Allow user to add new option to MenuItem

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I am working on an application that allows users to browse particular file directories on production servers and I would like to allow the user to be able to add additional menu items whilst using the site, as well as creating a new menu item they should also be able to specify a new file directory value linked to this new menu item.

Is there a way that I can allow the end user to dynamically add additional items to this menu and set the config value without having a separate admin functionality page to create the new menu item?

Here's how the menu is setup:

ASP.NET

<table width="100%">
            <tr>
                <td colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="width: 100%; height: 30px" valign="top">
                    <asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" BackColor="#B5C7DE" DynamicHorizontalOffset="2"
                        Font-Names="Verdana" Font-Size="0.8em" ForeColor="#284E98" OnMenuItemClick="Menu1_MenuItemClick"
                        StaticSubMenuIndent="10px" EnableViewState="False" Orientation="Horizontal" Width="100%">
                        <StaticMenuItemStyle BackColor="LightSteelBlue" HorizontalPadding="2px"
                            VerticalPadding="2px" Width="120px" Font-Bold="True" ItemSpacing="1px" />
                        <DynamicHoverStyle BackColor="#284E98" ForeColor="White" />
                        <DynamicMenuStyle BackColor="#B5C7DE" />
                        <StaticSelectedStyle BackColor="#507CD1" ForeColor="White" />
                        <DynamicSelectedStyle BackColor="#507CD1" />
                        <DynamicMenuItemStyle HorizontalPadding="5px" VerticalPadding="2px" />
                        <Items>
                            <asp:MenuItem Text="Home" Value="Home"></asp:MenuItem>
                            <asp:MenuItem Selectable="False" Text="View Server Items" Value="View Server Items">
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Browse Inetpub" Value="Inetpub"></asp:MenuItem>
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Browse SrvApps" Value="SrvApps"></asp:MenuItem>
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Browse .Net 2.0 64-bit Config" Value="Net20Config64"></asp:MenuItem>
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Browse .Net 2.0 Config" Value="Net20Config"></asp:MenuItem>
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="View GAC" Value="GAC"></asp:MenuItem>
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="View MSMQ" Value="MSMQ"></asp:MenuItem>
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Server Time" Value="ServerTime"></asp:MenuItem>
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Browse Allstate Scripts" Value="AllstateTWSScripts"></asp:MenuItem>
                            </asp:MenuItem>
                            <asp:MenuItem Text="Manage Sites" Value="Manage Sites" Selectable="False">
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Control Sites" Value="Control Sites"></asp:MenuItem>
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Control App Pools" Value="Control App Pools"></asp:MenuItem>
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Download Logs" Value="Download Logs"></asp:MenuItem>
                            </asp:MenuItem>
                            <asp:MenuItem Text="Manage Services" Value="Manage Services"></asp:MenuItem>
                            <asp:MenuItem Selectable="False" Text="Diagnostics" Value="Diagnostics">
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="View EventLog" Value="View EventLog"></asp:MenuItem>
                            </asp:MenuItem>
                        </Items>
                        <StaticHoverStyle BackColor="#284E98" BorderStyle="None" ForeColor="White" Font-Bold="False" />
                        <StaticMenuStyle BackColor="LightSteelBlue" />
                    </asp:Menu>
        <asp:Label ID="lblPath" runat="server" Text="Home" ForeColor="Gray"></asp:Label><span style="color: gray"></span></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td rowspan="3" style="width: 100%; height: 412px" valign="top" colspan="3">
                    <asp:MultiView ID="MultiView1" runat="server">
                        <asp:View ID="View1" runat="server">
                            <uc3:ucHomeView ID="UcHomeView1"  runat="server" />
                        </asp:View>
                        <asp:View ID="View2" runat="server">
                             <uc8:ucBrowseFiles id="UcBrowseFiles1"  runat="server"></uc8:ucBrowseFiles>
                        </asp:View>
                        <asp:View ID="View3" runat="server">
                            <uc4:ucSites id="UcSites1"  runat="server">
                            </uc4:ucSites>
                        </asp:View>
                        <asp:View ID="View4" runat="server">
                            <uc5:ucServices id="UcServices1"  runat="server">
                            </uc5:ucServices>
                        </asp:View>
                        <asp:View ID="View5" runat="server">
                            <uc6:ucEventLogView id="UcEventLogView1"  runat="server">
                            </uc6:ucEventLogView>
                        </asp:View>
                        <asp:View ID="View6" runat="server">
                            <uc8:ucGacBrowser id="UcGACBrowser1"  runat="server">
                            </uc8:ucGacBrowser>
                        </asp:View>
                        <asp:View ID="View7" runat="server">
                             <uc9:ucAppPools id="UcAppPools1"  runat="server"></uc9:ucAppPools>
                        </asp:View>
                        <asp:View ID="View8" runat="server">
                            <uc10:ucDownloadFile ID="UcDownloadFile1"  runat="server" />
                        </asp:View>
                        <asp:View ID="View9" runat="server">
                            <uc11:ucMSMQBrowser ID="UcMSMQBrowser1"  runat="server" />
                        </asp:View>
                        <asp:View ID="View11" runat="server">
                            <uc12:ucServerTime ID="UcServerTime"  runat="server" />
                        </asp:View>
                    </asp:MultiView> </td>
            </tr>

