Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

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re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Michael Gannotti — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:29:34 GMT

A lot of customers have been asking about this so THANKS!!

Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control

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re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Scott McIntosh — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:39:36 GMT

How do you integrate Moss Menu into a MOSS 2007 publishing site?

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Jim Provan — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:00:18 GMT

How do you implement this control ? I have been looking for something like this but am a newb when it comes to javascript.

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

ecmblog — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:39:30 GMT

Hi Scott, the most natural place would be to edit your master page and replace an existing menu control (say, left nav) with your custom one. As with any control, the dll needs to be available on the server and needs to be registered as a safe control in the web.config.

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

sathish — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:25:51 GMT

How can we display the items in the menu based on some security rules.............say a particular menu item 'Site123' should not be visible to the users if some their user profile property does not meet a given criteria.

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

sate — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:14:38 GMT

How can we have control on the menu items...i.e., I need to display /hide some menu items based on some user profile properties.

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Iddie — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:42:21 GMT

Does anyone know how to customize apperances of MossMenu?

My aim is I want to make MossMenu likes the navigation bars which is placed on www.xbox.com.

The way I thinked is to render our custom style(HTML/CSS/JavaScript) or override appearence codes in MossMenu.

How to reuse those code to integrate into SharePoint 2007? By Web Part or User Control? I'm appreciated if anyone furnish any clue for this.

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Chris Richard — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:33:59 GMT

How can we have control on the menu items...i.e., I need to display /hide some menu items based on some user profile properties

- The MOSS 2007 navigation system takes care of trimming out items that users don't have permission to see, and you can also employ Audience Targeting to have some items visible to some users and not to others. If you want to do more advanced menu item trimming based on custom information this is probably most easily done by subclassing the MOSS navigation data source control (PortalSiteMapDataSource). For a good example of this, see the "Taxonomy and Tagging Starter Kit" post. It links to some code that that does exactly this in the TaxonomyPortalSiteMapDataSource class.(http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2007/01/22/taxonomy-tagging-starter-kit-for-sharepoint-server.aspx).

Does anyone know how to customize apperances of MossMenu?

- MossMenu is identical to the default ASP.NET 2.0 Menu control in terms of how it deals with CSS/styling. Look at the documentation for the System.Web.UI.WebControls.Menu control to learn about how to change the appearance using CSS.

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

mlt — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:43:34 GMT

We're having problems with the SharePoint Menu control not working after a post-back. Which javascript files does it rely on?

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re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Larry Smith — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:16:47 GMT

I have this problem with my WWS 3.0 and am not sure how to use this fix. Can anyone give me a step by step. instruction?

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Wayne — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:27:25 GMT

I am also having problems with this control. I have integrated it into the master page, but it does not seem to do one thing. The menu doesn't change, at all. I placed the script in the core.js file. Not sure what I could be doing wrong.

One fix that seemed to help was changing the asp:SiteMapDataSource to the SPSiteMapProvider and changing the attributes respectfully. Problem with this hack is, now it shows all sites on the topnavbar, regardless if I chose 'Display this site on the top link bar of the parent site?' when the site was first created. It is basically, showing the entire Site Map with Flyouts.

Does anyone have any suggestions or some simple directions on integrating this control into a WSS 3.0 site?

Thanks, in advance!

MOSSMenu

edhild's WebLog — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:55:47 GMT

The product team has released the code for the menu control used in WSS v3 and MOSS 2007. This menu class

MOSSMenu

Noticias externas — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:51:27 GMT

The product team has released the code for the menu control used in WSS v3 and MOSS 2007. This menu class

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Ed S. — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:06:34 GMT

I would also like a step by step instruction on how to deploy this fix. I have created the dll and signed and deployed to the GAC, but SharePoint Designer does not recognize it.

Some basic steps would be helpful. -Thanks

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Ralph — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:17:24 GMT

Could any one point me to instructions to modify the menu code to allow images/buttons to bew displayed in the menu rather than text menu items?

Thanks.!

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Roel — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:20:41 GMT

How to use the MossMenu

1. Download and install the "Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions Version 1.0" on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=19f21e5e-b715-4f0c-b959-8c6dcbdc1057&displaylang=en

2. Download MossMenu sources at http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/attachment/1193956.ashx

3. Create new microsoft visual studio 2005 project "Visual C#\Web Part"

4. Add MossMenu sources to the project

5. Add References to the project

System.Configuration

System.Design

System.Web

Windows Sharepoint Services Security (Version 12.0.0.0)

6. Change Default namespace ( Project > Properties > Application > Default namespace) in

Microsoft.SDK.SharePointServer.Samples

7. Sign the dll: Project > Properties > Signing > Sign the assembly

(key file: Properties\Temporary.snk)

8. Build using the "Release" Solution Configuration

9. Install the dll into the gac by copying the dll to the folder C:\WINDOWS\Assembly

10. Adding the control to the SafeControls list in the web.config file

Path: <configuration<SharePoint><SafeControls>

Add the following row:

Replace "NL.ADA.MossMenu" by the name of the dll.

