Zen Foundation enables customized navigation at the global and space levels, in the form of a configurable navigation menu. The contents of the menu can be changed as easily as changing page content, via the edit control (the mouse-over pencil symbol) adjacent to the menu:

The Landing Space and Global Menu

You can have one navigation menu for your entire site, or can override the navigation menu for each space. Zen Foundation requires that one space be designated the Landing Space for each site. The navigation menu specified for that space will then become the global navigation menu for the entire site, and will be duplicated in every space. However, this global menu can be overridden at the individual space level, so that each space can optionally have its own unique menu.

The unique nature of the Landing Space as the source of a global menu default is reflected in the Space Designer, which contains a special warning in the Landing Space only:

When the SpaceDesigner is invoked from any non-Landing space, it will provide the option of selecting the global menu or a Custom Menu. Selecting Custom Menu will allow you to override the menu contents for the current space only.

The custom space menu will be a copy of the global navigation menu which you can then edit, and any changes you make to it will be visible only within that space.

Editing the Navigation Menu

The navigation menu can be edited like any other wiki page. Its contents are stored as a multi-level list. The top level list items appear as the menu bar (or tabs, or other design elements depending on your brand). The remainder will populate drop-down menus, and sub-menus. Below are examples of a navigation menu being edited in the Rich Text Editor and in the Wiki Markup editor: