I solved my problem. I used the newslist control instead of the menulist control and disabled the news item pages in admin mode and it worked

However I am trying to use my submenu on somee selected pages only. For example I have a newslist page type where I list the subfoldered news item page types in a a menulist.

So when the sub menu container is in the masterpagefile, every single news item ends up in the sub menu. And I cant uncheck the “enable in menus” checkbox since then all my news dissapears from the list ( due to that I display them in a menulist ).

I have been working on a solution to my problem where I display my submenu in a standard page type template and not my news list page type template. However I canot bind the submenu and the mainmenu objects ” SubMenu.MenuList = MainMenu.MenuList; ” since the mainmenu is in the masterpagefile.

any ideas?

I needed to use OnInit insted of OnLoad in MainMenu.ascx.cs

I have some trouble with this gettin a “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” on the SubMenu.PageLink = MenuList.OpenTopPage;

Any ideas?

Hope this helps.

Frederik

That makes much more sense

I was assuming that in order for the PageTree object to know the ‘OpenTopPage’ of the MenuList it would use the MenuList object we created for the Primary Navigation (called ‘MainMenu’)…

However the code you’ve added makes total sense as you simply create a new MenuList object, a tad confusingly also called ‘MenuList’ [nb: EPiServer do the same in their example so it must be standard confusing practice!] and then ask that to tell us it’s ‘OpenTopPage’ instead.

Let me know if I’m reading the code wrong here!

Thanks again

Alex

Frederik

Love your articles – better than the official EPiServer documentation by a long way!

In the above example, when you get to the PageList control you refer to the MenuList object as ‘MenuList’ when I think it would probably be correct to refer to it as ‘MainMenu’ as that is the instance that you created with the MenuList object in the first MenuList example?

As you can see we’re learning very very slowly here

Alex