Viewing the Live Sample

To view the live running sample on the webMethods CAF Development Center, use the following URL:

http://www.ajax-softwareag.com/wm_rolebased_navigation

The application displays a login page.

To see the administrator view of the application, use the following credentials:

 

User name	admin
Password	admin

The application displays the Home page.

For the navigation, the application is displaying the Popup Menus control with the Rendered property bound to the admin security role. As a reminder, this Popup Menus control’s App Nav Bean property is bound to the appNavBean managed bean, which exposes the navigation you defined in the app-nav.xml file in Building Application Navigation Files For Each Role.

Note that the navigation links Admin Navigation and User Navigation match the Title fields you specified in the app-nav.xml file. When you click one of the navigation links, the application displays links to the views, using the page titles you specified in the Title fields of the app-nav.xml file:

When you click a link in the menu, the application displays the corresponding page. Note that the page title matches Title field you specified for the view in the app-nav.xml file.

To see the user views of the application, use the following credentials:

 

User name	tomcat
Password	tomcat

The application displays the Home page.

For the navigation, the application is displaying the Popup Menus control with the Rendered property bound to the tomcat security role. As a reminder, this Popup Menus control’s App Nav Bean property is bound to the userAppNav managed bean that you added to the header.view file. This managed bean exposes the navigation you defined in the app-nav-user.xml file in Building Application Navigation Files For Each Role. The app-nav-user.xml file only contains the User Navigation node and the user views, as a result, those are the only links available from the home page.

Once again, the navigation link User Navigation matches the Title field you specified in the app-nav-user.xml file. When you click the navigation link, the application displays links to the views, using the page titles you specified in the Title fields of the app-nav-user.xml file:

When you click a link in the menu, the application displays the corresponding page. Note that the page title matches Title field you specified for the view in the app-nav.xml file.

Related Topics 

Role-Based Navigation

Prerequisite Setup

Preparing Your Views For Adding Navigation Controls

Building Application Navigation Files For Each Role

Building the Navigation Controls for the Application Views