Top-level navigation in masthead

During test with our development portal, the top-level navigation has been moved to where the navigation-panel is (left side).
I was present when we did this, and i believe that it was just a parameter that was changed. But i cannot remember it, and i have spent about 4 hours searching for it.
Hope someone can help me
Frank Carlsen
Danish IT Agency

Go to Content Administration -> Portal Users -> Satndard Portal Users -> Open Default Farmework page (or the framework page you are using) -> Select Top Level Navigation and open its properties. Change the property Number of display levels to 2
Regards
Deb

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[Customizing Top Level Navigation|https://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=511530]
[Customize Portal TLN|https://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1145007]
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Yes it is possible to have menus as you wish .
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!-- Change Heiko Broker for SiteNavigation
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            for(Iterator it = initialNodes.iterator(); it.hasNext();)
                INavigationNode initialNode = (INavigationNode)it.next();
                    strDataToPrint=initialNode.getName(),;
!-- Change Heiko Broker for SiteNavigation
     if (initialNode.getName().startsWith(prefix+roleFilter)
!-- Change Marta Alberto
     PROBLEM In the new TLN, when using the merge roles feature, the
     url of the merge roles is different (start with the word merge.....).
     This is a wrong implementation because it filters all the nodes that do
     not start with ROLES.
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I have a question concerning on my External Facing Portal, my boss wants that when I click on a tab or a link in the Top Level Navigation , to load the content in the Content Area without refreshing the whole page, What I want is that when I click on a tab or link of the Top Level Navigation , the Top Level Navigation and the MasterHead not to refresh and that the content be loaded and refreshed only in the Content Area. The only way I know to do this is by making a frameset of my page and to make the masterhead and toplevel navigation a frame and the detalied navigation a frame and the content area a frame, and in the links to put the target property to the name of the content area frame, but I don't know if this is possible to do in the portal, I see that all is embedded and I don't know how to make a frameset like this in the portal.
Any highlights to solve this will sure be appreciated.
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Hi,
When you are implementing External Facing Portal, i think you have used Light Framework Page. In Light Framework Page, only one Framework has been used, so when you click on the top level navigation, the whole page will get refresh, so there is no otherway as of my knowledge. If you use standard framework page in portal, it is possible to do (i.e. the content area only get refresh) and the concept of your External Facing Portal is eliminated here.
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