Two separate menu from one sitemap?

KieshaJ310 · July 2nd, 2007, 03:44 PM

I have a sitemap that sets the menu of one application which consists of twenty pages. Is there a simple way I could add in elements on the sitemap that would define the menu for a completely different collection of pages to be displayed in a whole new webform? Thanks!

~K

chroniclemaster1 · July 2nd, 2007, 03:57 PM

Hi Kiesha!

I'm going through this right now with my own webhost. They're having some problems making it work, but I can post the sitemap section from my web.config file when I get home.

If you want the applications to be completely separate, there's no way to do that in one file. You can only have one master node. If it's ok that the applications share the root node of the sitemap then you can, but people could theoretically cross from one app to the other. If you really want them to be separate however, you have to define a second sitemap in your web.config. That's what I've tried to do. According to my webhost they can't figure out why it's not working, so we "think" my file is ok, but I thought I should warn you.

I'll post it when I get home. :)

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KieshaJ310 · July 2nd, 2007, 04:01 PM

Thanks alot, i was just looking in the asp forum and I also founf this example which may be of some good use to both of us:
http://forums.asp.net/p/1081356/1600129.aspx#1600129
If you could also post your file whenever you get a chance that would be great! Thanks again!

chroniclemaster1 · July 2nd, 2007, 05:17 PM

Hi!

:D That's it! I customized mine for my site, but this was the example code from the help files that I used.

     <providers>
       <add
         name="Company1SiteMap"
         type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider"
         siteMapFile="~/Company1/Company1.sitemap" />
       <add
         name="Company2SiteMap"
         type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider"
         siteMapFile="~/Company2/Company2.sitemap" />
     </providers>

Let me know if it works for you. I haven't heard anything from my webhost in several days. If it works for you, I'd like to harrass them again.

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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
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When Two Hearts Race... Both Win.
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KieshaJ310 · July 3rd, 2007, 05:42 AM

That's what I have in my web.config file, I was wondering how to I instantiate it to be displayed on a page. I have one up and running now but I'm not sure about the code used inside the page. Here is what my Web.config looks like:

Code:

   <siteMap>
      <providers>
        <add 
          name="WebSiteMap"
          type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" 
          siteMapFile="~/Web.sitemap" />
        <add 
          name="Web2SiteMap"
          type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" 
          siteMapFile="~/Web2.sitemap" />
      </providers>
    </siteMap>

And here is what my datasource looks like in the first menu(the one that works)

Code:

 <asp:menu id="Menu"

Code:

                    datasourceid="SiteMapDataSource1"
                    disappearafter="500"
                    staticdisplaylevels="2"
                    staticsubmenuindent="20" 
                    orientation="Vertical"
                    font-names="Trebuchet MS, Arial" 
                    DynamicMenuItemStyle-Width="200"
                    Width="150"
                    runat="server">

                    <staticmenuitemstyle backcolor="RoyalBlue" forecolor="WhiteSmoke" horizontalpadding="5" verticalpadding="2" />
                    <statichoverstyle backcolor="CornflowerBlue" forecolor="White" borderstyle="Solid" borderwidth="1px" />
                    <dynamicmenuitemstyle backcolor="RoyalBlue" forecolor="WhiteSmoke" horizontalpadding="5" verticalpadding="2" />
                    <dynamichoverstyle backcolor="CornflowerBlue" forecolor="White" borderstyle="Solid" borderwidth="1px" />
                </asp:menu>

with the asp datasource:

Code:

  <asp:sitemapdatasource id="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" />

These last two sections I was wondering about. Can you show me an example of how you did this? Thanks a bunch :-)

chroniclemaster1 · July 4th, 2007, 01:31 AM

Hi Keisha!

Everything looks fine to me with the web.config file. Are both sitemaps working or just one?

Here are a couple examples that I was able to get up and running. Only for the one site though, obviously. I used VWD Express. I like to bounce back and forth between source and design view but here's the code output.

Code:

        <asp:Menu ID="mnuMainMenu" runat="server" DataSourceID="smdsMySite">
        </asp:Menu>

        <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="smdsMySite" runat="server" />

Everything else is beautification, this is the guts of what you really need. Obviously, it's a webform, so this all has to be inside form tags. But I just added a Site Map data source and gave it an ID. Then I added a menu control, gave it an id and told it the ID of the data source I'd created.

I also took advantage of design view to add some default formatting. As you can see the formatting adds a ton of weight to it. However, all I did to get it though was start with the controls above, click the expander arrow of the menu in design view, click the Auto Format link, and I chose the "Colorful" Scheme. VWD added all the code automatically.

Code:

        <asp:Menu ID="mnuMainMenu" runat="server" DataSourceID="smdsMySite" BackColor="#FFFBD6" DynamicHorizontalOffset="2" Font-Names="Verdana" Font-Size="0.8em" ForeColor="#990000" StaticSubMenuIndent="10px">
            <StaticMenuItemStyle HorizontalPadding="5px" VerticalPadding="2px" />
            <DynamicHoverStyle BackColor="#990000" ForeColor="White" />
            <DynamicMenuStyle BackColor="#FFFBD6" />
            <StaticSelectedStyle BackColor="#FFCC66" />
            <DynamicSelectedStyle BackColor="#FFCC66" />
            <DynamicMenuItemStyle HorizontalPadding="5px" VerticalPadding="2px" />
            <StaticHoverStyle BackColor="#990000" ForeColor="White" />
        </asp:Menu>

        <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="smdsMySite" runat="server" />

I always find it amazing how much garbage this generates though. The HTML this outputs is over 200 lines long, with 20,000 characters topping out at 19K filesize. Pretty unbelievable.

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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
-Johann von Goethe

When Two Hearts Race... Both Win.
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