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Paul Turner
Paul Turner

Reputation: 39675

How can I create an unclickable dynamic node in my MVC sitemap?

I'm using MvcSiteMapProvider to create breadcrumbs in my ASP.NET MVC application. I have some dynamic resources which I want to create some child nodes for. Some of these nodes, I want to appear in breadcrumbs but not be clickable.

For a static resource, you can specify clickable="false" in the XML sitemap document and these nodes will appear, but will not be hyperlinks. I can't find an equivalent property to set on the DynamicNode returned by my dynamic node provider class.

Is it possible to add a dynamic, "unclickable" node?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 612

Answers (2)

NightOwl888
NightOwl888

Reputation: 56909

In v4 there is now a Clickable property on the dynamic node, and setting an attribute to clickable will now cause an error, because the properties are no longer backed by the Attributes dictionary.

var node = new DynamicNode();

node.Clickable = false;

Upvotes: 1

Paul Turner
Paul Turner

Reputation: 39675

DynamicNode doesn't have n Clickable property, because it does not inherit from the MvcSiteMapNode class.

Reflecting on MvcSiteMapNode shows that the implementation of Clickable is backed by the Attributes property:

public bool Clickable
{
    get
    {
        return ((this["clickable"] == null) || bool.Parse(this["clickable"]));
    }
    set
    {
        this["clickable"] = value.ToString();
    }
}

The DynamicNode class exposes its own Attributes property, which is copied to the MvcSiteMapNode instance when the dynamic nodes are parsed. The property can therefore be set using this code:

var node = new DynamicNode();

node.Attributes["clickable"] = "false";

Upvotes: 1

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