SiteMapPortalProvider

Question

I'm trying to build a custom navigation entity off the existing SiteMapPortalProvider exposed through SharePoint 2010, however, I cannot seem to find the settings to replicate a particular sub-site's navigational settings.

Take the following into account:

-> Sub Site -> Current Navigation

1. About Us
2. Contact Us
3. Should Be Hidden (Hidden)
4. Should Be Hidden (Hidden)
5. Corporate Info

I retrieve the current SiteMapPortalProvider from SharePoint and pass the following attributes:

• IncludeAuthoredLinks = true
• IncludeHeadings = true
• IncludePages = PerWeb
• IncludeSubSites = PerWeb
• NavigationType = Combined

As this replicated the navigational settings for the sub-site I'm trying to simulate.

I then do subsequent calls to the SiteMapPortalProvider to get the items, as listed above, and pass the following parameters through:

• NodeTypes.All,
• NodeTypes.All,
• OrderingMethod.Manual
• AutomaticSortingMethod.CreatedDate

However, the above code returns the (Hidden) items to be visible to the user.

Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

According to this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa661621.aspx

the second nodetypes parameter is what type of hidden nodes should be included (includedHiddenTypes). So shouldn't the second parameter where you have NodeTypes.All be NodeTypes.None?