Better menu control

sitemap.xml

    1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

    2 <siteMap> 

    3   <siteMapNode title="Welcome" url="~/Login/Login.aspx" />

    4   <siteMapNode title="Talent" url="~/Admin/TalentPage2.aspx" />

    5   <siteMapNode title="Profile" url="~/User/Profile.aspx" />

    6   <siteMapNode title="Events" url="~/Admin/Events2.aspx" />

    7   <siteMapNode title="Contact" url="~/Login/Contact.aspx" />

    8   <siteMapNode title="Download" url="~/User/Downloads.aspx" />

    9   <siteMapNode title="Responses" url="~/SuperAdmin/ResponseView.aspx" /> 

   10 </siteMap>

Main.Master

  110 <div id="navigation" class="right rclear">

  111     <div id="menu-container" class="right">

  112         <ul id="menu">

  113             <asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server" DataSourceID="XmlDataSource1">

  114                 <ItemTemplate>

  115                     <li runat="server" id="item" class="item" 

  116                         visible='<%# this.CanNavigate(Eval("url"))  %>'>

  117                         <asp:HyperLink ID="hl" runat="server" 

  118                             NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("url") %>' 

  119                             Text='<%# Eval("title") %>' />

  120                     </li>

  121                 </ItemTemplate>

  122             </asp:Repeater>

  123         </ul>

  124     </div>

  125 </div>

...

  138 <asp:XmlDataSource ID="XmlDataSource1" runat="server" 

  139     DataFile="~/Master/siteMap.xml" ></asp:XmlDataSource>

Main.Master.cs

   21 protected bool CanNavigate(object o)

   22 { 

   23     string url = o.ToString();

   24     IPrincipal p = HttpContext.Current.User;

   25     bool bReturn = UrlAuthorizationModule.CheckUrlAccessForPrincipal(url, p, "get");

   26     if (Talent.IsAdminOrBetter(p) && url.EndsWith("Profile.aspx"))

   27     {

   28         bReturn = false;

   29     }

   30     if (p.Identity.IsAuthenticated && url.EndsWith("Login.aspx"))

   31     {

   32         bReturn = false;

   33     }

   34     return bReturn; 

   35 }

credit to this stackoverflow post for the jquery script that will set the 'active' menu item class

Main.Master

   59 <script type="text/javascript"> 

   60     $(document).ready(function() {

   61         markActiveLink() 

   62     }); 

   63     function markActiveLink() { 

   64         //Look through all the links in the menu

   65        $("li.item a").filter(function() { 

   66           //Take the current URL and split it into chunks at each slash

   67           var currentURL = window.location.toString().split("/"); 

   68           //return true if the bit after the last slash is the current page name

   69           return $(this).attr("href") == currentURL[currentURL.length-1]; 

   70         //when the filter function is done, you're left with the links that match.

   71         }).addClass("active"); 

   72         //Afterwards, look back through the links. If none of them were marked,

   73         //mark your default one.

   74         if ($("li.item a").hasClass("active") == false) {

   75             $("li.item:nth-child(1) a").addClass("active");

   76         }

   77     }

   78 </script>

looks like this in then end when logged in as an admin