Open Quick Launch links in new window programmatically

Question

I have saved a team site solution in the gallery which lets the user create subsites. Now the user would like to open some quicklaunch links in a new window when the new subsite is created.

How can I open a library/list in a new window programmatically, since the saved template does not retain the options that I have specified before I saved it?

Edit: here is my code so far but is not working:

 public override void WebProvisioned(SPWebEventProperties properties)
    {
        base.WebProvisioned(properties);

        SPNavigationNodeCollection leftNav = properties.Web.Navigation.QuickLaunch;
        SPNavigationNode node = leftNav.Navigation.GetNodeByUrl("/Shared Documents");
        node.Properties["Target"] = "_blank";
        node.Update();
        properties.Web.Update();

    }

Answer 1

You might have found solution for this, but this is what i would have done to achieve this.

Create a jQuery script to update the links target example here

Add reference to this js onto home page of the sub site, create a new template and start creating new sites based on this template.

I hope this will help someone in future