Navigate Workplace

Workplace provides several ways to navigate through the available pages, views, and tools. This topic explains the items that are common throughout Workplace. Common navigation areas include:

NOTE  Security permissions control what you can see in Workplace. You might not have access to specific primary views, object stores, folders, stored searches, documents, or objects. Permissions also control what you can do with an object. For more information on security, see Manage Security.

Banner links

The Workplace banner at the top of the screen provides links for navigation and identifies the current user. The current user and the date are displayed in the lower left corner of the Workplace banner. The Workplace graphic is a link to the "home" page. Clicking the graphic is the same as clicking the Home link on the right side of the banner. The right side of the Workplace banner provides additional links:

Primary view toolbars

The top toolbar (or Tab bar) is located just below the banner, and the bottom toolbar (or Footer) is located at the bottom of the page. Your administrator determines whether these toolbars display. The default is to display the top toolbar but not the bottom (footer) toolbar. Each primary view that you have access to is listed. Click on a primary view name to go to that view, such as Browse.

Example of top toolbar

Example of footer links

Left sidebar view navigation

Many pages in Workplace provide you with different views. For example, the Browse primary view provides a view for each object store. Wherever you navigate in Workplace, setting the view works the same way and accomplishes the same goals.

In Workplace primary view pages, the left sidebar of the window displays the primary pages and their views for you to navigate. The example below shows the navigation pane for the Browse page with the Corporate object store selected.

Left Sidebar Description
left sidebar illustration

Your current view is always highlighted in the left sidebar. In this example, the Corporate object store is selected under Browse.

The first time you access a specific view in a new browser session, the top-level item is highlighted. For example, when you first open the Browse page, Browse is highlighted in the left sidebar, and a list of object stores is displayed. Once you select an object store, the left sidebar is updated to highlight the selected object store.

When you navigate away from a section, your last location is remembered. For example, if you work in the Corporate object store in Browse, then switch to Tasks, and then click Browse in the left sidebar, the Corporate object store is highlighted in the pane. In contrast, if your home page is set to Browse, when you click Home, you will select an object store and go to the top level of folders in that object store, as if you had just logged in.

You can expand the display for a different section, or you can jump to a different view.

To navigate with the left sidebar

Path navigation

Path navigation allows you to navigate quickly up and down through the hierarchy of Object Stores, Folders, Searches, or other hierarchy.

The path information displayed on the Browse page tracks your navigation and also provides a means for you to return up the path. For example, suppose that you want to select your object store and browse through the hierarchy of Folders and Searches to find and select the folder that contains the document you are looking for.

The path could take a similar form:

Path: Object Stores > Corporate > Benefits

which represents the Benefits folder located in the Corporate object store.

Each part of the path represents a navigation level, and you can click in the path to change or refresh the display.

Path tree view

In addition to navigating by clicking on the names within the path, the path can include the arrow tree view icon depending on the preference set by your administrator. Clicking either the word Path or the arrow icon displays the tree view navigation panel over the current page. This same style of hierarchical tree occurs throughout the interface when you are selecting properties, objects, and classes. Some items can be listed in an ordinary list. Others are listed in tree view.

path tree example

To navigate in a tree view

For any object listed in the path, there can be sub-objects. When there are more of these sub-objects than a configurable number (default is 50), items are organized into groups. For example, if you don't see what you are looking for in the first group (1-50), click the next link to try the next group. You can also click the numbers, such as 51-81 directly. The number of groups can vary so that not all of them are shown at once. Once you've moved beyond the first group, there is a previous link as well. The tree view panel remains displayed until you click outside of the panel.

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