In most cases, you will need more than one menu, like one on left, one on top, one on bottom., I am wonderring how to represent them in sitemap.



Thanks!

You can add multiple SiteMap Providers in your web.config. Each one could map to a specific sitemap file (left.sitemap, right.sitemap, etc.). Then you could do something like this with each Menu bound to a different SiteMapDataSource:

SiteMapDataSource1.Provider = SiteMap.Providers["left"];

Hope this helps,
Joe

Thanks.

I think that works for display them seperately, but usually you use them together, what I mean is even you have left, top and bottom menu, they actually work together, when you select one item from bottom menu means you don't select any from top or left menu. So I think it is better to put them together. I created my sitemap like this:


<siteMap enableLocalization="true" >
 <siteMapNode url="/root">
  <siteMapNode url="/main" title="category_home">
   <siteMapNode title="Home" description="Homepage" resourceid="91C9EE4D-9343-4F2D-8C8C-42D65B3F631A" roles="Admins"/>
   <siteMapNode title="Courses" description="" roles="Admins" />
  </siteMapNode>

  <siteMapNode url="/header" title="category_header">
   <siteMapNode title="Student Area" description="" roles="Admins" />
  </siteMapNode>
 </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>


some node don't look right, but I am using my own sitemapprovider to parse them, so I can do some processing there. I use the two nodes "/main" and "/header" to seperate the menu to two sections.

Related question... If I have a top menu showing static 2 levels but I want the left menu to show the child nodes to the currently selected node, how do I do that?

So my top menu would have :  Home | Level2
And if I were on the Home page my Left menu would have Level2

Or if I were on the Level2 page my Left menu would have
Child1
Child2
Child3


<siteMapNode url="" title="Home" description="" >
   <siteMapNode url="" title="Level2" description="" >
      <siteMapNode url="" title="Child1" description="" />
      <siteMapNode url="" title="Child2" description="" />
      <siteMapNode url="" title="Child3" description="" />
   </siteMapNode>
</siteMapNode>

---

I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.

Please take a look at the walkthrough named: "Walkthrough: Controlling ASP.NET Menus Programmatically" in the help. It is also available online through MSDN but it looks like the page is down.

http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_vwdcon/html/92cd3457-59aa-4a7e-b6c2-0deb2fa37a2d.asp

Thanks,
Joe

You can use StartingNodeUrl

akibbie wrote:

Related question... If I have a top menu showing static 2 levels but I want the left menu to show the child nodes to the currently selected node, how do I do that? So my top menu would have :  Home | Level2 And if I were on the Home page my Left menu would have Level2 Or if I were on the Level2 page my Left menu would have Child1 Child2 Child3 <siteMapNode url="" title="Home" description="" >    <siteMapNode url="" title="Level2" description="" >       <siteMapNode url="" title="Child1" description="" />       <siteMapNode url="" title="Child2" description="" />       <siteMapNode url="" title="Child3" description="" />    </siteMapNode> </siteMapNode>

Thanks for the link, but it returns a 404 error.  However I Googled the walkthru title and got this link that works.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/16yk5dby

I will read it  :)
Aaron

---

I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.

JoeBerg:

You can add multiple SiteMap Providers in your web.config. Each one could map to a specific sitemap file (left.sitemap, right.sitemap, etc.). Then you could do something like this with each Menu bound to a different SiteMapDataSource:

SiteMapDataSource1.Provider = SiteMap.Providers["left"];

Hope this helps,
Joe

Thanks JoeBerg, You don't know how long I looked to be able to find out how to get different sitemaps.

-Will