Menu System

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3/10/2010 12:31:12 PM
desirea
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Menu System

Hi Everyone

First off, thank you Joe for your answer to my last post.

I have a new question regarding customizing the menu system. I'm currently building a custom ecommerce cart (nearly done) and I have a new client who would like to have the categories in the cart displayed as part of the main menu as well as typical ecommerce menu of My Account, My Shopping Cart, Login etc. My cart is simply a module identified custom module that has it's own checkout page. Redeveloping it to be sitewide rather than module only isn't in the works (as of yet.. and the new client does not have the budget to develop it.)

How difficult or easy would this be to implement into mojoPortal without getting into the core pages?

Thanks

3/10/2010 8:44:37 PM
davidgdean
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Re: Menu System

This shouldn't be too hard but would be more of a standard C# question than a mojo question and you may want to search google for C# SQL Server Menu, or C# dynamic menu.

In mojo, you can set your sitemapdatasource to one generated by the db. Use the layout.master file in your skin and set the value of the sitemapdatasource you want to populate as outlined in this link http://www.codeproject.com/KB/menus/PopulatingMenuControlASP2.aspx 

Hope that points you in the right direction.

3/11/2010 6:43:20 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Menu System

If your custom feature has pages for categories, you can link to those pages from the menu. Just create a page and then set the url to either the fully qualified url of the category page like http://yoursite/pathtoyourpage.aspx, or use the ~/pathtoyourpage.aspx, if the page exists on disk it will warn you but it will let you map the cms page to it.

Hope it helps,

Joe

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