Troubleshooting

I’m having trouble setting up cascading menus. Do you have any step-by-step instructions I can reference?

Yes, a document is available in CorasWorks Central. The document you’re looking for is called “Cascading Menus – Winter 2006” and it’s located in the Winter 06 section of this page (click here). You may find some other helpful documents there, as well.

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I changed the order of some items in my Cascading Navigation list, but it isn’t sorting the way I want it to when the menus are displayed.

If you change the value in the Page Order column for one or more items in a cascading navigation list, you need to sort the view by that column before that change will be reflected in the navigation display. Just open the list and click on the Page Order column to sort it. The navigation items will be displayed in the order in which they’re sorted in the list.

How can I use more than one cross-site group to manage the tabs and views my users can see?

You can configure the SSN web part used to display the tabs and views (or cascading menus) to reference multiple lists. Assign the appropriate cross-site group (or Active Directory group) to each navigation list, and only the members of that group will be able to see the navigation options presented by that list.

How can I control how text wraps on a tab label?

The SSN will automatically resize the tabs based upon the text identified as the tab label. If the SSN would be wider than the visible area if text did not wrap, the web part will automatically wrap the text for you based on where spaces and punctuation is available.

If your tabs have long labels and no spaces, the web part can be rendered so it is wider than the visible area, causing the browser to display a horizontal scroll bar.

If you want to force a line break and control where the text is wrapped, you can use a <br> tag within the tab label.

Can I control how text wraps on a view label?

The SSN will automatically wrap view labels so that they can all fit within the available space without a scroll bar. If you want to force a line break and control where the text is wrapped, you can use a <br> tag within the view label.

Is there anything I can do to help improve performance?

If you are taking advantage of cascading menus on the Special Site Navigation web part, there is one thing that can impact performance. CorasWorks has found that navigation lists with a large number of views can inhibit performance. As a result, we recommend that you keep the number of views in your navigation lists to a minimum. The number of items in a list does not appear to be as much of a factor as the number of views.