Hi,
I'm new to DNN, but an experienced ASP.NET 2.0 programmer. I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall. I'm trying to convert a simple sample site into DNN. The site is as follows:

http://www.petraweb.net

There are two menus on the page which I'm trying to replicate. The top menu, which consists of "Home, About Me, My Portfolio" and a side menu which shows all the children of the selected top menu item.

Thus, and you'll need to look at the site to follow this, if you click on "My Portfolio" and then "Children's Books Gallery" you'll see that the top menu is still the root items and the left hand menu is still everything under the selected root menu item.

In DNN I can easily replicate the top menu with something similar to this (cut down for the example):


For the side menu I just don't see how to do it at all. The nearest that I have is as follows (again cut down):


Which always shows the children for a particular root item menu that is selected. However as you can see I have hardcoded the top item by using StartTabId="54".

I would love to find a solution to this, but having trawled around all the documentation that I can find I cannot see a way. The easiest solution as I see it would be to allow a StartTabXPathExp parameter that allows an xpath statement to select the top menu item, with some kind of tag that one could include to indentify the current tab, something like [TABID].

If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it as I'm going nuts, but would really like to move our company onto using DNN as a solution for many of our ongoing problems.

Thanks in advance.

Kindest regards

Steven Wilber