As PeopleSoft customers upgrade to Fluid-enabled applications, it is quite common to start with Fluid disabled, and then implement Fluid behavior post go-live. It is all about change management and an organization's ability to digest change. Even though Oracle has set retirement dates for certain Classic components, with the first wave retiring December 31, 2017, all Classic functionality is still supposed to be present and available. But if you have opened a recent PeopleSoft image or are in the middle of updating to a recent HCM build, you may be asking, "Where are those delivered and supported Classic components?" If you investigate the portal registry, you will see they exist, they just don't appear in any menus. Many of these menu items, such as the Personal Details menu items, use a feature named Conditional Navigation. PeopleSoft uses Conditional Navigation to conditionally replace Classic menu items with their Fluid counterparts. You can read more about Conditional Navigation in PeopleBooks at PeopleTools PeopleBooks entry Products > Development Tools > Portal Technology > Understanding Conditional Navigation. A question I hear regularly is, "How do I temporarily enable Classic components in my PeopleTools 8.55+ environment?" The first step is to disable Conditional Navigation and the MyOracle Support document 2215964.1 describes how. Armed with this information, you now know what it is, how to configure it, and how to disable it, but how do you find it? I mean, what components are preconfigured for conditional navigation? Since conditional navigation uses CREF attributes, CREF identification requires a small SQL statement:
That is nice, but the portal registry isn't structured that way. Next question: How do I find those CREFs in the portal registry? Here is the longer form SQL statement. Results contain complete paths to conditionally configured items. Those of you that follow my blog may recognize this SQL as a derivative of Query for Component and/or CREF Navigation Take II
