RadToolBar SiteMapDatasource in UI for ASP.NET AJAX Menu

Chris

120 posts

Member since:
Jun 2006

Posted 05 Aug 2008 Link to this post

I have a RadMenu in my Sharepoint site. I want to load from a SiteMapDatasource. I have that working. What I want to do is to only load from that SiteMapDataSource 1 level down from the Level up. For instance, lets say my navigation is like this

Level 1.1
    Level 2.1
        Level 3.1
Level 1.2
    Level 2.2
        Level 3.2

I have a left navigation where I select Level 1.1. In the center of my page I have a RadMenu. I want the RadToolBar to load Level 2.1. The end result will look something like this

This Would be my left Nav. Let's say I select Home.
Home
    Associates
        Benefits
        PTO
    Other People
    Forms
    Google
    Ebay
Documents
    Internal
    External

When selecting Home, I would like to see my middle bar which uses RadToolBar to show the following:

Associates Other People Forms  Google Ebay

I would rather not do this programatically if I can avoid it. I would like to use something like the "MaxDataBindDepth" like the RadPanel uses.

Chris

120 posts

Member since:
Jun 2006

Posted 05 Aug 2008 Link to this post

I actually meant RadMenu. I do not not know to move this tread.

Atanas Korchev

Admin

8462 posts

Posted 06 Aug 2008 Link to this post

Hello Chris,

RadMenu exposes the MaxDataBindDepth property as well. Have you tried it? Also you can use the StartingNodeOffset or the StartingNodeUrl properties of the SiteMapDataSource control.

Regards,
Albert
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Chris

120 posts

Member since:
Jun 2006

Posted 06 Aug 2008 Link to this post

Thanks. I'm almost there. What I need to have happen is based on the current node, I want to show just 1 level down in my RadMenu. I do not want to base it on my Root node. It seems what I have now always bases it on the Root node. I really just need to base on the current node. Example

Root 1
    2nd Level 1
        3rd Level 1
        3rd Level 2
        3rd Level 3
    2nd Level 2

So lets say I select the Root 1, I want my menu to show:
2nd Level 1 2nd Level 2

Lets say I select the 2nd Level 1, I want my menu to show:
3rd Level 1 3rd Level 2 3rd Level 3

Here is the code I have now:

SiteMapDS Connection:

<PublishingNavigation:PortalSiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDS2" Runat="server"
       SiteMapProvider="CurrentNavSiteMapProvider" StartFromCurrentNode="true" StartingNodeOffset="1" ShowStartingNode="false" />

RadMenu info:

<telerik:RadMenu runat="server" ID="RadMenu1" DataSourceID="SiteMapDS2" Skin="Gray" Style="width: 748px; padding-left: 3px;" MaxDataBindDepth="1">
        </telerik:RadMenu>

Atanas Korchev

Admin

8462 posts

Posted 06 Aug 2008 Link to this post

Hello Chris,

You can try this:
                <PublishingNavigation:PortalSiteMapDataSource ID="siteMapDataSource1" Runat="server"
                                            SiteMapProvider="CurrentNavSiteMapProvider"
                                            StartFromCurrentNode="true" StartingNodeOffset="1" ShowStartingNode="false"
                                            TreatStartingNodeAsCurrent="false" />

Regards,
Albert
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Chris

120 posts

Member since:
Jun 2006

Posted 06 Aug 2008 Link to this post

No Go. My Nav still works like this:

Associates
        Benefits
                PTO
                Vision
      401k
        HR General
Forms

If I select Associates, the RadMenu shows this:
Benefits    HR General

If I select Benefits, the RadMenu shows this again:
Benefits    HR General

It should show this:
PTO    Vision    401k

Atanas Korchev

Admin

8462 posts

Posted 07 Aug 2008 Link to this post

Hello Chris,

Unfortunately I am out of ideas. Keep in mind we are not SharePoint experts. I suggest you check the documentation of the PortalSiteMapDataSource control or ask the same question in some SharePoint related forum. By the way do you managed to implement the same using the built-in SharePoint menu? The same approach should work with RadMenu as well.

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amit

4 posts

Member since:
Jun 2009

Posted 17 Jul 2009 Link to this post

Hi,

We have rad menu control . We are using it in sharepoint 2007 and sitemap as data source.
We have one requirement where when user hovers over root1 all subitems of root1 should get displayed.
When we did it using javascript and on clientload opened the all items, it overlaps other items.
How to expand all Root1 items without overlapping when client hovers mouse over root1

Root 1                      Root2
    2nd Level 1               Root2 level1
        3rd Level 1             Root2 level2
        3rd Level 2
        3rd Level 3
    2nd Level 2

Your help will decide our course of action on this.

Regards
Amit Lohogaonkar

doug

4 posts

Member since:
May 2009

Posted 10 Nov 2009 Link to this post

Hi
I am looking to have a single site map providor.
So using "<telerik:RadSiteMapDataSource" that will connect into a sitemap.cs class that can be used both by "<telerik:RadSiteMap", "

<

telerik:RadPanelBar" site menu and of course the GoogleSitemap control.

Since there are so many consumers of 'the site map' it is a pain to have it all disjoint so I aim to get it out of a DB.
The additional snag is that English is not the only language so the map is available in a number of languages.
Also Language and Market are two different things eg fr-fr and fr-ca are a world appart so might point to different content.
So have you some examples of hooking up "RadSiteMapDataSource" to a DB?
Can "RadSiteMap" expose itself as a GoogleSiteMap source?

Thanks

Doug,UK

T. Tsonev

Admin

2816 posts

Posted 13 Nov 2009 Link to this post

Hello,

The RadSiteMapDataSource can read data from any SiteMapProvider. You'll still have to write the provider yourself. Check out these links for more info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178431.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163657.aspx

Our data source is very close to the standard ASP.NET SiteMapDataSource. It provides greatly improved design-time support and convenient way to directly bind to XML site map files, but it will not bind directly to databases or such.

I'm not sure that I understand exactly what the "GoogleSitemap" is. Do you have the Sitemap protocol in mind? We can help you to export your site map to this format. There's a helper class that we plan to develop further, so let us know if this is what you have in mind.

All the best,
Tsvetomir Tsonev
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