SUGCON 2024: Navigation Link Placeholder

[cheeto-bandito]

Description / Motivation

The ButtonLink component in the Header Navigation was hard-coded and was not reusable for other SUGCON sites. To resolve this, I've done the following:

1. Created a Placeholder Setting named Button Link that accepts the Link component as an Allowed Control
2. Cloned the OOTB Headless SXA Navigation component
3. Added the Button Link placeholder setting to the Layout Service Placeholders of the Navigation component
   
4. Created a Headless Variant on the Link component named Button
5. Created a datasource item named Header CTA
6. Added the Link component to the Header partial design with the appropriate placeholder and datasource from step 5

How Has This Been Tested?

1. Serialized all of my content changes
2. Cleaned the solution
3. Redeployed all content to my local
4. Loaded up Experience Editor and verified that the CTA renders properly
   

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

Checklist:

• I have read the Contributing guide.
• My code/comments/docs fully adhere to the Code of Conduct.
• My change is a code change.
• My change is a documentation change and there are NO other updates required.

[lovesitecore]

Hey Chet, just reviewing this one. Seems I cannot find the Data source for the Header CTA. I checked the presentation details of the Header Partial Design and I can see it has the Link Component pointing to $site/Data folder. But as mentioned data source folder and item is missing. I wonder if I deploy the new app code now, if that will crash when it does not find the data source. I think we should have that checked in with the Code.

[cheeto-bandito]

Hey Chet, just reviewing this one. Seems I cannot find the Data source for the Header CTA. I checked the presentation details of the Header Partial Design and I can see it has the Link Component pointing to $site/Data folder. But as mentioned data source folder and item is missing. I wonder if I deploy the new app code now, if that will crash when it does not find the data source. I think we should have that checked in with the Code.

I've made the requested changes and serialized the /Data/Links/Header CTA single item path.