Hi all,

I am trying to create a web.sitemap file in a child project and have links to the parent project that has a different web.sitemap, however I can't see the links if I link to the parent project like this:

<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0">
  <siteMapNode url="x.aspx" title="Root"  description="">
    <siteMapNode url="../default.aspx" title="Parent Home" CssClass="MainItemBlue"  CssClassExpanded="MainItem">
    </siteMapNode>

Thank you,

Shehab Hassanien

Where exactly can't you see the links? Can you explain what you are trying to do?

By default the '../default.aspx' url is not going to work. use / or ~/to refer to the root of you site. Futhermore, I think this is usually done the other way around.

In the parent project, you have a sitemap. One node (and path) contains your child project. For this node, you add the siteMapFile attribute to the node to tell the parent where the sitemap file for this node (child project) is located.

Hello Rinze,

 I have a radmenu that should show the links I am writing in the sitemap, I tried ../ and it is not working as you mentioned, when I try ~/default.aspx, it give me a duplicated url error; I think because the parent project has that same url in its sitemap:

 Ok, so I have the parent project has a web.sitemap, one of the links is going to a child project which has another web.sitemap. however both should have the link to default page in the parent project, so the one sitemap in the parent project is:

 <siteMapNode url="default.aspx" title="PIN Home" CssClass="MainItemBlue" CssClassExpanded="MainItemBlueOver" roles="piniiwebaccess" group="Home"></siteMapNode>

and it works fine.

Now the one in the sitemap inside the child project is:

<siteMapNode url="../default.aspx" title="PIN Home" CssClass="MainItemBlue" CssClassExpanded="MainItemBlueOver"></siteMapNode>

and it doesn't work as you said so I changed it to ~/default.aspx and that give me the url duplicated error

 Thank you,

Shehab

I don't think there are any elegant ways around this problem. .Net uses the url to find the currentnode and it demands the url to be unique for this reason You can overcome the duplicate url problem adding a querystring to one of the nodes in the duplicate (like default.aspx?).

This will get it to work. In addition, you could use the OnMenuItemDatabound event to strip the questring from the menu again.

HIi,

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I am trying to create a web.sitemap file in a child project and have links to the parent project that has a different web.sitemap

If you use url="~/default.aspx" or url="../default.aspx", it will only find the page in the current application, viz. the chils project.

If you want to refer the other project's page in the sitemap, you only can use the absolute path of the page.

For example:

<siteMapNode url=http://www.yahoo.com title="Home" ></siteMapNode>

hope it helps.

Hi Amanda,

Thank you for respond. Actually, I got it to work with ../default to point to the upper level project.

Thanks