Shared borders and navigation

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Should my links in my shared border show up on my Navigation screen? Does
the navigation screen serve mainly to help organize or is it necessary to
have it done a certain way to make the pages function properly?
 
When in navigation view, you should see all of your pages the you have drag
into the view. The arrangement in the view effect how links work.

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-----Original Message-----
Should my links in my shared border show up on my
Navigation screen?
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Not necessarily.
Does the navigation screen serve mainly to help organize
or is it necessary to have it done a certain way to make
the pages function properly?
Click to expand...

The idea is to diagram your site in Navigation view, and
then add Link Bar Based On Navigation Structure
components to each page. A Link Bar Based On Navigation
Structure displays links to pages that surround the
current page in Navigation view.

Shared borders are one way of adding a Link Bar Based On
Navigation Structure to many pages.

So, if every page contains a site uses shared borders,
and the shared borders contain a Link Bar Based On
Navigation Structure, then every page will have a set of
links that reflect the Navigation view structure.

But if you manually a link to the shared border area,
this doesn't update Navigation view. The flow is from Nav
view to Link Bar Based On Navigation Structure
components, and not froms hared borders back to Nav view.

Jim Buyens
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Man, this is confusing me. I've done all my pages; theey are sitting there
with hyperlinks connected and everything. And none of them are in my
navagation view. Just a home page lies in that view. What am I doing wrong?
The pages all seem to click to each other when I view in a browser.
 
You have to drag the page from folder list view into the navigation view and
connect them to your home page, etc.

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If you have manually built your navigation using link bars, and your site
works, then you don't have to use navigation view.

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I think that is what I did. I just put links in each page (and the shared
border) that lead to the pages I want. Is that what you mean by link bars?
 
No, but that sound fine, and this way you are not dependent on the FP
Navigation component, so you will have more flexibility to add/remove links
as needed.
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