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6/29/2009 3:25 PM
 

We've been using version 5.00.01 on one of our sites and noticed an issue related to the Page Setting "Include in Menu?"  I'm not sure if it's us or an issue with 5.00.01 DNN.

We had a few pages we didn't want in the menu, but still linked to from other pages within the site.  When we unchecked the "Include in Menu" option, the pages still loaded fine in all desktop browsers, but Mobile phones trying to load those pages we unchecked received the default DotNetNuke Error page.  Linking to those pages from Facebook generated the same error page issue ... and we noticed using webmaster tools on Google, Yahoo and Bing that they were seeing the page as "Error" as well instead of the actual page when they crawled our site.   Once we checked the "Include in Menu" box back, everything showed and linked fine from all areas.

We've installed 5.1.0 on a test server and the issue seems to have been resolved as we can view pages regardless of whether the menu checkbox is checked or not.  I'm assuming either the bug was fixed or we have something wrong with our original 5.00.01 install.

Outside of an upgrade (which we hope to do soon) is there a temporary 5.00.01 workaround for this so we can keep pages off the menu, but still allow the search bots to index the pages correctly and for mobile users to view those pages?

Thanks!
Marc
 
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6/29/2009 6:19 PM
 

I don't know if this would work as a work around or not:  try adding a page to the main root menu level and set that page as both disabled and not included in the menu.  Then all the pages you want to be crawled/viewed in mobile you can add them under that root item that isn't visible, but mark all those pages added under it as visible in the menu.  Sort of trick it into thinking they are included in the menu even though they won't be because that root item they are children of won't be visible... ??? Worth a try???


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