Position of the RadNavigationView Menu

[Renier Pretorius]

Can one change the position of the RadNavigationView's Menu section to display on the right side of the screen rather than the left?

[Stenly]

Hello Renier,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

To achieve this requirement, you could extract the default ControlTemplate of the RadNavigationView control and modify it to achieve this requirement. More specifically, by reordering the elements in it via the Grid.Column property and by reordering the ColumnDefinition instances of the ColumnDefinitions collection of the root Grid panel. Also, the triggers might also need to be modified slightly to correctly position the pane on the right instead of the left.

With this being said, I attached a sample project that showcases this suggestion's implementation. It is built with the Xaml version of our assemblies in mind, and the ControlTemplate of the RadNavigationView is extracted from the Office_Black theme.

Regards,
Stenly
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[Renier Pretorius]

Hi Stenly,

Thanks for the feedback and sample project. In the mean time I just set the [FlowDirection] property of the NavigationView to "RightToLeft" which seems to do the trick but have not tested it fully or built out the navigation completely so might still get to a few gotchas. 

Regards

Renier

[Stenly]

Hello Renier,

I tested the FlowDirection approach, and although it displays the pane on the right side of the control, it will also apply to the content area and the elements defined in the Content property.

The approach with the customization of the default ControlTemplate only reorders the elements, so that it achieves this requirement, and should not affect the position of the elements in the content area.