I'm assuming you're using an <asp:SiteMapDataSource> control as your
DataSource for your <asp:Menu> control.
As for this error "Error parsing control: A relative URI Cannot be created
because the 'uristring' parameter represents an absolute URI" I think the
reason for this is because, most likely the URL attribute on the
SiteMapNode(s) in your sitemap file are absolute URLs as in
"
http://myDomain/default.aspx" instead or relative URLs such as
"default.aspx" or "Admin/default.aspx" etc. Having
http://... probably works
fine but perhaps not in design view.
If you're not getting other items on the same level as home do the following:
in the web.sitemap file surround your existing <siteMapNode> tags with
another siteMapNode that is blank. Your Sitemap file should look something
like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="
http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
<siteMapNode url="" title="" description="">
<siteMapNode url="default.aspx" title="Home" description="My Home Page" />
<siteMapNode url="About.aspx" title="About" description="About Us" />
<siteMapNode url="Contact.aspx" title="Contact Us" description="Contact
Page" />
</siteMapNode>
After doing that go to your <asp:SiteMapDataSource> and add this attribute
ShowStartingNode="false" to it. so that the tag would look something like
this:
<asp:SiteMapDataSource runat="server" ID="SMDS" ShowStartingNode="false" />
And hopefully that helps.
If you're not getting link names or titles you must populate the Title=""
attribute for each siteMapNode in your siteMap file.
If you continue to have problems it would help me answer your question
better if you could post your <asp:Menu> tag and the <asp:SiteMapDataSource>
tag you're using. It would also help if you can post a small part of your
sitemap file.
Good luck.
