Correct arguments for a custom MegaMenu navigation

Posted by Community Admin on 20-Jun-2013 00:00

I am working on a custom MegaMenu for my website navigation but I don't think I am using correct arguments.

As you know, Sitefinity pages can have five different statuses:

1) Published and Show in Navigation
2) Published but don't show in Navigation
3) Unpublished
4) Use this page only to group other pages
5) Use this page to redirect to another page

With the code below, I have managed to take care of the status list above for my pages. (I don't want unpublished pages and those that are set to "Not to show in navigation" and those pages that are used only to group other pages to show up in my dropdown menu).

So far everything looks good but I get an error when I use one of those hidden pages (those that are set "Not to show in navigation") to display the content of my single item widgets. For example, when I am using the "News" widget, if I choose "Selected existing page.." for displaying my single item detail page, and if the selected page is set not to show in navigation, then I get an error.

What are the correct arguments to use for my menu? I think my problem with this custom menu will be fixed if I use Radmenu's arguments, because when I choose not to use the custom MegaMenu, then Radmenu doesn't give me that error.

This is the code I am using and I am using Sitefinity 6.0:

void MegaMenuTemplate_IsNodeAccessible(object sender, IsAccessibleArgs e)

var pageNode = e.Node as PageSiteNode;

if (pageNode != null)

if ((String.IsNullOrEmpty(pageNode.Title) && // used in multilingual; captures the cases of synced, split, and group pages

pageNode.Id != SiteInitializer.CurrentFrontendRootNodeId)) // ensures that the root node is not hidden and thus all other pages

e.IsAccessible = false;

return;

//The page should be hidden if it is a group page and it has no child pages.

if (pageNode.IsGroupPage && pageNode.ChildNodes.Count < 1)

e.IsAccessible = false;

return;

//Added for preventing the unpublished pages to show in navigation

if (pageNode.ShowInNavigation == false)

e.IsAccessible = false;

return;

if (pageNode.Title != "Pages" && pageNode.Status != Telerik.Sitefinity.GenericContent.Model.ContentLifecycleStatus.Live)

e.IsAccessible = false;

return;

else

throw new NotSupportedException("The supported types are 'TaxonSiteNode' or 'PageSiteNode'.");

e.IsAccessible = true;

Thank you in advance.

Posted by Community Admin on 25-Jun-2013 00:00

Hello Faramarz,

I have already responded to you in the support ticket. Please try the control and let me know if it works for you! :)

Regards,
Jen Peleva
Telerik

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Posted by Community Admin on 25-Jun-2013 00:00

Jen, I really appreciate it. It works :)

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