Danish Hussain

We have discovered an issue in share point / MOSS top navigation menu while associating menu headings with share point system pages like list details pages. Reproducing an issue is simple using following steps. 1. Go to your site 2. Select Site Action->Site Settings -> Modify All Site Settings 3. Select Navigation under Look n Feel section 4. Click on Add Heading 5. In Title write test 6. In URL select browse and browse to any list in your site e.g. /Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx 7. Click ok 8. Go to home page of your site 9. Select top navigation menu created in step 4 10. You will find that your page will open but first menu item will remain selected in your top navigation menu We have noticed this issue while doing modification with system pages only. So workaround to this solution will be to create a separate page and use show pages list to display pages and hide any additional pages that you don’t want to display

Customizing Share point 2007/MOSS Top Navigation Bar/Menu Control (ASP Menu Control) For customizing menu we have two options. 1. Write a custom control and embed it in Master Page 2. Customize existing share point menu control I believe that option 2 is better as compared to option 1. But you may face certain issues in implementing option 2. We have listed solutions for few issues in customization of share point menu using share point menu controls. Please note that following solution is based on assumption that solution will be for single level menu. Simple Customization using CSS If your customization is simple i.e. can be catered easily by applying CSS. Option2 will be fairly simple and can be implemented easily without any issues. In above case you have following options a) Modify existing CSS class. b) Create new CSS class and associate it with share point menu control In case you are using existing CSS class you don’t need to change anything in master page and need to do styli...