Ok, so this is probably an easy question, but I'm not finding an answer to it.

I have a Web.sitemap in my root directory. I have a couple of different master pages in the root directory. I have pages in a subdirectory named "pages". I have a TreeView and a SiteMapPath on one of the master pages.

Oddly, even though the master page is in the root, with the Web.sitemap also in the root, when the sitemappath and treeview just dont show up on the page. They do show up on pages that are in the root directory.

Now I do understand that you have to write master page code so that it was if it were in the directory with the page. So I put full paths on html objects like "/myapplication/images/whatever.gif" and on web controls I put "~/images/whatever.gif". Those all work fine now.

THere is something about web.sitemap, sitemappath and treeview I am missing. If anybody knows I would be very appreciate!

Neil

Neil Timmerman
Programmer II
School of Medicine
University of Missouri Columbia

Well I got it working. I found the answer in this forum. Someone else had the same problem. i would delete my post but I wanted to say additionally that I think it's kind of odd how it wouldn't at least display even if the link isn't correct.

For example, in my web.sitemap I have:

<siteMapNode url="~/pages/Forensic/forensic.aspx" title="Forensics" description="">

and that is what works. However before I had:

<siteMapNode url="/pages/Forensic/forensic.aspx" title="Forensics" description="">

Now if thats the wrong link, fine, I would think it would still DISPLAY the control and then when you clicked on it it would give you a 404 Page Not Found. Why on earth would it just not display at all???

Interestingly, elsewhere on the web.sitemap you can make siteMapNodes to pages that dont even exist and that wont stop your treeviews or your sitemapmath controls from displaying.

Does anyone but me think this is just odd??



Neil Timmerman
Programmer II
School of Medicine
University of Missouri Columbia