Customizing the Top Navigation Area


In a Windows SharePoint Services site, you can customize both the top and left navigation areas. In the top navigation area, in addition to the links maintained by the Windows SharePoint Services, you can configure the top link bar to contain links of your own choosing and also select the order of their appearance in the bar. In the following exercise, you will create and position a new tab in the top link bar and then delete it.

OPEN the top-level site from the address bar of your browser http://wideworldimporters. If prompted, type your user name and password, and click OK.

BE SURE TO verify that you have sufficient rights to manage the site. If in doubt, see the Appendix on page 435.

1. From the Site Actions menu, choose Site Settings. The Site Settings page is displayed.

2. From the Look and Feel area, click Top link bar.

The Top Link Bar page is displayed. It shows the links that appear in the top link bar of the site. In our example, two links are already showing: Home and Travel. These links represent the top-level site and the Travel subsite.

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3. Click New Link on the toolbar to display the New Link page.

4. On the New Link page, in the URL area, in the Type the Web address box, type http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint. Then, in the Type the description box type SharePoint Home

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5. Click OK . The new link is added to the top link bar and is listed in the Top Link Bar page.

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6. To test the link, click on the new tab to navigate the browser to the SharePoint Products and Technologies home page at the Microsoft Web site.

Important 

You need Internet access to view a page at the external Web site, such as the Microsoft site.

7. Click the Back button in the browser window to go back to the Top Link Bar page. image from book

Tip 

If you’d like the page to be open in the new browser window, you need to add a bit of JavaScript code. To edit the link you’ve just created, on the Top Link Bar page, click the icon to the left of SharePoint Home to display the Edit Link page. Change the Web address to http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint and click OK. This case-sensitive command instructs Windows SharePoint Services to open the link in a new window but keep the current browser page where it is currently located.

You will now reorder the tabs on the top link bar.

8. In the Top Link Bar page, click Change Order on the toolbar. The Change Order page appears.

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9. From the Link Order drop-down list to the left of the SharePoint Home link, choose 1.

The list of the links is automatically reodered. The Link Order for the Home link has been changed to 2, and the Link Order for the Travel link has been changed to 3.

10. Click OK. The tabs on the top link bar have been reordered, and you are taken back at the Top Link Bar page.

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You will now delete the link from the top link bar.

11. In the Top Link Bar page, click the icon to the left of the link you’d like to delete, such as SharePoint Home.

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The Edit Link page is displayed.

12. In the Edit Link page, click Delete. Click OK in the confirmation box when it appears.

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You are back at the Top Link Bar page. Notice that the link has been deleted.

CLOSE the browser.




Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services Version 3. 0 Step by Step
Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services Version 3. 0 Step by Step
ISBN: 735623635
EAN: N/A
Year: 2004
Pages: 201

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