Menu control won't display horizontal

[stricknyn]

Hi all,

Had two questions about the ASP.NET menu control.

1) I have a menu control which is using a SiteMapDataSource. This is bound to a .sitemap file. I have the orientation property set to horizontal, but for some strange reason it still displays vertical. I can't for the life of me figure out why it's doing this. Am I doing something wrong here?

2) Is there a way to not display the root (Home) directory on my menu control? I only want to show Customer Support, Technician Support, Administration, and Site Map on the control.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
    
    <siteMapNode url="Default.aspx" title="Home"  description="Home page">
        
        <siteMapNode url="CustomerSupport.aspx" title="Customer Support"  description="">
          <siteMapNode url="ProductRegistration.aspx" title="Register products"  description="" />
          <siteMapNode url="CustomerSurvey.aspx" title="Complete customer survey"  description="" />
          <siteMapNode url="ContactUs.aspx" title="Contact Us"  description="" />
        </siteMapNode>

        <siteMapNode url="TechnicianSupport.aspx" title="Technician Support"  description="">
          <siteMapNode url="CustomerIncidentDisplay.aspx" title="Display customer incidents"  description="" />
          <siteMapNode url="IncidentUpdate.aspx" title="Update incidents"  description="" />
        </siteMapNode>

        <siteMapNode url="Administration.aspx" title="Administration"  description="">
          <siteMapNode url="ProductMaintenance.aspx" title="Maintain products"  description="" />
          <siteMapNode url="CustomerMaintenance.aspx" title="Maintain customers"  description="" />
          <siteMapNode url="TechnicianMaintenance.aspx" title="Maintain technicians"  description="" />
          <siteMapNode url="IncidentCreation.aspx" title="Create incidents"  description="" />
          <siteMapNode url="TechnicianIncidentSummary.aspx" title="Display technician incidents"  description="" />
          <siteMapNode url="IncidentAssignment.aspx" title="Assign incidents"  description="" />
          <siteMapNode url="IncidentDisplay.aspx" title="Display incidents"  description="" />
          <siteMapNode url="CustomerDisplay.aspx" title="Display customers"  description="" />
        </siteMapNode>
      
        <siteMapNode url="Map.aspx" title="Site Map"  description="" />
          
  </siteMapNode>
  
</siteMap>

Thanks,

Strick

[brin351]

Probably because you have the Home node as the parient to all other siteMape nodes. Try moving the closing tage for home node directly after it's opening tag, you'll then have 5 nodes at the same level and they should be the menu heads.

I have not used the siteMap/menu in production so there may be a way to declare which nodes to use from the datasource on the sitemap tag. If not use the dataBound event and do something like

if e.node.title = "Home" then e.visible = false

[avrail]

Hi all,

Had two questions about the ASP.NET menu control.

1) I have a menu control which is using a SiteMapDataSource. This is bound to a .sitemap file. I have the orientation property set to horizontal, but for some strange reason it still displays vertical. I can't for the life of me figure out why it's doing this. Am I doing something wrong here?

hay,
you need to show us the markup for the menu it self, not the xml file

and what you mean about not displaying the Home, this node if not important then why you didn't remove it from the XML file

[gep13]

Hey,

With the Menu Control, in conjunction with the site map, you HAVE to have a root node. If you don't have to show it in the Menu control then set the ShowStartingNodeProperty of the SiteMapDataSouce:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...rtingnode.aspx

Gary

[brin351]

Hey,

With the Menu Control, in conjunction with the site map, you HAVE to have a root node. If you don't have to show it in the Menu control then set the ShowStartingNodeProperty of the SiteMapDataSouce:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...rtingnode.aspx

Gary

That should teach me not to stab in the dark at questions I know little about. But then again .....

[gep13]

That should teach me not to stab in the dark at questions I know little about. But then again .....

I do that all the time

[tagtech]

Striknyn,

To answer, "2) Is there a way to not display the root (Home) directory on my menu control? I only want to show Customer Support, Technician Support, Administration, and Site Map on the control."

