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erikl - 5/30/2006 4:28:19 PM
   
Building up the menu items
Hi,

I've read the thread on how to define your own menu items by using the URL Page Type in this thread: http://www.kentico.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1335

As Brian, I'm also evaluating Kentico for one of our customer web-projects.

My question on top of what is discussed in the thread mentioned, is this:

Can I compile a menu that is based on:
A - Some static pages
B - Pages created with Kentico
C - Menu items that are dynamically.

Perhaps I should elaborate on part C. We already have an existing DB for the website where we host the products and categories. On top of this DB, we have existing layered .NET code, that is, a DAL and BLL (using CodeSmith & Nettiers).

So, I can imagine that your answer to C is import the entire category/product data into Kentico, but I don't really see that as an option today.

So, how could I dynamically add menu items based on data I retrieve from my own DB?

thnx

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admin - 6/1/2006 3:52:57 PM
   
Re: Building up the menu items
Hi Erik,

Thank you for your message. Unfortunately, the built-in menu controls do not allow you to combine Kentico CMS content and external dynamic content.

However, you could use the skmMenu control directly (or some other menu control) and use Kentico CMS API to retrieve CMS-based menu items and your API to retrieve your external data and display them all in the menu control.

Please let me know if you need any additional details or please feel free to contact me at petrp@kentico.com.

Thank you.

Best Regards,