Different items in WebSiteMap and Menu

AlexW · April 10th, 2011, 08:44 AM

Am I right in saying you can only have one Web.sitemap? I have an issue where I have all pages for the WebSiteMap but dont want them all included in the menu, whats the best way to dis-include some items from the menu?

Imar · April 10th, 2011, 08:48 AM

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Am I right in saying you can only have one Web.sitemap?

Nope, you can have multiple site maps but you need to register them:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178426.aspx

Cheers,

Imar

AlexW · April 10th, 2011, 04:35 PM

I created two sitemap files: SiteMapPath.sitemap and Menu.sitemap, I added them as described in web.config:

<siteMap defaultProvider="SiteMapPath">
<providers>
<add name="SiteMapPath" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="~/SiteMapPath.sitemap"/>
<add name="Menu" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="~/Menu.sitemap"/>
</providers>
</siteMap>

- and set SiteMapProvider="SiteMapPath" for the SiteMapPath control which is fine but there is no SiteMapProvider attribute for the Menu control so I'm unable to assing the menu to its own site map file??

Imar · April 11th, 2011, 03:01 AM

Hi Alex,

A Menu has a DataSourceID property which can refer to a SiteMapDataSoource control in your page. The SiteMapDataSource control (from the Data category of the Toolbox) then has a SiteMapProvider property.

Hope this helps,

Imar

AlexW · April 11th, 2011, 06:23 AM

Hi Imar,

For the menu I set DataSourceID="MenuSiteMapDataSource", which is the ID of the SiteMapDataSource control which in turn has SiteMapProvider="MenuSiteMap".

In Web.config I have:

<siteMap defaultProvider="MenuSiteMap">
<providers>
<add name="MenuSiteMap" type="System.Web.SiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="~/Menu.sitemap" />
<add name="SMPSiteMap" type="System.Web.SiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="~/SiteMapPath.sitemap" />
</providers>
</siteMap>

- but I keep getting errors saying: Cannot create an abstract class - against the type attribute??

Imar · April 11th, 2011, 07:56 AM

Hi Alex,

System.Web.SiteMapProvider is indeed an abstract class. So, you need to register one of its concrete descendents instead. In an earlier post you used the System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider which is the correct type.

Cheers,

Imar

AlexW · April 11th, 2011, 12:26 PM

Thanks for the help again Imar, I couldnt find where to explicitly set the SiteMapPath's SiteMapDataSource control (like with DataSourceID in the menu) so I set this one as the defaultProvider so it picked it up.