That said, if I were in your shoes, I would ensure that the level and startTabId attributes are working properly with the underlying provider (by restoring your navigation provider settings to their original configuration); once you have tweaked these settings to your taste, re-adding the templating provider should produce a menu that works identically (save for the added templating features).

Hope this helps!

B

If I want to start from level=”child”, this doesn’t work. Is there a way where I can make it work from any level? I want to use Level=”Child” StartTabid=”39″ in the dnn:nav tag.

Please let me know your suggestions.

Thanks once again,
GR

Take a look in the Providers/TemplatedDNNMenuNavigationProvider directory for the sample templates that come with the provider; there you may copy one (and then instantiate it by name), or less optimally modify the template itself.

Since these templates are simple ASCX/HTML markup (e.g. Default.ascx) and CSS styling (e.g. Default.css), virtually any visual presentation format is possible. In your case, you might want to use two unordered lists; one with the first ten elements floated left, and the rest floated right.

Hope this helps!

B

Can I control the number of menu items per line in mega-menu. E.g. I need to display only 10 menu items in first line and the remaining menu items in second line ?

Thanks
Hardik

The DotNetNuke Nav control, which is the control (typically) utilized by skins to display the menu, automatically initializes the navigation provider with the page hierarchy. This means that you’ll be out of luck using it to display non-page-hierarchy content (without some sort of ugly kludge, anyway).

Unfortunately, DotNetNuke does not really include any control that will accomplish what you’re looking to do. Your recourse here is to reproduce the behavior in the Nav control and provide your own menu element hierarchy, or roll-your-own user control (that presumably would do the same thing).

Assuming you do so, I do not see any reason that you could not utilize templated menuing to accomplish a mega-menu-style display; there might, however, be a bit of custom skinning CSS that would be required.

Hope this helps!

B

I want to have mega-menu as a module so I can use Live Content to pop-up my site menu with one button. Any ideas of how I could go about doing this?

Thanks
Greg (@leazon)

TIA,
Francisco

@Noorin: This package is designed against DotNetNuke version 5.0.1 and higher. It will not work out-of-the-box for pre-5.0.1 installations. However, I believe that the overwhelming majority of the differences will be simple changes between deprecated calls and there is little post-version-5 functionality that is being taken advantage of here.

If you urgently require a 4.x install, I suggest downloading the code and compiling a custom version against the 4.x line. I think it will be fairly straightforward (but I will be unable to offer specific guidance in this particular process).

Otherwise, I suggest considering an upgrade to 5.1 in the near future. It is looking to be a highly stable distribution.

B

This is a great menu! But is it only for DNN 5.x? Or does it support DNN 4.x also? I tried installing it in DNN 4.9.4 but I was not successful. Could you please give me details on this? It is quite urgent because if this is not supported in DNN 4.x, I’ll have to look for some other third party control.

Thanks!

-Noorin

Just installed your release. What I noticed is that the menu is not stable when you use the tab key. I can tab to the menu and when I use my arrow down key the menu pops open. When I tab to the submenu’s the menu dissapears.

Tabable menu’s are very important because blind people who use screenreades use that function to read the menu.

Can you take a look at this ? I hope u understand, of you have any questions please feel free to ask.

Regards,
Ely

I do not believe that the distribution contains any hard-coded template files, so the release will not need to be meaningfully updated otherwise.

Thanks for that report CPG. It is greatly appreciated.

Brandon

I haven’t had much chance to play with this but I have hopes. It looks great. thank you for you efforts.