Hi,

For one of our client we need to provide the sliding menu functionality in the site created for MOSS 2007, we would be writing the webpart and assigning the sitemap datasource to slide menu control. I downloaded the trial version of your control and seen the demo. I would like to purchase the component but before that I want to make sure if I deploy it in MOSS it does not create any issues.

I tried deploying webpart with the trail version dll but it displays an errors saying for using the sitemap datasource you need a license. I check in your site and came to know that you provide temporarily license file for you to fully evaluate the product in both development environment and production environment. Can you please send me the same, I would like to test and buy the component today only.

Thanks,
Viren

Hi Thanks for your qucik reply.

I will send you the code of webpart which we are writing and the message we are getting, please help us with the sample webpart code and sitemap file so that we can resolve the issue as I have to finish the deployment sooner than later.

Thanks,
Viren

Hi,

Here is the code of the custom webpart that i write for leftnavigation using your slidemenu control.

/**********************************************************************
Dim mnuSlide As EO.Web.SlideMenu = New EO.Web.SlideMenu
mnuSlide.ControlSkinID = "Style"
mnuSlide.DataSourceID = "SiteMapDataSource1"
mnuSlide.KeepExpandedOnClick = True
mnuSlide.SingleExpand = False
mnuSlide.ExpandEmptyPane = True
mnuSlide.Width = 220
mnuSlide.Height = 600
mnuSlide.Enabled = True
mnuSlide.SlideEffectType = SlideMenuEffect.Glide
mnuSlide.ID = "SlideMenu1"

mnuSlide.LookItems.TopGroup.ItemID = "_TopGroup"
mnuSlide.LookItems.TopGroup.SubMenu.LeftIconCellWidth = 10
mnuSlide.LookItems.TopGroup.SubMenu.Style.CssText = "border-right: 1px solid; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; border-left: #beb6a4 1px solid; cursor: hand; color: #4a4a44; font-family: verdana"
'mnuSlideMenu.LookItems.TopGroup.SubMenu.Style.BackColor = 320235
mnuSlide.LookItems.TopLevelItem.ItemID = "_TopLevelItem"
mnuSlide.LookItems.TopLevelItem.Height = 30
mnuSlide.LookItems.TopLevelItem.Image.Mode = MenuItemImages.ImageMode.ItemBackground
mnuSlide.LookItems.TopLevelItem.Image.Url = "00000600"
mnuSlide.LookItems.TopLevelItem.SubMenu.LeftIconCellWidth = 10
mnuSlide.LookItems.TopLevelItem.SubMenu.Style.CssText = "color:#555544;font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;"

mnuSlide.Visible = True
mnuSlide.Orientation = EO.Web.Orientation.Vertical
mnuSlide.ExpandOnClick = ExpandOnClickState.EnabledAlways
Controls.Add(mnuSlide)

*******************************************************************/

When i deploy the webpart, i get the message
"SlideMenu ctl00_PlaceHolderLeftNavBarDataSource_LeftNavWebPart1_SlideMenu1 requires a license. You can purchase a license from http://www.essentialobjects.com/Order.aspx. Please refresh the page to continue. More on license."

and when i refresh the page, the warning goes away but the menu doesn't get loaded.

Please let me know if anything else needs to be added in the above code and also i would like to know
1) How to see the error logs,
2) Can you provide me with a sample web part code for slide menu to test the feature on MOSS 2007.

Thanks in advance,
Viren.

Hi Viren,

Our controls are a standard ASP.NET server controls, so it's not likely that this has anything to do MOSS. When you don't see the error message, the controls are actually correctly loaded --- except for that you do not have any menu items. In that case you would check your site map. Also you can try to call mnuSlide.DataBind and see if it helps.

Thanks

Hi Viren,

No. That's the only way to set DataSource control. We use the following logic to find the data source control (pseduo C# code):

object obj = SlideMenu1.NamingContainer.FindControl("CurrentNav");
if (obj == null)
throw error;

IHierarchicalDataSource ds = obj as IHierarchicalDataSource;
if (ds == null)
throw error;

Also, the error message indicates that you supplied an ID of "CurrentNav"; Your source code indicates the ID of the DataSource control is "SiteMapDataSource1". So something might have changed somewhere in your code.

Thanks

Hi Viren,

SlideMenu does not fire server event if you have NavigateUrl set, because for a server side event to be fired, you must post back to the same page. Obviously NavigateUrl navigates to another page, that's why it won't fire server side event.

The easiest way for you to automatically dislay the selected menu item is to set AutoSelectSource to NavigateUrl:

http://www.essentialobjects.com/ViewDoc.aspx?t=EO.Web.BaseNavigator.AutoSelectSource.html

Make sure you also set SelectedStyle. Otherwise the menu item won't look any different even if it is actually selected.

Thanks

Hi Viren,

You might be setting RightIcon on the look item. It's obvious that whatever you set on the look item will get copied into all menu items that uses that look item because that's the purpose of look item. If you want each item have different images, you would need to set them on menu item.

There are two ways to set them on menu item when using data binding. One way is to use DataBinding object. The other way is to handle ItemDataBound event. More details here:

http://www.essentialobjects.com/ViewDoc.aspx?t=MenuCommon%2fDataBinding%2fpopulate_datasource.html

http://www.essentialobjects.com/ViewDoc.aspx?t=MenuCommon%2fHandlingEvent%2fserver_event.html

Thanks

Hi Viren,

The document explained these settings in great detail. Please take a look in EO.Web Slide Menu -> Using EO.Web Slide Menu -> Style and Appearance.

Thanks

Hi Viren,

As for your question:

1. I am not sure what you mean by "adding image in the border". The border is always a line, although can be of many kind of lines. Images never has anything to do with borders;
2. Most of the time when you have problem with SelectedStyle for sub menu items, it's not because you didn't set the style correctly. It's because you didn't set the menu item's into "Selected" state. Menu item never goes into "Selected" state automatically unless you have AutoSelectSource set. If you do have it set, you would need to check EO.Web Slide Menu -> Using EO.Web Slide Menu -> Look, Skin and Theme for details about how "look item" works. Most of the time is because you didn't set SelectedStyle on the correct look item;
3. You rarely "groove" menu item border. When there is a "groove" on one menu item, you will see two grooves between two adjacent menu items. Usually you would use different color for top border and bottom border, that way when the bottom border of the previous item and the top border of the next item sits together, the two borders forms a groove;

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Hi Viren,

Please take a look of topics under EO.Web Menu -> Understanding Built-in styles. There are a few topics explaining how several built-in templates are implemented. You can read those and play with the corresponding template (note they are Menu, not Slide Menu) and you will see how they work. Rather than that, I am not sure how I can answer your questions because all the basic elements have already been covered in great detail in the help file, the combinations, however, is almost infinite. So there is no way I can provide you a combination everytime you run into something. You will have to be able to mix them by yourself. Those sample topics should give you a good idea of how to mix them.

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