Navigator type examples | HCL Digital Experience

You can use navigator elements to display different sections of a site framework in different ways.

Breadcrumb navigators

If a website is large and complex, a user can easily lose orientation. A breadcrumb allows the user to see the position of the current web page within the website and the logical path back to the highest level of the site framework. A breadcrumb does not provide the actual path that the user has traversed in the website; the Back button in the browser provides this. A breadcrumb is the orientation device that shows a user where the displayed web page fits within the site framework.

You use the following configuration settings to create a breadcrumb navigator:

Table 1. Breadcrumb navigator parameter settings

Parameter	Setting
Start Type	Current site area
Include Start	Yes
Ancestor Level	All
Descendant Level	None
Preceding siblings Level	None
Next Siblings Level	None
Show Top	No
Show Content	Yes
Expand navigator to display current site area	No
Expand current navigator branch one level	No
Highlight current site area or content using final navigator result design	No

Site map navigators

A site map provides, at a glance, the framework of your site. A site map is a navigator component that displays that part of the site framework that you define.

To create a site map, the navigator is configured as follows:

Table 2. Site map navigator parameter settings

Parameter	Setting
Start Type	Current Top Level Site Area
Include Start	Yes
Ancestor Level	None
Descendant Level	2 Levels
Preceding siblings Level	None
Next Siblings Level	None
Show Top	No
Show Content	No
Expand navigator to display current site area	No
Expand current navigator branch one level	No
Highlight current site area or content using final navigator result design	No