UltimateSitemap Designer Interface
UltimateSitemapDesigner is the visual designer to help you create and manipulate your UltimateSitemap. It is not an external ASP.NET web application like UltimateMenuDesigner or UltimateSitemapDesigner, but a dialog box (Windows Form) embedded into the UltimateSitemap server control. You can open it from inside VS.NET by just right-clicking on UltimateSitemap and selecting UltimateSitemapDesigner from the pop-up menu.
You can build a sitemap from a file directory automatically, or update a presaved sitemap with the help of UltimateSitemapDesigner. You can save/load your sitemap to/from database/XML file. Sitemap XML file has a simple hierarchy of siteMapNode elements. You can find the XML schema in UltimateSitemapSource.xsd.
| File Menu | |
 Create Blank Sitemap
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To create a new blank sitemap to enter the nodes manually from scratch. |
 Create From Directory
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To create a new sitemap from a directory automatically. It opens up dialog boxes to let you select the root directory and the file types to be selected. |
 Load From File
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To load sitemap from an XML file. It opens up a dialog box to let you select the XML file. |
 Load From Database
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To load sitemap from database. It opens up a dialog box to let you enter the database connection string and sitemap id. |
 Save To File
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To save sitemap to an XML file. It opens up a dialog box to let you select the XML file. |
 Save To Database
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To save sitemap to database. It opens up a dialog box to let you enter the database connection string and sitemap id. |
| siteMap Tree | |
| You can easily Add and Delete sitemap nodes and Move them in the sitemap tree. | |
 Add node
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To add a node to the sitemap. |
 Delete node
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To delete a node from the sitemap. |
 Move node up
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To move a node up in the sitemap hierarchy. |
 Move node down
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To move a node down in the sitemap hierarchy. |
 Move node left
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To move a node to the left in the sitemap hierarchy. |
 Move node right
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To move a node to the right in the sitemap hierarchy. |
 Expand all
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To expand all nodes of the sitemap tree. |
 Collapse all
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To collapse all nodes of the sitemap tree. |
| siteMapNode Attributes | |
| You can set the following attributes for each node of the sitemap, which will be kept in XML or database. Please refer to UltimateSitemap document to see the public properties of the UltimateSitemap server control, which will be persisted in the ASPX file rather than XML or database. | |
| nodeID | ID of the sitemap node. |
| title | Title of the sitemap node to be displayed. |
| description | Description of the sitemap node to be displayed as tooltip. |
| url | URL of the sitemap node to the corresponding file. |
| nodeCssClass | CSS class for the sitemap node. |
| childNodeCssClass | CSS class for the child nodes of the sitemap node. |
| nodePrefix | Prefix for the sitemap node to be displayed before the title. |
| nodeSuffix | Suffix for the sitemap node to be displayed after the title. |
| childNodePrefix | Prefix for the child nodes of the sitemap node to be displayed before the title. |
| childNodeSuffix | Suffix for the child nodes of the sitemap node to be displayed after the title. |
| folderClosedImage | Left icon for the sitemap node when it is a closed parent node or a leaf node. |
| folderOpenImage | Left icon for the sitemap node when it is an open parent node. |
| columnIndex | Column index (starting with 0) for the table cell to display the sitemap node in. |
| rowIndex | Row index (starting with 0) for the table cell to display the sitemap node in. |
| allowedUsers | Comma separated list of users who are allowed to see the node. |