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9/25/2006 3:08 PM

Wells Doty

Joined: 4/18/2006

Posts: 559

Multiple Menus

Hey guys, I'm trying to put together a skin with two instances of SolPart. I've put the tokens [MENU:1] and [MENU:2] in the skin with the following in the XML:

<Objects>
    <Object>
        <Token>[MENU:1]</Token>
           <Settings>
           <Setting>
                <Name>menualignment</Name>
                <Value>right</Value>
           </Setting>
           <Setting>
                <Name>Display</Name>
                <Value>vertical</Value>
           </Setting>
           </Settings>
      </Object>
    <Object>
       <Token>[MENU:2]</Token>
          <Settings>
          <Setting>
              <Name>menualignment</Name>
              <Value>right</Value>
          </Setting>
          <Setting>
              <Name>Display</Name>
              <Value>horizontal</Value>
           </Setting>
           </Settings>
    </Object>
</Objects>

Now, the part I'm hitting my head against the wall for is this: I see the definition "separatecss" and it's allowed values are True / False, so where do I define what the filename for the CSS is? Also, is there a way I can dictate which sections are displayed or is it only level-specific definitions (Root, child, same).

Thanks Much!

SB

Wells Doty Jr
Online Content Development

9/25/2006 4:01 PM

Sam Tanner

Joined: 2/28/2004

Posts: 473

Re: Multiple Menus

Hey Bob,
Same as with a normal, one-menu skin, the css for the menu is picked up in the series of stylesheets, mainly overridden and set in the skin.css - You need to set two different menu styles in one stylesheet, and sort it out in the ascx (or xml) file.
You can set the menu styles for your first menu and then copy/paste and re-name them slightly for the second menu, then set those styles as well.

The ascx ends up looking like this:

<dnn:SOLPARTMENU1 runat="server" id="dnnSOLPARTMENU1" useskinpatharrowimages="false" rootonly="true" menuborderwidth="0" selectedcolor="#cc9966" menualignment="Center" separator="<span>|</span>" separatorcssclass="wapaSeparator" rootmenuitembreadbcrumbcssclass="MainMenu_rootmenuitembreadcrumb" rootmenuitemcssclass="MainMenu_rootmenuitem" rootmenuitemactivecssclass="MainMenu_rootmenuitemactive" rootmenuitemselectedcssclass="MainMenu_rootmenuitemselected"/>

<dnn:SOLPARTMENU2 runat="server" id="dnnSOLPARTMENU2" selectedcolor="#cc9966" iconwidth="3" menuitemheight="1" level="child" display="vertical" downarrow="action_right.gif" rightarrow="action_right.gif" useskinpatharrowimages="false" menucontainercssclass="SecondMenu_MenuContainer" menubarcssclass="SecondMenu_MenuBar" menuitemcssclass="SecondMenu_MenuItem" menuiconcssclass="SecondMenu_MenuIcon" menuitemselcssclass="SecondMenu_MenuItemSel" menubreakcssclass="SecondMenu_MenuBreak" submenucssclass="SecondMenu_SubMenu" menuarrowcssclass="SecondMenu_MenuArrow" menurootarrowcssclass="SecondMenu_RootMenuArrow" rootmenuitemcssclass="SecondMenu_rootmenuitem" rootmenuitemselectedcssclass="SecondMenu_rootmenuitemselected"/>

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