Updating your Web Client navigation bar

When you upgrade to version 2022.1, the contents of the Navigation panel now display as a menu in the navigation bar across the top of the page. To preserve backward-compatibility, the existing contents of the Navigation panel are displayed as-is—even though other changes to the Web Client navigation bar mean that some items in the menu are duplicative or may no longer be necessary. After upgrade, you may want to modify your navigation menu to optimize it for the new environment.

NOTE: This upgrade consideration only applies to custom Axiom systems. If your system uses upgradeable Axiom products, the contents of the navigation menu is controlled by those products.

For custom Axiom systems, the web navigation items are defined in the following file: \Axiom\Axiom System\Forms Runtime\WebClientNavigationPane.axl. This file can only be accessed by administrators.

Task pane file that defines the web navigation items for custom systems

By default, the WebClientNavigationPane file contains the following items to be displayed as the navigation menu.

Default navigation items

Note that many of these items are now easily available in other areas of the updated navigation bar:

  • Home and Intelligence Center are available on the Area menu (the Syntellis icon on the far right of the navigation bar).

  • Favorites and Recent Places are available on the new Bookmarks panel.

  • Additionally, the Forms Explorer page has been deprecated and replaced by the Intelligence Center. Although the page still exists, there should be no reason to use it.

However, the WebClientNavigationPane file is customizable. Your organization may have edited this file to add, remove, or rename items. Because this file can be customized, Axiom does not overwrite it as part of system upgrades. You will see the same navigation items before and after the upgrade, just presented in a new location.

As part of your upgrade to 2022.1, we recommend that you review your WebClientNavigationPane file and decide what you want to display in your navigation bar going forward. For example:

  • You can choose to do nothing and leave the navigation as is for now.

  • You can edit your existing WebClientNavigationPane file as desired to remove any items that you find duplicative or unnecessary in the context of the updated navigation. This is the recommended approach if you have customized your WebClientNavigationPane file and you want to preserve those customizations while also making additional updates.

    NOTE: If your WebClientNavigationPane file contains the Forms Explorer item, we recommend removing it. Although this page is still available now, it may be removed in a future release.

  • You can replace your existing WebClientNavigationPane file with the new default navigation, using the system-delivered file Platform.WebClientNavigationPane.axl. Going forward, the new default navigation items for custom systems are simply Home and Reports.

If you want to replace your existing WebClientNavigationPane file to use the new default navigation:

  1. In the Axiom System > Forms Runtime folder, delete WebClientNavigationPane.

  2. In the same folder, right-click Platform.WebClientNavigationPane and select Copy.

  3. Right-click the Copy of Platform.WebClientNavigationPane and select Rename. Change the name of the file to be WebClientNavigationPane.