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  • Steve 472 posts 1216 karma points
    May 12, 2014 @ 16:02
    Steve
    0

    Help with Navigation

    Hello,

    I am generating a dynamic nav on my page using a traverse helper, but I need to find a way to prevent it from creating an empty <ul> tag for the navigation when there are no children of the current page to display. Here is what I have.

    @{
    var StartLevel = String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.startLevel) ? 3 : int.Parse(Parameter.startLevel);
    var FinishLevel = String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.finishLevel) ? 7 : int.Parse(Parameter.finishLevel);
    var page = @Model.AncestorOrSelf(StartLevel);
        if(page != null)
        {
        @traverse(page, StartLevel, FinishLevel);   
        }                
    }   
    
    @helper traverse(dynamic page, int StartLevel, int FinishLevel)
    {
        <ul class="nodeList">
            @foreach (var node in page.Children.Where("Visible && NodeTypeAlias == \"Category2InternalPage\" || NodeTypeAlias == \"ExternalLink\" || NodeTypeAlias == \"StudentGroupsPage\""))
                {
                var itemName = node.HasValue("shortPageTitle") ? @node.shortPageTitle : node.HasValue("pageTitle") ? @node.pageTitle : @node.pageName;
                var levelOne = node.IsAncestor(Model) ? "class=levelOne" : "";
                var childActive = node.IsEqual(Model) ? "class=activeChild" : "";
                var target = node.externalUrl ? "target=_blank" : "";
                var link = node.HasValue("externalUrl") ? node.url : node.Url;
                <li @childActive @levelOne ><a href="@link" @target>@itemName</a>
        @if(node.Children.Where("Visible && NodeTypeAlias == \"Category2InternalPage\" || NodeTypeAlias == \"ExternalLink\" || NodeTypeAlias == \"StudentGroupsPage\"").Count() > 0 && node.IsAncestorOrSelf(Model) && node.Level <= FinishLevel)
              { 
              @traverse(node, StartLevel, FinishLevel);
              }
                </li>
              }
        </ul>     
    }
  • Steve Morgan 1349 posts 4459 karma points c-trib
    May 12, 2014 @ 17:11
    Steve Morgan
    0

    You're always going to hit your helper class (and therefore output your Unordered List tags as page will never be null as there always will be a self. 

    I do something similar using the CurrentPage object... you can use the Any() method - you could just wrap an if around what you already have if that works at the moment. 

     

    @if (CurrentPage.Children().Any()){

    <ul>

    .... <li> CODE HERE </li>

    }

  • Steve 472 posts 1216 karma points
    May 12, 2014 @ 18:19
    Steve
    0

    Thanks Steve, but I am using ver. 4.11 with webforms and I don't believe that I have that object class.

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