Comments on If It Matters To You ...: Custom Navigation for WSS

Hi, it's a great article but I stumbled upon a pro...

2010-06-25T09:18:54.999-06:00

Hi, it's a great article but I stumbled upon a problem. I created a new class using your code and my own keypair, but when I try to load it wss shows an error with no description. I don't even edit the master page, it shows right after editing the web.config and doing iisreset. The add statement is fine (been checked hundreds of times already).
It seems like it's trying to bind to the two lists I created but can't find them or something like that.
Have you experienced anything like this?
Thanks a lot.
I'll continue debugging.

Hi, I am trying to use your approach of reading...

2010-05-22T22:31:18.493-06:00

Hi,

I am trying to use your approach of reading the mapping from SharePoint list and building the quick launch programmatically rather than the top navigation. But as per the another article which I was looking at, SPWeb.Navigation.QuickLaunch returns a SPNavigationNodeCollection collection. Even if I build it after reading content from the Access List, I am not clear on how to merge that approach with GetChildNodes method which you have used? Do I need to derive my provider class from some other navigation provider?

Article for building quick launch : http://vspug.com/tbaginski/2007/12/26/how-to-programmatically-customize-site-navigation-in-wss-3-0-and-moss-2007/

I appreciate any inputs on this

Thanks

Sandeep
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Hi it really works but is there any way so that i ...

2010-02-04T15:06:04.059-07:00

Hi it really works but is there any way so that i can use navigation of home site in sub site also using same procedure? If yes then how please reply.

Thanks
Ankit

Hi Its adding 2 times Do we have a solution for t...

2009-09-22T06:38:53.136-06:00

Hi Its adding 2 times
Do we have a solution for that
also if i dont want to consider the Quicklaunch navigation?

Thanks in advance

I was really exicted to use this, but when I put t...

2009-09-04T09:22:34.853-06:00

I was really exicted to use this, but when I put the line in the web.config I get a "Security Exception" error.

Is there a way in the custom navigation to make su...

2009-08-14T14:00:48.159-06:00

Is there a way in the custom navigation to make sure that the wsstopnavigation tab selected displays as selected?

After implementing the custom navigation the selected tab always displays the home tab after a selection is made.

Teddi Easlon

Praveen,I used the following code to check on the ...

2008-12-19T11:13:00.000-07:00

Praveen,

I used the following code to check on the URL to see whether the user has access on or not and the code runs under the Users security context.

private bool CheckAccess ( string url )
{
bool retValue = false;
object spfile1 = null;
SPSite spSite = null;
SPWeb spweb = null;
try
{
spSite = new SPSite(url);
spSite.CatchAccessDeniedException = false;
string file = url.Replace(spSite.Url, "");
try
{
spfile1 = spSite.RootWeb.GetFileOrFolderObject(file);
retValue = true;
}
catch (ThreadAbortException ex)
{
Thread.ResetAbort();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
}
if (!retValue)
{
spweb = spSite.OpenWeb(file, false);
spfile1 = spweb.GetFileOrFolderObject(file);
if ((spfile1 is SPFile) || (spfile1 is SPFolder))
{
retValue = true;
}
}
}
catch (ThreadAbortException ex)
{
Thread.ResetAbort();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{

}
finally
{
if (spSite != null)
{
spSite.CatchAccessDeniedException = true;
spSite.Dispose();
spSite = null;
}
if (spweb != null)
{
spweb.Dispose();
spSite = null;
}

}
return retValue;
}

And by the way, did you by any chance, you're using Feature to activate the Custom Navigation. If yes, I would appreciate, if you could send me the code @ malathyr at gmail dot com

Hi I see this solution to be working except it doe...

2008-12-19T09:20:00.000-07:00

Hi

I see this solution to be working except it doesn't take care of security triming;

meaning if i have Site Collection A / Site Collection B / Site Collection C. I want to show Menu with these three link in the Top Navigation.

I have a user A who has access to only site collection A / site Collection B but not Site Collection C.

when user access the site he will see all the three links; and when clicks on site collection C link he will get access deneid instead i wanted to check with you if you have way of finding out login user context and apply the security on the menu and show / hide these links....

Pls Let me know if you have any suggestion to the scenario i mentioned

Thanking you in advance
-Praveen

Hi,I'm trying to use the code to customize my navi...

2008-11-25T11:20:00.000-07:00

Hi,

I'm trying to use the code to customize my navigation with Features. If I try it my feature, I'm getting the following error, which is really strange

Failed to create a control from assembly 'ShannonBray.WSS.MenuProvider, version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=9f2617b5eee77523', class 'ShannonBray.WSS.MenuProvider.MenuProvider': Unable to cast object of type 'ShannonBray.WSS.MenuProvider.MenuProvider' to type 'System.Web.UI.Control'.
DelegateControl: Exception thrown while building custom control 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SPControlElement': System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'ShannonBray.WSS.MenuProvider.MenuProvider' to type 'System.Web.UI.Control'. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility.CreateServerControlFromAssembly(String sControlAssembly, String sControlClass) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPControlElement.BuildCustomControl(TemplateControl tctlPage, String sControlAssembly, String sControlClass, String sControlSrc, XmlNode xnElementDefinition, SPFeatureDefinition featdefElement, String sElementId) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPControlElement.BuildCustomControl(TemplateControl tctlPage) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.DelegateControl.BuildCustomControlResilient(SPControlElement ctlelemDefinition)

If I remove the Delegate control and set the datasource manually in the code from masterpage, it works great.

Any idea why this might happen. I'm trying to fix this for some time and it really runs me nuts

I tried running this in few servers and getting the same message.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I've completed every step, but nothing happened. T...

2008-11-13T05:40:00.000-07:00

I've completed every step, but nothing happened. The wss website shows the top link bar, not the custom list navigation.

I also put some items in the WSSTopNavigation list.

What am I doing wrong??

Hi Nice article,I have scenario like this.I have c...

2008-10-18T07:14:00.000-06:00

Hi Nice article,
I have scenario like this.

I have created subsites site1, site2, site3 in a site collection.
Every site has their own pages document library.Depend on some scenario some time I want to select site1,site2 and in other scenario site1,site3 only.

1.How can we use the inbuilt pages document library within the site to create the menu instead of a custom list?
2.How can we iterate through the nested subsites and their respective page document library?