Redirect page not showing up in Sitemap?

Posted by Community Admin on 21-Jun-2011 00:00

Hey all,

Running in to an odd issue here - when using the page as a Standard page, the navigation shows the link and page correctly. Changing it to a Redirect page (internal redirect to a different page in the Sitemap) instantly removes the link from the navigation. Currently, using the code below for 2-level dropdowns (feel free to use =))

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="MainNav.ascx.cs" Inherits="Custom_Widgets_MainNav" %>

<asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="TopNavStart" runat="server" ShowStartingNode="false" />

<asp:Repeater runat="server" ID="LeftNav" DataSourceID="TopNavStart" OnItemDataBound="FirstLevel_ItemDataBound">

<HeaderTemplate>

<ul>

</HeaderTemplate>

<ItemTemplate>

<li class="links">

<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("Url") %>' Text='<%# Eval("Title") %>'></asp:HyperLink>

<asp:Repeater runat="server" ID="SecondLevel" OnItemDataBound="SecondLevel_ItemDataBound">

<HeaderTemplate><ul class="firstDrop"></HeaderTemplate>

<ItemTemplate>

<li>

<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink2" runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("Url") %>' Text='<%# Eval("Title") %>'></asp:HyperLink>

<asp:Repeater runat="server" ID="ThirdLevel">

<HeaderTemplate><ul></HeaderTemplate>

<ItemTemplate>

<li>

<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink3" runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("Url") %>' Text='<%# Eval("Title") %>'></asp:HyperLink>

</li>

</ItemTemplate>

<FooterTemplate></ul></FooterTemplate>

</asp:Repeater>

</li>

</ItemTemplate>

<FooterTemplate></ul></FooterTemplate>

</asp:Repeater>

</li>

</ItemTemplate>

<FooterTemplate>

</ul>

</FooterTemplate>

</asp:Repeater>

CodeBehind:

public partial class Custom_Widgets_MainNav : System.Web.UI.UserControl

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

protected void FirstLevel_ItemDataBound(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)

if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item || e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.AlternatingItem)

//Check for "Show In Navigation" in Sitefinity SiteMap

var data = e.Item.DataItem as PageSiteNode;

if (data != null)

if (data.ShowInNavigation == false)

e.Item.Visible = false;

if (data.IsGroupPage == true)

//e.Item.Visible = false;

//Bind nested repeat for dropdowns

if (((SiteMapNode)e.Item.DataItem).ChildNodes.Count > 0)

Repeater nestedRepeater = e.Item.FindControl("SecondLevel") as Repeater;

if (nestedRepeater != null)

nestedRepeater.DataSource = ((SiteMapNode)e.Item.DataItem).ChildNodes;

nestedRepeater.DataBind();

protected void SecondLevel_ItemDataBound(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)

if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item || e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.AlternatingItem)

//Check for "Show In Navigation" in Sitefinity SiteMap

var data = e.Item.DataItem as PageSiteNode;

if (data != null)

if (data.ShowInNavigation == false)

e.Item.Visible = false;

if (data.IsGroupPage == true)

e.Item.Visible = false;

//Bind nested repeat for dropdowns

if (((SiteMapNode)e.Item.DataItem).ChildNodes.Count > 0)

Repeater nestedRepeater = e.Item.FindControl("ThirdLevel") as Repeater;

if (nestedRepeater != null)

nestedRepeater.DataSource = ((SiteMapNode)e.Item.DataItem).ChildNodes;

nestedRepeater.DataBind();

Posted by Community Admin on 24-Jun-2011 00:00

Hello Brad,

I per your description using it as Custom template path for horizontal navigation with 2 level dropdowns breaks and I am unable view the pages because of an error unable to find BaseDataBoundControl derived control the template.
I used your code and installed that navigation as widget to be used on pages and all was great redirect pages were showing. Note when you design a user control to be used as Custom template for navigation you don`t need to define sitemap because it will use the sitemap provided with Sitefinity navigation widget. When you create a user control that will be dragged and dropped as a replacement for the navigation widget then you will need SiteMapDataSource.

You can use this code to create a control with dropdowns to be used as Custom template for navigation widget.

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="MainNav.ascx.cs" Inherits="SitefinityWebApp.Custom.MainNav" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" %>

<telerik:RadMenu ID="RadMenu1" runat="server">

</telerik:RadMenu>

Please provide some more clarifications on how your control should work so I can be of help to you.

Regards,
Stanislav Velikov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 05-Jul-2011 00:00

Stanislav,

Thank you for the clarification on this issue. RadMenu seems to work just fine when embedded stylesheets are removed, thus just generating the markup.
Thanks!

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