I have been tasked with adding a drop menu for one of the top navigation nod
es.  The drop down list is not an issue.  I am having trouble with reading t
he children from that node.  I can hard code these but do not want to have t
o reboot my servers every t
ime I add or change or remove a department.  Can anyone out there help me wi
th this please.  I am on portal 6.0.1.1.  Not sure that it makes a differenc
e but I have a cell that has 2 portal nodes clustered.  Thanks.

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have you tried using the model spi?  the themes and skins white paper<br />
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&
;uid=swg21284974">http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docvie...1284
974</a><br />
<br />
shows how to use the model spi to fetch the children of the various nodes.<b
r />
<br />
It is in the drop down menu example<br />
<br />
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Jim,<br />
Thanks for the response.  I tried to go to that url but I get an error about
 Requested uid value cannot be empty.

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I just took a look at the model SPI in the info center and will give it a tr
y.  Thanks for the information.

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try the link again it should work now<br />
Jim<br />
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I appreciate all your help.  But, I am still having issues.  I keep getting 
errors that talk about symbols.  What I have done is try to take the code th
at you have in Appendix C and place in my topNav.jspf but when I restart my 
portal I get a symbol error
.  I try to move stuff around a little differently but still get the same th
ing.  So I am kind of stuck at this point.

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Ok - think I have figured out what was happening with the symbol error messa
ge.  My import of the jar class' was too specific.  Thanks for the help.

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