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Re: menu with sitemap without parent node

ionafi — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:45:29 GMT

Thank you Amanda,

That was exactly what i wanted. I didn't know about that attribute.

Cheers.

Re: menu with sitemap without parent node

Amanda Wang - MSFT — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:39:56 GMT

Hi,

Base on your description, you want to display the menitems like root node, without the childnodes and the parent nodes, right?

Because the sitemap file is an xml file, so it must have a root node in the sitemap file.

But if you can set the sitemapdatasourse's ShowStartingNode is False, the root the node will not be displayed on the page, and you can set all the other node are at the same depth under the root node.

Like below:

        <asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1">
        </asp:Menu>
        <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" ShowStartingNode="False" />

Sitemap:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0">
<siteMapNode title="root" url="" >
     <siteMapNode title="Home Page" url="~/Index.aspx" />
     <siteMapNode title="Pubs" url="~/...." />
     <siteMapNode title="Calendar" url="~/..." />
</siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

Hope it helps.

menu with sitemap without parent node

ionafi — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:43:39 GMT

Hi there,

I'm a little bit confused about this. I have a menu linked to a sitemap. What i want now is the vertical display of menu, the usual way of displaying vertical left menus, without child nodes, like all nodes would be parent without children. So far, looks like there is no way to use sitemap without one parent node which then splits. I dont want that. Is that he only way with sitemaps?

That's what i want:

Home

Pubs

Calendar

I know i can do that just with menu control, but i want the breadcrumbs too, that's why i'm trying to make this work with sitemap.

Thanks.