multiple sitemaps

jack_hilary · December 5th, 2009, 10:57 AM

Hello friends,
The web.sitemap is working fine on the main masterpage.
I wanna add the same on the ManagementMaster.master page. I created new sitemap named web2.sitemap file & gave a reference to it with the provider set to this new sitamap file in web.config file but it is not working.
in web.config file I added the following.

Code:

<siteMap enabled ="true ">
            <providers>
               <add name ="SiteFile1" type ="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="~/Web.sitemap"/>
             <add name ="SiteFile2" type ="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="~/Web2.sitemap"/>
            </providers> 
</siteMap>

and in the Menu Control I added as following

Code:

<asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SiteMapDataource1" 
                        Orientation="Horizontal" BackColor="#B5C7DE" DynamicHorizontalOffset="2" 
                        Font-Names="Verdana" Font-Size="0.8em" ForeColor="#284E98" 
                        StaticSubMenuIndent="10px" >
                    <StaticSelectedStyle CssClass="StaticSelectedStyle" BackColor="#507CD1" /> 
<StaticMenuItemStyle CssClass="StaticMenuItemStyle" HorizontalPadding="5px" VerticalPadding="2px" />
                        <DynamicMenuStyle BackColor="#B5C7DE" />
                        <DynamicSelectedStyle BackColor="#507CD1" />
<DynamicMenuItemStyle CssClass="DynamicMenuItemStyle" />
<DynamicHoverStyle CssClass="DynamicHoverStyle" BackColor="#284E98" ForeColor="White" /> 
<StaticHoverStyle CssClass="StaticHoverStyle" BackColor="#284E98" ForeColor="White" />
                    </asp:Menu>
				    <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" 
                        SiteMapProvider="SiteFile2" ShowStartingNode="False"/>

Any suggestion is respected.
Thank you..........

Imar · December 5th, 2009, 11:00 AM

Sigh...... Why oh why is it that you don't Google before you ask these questions? Can you please explain that to me? Why waste your own time byy posting a question here if you can have the answer in a split second with a Google search:

http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&so...&meta=&aq=f&oq=

The first hit is an in-depth explanation of the process. The next 19 results provide you with useful background and examples.

Why don't you Google first?

jack_hilary · December 5th, 2009, 11:51 AM

well Sir, I do google search before I post a question here.
I could put provider in web.config file after google search. And out of 20 results are again questions/posts like I post.
And no doubt there are solutions are also there but most of them do not fit into scenario. They get problem at some stage as their scenario is different.
I first decided to google it because you always suggest google search.
OK I will try some more searches.
Thank you once again.

Imar · December 5th, 2009, 12:50 PM

Really? Youy must be using a different Google. Here's what I get:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...s&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178426.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet...leSiteMap.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archi...20/431019.aspx
http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier/a...04/115848.aspx
http://forums.asp.net/p/1056791/1506144.aspx

I could go on, but by the time you've *read* these articles, you know more about multiple sitemaps than you probably care to.

One more request: can you please post your messages in the general ASP.NET categories since these type of questions aren't related to my book directly? This greatly improves your chances on an answer......

Cheers,

Imar

jack_hilary · December 14th, 2009, 11:30 AM

sorry,
the first post I posted. There was an error (well the method I used was absolutely correct and also you suggested the links, one of them also suggested the same. Still thanks for links)
The only error was mistyping (although typing manually is not recommended but somehow one letter was deleted and nonexisting datasource was being looked for binding to menu control).
sorry for silly mistake and thanks for links.