Mega menu configuration

Release version: Australia

Updated March 12, 2026

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The mega menu helps you navigate to a topic and its child topics. The taxonomy you associate with the employee center portal record determines the mega menu and its menu items. By default, the topics and child topics you create in the taxonomy are displayed as mega menu items.

Before you begin

Role required: admin

About this task

Taxonomy topics become available to you after you install and activate the Employee Experience Taxonomy plugin (sn_ect). The base system taxonomy—Employee—is installed when you install the Employee Experience Taxonomy plugin.

To modify the default taxonomy, clone the taxonomy first, and then create new parent topics and their child topics. For more information, see Clone taxonomy for employee content. The root topics are shown in the mega menu. The child topics up to two levels are listed under the mega menu and displayed when you click the mega menu. Click Browse <topic_name><topic_name> to open the parent topic. For example, click the Browse all to open the IT parent topic. The following figure shows the IT menu items.

Note:

Only the active topics that have connected content are shown in the mega menu.

For more information on the EC information architecture and configuring the portal navigation, see Advanced Portal Navigation.

Mega menu and the Browse all button at the bottom. — Figure 1. Mega menu on the Employee Center home page

Note:

You can customize the primary and background color from CSS variables.

In Employee Center, the default Employee taxonomy includes IT, HR, Workplace, Legal, and Procurement mega menus. The mega menu displays three levels of topics (root topic, child topic 1, and child topic 2). For example, IT > Hardware > Printers.

Simple list: If a root topic has only one level of child topic 1, that is, if the child topic 1 doesn’t have child topic 2, the child topic 1 is displayed as a simple list under the root topic menu.
Single column: If child topic 2 (2nd level topics) has upto 10 under child topic 1, UI is displayed as a single column.
Two columns: If child topic 2 exceeds 10 under child topic 1, UI is displayed as two columns.
Two columns with topic page: If child topic 2 has more than 20 under child topic 1, UI displays only 20 child topic 2s as two columns. For remaining topics, navigate to Topic Page of child topic 1 and verify in Sub-Topics widget.

Note:

As changes are saved in the session cache, ensure you relogin to reflect any topic changes on the mega menu.

Procedure

Do one of the following:
- Clone the taxonomy for employee content. For more information, see Clone taxonomy for employee content.
- Manually create a taxonomy. For more information, see Create taxonomy.
Create a root topic and associate it with the cloned or new taxonomy.
For more information, see Create and associate topics.
Create a child topic and associate it with the parent topic.
For more information, see Create a child topic. Repeat this step to create as many child topics as needed.
Associate connected content to the topics.
For more information, see Associate connected content to a topic.
Note:
You can view topics on the mega menu only if you have access to at least one connected content.
Enable user criteria for topics to set up topic-level visibility settings.
Configure Mega menu async load system properties to improve the load and performance.

What to do next

You can also add non-taxonomy menu items to the primary navigation bar. For more information, see Add menu items to primary navigation.

Note:

When the mega menu is empty, check if the demo data for the Employee Experience taxonomy app is installed. Select the Load demo data check-box to include the demo data along with your install or repair.