[Solved] Items not showing (using areas)

[Marko Gluhak]

 

Hi,

I'm not sure is this a bug or normal behaviour. I have MVC project with 2 areas. I called Administration and second called Client.

I have put menu control inside Administration area inside _Layout.cshtml (Areas\Administration\Views\Shared\).

Control is used like this:

            @(Html.Telerik( ).Menu( )
                    .Name( "menu" )
                    .Items( menu =>
                    {
                        menu.Add( ).Text( "Users" ).Action( "Index", "Users" );
                        menu.Add( ).Text( "Booking" ).Action( "Index", "Booking" );
                        menu.Add( ).Text( "Boats" ).Action( "Index", "Boats" );
                        menu.Add( ).Text( "Contents" ).Action( "Index", "Contents" );
                        menu.Add( ).Text( "FAQ" ).Action( "Index", "FAQ" );
                        menu.Add( ).Text( "Settings" ).Action( "Index", "Settings" );
                        menu.Add( ).Text( "Translations" ).Action( "Index", "Translations" );
                        menu.Add( ).Text( "Logoff" ).Url( "/en/Authentication/LogOff" );
                    } ))

All items were shown except "Booking" (second one").

After some time I found out that reason was because I have same named controller in "Client" area and it was not showing because controller in that are need to have users of role Client which was not the case.

So problem was that Menu control was getting link of controller in another area insted of one that if was places in.

To solve this use parameter:
menu.Add( ).Text( "Booking" ).Action( "Index", "Booking", new { area = "Administration" } );

My opinion that this is bug because menu should take controller Booking from Administration area and not Client.

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello Marko,

 
The described behavior is expected. If you have two or more Controller with the same name, you will need to specify the area name. Thus the menu will get the right one.

Regards,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team

[Marko Gluhak]

Thank you for reply.

I would expect that control will recognize that it is inside "Administration" area and so that it would firstly look for controller inside that area if area is not explicitely entered  in declaration.

If that is possible it would be more logical than it is now.

Marko

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello Marko,

 
I will log your request ot our internal system for further investigation. If other users want such functionality we will schedule it for further investigation.

All the best,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team