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Navigation on a Plone Site
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Olha Pelishok
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last modified
2010-05-18
This article applies to: Plone 3.0, Plone 2.5, Plone 2.1 Plone possesses several ways of organizing navigation on the site. These are:
1. Navigation TabsNavigation Tabs can be organized automatically basing on the folders that exist in the root of your Plone site. In Site Setup -> Navigation Settings : tick a box Automatically generate tabs and all the published folders that are there in the root will be displayed in Navigation tabs (like in a picture above). 
If you remove that tick only one tab Home will be there:  You can customize navigation tabs the way you want. There is a possibility to add, remove tabs, change their order, but to fulfil any of these tasks you have to install a Quintagroup's product - Plone tabs to the site.
2. Breadcrumbs
Breadcrumbs - are little lines, that also show where you are on site. Sometimes it's the easiest way to see where you are (if navigation tree is done so that it doesn't display all the levels).
3. Navigation TreeNavigation tree can be configured at:
).  Besides, you can give a title to the navigaiton portlet. It is called Navigation by default, but you can enter your own title in the corresponding box:   There are two sections in Navigation Settings (Plone 2.x) / Navigation Portlet (Plone 3.0.x) that are responsible for navigation tree look. These are:
Navigation settings allows you to make different combinations of what navigation tree displays: whether these are all folders or just those, of the exact level.
ExampleImagine we have a usual Plone site that consists of several folders and subfolders. The structure of the site looks approximately like this:
Let's discuss several possible variants of Navigation on this Plone site.
If you don't want folders of higher levels are displayed when you are inside one of them, increase Start Level number to what you need. The higher this number is, the less amount of levels are shown.:
You can also control the tree depth: the bigger number you put the bigger amount of levels will be displayed beginning with the highest one:
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