Menu Control Help
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From: Jeff on 19 Apr 2010 12:48 Hi all, I have added a menu control on my Masetr Page, I added the links that I wanted to add, Question is I would like some of those links to either not be visable on certain pages or at the very least not be enabled for navigation untill the user has gone to a certain page to say log in and then those links become enabled or visable. I have not been able to figure out how to refer to the menu control located on the maser page from the other pages in the site? I am sure it is something easy but I just have not figured out how to accomplish this yet. I tried a work around by just adding another menu item on the page i want the new navigation link to show up on, althoug it works it is not such a good solution as trying to line it up correctly with the other links etc... any help would be greatly appreaciated, Thanks, Jeff
From: Mark Rae [MVP] on 19 Apr 2010 13:03 "Jeff" <jeffby(a)nospamtds.net> wrote in message news:HP%yn.333$Sp1.223(a)newsreading01.news.tds.net... > I have not been able to figure out how to refer to the menu control > located on the MasterPage from the other pages in the site? Menu mnuMaster = (Menu)Master.FindControl("mnuMenu"); -- Mark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net
From: Jeff on 19 Apr 2010 14:07 Hi Mark, Thanks for the response. Now i guess I will show my lack of knowledge even further now by saying I do not really understand this Menu mnuMaster = (Menu)Master.FindControl("mnuMenu"); Here is what I believe I am understanding Menu mnuMaster - I am creating a new instance of a menu ("mnuMenu"); - This should be the name of the menu control on the master page (Menu)Master.FindControl - This is the part that is going to the mater page to get a copy of the menu control? Ok so on my Master page I have a menu Control mnuMenu1 and it has 4 menu items Home; CreateUser ; SearchPage; Contact Us I am not wanting the SearchPage menu item to visible and/or enabled until after they go to the CreateUser page so after successful completion of creating a user name the SearchPage menu item should become visible and/or enabled I put the line of code in that you gave as Menu mnuMyNewMenu = (Menu)Master.FindControl("mnuMenu1"); No errors given there but just trying some thing simple to see if i could get it working I tried mnuMyNewMenu.Visible = false; It did not like that, it threw an exception error so I guess I am still not understanding just how this works to access the menu / menu items.? Thanks, Jeff "Mark Rae [MVP]" <mark(a)markrae.net> wrote in message news:OC3yLJ%233KHA.3352(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > "Jeff" <jeffby(a)nospamtds.net> wrote in message > news:HP%yn.333$Sp1.223(a)newsreading01.news.tds.net... > >> I have not been able to figure out how to refer to the menu control >> located on the MasterPage from the other pages in the site? > > Menu mnuMaster = (Menu)Master.FindControl("mnuMenu"); > > > -- > Mark Rae > ASP.NET MVP > http://www.markrae.net
From: Jeff on 19 Apr 2010 15:53 Ok, I had a typo on the first part, so I am now able to make my whole menu ..visable = false and that works the navigation menu disapears, but I can not figure out how to get to the menu items such as SearchPage? in vb i could access the menu item by menu1.Items(2).enabled = false and that would make the menu item at index 2 disabled but that does not work in c# is there something that is equivilent? Thanks, Jeff "Mark Rae [MVP]" <mark(a)markrae.net> wrote in message news:OC3yLJ%233KHA.3352(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > "Jeff" <jeffby(a)nospamtds.net> wrote in message > news:HP%yn.333$Sp1.223(a)newsreading01.news.tds.net... > >> I have not been able to figure out how to refer to the menu control >> located on the MasterPage from the other pages in the site? > > Menu mnuMaster = (Menu)Master.FindControl("mnuMenu"); > > > -- > Mark Rae > ASP.NET MVP > http://www.markrae.net
From: Mark Rae [MVP] on 19 Apr 2010 17:03
"Jeff" <jeffby(a)nospamtds.net> wrote in message news:Fw2zn.335$Sp1.40(a)newsreading01.news.tds.net... [please don't top-post] >>> I have not been able to figure out how to refer to the menu control >>> located on the MasterPage from the other pages in the site? >> >> Menu mnuMaster = (Menu)Master.FindControl("mnuMenu"); > > I had a typo on the first part, so I am now able to make my whole menu > .Visible = false and that works the navigation menu disappears, but I can > not figure out how to get to the menu items such as SearchPage? > > In VB i could access the menu item by menu1.Items(2).enabled = false and > that would make the menu item at index 2 disabled but that does not work > in C# is there something that is equivalent? Menu mnuMaster = (Menu)Master.FindControl("mnuMenu1"); mnuMaster.Items[2].Enabled = false; -- Mark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net |