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Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
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Posted on 12/05/2011 15:40:07
Hi there,

Is there a way to access the new Navigation Tag you can set on a page (on the Layout dialog) from a NavigationProvider? I need to mark some pages as special and the Navigation Tag seems like a great candidate. However, it doesn't appear to be a member of the PageNavigationItem class. Right now, I abuse MouseOver but that doesn't feel right....

Imar

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Vladimir
Posted on 13/05/2011 04:05:01
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Hi Imar!
Did you try this approach:  
            http://developer.dynamicweb-cms.com/Forum.aspx?PID=48&ThreadID=23903

Vladimir

 
Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
Posted on 13/05/2011 09:14:27
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Hi Vladimir,

Yeah, that would work, but feels extremely inefficient. I don't want to query the entire page table for *each* request. And certainly not when I already get the complete page structure passed to my ProcessTree method ;-)

Adding the NavigationTag to the PageNavigationItem class would solve the problem, as it will then automatically get populated when the tree structure is built....

Imar
 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 13/05/2011 09:20:48
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Hi Imar

Just added the NavigationTag attribute to the page tree. The attribute is only there if it has a value.

Out with Service release sometime next week. TFS6505

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Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
Posted on 13/05/2011 09:29:04
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Is it then available in the XML for the menu? Or on the PageNavigationItem class in code as well? This

The attribute is only there if it has a value.
 
seems to imply XML....

Imar
 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 13/05/2011 09:34:50
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Both.
 
Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
Posted on 13/05/2011 11:29:00
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Great. If this is going to work the way I think it is, you just fulfilled an enhancement request I made about 3 years ago ;-)

TFS2546....

Imar
 

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 13/05/2011 11:32:16
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Fast , inexpensive and ready to use... :-)
 
Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
Posted on 13/05/2011 11:37:00
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Hahaha, yes. Well, better late than never. And I've seen loads of other new features since then that did get implemented really fast. I think no-one considered this request to be important.... ;-)

Imar

 

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