The Departments section of the portal provides a separate website section for each company department. This section contains its own Home page, Project management, News, Document library, Forums, Blogs, etc. When viewing a department's section, the main menu serves for navigation within the department, not within the global section of the portal. It is recognizable by the Back to main portal button at the left edge of the menu, as well as by the breadcrumbs below it beginning with Portal > Departments > Department name. You can navigate back to the global section of the portal using these two controls.

 

 

A comprehensive overview of the section's functionality and features can be found in Intranet User's Guide -> Departments, so please refer to it if you are looking for further information on how the section can be used on the live site.

 

Departments structure in the content tree

 

Let's take a look at how the section is created within the system's administration interface. Log on to CMS Desk and navigate to the Content tab. If you expand the Departments node of the content tree, you should see the sub-nodes as in the screenshot below. As you can see, there is a number of pre-defined departments recognizable by the icon.

 

Below the pre-defined department, there is the Template document, which is a template used when adding new departments. If you expand the Template node, you should see its sub-pages as in the screenshot below. If you expand any of the pre-defined departments, you can see that they contain the same sub-pages as the Template document. These sub-pages represent particular sub-sections of each department's section. When a new department is created, the sub-pages from under the Template document are copied under the new department's parent document, as demonstrated in step 6 of the Adding new departments topic.

 

Location of the departments template may be customized. However, a correct location of the template must always be set in Site Manager -> Settings -> Intranet Portal -> Department template path in order for the creation of new departments to be possible.

 

 

Intranet department document type

 

Particular departments consist of the sub-pages mentioned above and their parent document. The parent document is of the Intranet department (IntranetPortal.Department) document type. By default, each newly created document of this type uses the Intranet Portal - Department master page page template. This is ensured by the configuration of the Template document, which also has this page template set.

 

As obvious from the name of the page template, this document works as a master page for the department's section. The master page provides the common graphic elements in the header of each department's section and the dedicated navigation in the main menu (area 1 in the screenshot below). Particular sub-pages are displayed by the Page placeholder web part in the zoneContent web part zone on the master page (area 2 in the screenshot below).

 

 

Settings on the Form tab

 

Essential settings of the department can be performed on the parent document's Form tab. The following fields can be configured:

 

 

For sample values that can be entered in the fields, please see the pre-defined sample departments or refer to the Adding new departments topic.

 

 

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