In WSS 3.0, I altered our default.master as followed so we can have Drop Down links (or fly-outs) on our Top Navagatin bar.
Replaced:
< asp:SiteMapDataSource
ShowStartingNode="False"
SiteMapProvider="SPNavigat
id="topSiteMap"
runat="server"
StartingNodeUrl="sid:1002"
With:
<asp:SiteMapDataSource
ShowStartingNode="True"
SiteMapProvider="SPSiteMap
id="topSiteMap"
runat="server" />
After some research I found this is a hack that is using the SPSiteMapProvider to enable fly-out menus on the dropdown and a "hack" is not the intent of the SPSiteMapProvider.
According to the Microsoft site (http://msdn.microsoft.com
Can anyone provide me with the code I need to modify the master page and direct me where to place it in the code of the master page.
Thanks!
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by: rdcproPosted on 2009-06-01 at 11:12:26ID: 24520170
You can do this with SharePoint designer (SPD), and you can do it in Visual Studio (VS). With SPD, you can customize a page, adding a menu control that you might have written, or a third party menu control such as the Telerik RAD Controls for ASP.NET AJAX.
In VS, you do the same thing, but it's more maintainable because you create a master page in code, and then attach it to the site using a SharePoint Feature. In the feature activated event, you can attach custom master pages, CSS, etc. If you "staple" that feature to a particular site template, it will automatically apply your customizations each time a new site is created on that template.
While the Visual Studio approach is a bit of upfront work, in the long run it's easier than uing SPD. However, it can be done either way. Here's an example of replacing the MOSS (or WSS) navigation controls with the RadMenu:
http://www.telerik
R
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