creating virtual items in navigation that target a certain page with url rewriting

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Rik Helsen 670 posts 873 karma points

Oct 28, 2009 @ 10:59

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Creating "virtual items" in navigation that target a certain page with url rewriting

We have a number of usercontrols that display events using querystring parameters for productions and productiontypes

Now i was wondering how you would add "virtual" links to the navigation (so navigationfromsource would return them).

So i'd want to add links like these to the navigation structure:

website.com/nl/events/dance
website.com/nl/events/architecture
website.com/nl/events/opera

that are then rewritten to

website.com/nl/dyn/productionsearch.aspx?prod_type=1
website.com/nl/dyn/productionsearch.aspx?prod_type=2
website.com/nl/dyn/productionsearch.aspx?prod_type=...

What approaches do you suggest?

creating a node-type "virtuallink" that has a nodename and a link associated with it?

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Rik Helsen 670 posts 873 karma points

Oct 28, 2009 @ 13:04

I've been able to do this by creating a new documentype "VirtualPage" that has a nodename and a hyperlink.

Then in the navigationfromsource.xslt I change the link href incase of one doctype to the enteredvalue:

 <xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($sourceNl)/node [string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1']">
                    <li>
                          <xsl:if test="@nodeType = '1300'">
                      
                      <a href="{./data [@alias = 'VirtualLink']}"> 
                         <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
                      </a>
                      </xsl:if>
                     <xsl:if test="@nodeType != '1300'">
                          <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
                         <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
                      </a> 
                      </xsl:if>
                     
                    </li>
    </xsl:for-each>

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