Gatein supports customizing the

portal/WEB-INF/conf/portal/user/template/user/navigation.xml

file to create default nodes any user can use when he goes to the dashboard page. In this navigation.xml we add nodes in the following syntax

<node-navigation xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

          xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.gatein.org/xml/ns/gatein_objects_1_2 http://www.gatein.org/xml/ns/gatein_objects_1_2"

          xmlns="http://www.gatein.org/xml/ns/gatein_objects_1_2">

          <priority>3</priority>

          <page-nodes>

                    <!-- The default dashboard tab -->

                    <node>

                                   <name>MySpace</name>

                                   <label>MySpace</label>

                                   <page-reference>user::@owner@::Tab_Default</page-reference>

                    </node>

                    <node>

                                   <uri>Contracts</uri>

                                   <name>Contracts</name>

                                   <label>Contracts</label>

                                   <page-reference>portal::MyPortal::Contracts</page-reference>

                    </node>

  </page-nodes>

</node-navigation>

As you see we add a dashboard TAB with a page reference to user:@owner@::Tab_Default

And an aother node pointing to page-reference portal::MyPortal::Contracts

We also add navigation portlet to the portal/WEB-INF/conf/portal/user/template/user/user.xml

As is :

<portlet-application>

                    <portlet>

                              <application-ref>web</application-ref>

                              <portlet-ref>NavigationPortlet</portlet-ref>

                    </portlet>

                    <access-permissions>Everyone</access-permissions>

                    <show-info-bar>false</show-info-bar>

</portlet-application>

When the user goes to the dashboard page, evrything seems to work ok, the dashboard is displayed with a NavigationPortlet with a 'MySpace' and a 'Contract' menu. But, when the users clicks on the menu, the link is computed to

http://<server>/portal/u/<username>/<nodename> instead of http://<server>/portal/<MyPortal>/<NodeName>

preventing the user to link to the standard portal pages.

Any ideas ?