Yes, however, there will be a blank space displayed ... so ... put another blank space at the end to balance the line:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
    <siteMapNode url="" title=""  description="Home Page" >
        <siteMapNode url="" title="About CJA"  description="" >
            <siteMapNode url="~/1About/contact/contacts.pdf" title="Contacts"  description="" />
            <siteMapNode url="~/1About/location/default.aspx" title="Location"  description="" />
            <siteMapNode url="~/1About/director/default.aspx" title="Director"  description="" />
            <siteMapNode url="~/1About/history/default.aspx" title="History"  description="" />
        </siteMapNode>
        <siteMapNode url="" title="General Information"  description="" >
            <siteMapNode url="~/2Info/accountability/accountability1010.pdf" title="Accountability Report"  description="" />
            <siteMapNode url="~/2Info/foiact/default.aspx" title="Freedom of Information Act"  description="" />
            <siteMapNode url="~/2Info/training/Training-Act-as-of-12-11-08.pdf" title="SC Law Enforcement Training Act"  description="" />
        </siteMapNode>
        <siteMapNode url="" title="Training"  description="" >
            <siteMapNode url="~/3Train/catalog/cjacat2010-11.pdf" title="CJA Catalog"  description="" />
            <siteMapNode url="~/3Train/studio/default.aspx" title="CJA Studio Information"  description="" />
            <siteMapNode url="~/3Train/reserve/default.aspx" title="Reserve Officer"  description="" />
        </siteMapNode>
        <siteMapNode url="" title="Standards &amp; Testing"  description="" >
            <siteMapNode url="~/5Standards/standards/default.aspx" title="Standards"  description="" />
            <siteMapNode url="~/5Standards/testing/default.aspx" title="Testing"  description="" />
        </siteMapNode>
        <siteMapNode url="~/6Forms/default.aspx" title="Forms"  description="" />
        <siteMapNode url="~/7Lets/default.aspx" title="LETS"  description="" />
        <siteMapNode url="~/8News/Academy-Connection-Volume-2-Issue-4-10-5-10.pdf" title="News"  description="" />
        <siteMapNode url="~/9links/default.aspx" title="Links"  description="" />
        <siteMapNode url="" title=""  description="" />
    </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

[tagtech]

Stricknyn,

As to, "1) I have a menu control which is using a SiteMapDataSource. This is bound to a .sitemap file. I have the orientation property set to horizontal, but for some strange reason it still displays vertical. I can't for the life of me figure out why it's doing this. Am I doing something wrong here?"

I'm having fits with the menu - VS 2008 w/ Framework v3.5 barely worked at all and VS 2010 w/ Framework v4.0 is being obdurate!

A little help, please.

VS2008 w/ Framework v3.5 did not render the asp:menu control at all well for me; could not change forecolor, underline attributes etc. to override the linked CSS file.

Now I am using VS2010 w/ Framework v4.0 and a table layout. I am getting control of things like forecolor, underline attributes etc. but the entire menu will not center on the page, instead it is slammed left. The table is designed to center and the menu table row reads:

<tr id="hbot">
	<td id="hblrail" style="text-align: left; width: 5&#37;; border: none; background-color: #022E54; visibility: visible">
	     &nbsp;
	</td>
    <td id="hmenu" align="center" style="text-align: center; width: 90%; height: 1%; border: none thin yellow; background-color: #2B4658; visibility: visible" colspan="4">
        <div style="text-align: center">
            <br/>
            <asp:Menu ID="Menu1" align="left" Orientation="Horizontal" runat="server" 
                DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1" StaticDisplayLevels="2" BackColor="#3E647E" 
                ForeColor="White" StaticMenuItemStyle-BackColor="#3E647E" 
                DynamicMenuItemStyle-BackColor="#3E647E" Font-Size="Large" 
                StaticEnableDefaultPopOutImage="false" Width="100%">
            </asp:Menu>
            <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" />
            <br/>
        </div>
    </td>
	<td id="hbrrail" style="text-align: left; width: 5%; border: none; background-color: #022E54; visibility: visible">
	     &nbsp;
	</td>
</tr>

I'm stuck with either / or. Either I can have a centered horizontal menu (which is what is wanted) but with blue underlined links and no "container" formatting (not wanted) or I can have (the beginning of) formatted "containers" - looks like buttons - with white lettering, etc.
BTW - align="center" in the asp:Menu would only stack the sub-menu items centered over each other not center the entire menu.



-Thanks

[gep13]

Striknyn,

To answer, "2) Is there a way to not display the root (Home) directory on my menu control? I only want to show Customer Support, Technician Support, Administration, and Site Map on the control."

Yes, however, there will be a blank space displayed ... so ... put another blank space at the end to balance the line:

You don't need to do this.

As I explained, you can do this through the ShowStartingNodeProperty.

Gary

[gep13]

@tagtech,

Welcome to the forums!!

When posting into the forums, can you remember to use [CODE][/CODE] tags? This makes your post a lot easier to read.

I have edited your above post to put code tags in place.

Thanks

Gary

[tagtech]

Gep13,

Excuse me. I saw, "you HAVE to have a root node" and quit reading. Mea culpa.

[gep13]

Gep13,

Excuse me. I saw, "you HAVE to have a root node" and quit reading. Mea culpa.

Ah, I see.

Not a problem at all.

Gary