I need to add some external links in the main menu but the umbraco installation I am working with seems only to allow pages that exist in this Umbraco installation. is this always like this or is there a config setting to allow external linking in menu?
It's true that you need to have a node present in the tree.
However here you can place a url picker (exists in the uComponents package) and here you can enter an external URL and the in your rendering of the navigation make a check to see if the property has a value and then render that value instead of the actual url of the page.
As Jan suggested, you may use uComponents package. However another way round would be to add a textString property to you docType, so if ever an external link is added in the field then it uses this Url instead of NiceUrl.
adding external links to a menu?
I need to add some external links in the main menu but the umbraco installation I am working with seems only to allow pages that exist in this Umbraco installation. is this always like this or is there a config setting to allow external linking in menu?
Hi Johan
It's true that you need to have a node present in the tree.
However here you can place a url picker (exists in the uComponents package) and here you can enter an external URL and the in your rendering of the navigation make a check to see if the property has a value and then render that value instead of the actual url of the page.
Hope this makes sense.
/Jan
Hi Johan,
As Jan suggested, you may use uComponents package. However another way round would be to add a textString property to you docType, so if ever an external link is added in the field then it uses this Url instead of NiceUrl.
//fuji
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