Adding links to navigation block

[sasutton]

In exploring OCS/OJS extensibility with several students at University of Washington, we have successfully used built-in plugin functionality in a sandbox implementation of OCS 2.3.3.1 to create static pages and custom blocks. We have been unable to create a new page for a scheduled conference that is accessed through additions to the navigation block plugin. We know it is possible because we've seen it on a number of OCS/OJS implementations. For example, the additions of navigation links for "Hackfest" and "Sponsors" on the upcoming 2011 PKP conference in Berlin at http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011 are exactly what we am talking about--additional navigation links that lead to their own pages within a scheduled conference. As usual, any advice on how to proceed would be appreciated.

Stuart

[kstranac]

Hi Stuart,

Doing this on the PKP Conference site was a 3 step process:

First, in Web Site Management Step 4 I disabled the standard Navigation block.

Second, I created the necessary static pages (using the Static Pages plugin) and made a note of their full URLs.

Third, I created a new custom block (and called it ConfInfo), and added links for all nine of the items I wanted to include (Call for Papers, Track Policies, etc.). This meant I needed to repeat some of the links that would have appeared in the standard Navigation block too. I then enabled this new custom block back in Step 4 to replace the Navigation block I disabled previously.

I hope that makes sense. There might be a better way to do this with a little coding, but I wanted to get it done via the web-based interface. If you have any questions, just let me know.

All the best,
Kevin

[sasutton]

Kevin, thank you. It works perfectly!

Stuart