Comments on: SharePoint – A Global Navigation Solution Across Site Collections – Version 2.0 Solution

By: Sireesh

Sireesh — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:29:28 +0000

Peter Thanks for your quick reply on adding fly-outs..

By: Peter Allen

Peter Allen — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:58:29 +0000

The (&) will not work. I would use a dash.

By: Peter Allen

Peter Allen — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:57:07 +0000

I would try a dash instead of a coma.

By: CK

CK — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:19:53 +0000

Another issue. Had a tab name containing the ampersand (&) and noted that the pull down menu did not display until I deleted the ampersand from the tab name. As we do need the ampersand to be in the tab name, how can we resolve this. Please help.

Thank you!

By: CK

CK — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:07:03 +0000

Actually, the links with a description containing a comma in the Tab Pull Down table are not displaying an accurate label in the pull down menu. For example, we have a link with the label “Operations, Training and Requirements”. The pull down menu shows just “Operations” and the comma and anything after the comma do not display. What can I do to display the whole label? Please help.

Thank you!

By: CK

CK — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:41:58 +0000

Hi,

I’ve implemented the solution on a site and the tabs and pull downs rendered as they should. However, the navigation did not render on a subsite even after inserting the three lines of code to the subsite’s master page. Able to help? Let me know if you need more information.

Thank you!

By: Peter Allen

Peter Allen — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:15:55 +0000

Sireesh,

At this time I have not looked at adding fly-outs. I am not sure when or if I will get to this.

By: Sireesh

Sireesh — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:44:07 +0000

The solution worked perfectly for me. However i need to add second level menu’s like in your example if you go to TopicPoint you will see List, under list i want some more menu items as flyout

Please let me know is this possible.

Thanks in Advance

By: Cassie

Cassie — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:34:01 +0000

Thank you both so much! I tried Peter’s tip this morning using the #zz1_TopNavigationMenunTabName method and it worked great! Now time for some trial and error as Jay said…

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:56:07 +0000

Cassie there are really 2 ways to figure out which ID is tied to which tab in your topnav. You can view the source from the Edit menu of Internet Explorer or you can use the IE Developer tools.

If you’re viewing the source do a “Find” or “Search” for the name of one of your tabs. For example if one of your navigation tabs is named “Accounting” search for “Accounting” in the source of teh web page and you should get a hit back that has the URL the tab is pointing at as well as the classes it is styled with. It should look something like the following:

a class=”zz1_TopNavigationMenu_1 ms-topnav zz1_TopNavigationMenu_3″ href=”http://mossdev/sites/acct/default.aspx” style=”border-style:none;font-size:1em;”>Accounting

Using the dev tools just open them from the Tools drop down menu in IE and then click the arrow in the upper left hand corner of the tool window and then click one of your tabs and then you should see the appropriate classes identified there.

You will find that styling the navigation tabs can be a little squirrely so expect some trial and error.

Hope that help some.