Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Page navigation element
A page navigation element provides navigation controls that are used to navigate through a set of results generated by menus, navigators and search elements only. To use a page navigation element, create a page navigation component. You cannot add a page navigation element to authoring templates, sites, site areas, or content items.
A page navigation element can generate two kinds of page navigation controls:
- Shuttle controls provide navigation relative to the current page. This includes sequential linking to the previous or next page of results and quick linking to the first and last pages in the set.
- Paging controls provide navigation according to the page number of the result set. A list of page number links is displayed, along with a continuation link for access to the previous or next set of page numbers, if all page numbers are not displayed.
A page navigation element can combine both shuttle and paging controls, as in the following example.
| First | Previous | Continuation | Page Numbers | Continuation | Next | Last |
When rendered the page navigation element might look like this:
| << | < | ... | 4,5,6 | ... | > | >> |
Use the page navigation element in a remote rendering portlet
The page navigation element will not work when rendered in a remote rendering portlet that is configured to receive no links from other portlets. You must configure a remote rendering portlet to receive links either from "This portlet" or "Other portlets and this portlet" to use a page navigation element. See Defining links between portlets for further information.
- Using a page navigation element
Specify the kind of page navigation controls to be used with the page navigation element. For each type of control, define the layout and design of the control with HTML tagging. - Displaying page navigation details
You use the PageInfo tag to display page navigation details in the design of a page navigation element. - Page navigation design example
This is an example of a design of a page navigation element.