I did some reading about SiteMapDataSource, roles and membership. That is the way to prevent unauthorized people see certain buttons on the left panel, but the whole navigation route will appear on all the pages. I don't like this approach. It's fairly complicated and has impact to performance according to my reading.
I want to try putting buttons on the left panel directly in the child master page, so that all pages using this child master page can see only these buttons and the authorization is governed by the menu on the top panel. Just don't know if I could accomplish the button appearance I already saw using web.sitemap. Charles 11/21 On Nov 19, 7:55 pm, "Charles.Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I followed a book to create a website using left panel to display > several menu buttons. This was through the master page and these > buttons were specified in the web.sitemap file. > > Then I found a disadvantage of this approach: the SitemapNodes in the > web.sitemap apply to the whole website. I could not find a way to > tailor different side buttons if user clicks different menu on the top > panel. > > I used nested master pages for different top menus. Can I add > didferent side menu buttons directly to child master page (in the side > content panel)? Haven't seen an example. Please advise. Thanks! > > Charles > 11/19
