Deleting and Adding menu items

Many people asked me about adding or deleting menu items in UCM, it is easy to do this with UCM.

The steps to customize menus
1- Create a custom component, or use an existing one
2- Add new resource file to the component that file type is "HTML Include"
3- Add new include with the following name "custom_finish_layout_init" where it is an existing include that creates menus and we want to customize it
3- Inside that include write the following

// First we will call the parent definition for menus
<$include super.custom_finish_layout_init$>

// If we want to delete "My Profile" link
navBuilder.deleteItem("MY_PROFILE");

// Now we will add new menu item and we will add one child link to that menu item
// Check if the menu has been added before
<$if not MyScreensMenu_included$>
// add a drop-down menu, or a tray to the UI, that new menu item will be called "My Screen"
navBuilder.addChildNodeTo('NAVTREE', 'collection', 'id==MyScreens', 'label==My Screens');
//Now check if we are using Top Menus layout
if (navBuilder.menuB)
navBuilder.menuB.addTopLevelNode("MyScreens");
//Or we are using Trays layout
else if (navBuilder.trayA)
navBuilder.trayA.addTopLevelNode("MyScreens");

// Flag that the new menu item has been added
<$MyScreensMenu_included = 1$>

//At last add the link to the menu item that link called "Link 1"
navBuilder.addChildNodeTo('MyScreens', 'item', 'id==link1', 'label==Link 1', 'url==http://www.google.com');
<$endif$>

The code in blue is javascript code and in red is idocscript, also notice the following idocscript variable "MyScreensMenu_included" only defined when we used it that is because idocscript language doesn't need you to define variable before using them (Unchecked types language)

Pilanesberg Park - South Africa

I visited last Saturday the Pilanesberg Park in South Africa, it was awesome to see animal in the natural life, and I want to send special thanks for Johan and his wife from South Africa because John arranged for that and he took to that beautiful park. I enjoyed my day there watching animals and natural life. I think it's worthy to visit South Africa again but as a tourist.

I was confused because of SecurityFilter component

I am in a workshop in South Africa, and before I begin in exploring WebDAV, I installed HowToComponents sample, then suddenly While I am exploring WebDAV administration I discovered WebDAV is not working. I tried to resolve the problem but I failed where I was thinking the problem may be from WebDAV configuration or from Folders component. So I returned to the last snapshot of my lab virtual machine.

The story not ended yet, I discovered on of the attendees is facing the same problem and of course I should resolve it - I can not escape :)-

I was sure that the problem is trivial one but when I discovered that problem is from SecurityFilter component (part of HowToComponents bundle), I wanted to kill myself because I face the same problem before from 1.5 years.

Don't use SecurityFilter sample component with WebDAV

South Africa

I visited today two parks in South Africa lions park and crocodile park, and I was lucky to watch lions eating and also crocodile but of course they are not in jungle and they are not hunting. But I was missing an important thing accompany, my family or my friends.

I took these pictures

From Dubai to Johannesburg

I got a long flight from Dubai to Johannesburg 8 hours with stops, the longest trip I had in my life. I finished Dubai UCM workshop, and I think it was successful in helping Oracle partners to know more about the product, and in giving them a push to work on the product.

Now I am in Johannesburg to give another workshop, of course repeating my words again :) and again. I wish I will give another successful workshop there. By the way until know all South African people are so nice with me, and Oracle South Africa is very beautiful and organized.