dashCommerce

Hi I'm building an new site in dc 3RC1.

In addition to the dynamic pages created in the CMS via Admin I have some static pages.

eg I have a Static "Contact Us" form that I would like to include in the menu. Currently the menu control only pulls back the dynamic pages.

I was thinking of just having a drop down list for static pages in Admin that populates the static page URL instead of the default.aspx?pageID=

Anyone else found a simple solution to this?

Cheers,

Shaun.

No not yet, I'll post it when I get around to it.

Here's what I came up with, not the most pretty, but it worked, if you put an aspx file name in the title of a content managed site, it will us the title as the url. This way you can easily change the order of the static pages.

siteNavigation.xslt:

      <xsl:if test="not(contains(Title,'.aspx'))">
        <xsl:attribute name="NavigateUrl">
          <xsl:text>~/default.aspx?pageId=</xsl:text>
          <xsl:value-of select="PageId"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
      </xsl:if>

      <xsl:if test="contains(Title,'.aspx')">
        <xsl:attribute name="NavigateUrl">
          <xsl:text>~/</xsl:text>
          <xsl:value-of select="Title"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
      </xsl:if>

Nice one. We ended up taking a similar approch, but rather than use Title, we added a DisplayPageURL and IsMenuItem field, which is returned in the dataset. We created a separate table and did a join. Just incase we want to upgrade.

Thank you Albino!!!

I can't even meaure how much time you just saved me.  If I wanted to open up a .pdf inside the site or go to URL outside the site, how would I do so?

Louis

Hi Albino,

I figured this out partly myself.  I was going to have several conditions in the If statements to determine if the extension is .aspx, .pdf, or .com.  It's strange how they never added an ELSE condition to XSL.  However, there is a CHOSE condition which is like a switch or a case statement.  I added the following to the SiteNavigation.xslt file:

<xsl:when test="contains(Title,'.aspx')">

<xsl:text>~/</xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:when test="contains(Title,'.pdf')">

<xsl:text>~/</xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:when test="contains(Title,'.com')">

<xsl:text>~/</xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:otherwise>

<xsl:text>~/default.aspx?pageId=</xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

</xsl:choose>

Now I have to figure out how to get those links to open up a separte window (target="_blank").

Louis

Hi All,

 OK, I figured out how to get menu choices for .PDFs or other websites to open up in a new window.

1. I added Target as a field to dashCommerce_Content_Page.
2. Set the Target field to _blank for the menu choices the I wanted to open up in a separate window.
3. Modified the SiteNavigation.xslt file as follows:

<MenuItem>

<xsl:attribute name="Text">

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:value-of select="MenuTitle"/>

<xsl:attribute name="NavigateUrl">

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:value-of select="PageId"/>

<xsl:attribute name="Target">

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:if test="count(Menu) > 0">

</xsl:if>

<xsl:when test="contains(Title,'.aspx')">

<xsl:text>~/</xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:when test="contains(Title,'.pdf')">

<xsl:text>~/</xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:text> </xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:when test="contains(Title,'.com')">

<xsl:text></xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:text> </xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:when test="contains(Title,'.org')">

<xsl:text></xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:text> </xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:when test="contains(Title,'.net')">

<xsl:text></xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:text> </xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:otherwise>

<xsl:text>~/default.aspx?pageId=</xsl:text>

</xsl:attribute>

</xsl:choose>

Louis

Hi Louis,

Would this be "patch friendly"? If so, you could put it on CodePlex.

Thanks for letting me know about this.  I've set it up and set the Target field to _blank.  The link sends me to the outside webpage I want but it doesn't open a new window....

 Any ideas what I did wrong?

Fraser

I did not make any db changes just in order to add links to my menu.  Since these static pages are not content pages, I was able to use the title, keywords, and description.  I took AlbinoTux original reply and made some small modifications and it worked really well...this is what I did.

<xsl:attribute name="NavigateUrl">

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:value-of select="_self"/>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:attribute name="NavigateUrl">

</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:value-of select="Description"/>

</xsl:if>

 So, I look for the word "fixedurl" in the description.  If found, I use the title as the Navigation URL and the description as the target.  If not, I set the target to ' _self".

This allowed me to link to any link (not just .aspx).

Hope it helps!