Getting a full URL from a SiteMapNode

Posted by Community Admin on 03-Sep-2013 00:00

Hi

I'm making my own MVC navigation bar widget. I'm just beginning, so far it's pretty simple. All I want to do is list the links to each page that should go in the navigation bar.

Controller:

public class NavigationBarController : Controller

public ActionResult Index()

var provider = SiteMapBase.GetSiteMapProvider("FrontendSiteMap");

var topNavNodes = provider.GetChildNodes(provider.RootNode);

return View("NavigationBar", topNavNodes);

View:

@model SiteMapNodeCollection

<ul>

@foreach (var baseNode in Model)

<li>

<a href ="@baseNode.Url">@baseNode.Title</a>

</li>

</ul>

The problem is the links are all broken, they turn out like:
localhost:5291/.../products

How can I get the absolute URL (for SEO purposes too) from a SiteMapNode? Or am I going about this the wrong way?

Thanks for your help,
Kurren

Posted by Community Admin on 03-Sep-2013 00:00

Hi Kurren,

You can use the Url.Content method that will take a relative Url and returns an absolute Url.

<ul>

@foreach (var baseNode in Model)

<li>

<a href ="@Url.Content(baseNode.Ur)">@baseNode.Title</a>

</li>

</ul>

On the server-side you could use something like:
VirtualPathProvider.ToAbsolute()

Kind regards,
Daniel

Posted by Community Admin on 04-Sep-2013 00:00

Hi Daniel

Thanks for your reply. It worked like a charm.

Kurren

Posted by Community Admin on 04-Sep-2013 00:00

Hi Kurren,

That is great to hear.
Glad I could help.

Kind regards,
Daniel

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