I'm in a situation where i'm up against a tight deadline and do not have the option to use a different menu at this stage... mostly due to CSS associations already in place with the current menu...

With the existing site i'm working on here is my issue using DNNMenuNavigationProvider

Issue: I just want to display the Root menu items and the First level parent flyout menu. "NOT" any child menu items from the parent.

I tried Expand Depth... but all I get is the Root Menu displayed and no first level parent fly-out. Can someone please advise how i could alter my DNN Nav code below to just display the Root level and 1st level parent menu items "without" displaying the sub "sub" children items?

< dnn:NAV runat="server" id="dnnNAV" ProviderName="DNNMenuNavigationProvider" IndicateChildren="False" ControlOrientation="Horizontal" CSSControl="mainMenu" ControlAlignment="Left" Tooltip="Title" PopulateNodesFromClient="False" ExpandDepth="1" / >

I've checked the Dnn Style Guide and have tried setting the values accordingly.

I do realize it would be best to drop this menu altogether and go with something else, but unfortunately, this is not an option i have at this point.

Hopefully i'm not doomed?

Any work-a-rounds or suggestions would be great to get the current DNN menu to display only root and first level menu fly-outs and "Not" sub children.

Thanks and please advise...

Certainly you aren't doomed!

ExpandDepth: Sets number of levels the menu should show. You will have to set PopulateNodesFromClient to false for the desired effect.

This is a quote from the DotNetNuke Skinning Guide that you can find here: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/LinkClick...Bk6Ppro%3d

By the way, the DDR Menu is absolutely a "drop in" replacement. If you install it, all that you need to do is change the name of the provider as shown in the documentation. It will use the same classes as the NAV menu. No change, but you can then add the DDR Menu's additional features, should you choose to do so.

I thought i was doing exactly what the skin guide said. However, it is not working... is there something i'm missing in my code below... and notice I already have PopulateNodesFromClient="False"

< dnn:NAV runat="server" id="dnnNAV" ProviderName="DNNMenuNavigationProvider" IndicateChildren="False" ControlOrientation="Horizontal" CSSControl="mainMenu" ControlAlignment="Left" Tooltip="Title" PopulateNodesFromClient="False" ExpandDepth="1"/ >

Does this work when you test it? Again all i'm trying to do is Root Main Menu Nodes and then only the first level from there.

Also, I will take a look at DDR Menu as time permits... unfortunatally, they have over a dozen CSS styles linked to particular menu nodes and colorized menu elements, i would have to go into firebug and find them one by one.
Then this morning someone asked for a quick change to the internal website. So i whipped out the style guide and found PopulateNodesFromClient="False" ExpandDepth="1" WOW I THOUGHT.... I FOUND IT!...
Only to find out that such a simple request is not working...

Am i interpreting the code wrong?

I just took a look at a skin on which I've been working:

< dnn:NAV runat="server" ID="dnnNAV" ProviderName="DNNMenuNavigationProvider" IndicateChildren="false"
ControlOrientation="Horizontal" CSSNodeRoot="main_dnnmenu_rootitem" CSSNodeHoverRoot="main_dnnmenu_rootitem_hover"
CSSNodeSelectedRoot="main_dnnmenu_rootitem_selected" CSSBreadCrumbRoot="main_dnnmenu_rootitem_selected"
CSSContainerSub="main_dnnmenu_submenu" CSSNodeHoverSub="main_dnnmenu_itemhover"
CSSNodeSelectedSub="main_dnnmenu_itemselected" CSSContainerRoot="main_dnnmenu_container"
CSSControl="main_dnnmenu_bar" CSSNode="main_dnnmenu_bar" CSSBreak="main_dnnmenu_break"
PopulateNodesFromClient="false" ExpandDepth="1" / >

This works just fine for me. With ExpandDepth="1" is showws only the root level items. I don't have any 3rd level items, so I can't test that.

By the way, just replacing DNN with DDR in the provider attribute is all that I need to do to convert to the DDR menu. All of the CSS styles are unchanged. In this case, you can't even tell visually when I switch the menu.