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Adding a New Primary Navigation Page

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You can add a new item to the primary navigation bar — and the page which it invokes — of your server appliance by using the following process.

To add a new primary navigation page

  1. In the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, add the Software\Microsoft\ServerAppliance\ElementManager\WebElementDefinition\Tabs<Unique Element ID> registry key.

  2. In this new key, enter the values as shown in the following table.

    Value Type Description Example
    Element ID Key Unique name for this element. Must start with Tabs. TabsChime
    BigGraphic String Path to the large graphic item to display. This is only needed if this item is also a navigation page. Chime\images/chimeX192.gif
    CaptionRID String Resource identifier for the text to display on the primary navigation bar. 4C00000C
    Container String Container name is always Tabs. Tabs
    DescriptionRID String Resource identifier for the text to display when the mouse hovers over this item on the navigation bar. 4C000010
    ElementGraphic String Resource icon. Required, but does not need to be populated. Chime\images/chimeX32.gif
    IsEmbedded DWORD Instruction to process element as an embedded page. Always 0x0 0x0
    LongDescriptionRID String Resource identifier for the text to display on the associated navigation page. <4C000010>
    Merit DWORD Integer indicating display order in container. 0=no sorting. 0x1
    PageType String Specifies the required page type. NORMAL
    Source String Name of the resource DLL. sampleresource.dll
    URL String Primary navigation bar items usually use tasks.asp since they are normally navigation pages. tasks.asp

  3. Add secondary navigation pages for each of the links.

  4. Make sure to use the ElementID specified in Step 1 as the Container name for each of the links.

The Merit value controls the sorting for Web elements. Set the Merit value to the desired position of the new item. For example, a value of 0x1 will make this Web element the first, or furthest to the left, item on the primary navigation bar.

Note   The Merit value of 1 and 2 are reserved for Welcome and Status, respectively. You must use a value less than 700 so that Maintenance and Help get the two locations furthest to the right.

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