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Hi Justin,

This feature is coming with 10.1.

- Jeppe

Hi Justin,

Until the new sitemap functionality is released you can generate a sitemap by setting up a page...

1. Create a new page
2. Set "Exact URL for this page" to "sitemap.xml"
3. Set content type to "text/xml"
4. Hide the page from regular navigations by setting "Publication" to "Hidden in menu" and disable "Show in breadcrumb", "Show in searches", "Show in sitemap".
5. Set the page layout template to a custom template which renders the sitemap xml (see example below).

Note: If you later want to use the standard sitemap functionality then you need to delete or unpublish this custom sitemap page.

@inherits Dynamicweb.Rendering.ViewModelTemplate<Dynamicweb.Frontend.PageViewModel>
@{
    Uri baseUrl = new Uri(Dynamicweb.Context.Current.Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority));

    var settings = new Dynamicweb.Frontend.Navigation.NavigationSettings()
    {
        StartLevel = 1,
        StopLevel = 10,
        RootAreaId = Model.Area.ID,
        ExpandMode = Dynamicweb.Frontend.Navigation.ExpandMode.All,
        IncludeFoldersAndHidden = true
    };

    var navigation = GetNavigation(settings);

    var stack = new Stack<Dynamicweb.Frontend.Navigation.NavigationTreeNodeViewModel>(navigation.Nodes.Reverse());
}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    @{
        while (stack.Count > 0)
        {
            var node = stack.Pop();

            if (node.ShowInSitemap)
            {
                var url = new Uri(baseUrl, node.Link);

                <url>
                    <loc>@url.AbsoluteUri</loc>
                </url>
            }

            foreach (var child in node.Nodes.Reverse())
            {
                stack.Push(child);
            }
        }
    }
</urlset>

Hi guys, thanks!

Would be good to have a temporary fix, I tried to apply this but have 2 issues:

1: even when i set the exact url, the url stays on default.aspx?pageid. Do I need an additional setting (ofcourse I recycled and rebooted, even slept on it, but is stays fixed on the wrong url)

When I preview the page in the default.aspx link I do get some xml, but also an error, both are below. I'll dive in to in later this week myself, but maybe I'm missing something obvious?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
                <url>
                    <loc>https://localhost:5516/Default.aspx?ID=149</loc>
                </url>
                <url>
                    <loc>https://localhost:5516/Default.aspx?ID=149&GroupID=GROUP179</loc>
                </url>
                <url>
                    <loc>https://localhost:5516/Default.aspx?ID=149&GroupID=GROUP180</loc>
                </url>
                <url>
                    <loc>https://localhost:5516/Default.aspx?ID=149&GroupID=GROUP160</loc>
                </url>
                <url>
                    <loc>https://localhost:5516/Default.aspx?ID=149&GroupID=GROUP144</loc>
                </url>
                <url>
                    <loc>https://localhost:5516/Default.aspx?ID=149&GroupID=GROUP122</loc>
                </url>
                <url>
                    <loc>https://localhost:5516/Default.aspx?ID=149&GroupID=GROUP96</loc>
                </url>
                <url>
                    <loc>https://localhost:5516/Default.aspx?ID=149&GroupID=GROUP2</loc>
                </url>
                <url>
                    <loc>https://localhost:5516/Default.aspx?ID=150</loc>
                </url>
</urlset>

I will look at the URL issue.

The XML error I think is because the <loc> at line 7 contains & which needs to be encoded when used in XML.

BR Nicolai

I see the ootb option now works on 10.0.31. Thanks very much and enjoy the weekend!