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Re: Adding synamic SiteMapNode

MuteThis — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 01:19:21 GMT

Ok, here is something a little better. I can't say I'm happy with it either...

You need to wire up an event in Global.asax

void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) 
{
	// Code that runs on application startup
	SiteMap.SiteMapResolve += (SiteMapHandler.SiteMap_SiteMapResolve);
}

And now some code for your App_Code directory: SiteMapHandler.cs

using System;
using System.Web;

/// <summary>
/// Summary description for SiteMapHandler
/// </summary>
public class SiteMapHandler
{
	public static SiteMapNode SiteMap_SiteMapResolve(object sender, SiteMapResolveEventArgs e)
	{
		SiteMapNode TempNode = new SiteMapNode(SiteMap.Provider, "Details.aspx", "~/Details.aspx", "Details");

		string Referrer = (e.Context.Request.UrlReferrer == null) ? null : e.Context.Request.UrlReferrer.AbsolutePath.ToLower();

		if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Referrer) == true ||
			e.Context.Request.Url.AbsolutePath.ToLower().EndsWith("/detail.aspx") == false)
		{
			return null;
		}
		else
		{
			TempNode.ParentNode = SiteMap.Provider.FindSiteMapNode(Referrer);
		}

		return TempNode;
	}
}

Enjoy

Re: Adding synamic SiteMapNode

MuteThis — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:04:54 GMT

What I am about to suggest amounts to what some (myself included) would call a hack... I'm sure there has to be a better way, but I haven't really played with the built-in navigation stuff. Here it goes..

My solution has three site map files. One for default where the details page is not included "default", a second where the details page is a child of products "FromProducts" and a third where the details page is a child of search "FromSearch".

A little bit of configuration information needs to be added to the web.config file to take this approach.

<siteMap defaultProvider="Default">
	<providers>
		<add 
		  name="Default"
		  type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" 
		  siteMapFile="~/Web.sitemap" />
		<add 
		  name="FromProduct"
		  type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" 
		  siteMapFile="~/FromProduct.sitemap" />
		<add 
		  name="FromSearch"
		  type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" 
		  siteMapFile="~/FromSearch.sitemap" />
	</providers>
</siteMap>

And now the code to make it happen on the details page. For brevities sake, I'm using this code inline, ideally you'd put it in a method.

protected void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
	string Referrer = (Request.UrlReferrer == null) ? null : Request.UrlReferrer.AbsolutePath.ToLower();

	if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Referrer) == true)
	{
		Response.Redirect("~/Default.aspx");
	}
	else if (Referrer.EndsWith("products.aspx") == true)
	{
		SiteMapPath1.SiteMapProvider = "FromProduct";
	}
	else if (Referrer.EndsWith("search.aspx") == true)
	{
		SiteMapPath1.SiteMapProvider = "FromSearch";
	}
}

That's it...

You are correct, this solution is less than ideal, but it was my first stab at a solution. I'll hack around at dynamically adding details to the SiteMapPath and post again if I have any luck.

Adding synamic SiteMapNode

ursasmar — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:59:29 GMT

In my app I have a "details.aspx" page that is used to display product information. This page is called from a number of different pages, which are parts of different nodes in my sitemap.

Example:

rootNode

products

detail

closeNodes

What I would like to happen is that in my breadcrumb trail, it shows the

Home >> Products >> Details path

or the

Home >> Search >> Details path,

even though this details page is the same file.

I have found that I can't have the Details page listed twice in the sitemap. And, I don't want to maintain two Details files with different names, but identical code, just so that the sitemap will work. So, is there a way to add a node dynamically when the Details page is called and assign its parent node the calling page?