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MOSS and RadTabStrip for navigation

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Chris Duden asked on 12 Mar 2009, 09:10 PM

Can someone explain to me how to get this structure:

toplevel
-sublevel 1 site 1
-sublevel 1 site 2
--sublevel 2 site 1

to display like this using the radtabstrip:

toplevel | sublevel 1 site 1 | sublevel 1 site 2
                                              sublevel 2 site 1

I followed the instructions for getting all this to work binding to the SiteMapDataSource.   It displays but it always shows up this way:

toplevel
sublevel 1 site 1 | sublevel 1 site 2
                                              sublevel 2 site 1

Consequently I always have one and only one tab (toplevel)...not very useful. I could care less about the toplevel showing up at all. I want the subsites to be my top tabs. I tried setting the ShowStartingNode="false" and even played with the offset on the datasource but it doesn't seem to change a thing.

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answered on 13 Mar 2009, 08:59 AM

Hello Chris Duden,

I guess you want to achieve something like this. If yes here is the markup which we have used to create the aforementioned MOSS page:

            <telerik:RadTabStrip runat="server" ID="RadTabStrip1" DataSourceID="siteMapDataSource1" Skin="Web20"/>
                <PublishingNavigation:PortalSiteMapDataSource ID="siteMapDataSource1" Runat="server"
                                            SiteMapProvider="CombinedNavSiteMapProvider" EnableViewState="true"
                                            StartFromCurrentNode="true" StartingNodeOffset="0" ShowStartingNode="false"
                                            TreatStartingNodeAsCurrent="true" TrimNonCurrentTypes="Heading"/>

I hope this helps,
Albert
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answered on 13 Mar 2009, 10:40 PM

That did the trick. Follow up question. It works for a publishing portal (master page based upon something like blueband.master) but what about a collaboration publishing portal like default.master. That masterpage has the following datasource:

<asp:SiteMapDataSource
     ShowStartingNode="False"
     SiteMapProvider="SPNavigationProvider"
     id="topSiteMap"
     runat="server"
     StartingNodeUrl="sid:1002"/>

instead of

<PublishingNavigation:PortalSiteMapDataSource .../>

the asp:sitemapdatasource doesn't have the same properties and it doesn't seem to work (it ignores any properties set on it).

Thanks for your help.

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answered on 16 Mar 2009, 12:30 PM

Hi Chris Duden,

The SPNavigationProvider seems to always returns the top ("Home") item. The built-in MOSS menu is aware of this behavior and renders the "Home" item as if it were child item. Unfortunately RadTabStrip cannot handle this case and renders the Home item as root item with child tabs. It seems however that you can use a PortalSiteMapDataSource in this case and achieve the desired results. I've tested this by adding the PortalSiteMapDataSource control in default.master.

Greetings,
Albert
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answered on 19 Mar 2009, 09:58 AM

This is what I thought but i hve the following data source and it is not binding to the current

                   <PublishingNavigation:PortalSiteMapDataSource ID="siteMapDataSource1" Runat="server"
                                            SiteMapProvider="CombinedNavSiteMapProvider" EnableViewState="true"
                                            StartFromCurrentNode="true" StartingNodeOffset="0" ShowStartingNode="false"
                                            TrimNonCurrentTypes="Heading" />

answered on 19 Mar 2009, 10:06 AM

Hello Paul,

This is the declaration of the tabstrip and the datasource which we have used in our example:

<telerik:RadTabStrip runat="server" ID="RadTabStrip1" DataSourceID="siteMapDataSource1"   Skin="Web20"/>

<PublishingNavigation:PortalSiteMapDataSource ID="siteMapDataSource1" Runat="server"
                        SiteMapProvider="CombinedNavSiteMapProvider" EnableViewState="true"
                        StartFromCurrentNode="true" StartingNodeOffset="0" ShowStartingNode="false"
                        TreatStartingNodeAsCurrent="true" TrimNonCurrentTypes="Heading"/>

Regards,
Albert
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answered on 19 Mar 2009, 05:14 PM

Hi,

RadTabStrip relies on the underlying sitemap provider to determine the current page via the CurrentNode property. If the SiteMap provider does not properly update the current node for those particular pages you can implement programatic highlighting as described in this example. The problem here is that server-code is disabled by default for sharepoint master pages. Fortunately there is a workaround explained in this msdn help article. In a word you need the following code (or something similar) to find the tab which corresponds to the current url and select it:

RadTabStrip1.DataBind();

 RadTab tab = RadTabStrip1.FindTabByUrl(Request.Url.PathAndQuery);

  if (tab != null)

  {

     tab.SelectParents();

     tab.PageView.Selected = true;

  }



That code should be executed after the tabstrip has been databound. You can force that by calling its DataBind method first.

I hope this helps,
Albert
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answered on 25 Mar 2009, 05:02 PM

I got it working perfectly I did the following

added this code to the master page

    
            <script runat="server">  
        
                protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)     
        
                {     
        
                    RadTabStrip1.DataBind();  
        
                    RadTab tab = RadTabStrip1.FindTabByUrl(Request.Url.PathAndQuery);     
        
                    if (tab != null)     
        
                    {     
        
                        tab.Selected = true;     
        
                        tab.SelectParents();     
        
                    }     
        
                }     
        
            </script>

and the following to the web.config to allow the code to run

    
                  <PageParserPaths> 
        
                     <PageParserPath VirtualPath="/BI/_catalogs/masterpage/*" CompilationMode="Always" AllowServerSideScript="true" />

Thanks for your help