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Re: Sv: Re: Sv: Re: Sv: Re: SOLPartMenu - How to prevent dropdown for currently active menu item?

masom — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:41:20 GMT

Hi,

maybe i have an other solution for your Menu / Submenu issue.

You can modify the SolpartMenu.ascx.vb to enable a Submenu-Bindoption. Therefore you have to insert a new case witch is called "topmenu": In this case the tab controller of the vertical menu will use the most top node as root node. This will be the root node of the current navigation-path.

'This setting indicates the root level for the menu
                Select Case LCase(Level)
                    Case "child"
                        intRootParent = PortalSettings.ActiveTab.TabID
                    Case "same"
                        intRootParent = PortalSettings.ActiveTab.ParentId
                    Case "topmenu"
                        If (Me.PortalSettings.ActiveTab.ParentId < 0) Then
                            intRootParent = Me.PortalSettings.ActiveTab.TabID
                        Else
                            Dim tabController As New tabController
                            Dim tabInfo As tabInfo = tabController.GetTab(Me.PortalSettings.ActiveTab.TabID)
                            Do While (tabInfo.ParentId > 0)
                                intRootParent = tabInfo.ParentId
                                tabInfo = tabController.GetTab(intRootParent)
                            Loop
                        End If
                    Case Else       'root
                        intRootParent = -1

                End Select

Hope this will be usefull
Marcus

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jan_olsmar — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:11:54 GMT

Ylva, make sure you clear the cach before testing.

The change make the tab clickable thats for sure.

Re: Sv: Re: Sv: Re: SOLPartMenu - How to prevent dropdown for currently active menu item?

ylvah — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 06:15:28 GMT

OK :) But it did not work either...

regards Ylva

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svoeller99 — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 01:18:47 GMT

Sv: Re: Sv: Re: SOLPartMenu - How to prevent dropdown for currently active menu item?

jan_olsmar — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:03:45 GMT

The walue should bee 0 to make it work

Change from 1 to 0

Re: Sv: Re: SOLPartMenu - How to prevent dropdown for currently active menu item?

ylvah — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:22:03 GMT

Thank you! But when I look in the table these tabs already has the value 1 on disablelink.

But I can have this settings if I choose one skin for the portal and no skin for admin. Then I can choose site in the menu in the right upper corner and then I get my admin and host menu items in the default blue skin. Rather strange ;)

regards Ylva

Sv: Re: SOLPartMenu - How to prevent dropdown for currently active menu item?

jan_olsmar — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:10:52 GMT

Its the disablelink in tabs table change fom 1 to 0

Sv: Re: SOLPartMenu - How to prevent dropdown for currently active menu item?

jan_olsmar — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:00:57 GMT

NO Ylva you are not stupid :)

There is a way around the issue but you have to manually change in the database.

If you change the value for the host and admin tab to bee visible. Dont remember for the moment what field it is.

Re: SOLPartMenu - How to prevent dropdown for currently active menu item?

ylvah — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 17:43:20 GMT

Hello!

That was what I wanted to do - then I could have an horisontal menu with vertical sub-menu. I works out fine except that if I do this there is no way to reach the admin and host menu items? Am I being stupid now??

regards Ylva

Re: SOLPartMenu - How to prevent dropdown for currently active menu item?

svoeller99 — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:45:21 GMT

Another thing that I wanted to circumvent was the effect that this block of code has, located at the end of Links.ascx.vb --> Page_Load()



If strLinks = "" Then


                    strLinks = BuildLinks("", Alignment, strSeparator, strCssClass)


                End If

If you set level to "child" and navigate to a tab that has no children, it reverts to displaying links for the tabs on the same level. I worked around it by modifying the code in Links.BuildLinks, as follows:



Select Case Level


                            Case "Same", ""


                                    If objTab.ParentId = PortalSettings.ActiveTab.ParentId Then


                                        strLinks += strLoop & AddLink(objTab.TabName, objTab.FullUrl, strCssClass)


                                    End If

...was changed to...



Select Case Level


                                Case "Same", ""


                                    If Me.Level <> "Child" Then 'if we weren't originally in child mode


                                        If objTab.ParentId = PortalSettings.ActiveTab.ParentId Then


                                            strLinks += strLoop & AddLink(objTab.TabName, objTab.FullUrl, strCssClass)


                                        End If


                                    End If

Sean

Re: SOLPartMenu - How to prevent dropdown for currently active menu item?

svoeller99 — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:39:06 GMT

Jeremy,

Thanks for your reply. To be more specific as to my use case....

I'm using the Links control, which I locate directly under the SolPartMenu, in order to display child pages of the currently selected tab. I wanted to turn off the dropdown on the current tab, because having the child tabs displayed with Links.ascx and also having a dropdown with essentially the same content seems redundant to me. I'm going for a tab/subtab feel for my skin. Maybe, in the future, there could be a new setting for skin.xml - maybe, 'dropdownactivetab', or something...

My modification to the code was this; I added the following line at the very beginning of the try block located at line 1072 of SolPartMenu.ascx.vb --> Page_Load()....



If objTab.ParentId = PortalSettings.ActiveTab.TabID Then Throw New Exception("Current tab") 'added to disable dropdown for selected tab

I know it's a bit clunky - throwing an exception here - but it acheives my intended result in a one-liner.

Sean

Re: SOLPartMenu - How to prevent dropdown for currently active menu item?

JWhite — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:22:34 GMT

for the second menu skin object use the Level attribute and set it to Child or Same depending on what you want.

Re: SOLPartMenu - How to prevent dropdown for currently active menu item?

Sailu_tp — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:12:33 GMT

Thanks Jeremy, i will look at it. Just wanted to ask 1 more quick question i have not received any response from any one for this so i am asking you:
I need to have 1 hor menu with each of its children being vert tabs,
you have already answered the first part which is by setting the Rootonly attr,
but could you give me any suggestions how i can accomplish the vert tabs for each hor tab.
Please post if so. It will be really appreciated.
Thanks,
Sailu.

Re: SOLPartMenu - How to prevent dropdown for currently active menu item?

JWhite — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:06:28 GMT

depends on the type of skin you have,

HTML skin: change it in the .xml file as part of the the SolPartMenu token settings

<Name>RootOnly</Name>
<Value>True</Value>

if it's in an .ascx skin: change the control attributes

<dnn:SOLPARTMENU ... ... ... RootOnly="True" />

Re: SOLPartMenu - How to prevent dropdown for currently active menu item?

Sailu_tp — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:48:20 GMT

Jeremy
Sorry for the stupid question, but where do i set it?
Thanks,
Sailu.