MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

MOSS Navigation Deep Dive, Part 1

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re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Kylie Manders — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:36:16 GMT

Just what I've been looking for.

Very nice!

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re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Ant — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:38:09 GMT

The problem is the navigation is still terrible, and based entirely on the site’s hierarchy which is very much NOT how users use a web site. This navigation system lets SharePoint down massively.

ALL I want to be able to do is build a totally custom navigation system, with fly outs across the top and a three level left navigation quickly and in an uncomplicated fashion - SharePoint designers like me have been asking for this feature since 2001 and it's still not there.

I seriously don't understand why this hasn't been fixed and why I have to spend days of my time hacking new navigation solutions into the system in order to produce the most basic navigation. I can't even add a link in a fly out to an external site without creating a sub site. It's abysmal!

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

rd — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:16:38 GMT

Great series, can't wait for the rest. I'm wondering if you have seen anyone use the PortalSiteMapProvider datasource in a Tree View? Is that possible? I tried briefly today and was greeted with many errors.

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Chris Richard — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:32:10 GMT

"ALL I want to be able to do is build a totally custom navigation system, with fly outs across the top and a three level left navigation quickly and in an uncomplicated fashion - SharePoint designers like me have been asking for this feature since 2001 and it's still not there. "

Sorry to hear this feature doesn't meet your needs. If I understand correctly, you'd like to easily specifiy top navigation links and a hierarchy of left navigation links to be shown on a particular site. If so, are the links shown on one site completely independent of the links shown on parent or child sites?

Remember that we still have the Navigation Settings page to look at. I think some of the options there might get you closer to your goal. Headings might be of particular interest to you, as they allow for insertion of at least one level of navigation hierarchy without creating a subsite.

Let me know more about your scenario and I think we can figure out some solutions.

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Chris Richard — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:43:42 GMT

"I'm wondering if you have seen anyone use the PortalSiteMapProvider datasource in a Tree View?"

This should work. I just tested a basic setup myself.

One thing to note, going back to my post for a second: "... for most ... display controls [other than the menu] make sure the provider declaration includes RequireUniqueKeysForNodes="true".

If this setting is absent, the expansion of heading nodes in the TreeView can get messed up. You should hook this up to a data source which is in turn connected to a provider that has this attribute specified. You can either provision a new provider or modify one of the existing ones. However, adding the attribute to an existing provider will have the effect of disabling the "current node" highlighting of authored links and headings for the menus connected to that provider.

MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 2

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re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Robert — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:37:42 GMT

Chris,

For your left hand navigation, how are you supressing "Web Site - 3.1"? I'm trying to do something similar, but child nodes outside of the current branch are still showing up.

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re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Chris Richard — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:43:28 GMT

For your left hand navigation, how are you supressing "Web Site - 3.1"?

Web Site 3.1 gets trimmed because we're visiting Web Site 2 and this site is set to "Display the current site, the navigation items below the current site, and the current site's siblings" for its Current Navigation. You can change this setting using the Navigation Settings page - take a peek at the second part of this post for more information about this page.

I'd also recommend adding the TreatStartingNodeAsCurrent="true" to the data source supplying your left menu. Adding this property will often fix trimming issues and in hindsight it should have been set by default.

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re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Antoni Carluccio — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:33:35 GMT

How would I show site 2.1.1 in the global Navigation bar? I need to do this on a customised enterprise global intranet which will have the same global navigation bar on all servers on the Intranet?

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

guido0351 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:38:55 GMT

Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:32 AM by Chris Richard

Let me know more about your scenario and I think we can figure out some solutions.

I am wanting to deploy a similar solution to the post above. Although I can use headings and links to create my menu I dont want to reproduce this across 50 servers. any answers?

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Phebe — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:07:05 GMT

Gr8 Post!! Can we’ve left navigation in the top bar i.e. under the My Home tab or as a drop down from My Home tab?

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re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Steve Walsh — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:19:16 GMT

Chris, great post... however, I am stuck on something... I am using left navigation... I know that I must edit the Master Page and change the code... So I open the Mast Page, and I change the code to what is below... I know I must change the MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels... So I change this to say 2 or 3 or 4 or 5... and nothing. I still only get 1 level of flyout menus, and I cannot get anymore... Does anyone know how to get more then 1 level of flyout menu?

When I go into the navigation to add the items, I cant seem to add more levels of any sort...

Thanks

Steve

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server" />

<SharePoint:AspMenu ID="CurrentNav"

runat="server"

datasourceID="SiteMapDS"

orientation="Vertical" StaticDisplayLevels="1"

MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="4"

StaticSubMenuIndent="0"

ItemWrap="false"

AccessKey="3"

CssClass="leftNav"

SkipLinkText="<%$Resources:cms,masterpages_skiplinktext%>">

<asp:MenuItemStyle CssClass="leftNav1" />

<asp:MenuItemStyle CssClass="leftNav2" />

<asp:MenuItemStyle CssClass="leftNav3" />

</LevelMenuItemStyles>

</SharePoint:AspMenu>

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Sasya — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:15:23 GMT

I am having a MOSS portal which is a Publishing Site. It has the sites displayed as tabs. I want to hijack the tab click and do some task once the user clicks on the tab in the top navigation menu. Where should I implement my logic to achieve this? Is there any javascript function that will be invoked upon tab click. Where can I customize this?

Regards,

Sasya

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Anirudh — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:32:43 GMT

Hi all,

I need a left nav menu which:

1) only shows immidiate children of a node when that node is clicked on. Also in this case only the direct ancestors of the node just clicked should be seen; i.e. no peers of the current node, its immediate children, or direct ancestors either.

