Display Parent Navigation Items via API

Question

I'm creating a custom team site from a site definition and I can't seem to set the site to display the same navigation items as the parent site for the Global Navigation. I've tried using this code:

web.Navigation.UseShared = true;
web.Update();

as well as trying with the PublishingWeb object:

PublishingWeb pubWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(web);
pubWeb.Navigation.InheritGlobal = true;
pubWeb.Update();

I've also tried setting it via my onet.xml file by setting it here:

 <!-- NavigationProperties Feature-->
    <Feature ID="541F5F57-C847-4e16-B59A-B31E90E6F9EA">
      <Properties xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
        <Property Key="InheritGlobalNavigation" Value="true"/>

I'm finding the only way I can set it is via powershell:

new-SPWeb "http://dev.site.com/subsite" -template "MySiteDefinitions#0"  -useparenttopnav -name "Subsite"

but I can't use this at runtime. Has anyone had luck with this?

Answer 1

In your onet.xml file after activate publishing feature you can specify these properties:

<Feature ID="541F5F57-C847-4e16-B59A-B31E90E6F9EA">
  <!-- Per-Web Portal Navigation Properties-->
  <Properties xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
    <Property Key="InheritGlobalNavigation" Value="true"/>
    <Property Key="InheritCurrentNavigation" Value="true"/>
    <Property Key="IncludeSubSites" Value="true"/>
    <Property Key="ShowSiblings" Value="false"/>
    <Property Key="IncludePages" Value="false"/>
    <Property Key="OrderingMethod" Value="Automatic"/>
    <Property Key="AutomaticSortingMathod" Value="CreatedDate"/>
    <Property Key="SortAscending" Value="true"/>
  </Properties>
</Feature>

This works well for me.

Meybe this will help,

Andrew