My application contains multiple menus and i just to use one sitemap to power all menus.

web.sitemap example...

<siteMapNode url="Default.aspx" title="Home" >
	  <siteMapNode title="Products Menu" >
		  <siteMapNode
			url="Products/FirstProduct.aspx"
			title="First Product"
			description="The description of the First Product" />
		  <siteMapNode
			url="Products/SecondProduct.aspx"
			title="Second Product"
			description="The description of the Second Product" />
	  </siteMapNode>
	  <siteMapNode title="Service Menu"  >
		  <siteMapNode
			url="Services/FirstService.aspx"
			title="First Service"
			description="The description of the First Service" />
		  <siteMapNode
			url="Services/SecondService.aspx"
			title="Second Service"
			description="The description of the Second Service" />
	  </siteMapNode>
  </siteMapNode>

How do i generate two different menus from it? Product and Service menu.  I know i can set StartingNodeUrl using the SiteMapDataSource but the parent menu nodes do not have urls.  Any ideas?

Hi unggy,

The only quick and dirty way I can see of getting this to work would be to do assign a url of  #services and #products to the "Products Menu" and the "Service Menu" nodes and use this as the staring url on your datasource.  It will work as the # is basically an anchor for usually some content on the page but it wont matter.

Will try and think of a better solution but I have not really used the sitemap feature that much.

Hope this helps,
Jon Sharrat

<siteMapNode url="Default.aspx" title="Home" >

<siteMapNode

url="Products/FirstProduct.aspx"

title="First Product"

<siteMapNode

url="Products/SecondProduct.aspx"

title="Second Product"

</siteMapNode>

<siteMapNode

url="Services/FirstService.aspx"

title="First Service"

<siteMapNode

url="Services/SecondService.aspx"

title="Second Service"

</siteMapNode>

</siteMap>

StartingNodeUrl="#servicemenu"

 
 
I tried the above and it seemd to work for myself. Just double check that the StartingNodeUrl mataches the url on the siteMapNode in the "web.sitemap" file.
 
Let me know how you get on,
Jon Sharratt 

Cheers for that! I finally manage to get it work.

I really appreciate you taking the time to help!

Thanks!

No problem, thanks for remembering to mark it as the answer, much appreciated.

Jon