Does anyone know how to use the sitemap file to generate attractive
menus other than those specified in Visual Web Developer (menu,
treeview). The menu control seems to always group the menu items
together in one top node, theres bound to be a way around this surely??


Any help much appreciated

I'm using XMLSiteMapProvider, and asp:Menu

In your aspx page where you want the Menu, when you define the
SiteMapDataSource, be sure to have the ShowStartingNode="false" - that
might solve your second problem

<asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server"
ShowStartingNode="false" />

<asp:Menu1 DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server"
......

And the site map should look something like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
<siteMapNode title="TOPLEVELNODE" description="THIS NODE WILL HIDE">
<siteMapNode title="Home" url="~/default.aspx">
<siteMapNode title="Logon" url="~/logon/default.aspx" />
<siteMapNode title="Sign Up" url="~/logon/signUp.aspx" />
</siteMapNode><!-- End "Home" Node-->
</siteMapNode><!-- End top level Node-->
</siteMap>

Using menu should then look like this:

Home ----
|--- Logon
|--- Sign Up

Hope that helps,


mocsoft wrote:
> Does anyone know how to use the sitemap file to generate attractive
> menus other than those specified in Visual Web Developer (menu,
> treeview). The menu control seems to always group the menu items
> together in one top node, theres bound to be a way around this surely??
>
>
> Any help much appreciated

Thats exactly what I was wanting, thanks very much for the help!

Kbalz wrote:
> I'm using XMLSiteMapProvider, and asp:Menu
>
> In your aspx page where you want the Menu, when you define the
> SiteMapDataSource, be sure to have the ShowStartingNode="false" - that
> might solve your second problem
>
> <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server"
> ShowStartingNode="false" />
>
> <asp:Menu1 DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server"
> .....
>
> And the site map should look something like
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> <siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
> <siteMapNode title="TOPLEVELNODE" description="THIS NODE WILL HIDE">
> <siteMapNode title="Home" url="~/default.aspx">
> <siteMapNode title="Logon" url="~/logon/default.aspx" />
> <siteMapNode title="Sign Up" url="~/logon/signUp.aspx" />
> </siteMapNode><!-- End "Home" Node-->
> </siteMapNode><!-- End top level Node-->
> </siteMap>
>
> Using menu should then look like this:
>
> Home ----
> |--- Logon
> |--- Sign Up
>
> Hope that helps,
>
>
> mocsoft wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to use the sitemap file to generate attractive
> > menus other than those specified in Visual Web Developer (menu,
> > treeview). The menu control seems to always group the menu items
> > together in one top node, theres bound to be a way around this surely??
> >
> >
> > Any help much appreciated