Custom Navigation Control - Sitefinity - General Discussions

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Posted by Community Admin on 25-Nov-2010 00:00

Hi need to develop a custom Navigation control. I tried to develop one and what i get is :

Template (NavigationControl.ascx)

<%@ Control Language="C#" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="sfFields" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.Fields" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="telerik" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" %>

<div runat="server" id="controlWrapper">
    <telerik:RadMenu ID="siteMapControl" runat="server">
    </telerik:RadMenu>
</div>

---- o don't know if this it's ok.

(Control).cs
namespace Test.NavigationControls

    class NavigationControlCustom : NavigationControl

        protected override string LayoutTemplateName

            get

                return customTemplate;



        protected override void InitializeControls(GenericContainer container)

            base.InitializeControls(container);


        private const string customTemplate = "Test.NavigationControls.Resources.NavigationControl.ascx";



If i configure the widget in the toolbox and put it in one page i get the menu.

What I need to do is :
- get only the top level pages
- to apply a diferent Class to each top level page

In other custom menu (vertical menu) i will need to get all children pages of the current/selected top level page.

Posted by Community Admin on 25-Nov-2010 00:00

Hello JV,

- You can filter by root node by using the PageManager and then bind your RadMenu control

var manager = PageManager.GetManager();
var noodes = manager.GetPageNodes().Where(c =>c.Parent.Id == "FrontEndSiteMapID").ToList();

- Each top level page will be RadMenuItem which has CssClass property that you can set inside ItemDataBound method of the RadMenu control for which you can subscribe in your custom class.

Kind regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 10-Aug-2011 00:00

Hello Ivan ,

Can you please tell me how can I show only the top menu items. I am using the following code

<asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" ShowStartingNode="false" />
<telerik:RadMenu EnableSelection="true" ID="RadMenu1" runat="server"
DataSourceID="SitemapDataSource1" onitemdatabound="RadMenu1_ItemDataBound" >

</telerik:RadMenu>
Thank You
Roopesh

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