Excellent stuff. Do you have an example of binding this custom site map provider to a control in a page layout in VS, such as a tree view?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi Sent: Wednesday, 7 May 2008 8:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Multiple site collection navigation I was suggesting that you develop a custom SiteMapProvider, most probably by inheriting from SPSiteMapProvider or PortalSiteMapProvider Look at "Implementing Site Map Providers" in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb897739.aspx which has a nice code sample how to override "PortalSiteMapProvider" and add items to it - your custom code can then add site collections to it. It can be a bit complex at first, but I managed to do what you are after in a few hours. The main trick here is security and caching (make sure that users only see the menu items they are allowed to see, and cache the data on a user level cache). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kanwartej Singh Basrai Sent: Wednesday, 7 May 2008 09:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OzMOSS] Multiple site collection navigation Ishai, Thanks for the response. Just to clarify, When you say navigation providers, do you mean writing a custom sitemap file and hooking that up in the web.config file as per this example http://blah.winsmarts.com/2008-1-Implementing_Consistent_Navigation_acro ss_Site_Collections.aspx Or do you mean, writing a feature that implements SpNavigationProvider and override methods like getchildnodes....etc. Not sure pro's and cons about either approach but i could only find these 2 ways of achieving this. kind regards Tej On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Ishai Sagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tej, No need to write your own navigation control - you need to write your own "navigation provider" and connect it to the built-in control. There are many samples for navigation providers on the web - and it is pretty easy to modify them to do what you want. I was thinking of writing about this, but never got the time. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kanwartej Singh Basrai Sent: Tuesday, 6 May 2008 16:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzMOSS] Multiple site collection navigation Hi Guys, We have a web application which has multiple site collections. The client wants a navigation which shows consistent navigation on all the site collections. So instead of having Home and sub sites in the navigation they want to display all the site collections. Is there an easy way to do this in moss or do you have to write your own navigation control? Would really appreciate any help i can get. Thanks in advance Tej ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com <http://mailenable.com/> No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.23.9/1416 - Release Date: 5/05/2008 17:11 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com <http://mailenable.com/> ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.23.9/1418 - Release Date: 6/05/2008 17:17 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com
