Staying within the Activity Guide/Nav Collection Target Content Area | AJAXTransfer Parameter

I recently ran into an issue with transfer functions executing from within a Nav Collection (which uses Activity Guide framework). These transfer functions result in the loss of the Navigation panel (Side Page) which is basically exiting from the Nav Collection.

Demo of the problem

Navigation Collection Definition for reference

Tile Wizard for reference

Solution

The solution to this problem is to use the AJAXTransfer=y parameter in the Content Reference corresponding to the Navigation Collection Tile. The following PeopleBook reference is a must read for anyone who is working on Fluid configurations like Activity Guides, Nav Collections, Master Detail pages, etc.

Working with Two Panel Implementations

To fix the issue, I added &AJAXTransfer=y to the Tile Content Reference - Portal URL as follows:

Result