2)higlighting of current node irrespective of whether it is a site,page, heading or authored link. Note that I need to uncheck the 'show pages' option in the site's navigation settings as a parallel requirement. So w/o that checked i need higlighting for sites,pages,headings and authored links.

i am trying to get some(hopefully all) of the above working by playing around with the portaldatasourceprovider properties like 'trimNonCurrentTypes' etc. bu I am not even able to get one the above requirements working.

Is this possible with the current OOB menu that Moss 2007 provides?

thanks

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Gerald Arguelles — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:44:50 GMT

Hi Steve,

Deactivate the OOB feature "Navigation" in your site collection and the flyout should work.

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Amrel — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 23:14:29 GMT

Hi, I am new to Sharepoint and I was wondering if there is way to add an alert message on the navigation item, like a 3rd party site alert message. The only way I have been modifying the navigation menu on the site is through site settings, but if you can tell me where I can add alert messages on the navigation links, that would be great.

Thanks.

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Jacob — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:53:49 GMT

Hi All,

I'm new to the entire Sharepoint world, and currently trying to get my head around the possibilities for using WSS 3.0 for a basic corporate intranet.

Are any of the above-mentioned techniques for controlling navigation valid or possible for WSS 3.0 as well as MOSS 2007?

If not - can you point me to any good references where I can learn about the possibilities, and limitations, of site navigation in WSS 3.0?

Thanks!

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Andreas — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:29:53 GMT

Hello.

Great series, really. But i didn't found a solution for the following:

I want to hide the subsites etc. from global nav. Will use it for special groups of links. I try to use headings and links and it looks and works good, ... but only when i#m logged in as privileged user.

The anonymous can't see the global nav, no headings, no links.

Why ?

Anonymous Access is configured fpr the compelte publishing site.

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Ken Winell — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:48:54 GMT

Chris, one question- I am running MOSS in an Extranet scenario and have an interesting navigation issue.

We have users that have access to a child site under the site collection. They also have read only access to the main portal pages. We would like to provide a breadcrumb back to the individual user sites from the Portal main page dynamically. The issue is that there are a number of sub sites that are internal, so we can't use MAIN>SUB1>SUB2>USER and instead only want to show MAIN>USER. is there a way to do this? 3rd Party? thoughts?

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re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Shola Salako — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:28:12 GMT

Great write-up, Chris! Thanks! I needed to add the root site as a tab to my MOSS horizontal navigation bar in a publishing site.....your tutorial helped. After experimenting for a while, I changed StaticDisplayLevels to 2, ShowStartingNode to true and TrimNonCurrentTypes to "Page" and it worked beautifully.

Thanks again,

Shola Salako.

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Francisco Lomas — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:20:24 GMT

Hi!!

I´m having trouble with the navigation, i can´t add anithing to the menu, the last week I have modified several times the navigation but today when I make a change, I made the change from the site configuration and no error message is shown, but when you refresh the site the change was not applied, you go back to the site configuration and the change ins´t applied.... Any aideas??

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Cynthia — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:40:18 GMT

Totally crazy question - I am wanting to combine the quicklaunch with the upper navigation so that when someone mouses over the very left link in the upper navigation, the quicklaunch appears.

Anyidea how to combine them without having to write code?

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

ShareQuest — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:41:35 GMT

@Anirudh

Have you been able to create the menu you want? I have the same problem like you described:

Please share your solution with us.

Tia.

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

TonyQ — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:22:37 GMT

I need exactly the same thing as what Anirdh and Tia asked. Anyone has some hint?

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

mty — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:30:18 GMT

Need standard left drill down nav.

Like the "Display current site, the navigation items below the current site, and the current site's siblings" but include the parents of the current site and the parent's siblings.

The way a typical left nav works.

I get the parents when I set StartFromCurrentNode="false" but it then includes all the children of all the sub sites.

The standard way would be to only display the children of the current site. Not the children of all of it's siblings.

Nothing I change seems to work. Doesn anyone know how to set this up?

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

mty — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:43:32 GMT

To clarify a bit, the left nav described above is static only. No flyouts. 3 static levels. 0 dynamic levels.

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

David Marsh — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:42:53 GMT

Is there a way to create a navigation hierarchy in one Site Collection and then have my 200 other site collections use this navigation as its top menu structure so that I have a consistent navigation for all top level areas across all site collections.

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

shareuser — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:13:55 GMT

Thanks! very good article.

Question: How can I have sub level horizontal menus ? is it possible?

re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

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re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

Luis martins — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:00:30 GMT

Very good series Chris!

I have one question though: can I setup the PortalSiteMapDataSource to only include pages of a specific content type / page layout? Do you have any idea how the can be achived without programming a new control - either the provider or a custom menu? What would be the best aproach?

Thank you!

Luis

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re: MOSS Navigation Deep-Dive - Part 1

ketaanhs — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:40:52 GMT

Thank you Chris for helping us out for the headings issue.

Just for the benefit of others, we had navigation set with HEADINGS and some PAGES under it and we just wanted to display the PAGES under the TOP Navigation below every subsite tab displayed when we hover. So basically ignore the HEADERS and Just display the Pages or to say FLATTEN The HEADINGS.....A GR8 thanks to CHRIS RICHARDS for helping out on this.

Using the FlattenHeadings="true" property in the web.config file for the CombinedNavigationProvider helped us get to the solution.