Thread: Where Top Menu Categories loaded from?

I have a category which needs to be hidden, but remain active so I can't set it to unpublished. I have modified rev.categories.xml.config so that it doesnt show in the left vertical menu, but it still shows in the top horizontal menu under categories. Is there another xml config file I need to change?

It is your menuData.xml file under your Web\skins\Skin_# folder

Thanks Melanie, I see the categories string token is in there, but it's the actual drop down list of categories that I am wondering about. Does that get pulled in directly from the database or from an xml config file like the left menu does.

The data for the DropDown menus are generated indirectly from the database. The menus are actually bound to a SiteMapDataSource (of which our site maps are database generated).

Dusty
ASPDotNetStorefront Staff

hi, Please use EntityMenuList.xslt to reove the category from the category menu.
there you can easily remove any category which you dont want to show in category list.

Replace this code in EntityMenuList withi your category id

<xsl:template match="Entity">
<xslaram name="ParentEntityID"><xsl:value-of select="ParentEntityID"/></xslaram>
<xslaram name="prefix"/>
<xslaram name="eName">

<xsl:if test="EntityID!=1">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="count(Name/ml/locale[@name=$custlocale])!=0">
<xsl:value-of select="Name/ml/locale[@name=$custlocale]"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="count(Name/ml/locale[@name=$deflocale])!=0">
<xsl:value-of select="Name/ml/locale[@name=$deflocale]"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="count(Name/ml)=0">
<xsl:value-of select="Name"/>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:if>
</xslaram>

Where 1 is your CategoryID which you dont want to show.

Thanks

hi textbox,

Can you please let me know if it is working 4 you?

Thanks

Hi I've tried to remove your account order history etc from the asp:menu by removing them from the App_Template_/Skin_1/menuData.xml and deleting each item I did not want... to no avail.

My colleague then went to xmlPackages/page.menu.xml.config and was able to remove them successfully. I don't know if this is correct but wanted to share with the forum how we are able to accomplish this

menudata.xml is not used anymore if you're on v9, check out {root}/XMLPackages/page.menu.xml.config file instead and comment out:

Code:

<siteMapNode title="(!menu.YourAccount!)" url="~/account.aspx" />