception of the Distinguish
items with no children field. This is useful if your navigator
design uses nested tags, such as an unordered list. See the navigator
design examples for more details.
- Enter text, tags, and code into the navigator design fields
as required:
- The text entered in the Header and Footer designs
will appear before and after the displayed navigator items.
- The text entered into the Navigator result design fields
defines the format of each navigator item. Use multiple navigator
result designs for each level of a navigator.
- The text entered into the Separator field
appears between each displayed navigator item.
- The text entered into the Distinguish items with no
children field is used for items that have no children.
- The text entered into the No result design field
is displayed if no results are found for the navigator criteria.