Turning the left side navigation on and off dynamically

Question

I need to have the navigation on the left side turn on and off pending what community the current user is it. I can do this (kind of) by creating a class implementing NavigationCommonVerticalView and IView. My over riding methods check the community ID and return null need be.
The problem is that whatever class is calling this still creates a table cell with a width of 200 for the navigation bar wether it is there or not. I imagine I can fix this one of two ways.
1 - Set the cell width to be 0 all the time. When there is content the browser should force this to be expanded. I however can not find this setting anywhere
2 - Override the class that calls my NavigationCommonVerticalView class. Hopefully this will provide a mechanism to turn that cell of completely. However I have not determined what class this. I thought it might be "com.plumtree.portalpages.browsing.myportal.myPortal" by when I try to override this class, I can not get it to load at startup by adding it to the customActivitySpaces.xml file.
Please help.

Answer 1

Hi Jeff,
Unfortunately, there is currently no setting to allow you to set the cell width.
In our next release there is a setting available in NavigationSettings.xml. Also, the page checks to see if the value returned from the Display method of your View is null before inserting a cell for the View's content.
The only thing that you could do before the next release would be to override com.plumtree.portalpages.common.uiparts.PlumtreeDP. I hesitate to suggest doing this because PlumtreeDP controls the display of almost all pages in the portal.