Web.config Values:

HTML

<appSettings>
<!--PMC-->
<!--<add key="Inetpub" value="d:\inetpub"/>-->
<add key="Inetpub" value="c:\inetpub"/>
<add key="Srvapps" value="d:\srvapps"/>
<add key="GAC" value="C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC"/>
<add key="Net20Config64" value="C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\CONFIG"/>
<add key="Net20Config" value="C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG"/>
<add key="AllstateTWSScripts" value="d:\allstate\"/>
<!--PMC-->
<!--<add key="IISLogDir" value="d:\inetpub\LogFiles"/>-->
<add key="IISLogDir" value="c:\inetpub\LogFiles"/>
<!--PMC-->
<!--<add key="IISLogDir2008" value="d:\inetpub\Logs"/>-->
<add key="IISLogDir2008" value="c:\inetpub\Logs"/>
<add key="ViewExt" value=".txt;.log;.config;.ini;.bat;.html"/>
<add key="CleansePasswords" value="false"/>
<!--timeout in seconds-->
<add key="ServiceTimeout" value="30"/>
<add key="ResourceTimeout" value="300"/>
<!--Limit Event Log entries-->
<add key="MaxEvents" value="1000"/>
<add key="MaxRemoteEvents" value="200"/>
</appSettings>

Posted 21-Mar-13 1:45am

pmcm

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ZurdoDev 21-Mar-13 7:51am

Although I have never tried see if the menu.Items collection has an Add() method. Or, you can see how it is rendered in html and then use jquery to add items.

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Solution 2

C#

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (User.IsInRole("admin"))
    {
        mnu.Items.Add(new MenuItem
        {
            Text = "Administer web site",
            NavigateUrl = "~/admin.aspx"
        });
    }
}

Posted 21-Mar-13 3:37am

JitendraSahu

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pmcm 21-Mar-13 9:59am

whilst your solution would work for dynamically add items to the Menu it does not allow the user to specify the Text & Value. I know allowing the user to specify these values is a security risk so I will have to investigate this requirement further.

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**Zoltán Zörgő** · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-21T01:54:00

Your menu is defined in the code. You probably don't want to allow user to alter code. So change your point of view: you don't need to allow user to add menu items, you need to define and put in place a feature that can populate the menu fully or partially in a dynamic manner. You also need to store and retrieve the data of these dynamic items somewhere: in a database for example. Please look at following article for a possible solution: Dynamically populating menu items from the database in ASP.NET[^]