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Good catch there Jinx.

hai any got the zip file for the tree view ................Pls froward me the link


Thanks in advance,

pat

Pat:

I would suggest just creating and installing the pages according to the directions laid out by "bumbles" on page 1 of this post.

I did this the other day and it works perfectly.

If you cannot or don't know how to create the pages let me know. I believe will need a program such as frontpage or dreamweaver (I used dreamweaver) to create.

You can even create it in notepad - just save the file with the proper name and extension.

Hi

Is the zip file here somewhere. Can someone forward the link or is it posted ?

Thanks, Don

There is no zip file. Just follow the instructions bumbles has laid out in his previous posts. If you have trouble anyone on here would be more than happy to help.

Compunerdy-- how did you get rid if the scroll bars in the control?

Which scrollbars? vertical or horizontal? I dont remember having to remove any.

I found it. I had to make my leftsidebarpanel in the style.css wider because of the long category names.

Yup..thats the trick

That will kind of do it but to actually remove the scroll you need to do a couple of things. First go to your CategoryTreeView.ascx file and add the width like the following..

<ComponentArt:TreeView id="TreeView1" width="192"

Then very important to truly remove the scroll you need to add this below with the other declarations.

NodeWrap="true"

Otherwise just making it bigger will only mask the issue until you have a category that is wider than the size set. Nodewrap allows the category name to wrap before adding scroll..

This is what worked for me anyway. Hope that helps.

Thanks, Jinx. I set the width OK, but the NodeWrap woudn't come up in intellisense. I added it anyway.

I am having trouble getting the stylesheet code that Bumbles posted to apply to the treeview. I've pasted it into the Style.css for the theme.
I got some of it to apply by changing the style in this from "content" to "CatTreeView"

<asp:Panel ID="TreePanel" runat="server" CssClass="CatTreeView">

I can't get other things to change, like the font-size, but maybe it's because they are links?

Hi Judy,

I found after making my initial post that for some reason the properties of the treeview control aren't being set correctly. To get this to work, I added the following lines of code to the InitializeCategoryTree method.

After the line that reads:
Insert the following 4 lines:
All going well your styles should now work for you

You should probably change the cssclass of the asp:panel back to "content".

Thanks, that worked. Can you edit your original post for posterity's sake?

Good idea..... Done

compunerdy-
How did you get your center selection to display products when you weren't in the lowest category?
For example, on this page http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/Belts ... ds-C7.aspx
the left menu expands and the center shows products even though they are in a sub category. I've added the category tree view menu, but when I click on a link like that in my menu, it won't display products until I'm down to the last subcategory.

Personally I would rather it work the way you described. I didnt do anything to get it to work that way..it just did.

Judy, you might be using the modfication that I requested and bumbles added later after his initial code he submitted in this thread. Does your navigation show like my site here? http://www.etillastuffedanimals.com. On this site I didn't want to use icons for opening with ajax just the text so Bumbles gave me some modified code that allowed the expansion to open if the LINK was clicked and there were sub categories with content. If there are no sub categories and only product in the top category product displays upon clicking on the category only.

I know I am rambling, I just don't know how to best explain.

Maybe it has to do with the category display page you are using. Which one are you using for the center of the page?
On my site, because you have to click on subcategory links, nothing happens in the center when you click on a nav link that has categories but no products directly under it. I was afraid the customer would think the site was broken because nothing on the page changes.

I am using the Category Grid Page for my category content area. Is the site you are looking at viewable to the public? I could look at it if you like to get a sense of what your navigation is doing.

Jinx- That is the code I am using so that must be why it was that way.On your site, when I click on Teddy Bears, small, nothing happens in the center. I was afraid that would cause customers to think nothing is working.
Thanks

Yeah unfortunately when you click on small and nothing shows it is because the client has not loaded content into the category but still marked it as active. I believe if the category was empty and marked as inactive it would not have shown. If you click on Stuffed Animals and then Aquatic - that will show you the desired navigation affect.

Thanks for your help. I'm just going to show the client both ways and let them decide-- there are pros and cons either way.