Removing Menu Items and Child Menu Items

[Larry Bud]

Trying to conditionally remove menu items of the 2.0 .NET menu item
control and I'm stumped.

This removed a root level item:

Menu1.Items.Remove(Menu1.FindItem("Administration"))

But this does not remove it's child item

Menu1.Items.Remove(Menu1.FindItem("Administration/Activities"))

No errors are thrown, and FindItem *IS* finding Administration/
Activities value path. I'm using the default value path separator of
the forward slash, but the menu item still appears.

What am I doing wrong? Thx.

 

[Larry Bud]

Trying to conditionally remove menu items of the 2.0 .NET menu item
control and I'm stumped.

This removed a root level item:

Menu1.Items.Remove(Menu1.FindItem("Administration"))

But this does not remove it's child item

Menu1.Items.Remove(Menu1.FindItem("Administration/Activities"))

No errors are thrown, and FindItem *IS* finding Administration/
Activities value path. I'm using the default value path separator of
the forward slash, but the menu item still appears.

What am I doing wrong? Thx.

Just a little more info:
Menu1.FindItem("Administration/Activities").Enable=false

DOES disable the menu item. So why can't I remove it?

 

[Jeppe Jespersen]

Hi Larry,

Trying to conditionally remove menu items of the 2.0 .NET menu item
control and I'm stumped.

Why do you want to do this? I'd like to know, as there might be a smarter
way than "items.remove".

Jeppe Jespersen
Denmark

 

[Larry Bud]

Hi Larry,


Why do you want to do this? I'd like to know, as there might be a smarter
way than "items.remove".

To hide menu items based on a User's role.

There's no "visible" property, and the Enable flag is just plain ugly.

 

[Jeppe Jespersen]

To hide menu items based on a User's role.

Have you looked into the "security trimming" property on (i believe) the
SiteMapProvider?
Using this, you define in the web.config file what pages (and therefore
menuitems) are visible/accessible to which users.

It's pretty late here (in Euroland) $now, but I'll whip up an example
tomorrow if you want?

Jeppe Jespersen
Denmark

 

[Jeppe Jespersen]

Hi, me again.

Check out this MSDN article. Let me know if this is what you want.
....and if the article helped

Jeppe

 

[sloan]

Here is an interesting read:
http://www.alexthissen.nl/blogs/mai...om-security-trimming-in-asp-net-sitemaps.aspx


Or search for custom XmlSiteMapProvider variations.

securityTrimmingEnabled is the other item of interest.


The top URL is about rights (not roles), but it should lead you to the place
you want to go.

 

[Larry Bud]

Hi, me again.

Check out this MSDN article. Let me know if this is what you want.
...and if the article helped

Jeppe

Thanks, but you didn't post a link!

 

[Jeppe Jespersen]

Thanks, but you didn't post a link!

Oops
Here you go....
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178428(vs.80).aspx

Jeppe

 

[Larry Bud]

Oops
Here you go....http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178428(vs.80).aspx

Jeppe

Thanks, and I may switch to this, but any idea on why I can't remove a
child item?

 

[Jeppe Jespersen]

Thanks, and I may switch to this, but any idea on why I can't remove a
child item?

Hmm.... tried reproducing your problem, but wasn't able to.
But have you tried something like:

Menu1.FindItem("Fish").ChildItems.Clear()
Menu1.Items.Remove(Menu1.FindItem("Fish"))

-Jeppe

 

[Guest]

Hi Larry,
Dont know if you have a solution yet or not but I test the Text property
of the menuitem to "" this had the effect of removing the menu entry. Hope
this help.

Cheers

Vinnie

 

[hepek]

try this:

MenuItem menuItemAdmin = menuMain.FindItem("Administration");
MenuItem menuItemActivities = menuMain.FindItem("Administration/Activities");
menuItemAdmin.ChildItems.Remove(menuItemActivities );

 

[Larry Bud]

try this:

MenuItem menuItemAdmin = menuMain.FindItem("Administration");
MenuItem menuItemActivities = menuMain.FindItem("Administration/Activities");
menuItemAdmin.ChildItems.Remove(menuItemActivities );

Thanks, this worked!