Dynamic Navigation
Navigation menus on websites are typically a graphical view of a site's hierarchy. When pages are added, deleted, moved, or renamed, all corresponding links need to be updated on the navigation menus throughout the site. Dynamic navigation allows a navigation menu to update automatically, based on the state of a website's content.
In Cascade Server, dynamic navigation menus are created through the use of Index Blocks, or blocks that index the content of a specified folder or portion of the site. An index block is then placed into a page region (at the template, page configuration, or page level), and styled with an XSLT stylesheet. Because index blocks dynamically update content, the navigation menu stays updated.
Common types of navigation menus include main menus, sub-folder menus, breadcrumbs, last and next page, site maps, and site indices. Cascade Server provides many out-of-the-box Stylesheets that are helpful in creating dynamic navigation menus.
For more information on creating dynamic menus, please consult the technical intro guides.