Portal Content Navigation

Hi
I am in the process of building a new Portal for a client and at present I am very new to the Product although have already built a basic one. One of the requirements is that they want to hold documentation (in the form of Word and Adobe docs) on the Portal that the users can access. What I need to implement is a structure within Portal so that the user can drill down on various areas to get to the documents that they need. This could take the form of a Windows Explorer type of view where they can click on the required category which would then expand out the categories below it. Drilling down to the lower levels will eventually get to the level where they are able to view all of the documents.
I have looked at Instant Portal and see that there is functionality there that matches what we are trying to do and have seen other Portals where they have included this functionality but I'm a little lost as I've been unable to identify in the documentation what we need to do.
So I'm not sure if this is in the correct topic area but would welcome any advice on implementing this in Portal.
Thanks in advance for any help
Kevin

Hi Arnaud
Further to the progression of this I have made some good progress and ready to deploy the menu structure into our environment.
One more question relates to how you store the uploaded files. I am intending to have an area at each of the various topic areas in order for certain users to upload training material e.g. Oracle tutor docs etc. How do you replicate the structure in the db to that of the menu so that users can store files at these levels. Essentially they will drill down to the lowest level of menu and here they will see a list of available files or an area to upload files using Oracle Drive (WebDAV). I was thinking of creating these as Personal Pages and then linking these to them but not sure if I can allow other users to get access to them. I've been digging through the Portal documentation but haven't found any pointers yet.
How do you recommend deploying a menu structure in Portal so as to allow storing of content in these areas. I have already installed Oracle Drive and getting my head around how that interracts with the Portal architecture.
Thanks again
Kevin

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