Advanced Navigation Add-on

The Advanced Navigation Add-on allows customizing the look and experience of your Jive instance’s navigation. With this add-on, you can improve usability, drive users down key paths, and help them find what they are looking for. Benefits include:

• Replace or add individual links to the existing header navigation of Jive.
• Administer the navigation structure with easy drag and drop editing.
• Create horizontal and vertical menus.
• Add images or text elements to your menus.
• Translate navigation items in all Jive supported languages.
• Utilize a large icon library to highlight elements.
• Fully responsive design ensures your menu renders correctly on any browser or device.
• Fine-grained control over menu item styling.
• Visibility rules to show or hide items based on profile information or user group membership.

Installing and Configuring Advanced Navigation Add-on

The Advanced Navigation Add-on requires Jive instance configuration before installation. Configurations are performed by Support or the PS teams. Open a support ticket with Support to install this add-on.

A user must have at least Manage System permissions to install add-ons. This add-on also requires connectivity to Jive Cloud Shared Services.

Fastpath

User interface: Your avatar > Add-ons

Installation Process

Installing from the Add-ons page

To install the Advanced Navigation Add-on from the Add-on Registry:

1. In the user interface, click on your avatar in the upper-right corner, and then select Add-ons to open the Add-ons page.
2. On the Add-ons tab, select All Add-ons on the right, and then select Available at the center of the page to see all available add-ons.
3. Find Advanced Navigation Add-on in the list and click Install next to it.
4. In the Confirm Install box, select if the add-on should be visible to all users:
   • Clicking Install now makes it available for all community users immediately.
   • Clicking Preview makes it available only to you. After you have verified the setup, you will need to make the add-on available to other community users.
5. To verify that the add-on is installed, go to the Add-ons tab, then select All Add-ons > Installed, and find the add-on in the list.

The Advanced Navigation Add-on is installed.

Installing from a package

To install the Advanced Navigation Add-on from a zipped package:

1. Download the latest version of the add-on.
2. In the user interface, click on your avatar in the upper-right corner, and then select Add-ons.
3. On the Add-ons tab, select All Add-ons on the right, and then click Upload Package.
4. On the Upload Package page, choose the package file you have been provided.
5. Select if the add-on should be visible to all users:
   • Clicking Install now makes it available for all community users immediately.
   • Clicking Preview makes it available only to you. After you have verified the setup, you will need to make the add-on available to other community users.
6. To verify that the add-on is installed, go to the Add-ons tab, then select All Add-ons > Installed, and find the add-on in the list.

The Advanced Navigation Add-on is installed.

Configuring the Advanced Navigation Add-on: Initial Setup

After installing the Advanced Navigation Add-on, complete the initial setup:

1. Go to User interface: Your avatar > Add-ons > All Add-ons > Installed.

2. Find Advanced Navigation in the list, click the gear icon > Settings.

3. Click Configure Now. A list of files that need to be synced with the root space will show:

   Note: If all files are up to date, no sync is required.

   

4. When clicking on Sync, if the add-ons are running on a different domain than the Jive application (secure mode - default behavior), enter the credentials of the current user, ensuring it is a non-federated account with full admin access permission:

   

5. Once the sync is completed, status icons should all be checkmarks. The custom header code that needs to be added in Jive will be shown:

   

6. Copy the displayed custom header code.

7. Click Save and then Save and Activate on the next screen.

8. Go to Your avatar > Themes > Advanced > Custom Header to configure the community theme.

9. Add the HTML code generated in Step 6 in the Custom header HTML box.

10. Save and Publish this new theme.

11. Access the configuration page via: <instance URL>/apps/mega-menu-add-on.

Configuring User Groups for Advanced Navigation

The Advanced Navigation add-on uses user groups to provide secure access to its features. Only members added to specified user groups can access and configure the Advanced Navigation add-on settings.

To configure user groups for the Advanced Navigation add-on:

1. Go to the user group configuration page:

   • Admin Console > Permissions > User Groups
   • Advanced Admin Console > People > Management > Create User Group

2. Under General Settings, enter a user group name and click Create Group. For example, create a Advanced Navigation add-on editors user group.

3. Add the concerned administrators as members to this user group.

4. Save the changes.

5. Next, go to User interface: Your avatar > Add-ons > All Add-ons > Installed.

6. Find Advanced Navigation in the list, click the gear icon > Settings.

7. Under App Security, click the gear icon next to Advanced Navigation.

   

   User groups with access to the Advanced Navigation add-on editors feature are listed here. By default, the All registered users user group is used.

8. Remove All registered users and add the user group which should have access to the feature. In this example, add the Advanced Navigation add-on editors user group.

9. Save the changes.

Members of the specified user groups (Advanced Navigation add-on editors in the example) can now configure and use the Advanced Navigation add-on.

Exporting and Importing Menu Configuration

The Export/Import feature allows you to use a configured Menu on another instance or save previous configurations as a backup.

To use the currently configured settings in the Advanced Navigation add-on on another environment or instance:

1. On the Advanced Navigation configuration panel, click Export/Import.

   

2. Copy data.

3. Click Save to save the Settings.

4. Click Save Menu Settings to save all the configured settings.

Related

Advanced Navigation add-on

Configuration Panel

To configure the Advanced Navigation Add-on, ensure that the appropriate user is added to the user group (e.g., Advanced Navigation add-on editors). Access the configuration via:

• Apps > Advanced Navigation
• Create Menu > Advanced Navigation Configuration
• Direct Link: <instance URL>/apps/mega-menu-add-on

Configuration Options:

• General settings: General settings of a menu.
• Elements of Visibility Rules: Define visibility rules for menu elements.
• Elements of Menu Settings: Define the contents of a menu.
• Installing Advanced Navigation Add-on: Requires Jive instance configuration and add-on installation.
• Configuring access to the Advanced Navigation Add-on: User groups determine access.
• Exporting and importing Menu configuration: Use this feature to save or transfer configurations.
• Examples of Advanced Navigation configuration: View examples of Advanced Navigation configurations.

Related

• Prerequisites for installing Advanced Navigation Add-on
• Installing add-ons in the Cloud Community Manager Help
• Managing user groups in the Cloud Community Manager Help
• Managing add-ons in the Cloud Community Manager Help