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2/2/2010 6:59 PM
 
Laura Freer

Joined: 12/23/2009
Posts: 20

I am new to DotNetNuke and have been tasked with setting up a government site with one main parent landing page where the user can navigate between many child portals.
Each child portal goes to a different division. They will be managed separately by each division, but will share the same skin. Divisions are grouped together into logical areas, like "Courts" and "Licensing". Right now I am just manually making links in the skin header using the portal id:
  <a href="http://<%=PortalAliasController.GetPortalAliasByPortal(2,"")%>">Education Services</a> 

But, I have run into trouble trying to create the breadcrumb area.
Is there a way to set up a sitemap-like file to indicate the hierachacal path of child portals?
Or, barring that, is there a property I can set on the child portal that I can access at run time to construct the category name? I need the breadcrumb to look like this (with Education Services being a child portal)
       Home / Court Admin/AOC / Education Services

Any ideas?
 
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2/3/2010 4:09 AM
 
Coding Staff


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If I understand you correctly, you can take a shortcut and set up pages within your root portal that link to subportals pages (there is an option in page settings to redirect pages to a certain location). Not sure how this will work with breadcrbs though.

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2/3/2010 11:09 AM
 
Jeff Cochran


Joined: 6/3/2005
Posts: 2799

Breadcrumbs don't work across portals because portals are separate sites.  In your case, you don't want portals for each division or agency, keep them all in the same DNN site/portal.

Jeff
 
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2/3/2010 3:35 PM
 
Laura Freer

Joined: 12/23/2009
Posts: 20

 

I really do need to have each division have its own separate child portal several reasons.
I have ended up dynamically creating the breadcrumb. I have used the description property of the child portal to enter the category name. Is the description property used for anything important? Do search engines see it?
This is the main idea:
 
Dim iPortalID As Integer = PortalSettings.PortalId
Dim sPortalName As String = PortalSettings.PortalName
Dim sHomePortalUrl As String = "http://" + PortalAliasController.GetPortalAliasByPortal(0, "")
BreadCrumbNavigation()

Sub BreadCrumbNavigation()
   ''the description property of ech child portal is used to indicate the menu category for the portal
   sPortalLink = "http://" + PortalAliasController.GetPortalAliasByPortal(iPortalID, "")
   sCatName = PortalSettings.Description.ToUpper
   Select Case sCatName
      Case "PUBLIC SERVICES"
          sCatName = "Public Services"
          sCatLink = sHomePortalUrl + "/PublicServices.aspx"
      Case "LICENSING & REGULATION"
          sCatName = "Licensing & Regulation"
          sCatLink = sHomePortalUrl + "/LicensingRegulation.aspx"
      End Select
 End Sub
</script>

<a href="<%= sHomePortalUrl%>">Home</a>
<span class="separator">/</span>
<a href="<%= sCatLink%>"><%= sCatName%></a> <span class="separator">/</span>
<a href="<%= sPortalLink%>"><%= sPortalName %></a>
<span class="separator">/</span>
<dnn:BREADCRUMB runat="server" id="dnnBREADCRUMB" Separator="&nbsp;/&nbsp;" RootLevel="0" />
 
I have some if statements in there to deal with navigation on theparent portal, but this is the basic code. It results in navigation like this:
Home / Public Services / Education Services
The main downside I see is that I am hardcoding the category names. Any other pitfalls?

 
 
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