| Scott Cate \( ASP.net MVP\) 2004-04-26, 9:47 pm |
| Thanks again Stefan (and others) for your time and support in this forum.
I'm wordering if I can pick your brain about something?
My site has 4 navigation componenets.
Global Nav 1
Global Nav 2
Channel Nav 1
Channel Nav 2
Today my navigation skills were thrown for a loop. So far, I've been
building navigation directly from teh Channel.Channels collection, kind of a
forward only navigation.
Today I was given a business requirement, that the Channel Nav 1 and Channel
Nav 2, need to be able to point to anywhere in the site. Up to this point, I
was only loading children of the current channel in the navigation, and
looking at parents for bread crumbs etc...
Summary: How do I handle navigation when the navigation needs to be this
dynamic.
I thought about a custom property, on both channels and postings, but that
means that I have to interigate the whole database in order to generate
navigation. If this is my option, the production site will have a 24 hour
cache on it, and only be updated once per day, so the extreme transaction is
a possibility, but I'm hoping for a better way.
I'm hoping for some sort of a shortcut posting, that acts kind of like a
redirect page? But I'm just guessing on this. This would make it so that my
"forward only" navigation would still work though. Again, just a guess.
Cheers, TIA for your advice.
Scott Cate
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