Homepages and Menus - Help!

hmm, not sure you can build it out the way you picture it above since this would likely require the use of an iFrame and APIs or the HTML widget. You have those widgets available so you can build a page to display the information you depicted above.

To get the proper menu (and pages) to your groups, you will need to use Groups for your instructors. You may need to add a additional Feld to identify them and build your group depending on how your instructors are set-up (they are actually users so you cannot use the “users” option on your menus to assign  the menu). You can use the same process for your cohort however how you build your groups will likely be different.

Hi!

I know how to build the pages, and what the widgets do, but I am not understanding once built, and once the groups are assigned, how the Groups access these pages? Are they added as a tab to the existing main menu that I screenshotted above? Thanks!

Yes, you cannot assign a page. A page needs to be added to a menu and then the menu can be assigned using the custom visibility options. This is where you can identify the user level, groups and/or branch, etc.

Thank you ​@slgoldstein this is the breakdown I was looking for! One question I dont see addressed in the KB article is, I understand that users will see the first published menu available to them, but I don’t see an example of what that will look like for the user. If the first published menu (the default) is one that needs to be seen first (by all users), where will the second menu “go” for lack of a better word. 

Hi ​@goldengirl - users can only see one menu.  :( We have a similar use case where we have to personalize for our admins.  What we do is we create that menu, and then map to the admins (as a group).  That menu goes first (or at the top) in the list.  Then we have a menu that our learners see - that gets listed second.  To get a sense of what each group sees, we create a test user, and map to that group.  Then we use the user impersonation feature to navigate around.  Not ideal - but we have not seen another way to do that yet.   

Hope that helps! 

​@slgoldstein ok thank you for the explanation, final question - so for your use case, your admins do not ever see the “learner” menu correct? Dang, that is not ideal. Our admins also need to have access to their compliance training etc which is on the default menu. Has anyone used Deep Links to create a link to a page and used that directly? 

you can add any user page to your admin menu; just make sure they are properly labelled.

​@goldengirl - yes - but my admins can either impersonate OR they can still see the pages.  We essentially include all the pages from the learner menu in the Admin menu.  The Admin menu just has a few more to help them with their day to day work within the system.  

We have used deeplinks, as well as page links.  This is helpful we want to put things directly on the homepage (new courses, or links to very specific pages) without having to also put them in the menu - otherwise the learner menu can get really long and cumbersome.  To do this, we create a ‘hidden’ menu, and include any pages we want the group or audience to be able to access, without having to put it in the menu.  That hidden menu goes at the very bottom of our menu list, and is labelled hidden so that we know exactly what it is.  Thenwe create a custom widget to point the learner or admin to that page, and put the link into the widget.

Again - not sure I am explaining this super well!  If you have a sandbox, definitely worth tinkering there and experimenting a bit to see what you can/can’t do, and how it all comes together.

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