Hi,

I'm trying to create my own Menu by following the Book's example but somehow in design view of the master page it keeps giving me "Root" instead of "Home"

Here the MenuWrapper of the frontend.master

<div id="MenuWrapper">
<asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" CssClass="MainMenu"
DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1">
</asp:Menu>
<asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" />
</div>


Here's the Sitemap code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >

<siteMapNode url="~/" title="Home" description="Home">
<siteMapNode url="~/Default.aspx" title="Home" description="Go to Homepage" />

<siteMapNode url="~/Blogs/Default.aspx" title="Blogs" description="Blogs Describtion and Links">
<siteMapNode url="~/Blogs/NewBlog.aspx" title="New Blog" description="Create a new Blog" />
<siteMapNode url="~/Blogs/MyBlogs.aspx" title="My Blogs" description="View my Blogs" />
</siteMapNode>

<siteMapNode url="~/Browse/Default.aspx" title="Browse Blogs" description="Blogs all Blogs">
<siteMapNode url="~/Browse/ByMember.aspx" title="Browse By Member" description="Browse By Member" />
<siteMapNode url="~/Browse/ByDate.aspx" title="Browse By Date" description="Browse By Date" />
</siteMapNode>

<siteMapNode url="~/AboutUs/Default.aspx" title="About Us" description="About BlogMe">
<siteMapNode url="~/AboutUs/Default.aspx" title="BlogMe" description="About BlogMe" />
<siteMapNode url="~/AboutUs/ContactUs.aspx" title="Contact Us" description="Contact Us" />
</siteMapNode>

<siteMapNode url="~/Register.aspx" title="Register" description="Registration Page">
</siteMapNode>

<siteMapNode url="~/Help/Default.aspx" title="Help" description="Help Section">
<siteMapNode url="~/Help/Default.aspx" title="Blogging Guide" description="Blogging Guide" />
<siteMapNode url="~/Help/FAQ.aspx" title="F.A.Q." description="Frequently Asked Questions" />
</siteMapNode>

</siteMapNode>

</siteMap>


could you please point out what I did wrong?

Thanks,

Thomas

Hi Thomas,

Take a look at page 251, step 8. I think what you're after is the
ShowStartingNode property of the SiteMapDataSource control.

Cheers,

Imar

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Hi Imar,

Just did that but it got me "Parent Node" in design view

Thomas

Could it be conflicting with the previous site (the book's site) I worked on?

Thomas

Not sure what you mean by that....

Imar

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Sorry, what I meant is:

I have created the website which the book helps you create (Planet Wrox website). Now I started to create my own website using the book examples and also referring to Planet Wrox. I got stuck when I tried to create the "Menu" from the "Navigation" controls section. It seems that somehow it's not reading the "Web.sitemap"

I'm not sure if Planet Wrox's configurations are conflicting with the new website I'm working on..

Not if you're not mixing code from the two project. So, as log as your new site is in its own folder, it shouldn't be influenced by the Planet Wrox web site.

Can you post the full code for the page with the Menu and the Sitemap file?

Imar

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I think I found it. Try requesting the page in the browser to see the error:

"Multiple nodes with the same URL '/AboutUs/Default.aspx' were found. XmlSiteMapProvider requires that sitemap nodes have unique URLs."

Not all of the pages in your sitemap file have a unique URL. The designer trips over this and only shows "Parent node". Supply unique URLs in the sitemap file and the problem should go away.

Cheers,

Imar

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Sure here they are:

Master page:

<%@ Master Language="VB" CodeFile="Frontend.master.vb" Inherits="MasterPages_Frontend" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="head" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>



</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div id="PageWrapper">
<div id="Header">
</div>
<div id="MenuWrapper">
<asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" CssClass="MainMenu"
DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1">
</asp:Menu>
<asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server"
ShowStartingNode="False" />
</div>
<div id="MainContent">
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="cpMainContent" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</div>
<div id="Sidebar">
<p style="font-size: 12px">Select a Theme</p>
<asp:DropDownList ID="ThemeList" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True">
<asp:ListItem>Blue</asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem>Black</asp:ListItem>
</asp:DropDownList>
<p style="font-size: 5px">_____________________________________________ ______________</p>

<br />Latest Posts
<span class="style1" style="font-size: 5px">_____________________________________________ ______________</span></div>
<div id="Footer">Footer Goes Here</div>
</div>
<div>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">

</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>


SiteMap

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >

<siteMapNode url="~/" title="Home" description="Home">
<siteMapNode url="~/Default.aspx" title="Home" description="Go to Homepage" />

<siteMapNode url="~/Blogs/Default.aspx" title="Blogs" description="Blogs Describtion and Links">
<siteMapNode url="~/Blogs/NewBlog.aspx" title="New Blog" description="Create a new Blog" />
<siteMapNode url="~/Blogs/MyBlogs.aspx" title="My Blogs" description="View my Blogs" />
</siteMapNode>

<siteMapNode url="~/Browse/Default.aspx" title="Browse Blogs" description="Blogs all Blogs">
<siteMapNode url="~/Browse/ByMember.aspx" title="Browse By Member" description="Browse By Member" />
<siteMapNode url="~/Browse/ByDate.aspx" title="Browse By Date" description="Browse By Date" />
</siteMapNode>

<siteMapNode url="~/AboutUs/Default.aspx" title="About Us" description="About BlogMe">
<siteMapNode url="~/AboutUs/Default.aspx" title="BlogMe" description="About BlogMe" />
<siteMapNode url="~/AboutUs/ContactUs.aspx" title="Contact Us" description="Contact Us" />
</siteMapNode>

<siteMapNode url="~/Register.aspx" title="Register" description="Registration Page">
</siteMapNode>

<siteMapNode url="~/Help/Default.aspx" title="Help" description="Help Section">
<siteMapNode url="~/Help/Default.aspx" title="Blogging Guide" description="Blogging Guide" />
<siteMapNode url="~/Help/FAQ.aspx" title="F.A.Q." description="Frequently Asked Questions" />
</siteMapNode>

</siteMapNode>

</siteMap>

Okay thanks it worked! :) I copied the URL because I wanted that if the user clicks on either "About Us" or "About Us\Child1" it would display the same page. I'll make a copy of the page and rename it instead. Thanks again Imar, that was really helpful!

Thomas