Navigation View provides you with a graphical view of your web site's navigation structure as well as ready access to the commands that pertain to them. A toolbar associated with this window offers commonly used commands for the item you highlight in the list. To access Navigation View, select Navigation View on the PagePorter menu.
- Tree View
- This tree view shows a list of the items in your web site's navigation structure. Properties Window displays properties of the currently selected page in the tree view.
- Context Menu
- You may access all of the commands for Navigation View through the context menu. Right-click or use the keyboard's context key to bring up the context menu. See Commands and Toolbar Icons for a list of commands and descriptions.
- Drag and Drop
- Navigation View supports local drag and drop to modify the navigation structure as well as drag and drop outside Navigation View. You may drag files from Solution Explorer onto Navigation View to add new pages to the navigation structure. You may also drag a page from Navigation View onto a page in the HTML editor and create a hyperlink to that page.
Tree View Icons
The following table describes the item icons in the tree view, and what they mean:
| Icon | Summary |
|---|---|
 |
The home page for the web site. |
 |
A normal page. |
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A page external to the web site. |
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A page of unknown status. |
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A custom link bar. |
The background color of the icon plays a role in representing its status, as shown in the following table:
| Background Color | Summary |
|---|---|
| White | The page is part of a custom link bar. |
| Light yellow | Normal page or custom link bar. |
| Gray | Page or custom link bar is not included in the navigation structure. |
Commands and Toolbar Icons
| Command | Icon | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| New Page |
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Creates a new blank page, and adds it to the navigation structure. The page selected in the navigation tree will be the parent of the new page. If there was no selected page, the new page will be a global (top-level) page. |
| New Custom Link Bar |
 |
Adds a new custom link bar underneath the current node. |
| Add Existing Page |
 |
Lets you add a page from the project, or outside the project to the navigation structure. |
| Open | Opens the selected page for editing. | |
| Save Navigation Changes |
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Saves any changes you have made to the navigation structure. If you make navigation structure changes and don't save before you preview or publish a page, the changes will not show. |
| Rename | Renames the name of the page in the navigation structure. Does not change the page's title, but does change the name displayed in link bars. | |
| Delete |
 |
Removes this page from the navigation structure. |
| Included in Link Bars |
 |
Set by default for new pages, controls whether or not the page is actually displayed in link bars. Same as the Included property. |
| Make Home Page | Makes the currently selected page the web site's home page. Must already be in the root folder of the web site project. | |
| Refresh |
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Reloads the Navigation View from the underlying file. Prompts you if this will cause you to lose any changes you may have made to the navigation structure. |
| Properties | Displays the Properties Window. |
Properties
| Name | Summary |
|---|---|
| Caption | The caption in the link bar for the page. Defaults to the title of the page. |
| Included | Set by default for new pages, controls whether or not the page is actually displayed in link bars. Same as the Included in Link Bars command. |
| IncludeOverride | Specifies an external property that may be used to override the
Included property. For example, EditPage.IsAuthorized
represents the IsAuthorized property in the EditPage
class. If the class and property cannot be found, or an error
occurs, the Included property is not overridden. The property
only has to implement the get operation (ReadOnly in
Visual Basic). It takes no arguments, and returns a Boolean
value. The property must reside in the same assembly with the web
page code-behind classes.The IncludeOverride property may be used to implement conditional menus based on a visitor's site roles. If the site is also managed by FrontPage, set the Included property to False to prevent the menu page links from showing in non ASP.NET pages. Not supported in Microsoft FrontPage. |
| Last Parented | Displays the date and time the navigation page was last modified or moved. Read only. |
| Target | The target frame for this page (e.g. _blank, _media, _parent, _search, _self, _top). Not supported in Microsoft FrontPage. |
| URL | The URL of the page. May be absolute or relative. May also contain queries such as "?ReturnUrl=myaccount.aspx" but is not recommended for comanaged sites, as FrontPage cannot properly handle them. |