11. Open the masterpage that uses the standard Sharepoint menu and register the new menu by adding the following tag at the top of the masterpage:

<%@ Register Assembly="NL.ADA.MossMenu, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=9f4da00116c38ec5" Namespace="Microsoft.SDK.SharePointServer.Samples" TagPrefix="Sharepoint" %>

12. In de masterpage replace the all <SharePoint:AspMenu> tags by the <Sharepoint:MossMenu> tag and the closing tags </SharePoint:AspMenu> by the <Sharepoint:MossMenu/> tag.

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

itaysk — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:55:12 GMT

I have written a guide on how to improve the highlighting of the menu using this source.

Check it out:

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2007/09/18/sharepoint-navigation-make-current-item-highlighting-work.aspx

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

manotas — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:57:56 GMT

In order to implements a custom menu based on this code, I've been trying to understand how to use the javascript code, but I'm not sure.... do I have to place the code in the script file into the core.js (in 12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033) or there is anothe way ?

I'm newbie with MOSS stuffs but I thought it wasn't advisable to modify these files, and since our site must support localization, I understand that modifications to files into the 1033 directory (for En culture I think), will not be applied to other culture settings ?

Is that correct ?

I'd appreciate your help here !!

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Chris — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:25:27 GMT

Well, with the guide up ist wrong.

The PublicKeyToken=9f4da00116c38ec5 cant work like this.

Anyhow, it looks pretty nice, but when it comes to run in the solution it doesnt work.

Building it np

Migrate that Big Issue.

Is there any other Informations about that?

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re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

uma — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:22:31 GMT

i followed the steps but when i replace aspmenu with mossmenu in masterpage it gives error " object reference not set to instance of the object"

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Prashant — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:01:03 GMT

Is it possible to, Create Role based menu in moss 2007

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:59:17 GMT

I have tried the steps given by Roel.

On the sharepoint designer i am getting an error that says that "Object reference not set to an instance of an object".

And when i refresh the page the menu is also not rendered.

Could anyone help me on this. Please...

Thanks in advance..

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re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Dan O'Brien — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:30:35 GMT

When I try to implement this class and connect with the SPNavigationProvider on our site, it only displays a valid menu simetimes. When broken, some of the sub sites have no sub-nodes, just a menu item that says "Error" with an error stack in the Title property that reads:

An error occured while rendering navigation for requested URL: /dept. Exception message: Request failed. Stack trace: at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.ServerResources.GetString(ResourceFileType fileType, String shortResourceName, CultureInfo culture)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.get_PagesListName()

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CachedArea..ctor(PublishingWeb area, String id, String parentId, String title, String url, String description, CachedObjectFactory factory)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CachedArea.CreateCachedArea(PublishingWeb area, CachedObjectFactory factory, String parentId)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CachedObjectFactory.CreateObject(PublishingWeb area, String parentUrl)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CachedArea.GetChildAreaIds()

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalWebSiteMapNode.PopulateNavigationChildren()

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalSiteMapNode.GetNavigationChildren(NodeTypes includedTypes, NodeTypes includedHiddenTypes, OrderingMethod ordering, AutomaticSortingMethod method, Boolean ascending, Int32 lcid)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalSiteMapNode.GetNavigationChildren(NodeTypes includedHiddenTypes)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalSiteMapProvider.GetChildNodes(PortalSiteMapNode node, NodeTypes includedHiddenTypes)

If I change the StartingNode property to "SID:1002" (which is what I really need it to do so it always displays the menu from the root), I don't get any menu at all unless the Master Page is changed--and even then, it's only partially there (the above menu is displayed.)

The regular SharePoint:AspMenu works just fine in our site...why won't this? I'd like to do some cool customizations with it, but not if it can't produce reliable menus.

If anyone has any ideas for me to try, please email me @ daniel.obrien(at)dmx(dot)com. I've been trying for about three weeks to build a control that will work on our site, and it just simply isn't working.

Many thanks guys...

-Dan

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Anand — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:13:03 GMT

Is the javascript (Included in the zip file) need to be include on the page? or this is a part of core.js

re: Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released

Parag — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:17:16 GMT

Can I make any changes in design time HTML? I need to add some images in the tabs. How can i do that?