How to have external URL show up in selectlist feature of menu

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packrat

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06/06/2007 4:33 PM
Hi John, I need to add an external url to my quicklinks dropdown box but am not sure how to accomplish this with the menu. We have a site that parents and students reference quite often for grades and class information and I would like to add this site as one of the selections in the quicklinks box. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Paul

John Mitchell
Posts:3248

06/06/2007 4:40 PM
You can do that by using the following tip: http://www.snapsis.com//tabid/560/forumid/10/postid/5801/view/topic/Post.aspx

packrat

Posts:64

06/06/2007 4:52 PM
I should have said I already tried that. The problem, or better yet, my confusion, is that I need to set the page to hidden to keep it form showing up in my horizontal or verticle sub menu? Correct? And if the page is hidden to keep it from showing up there, do I then use the includetab property to force it to show up in the selectlist? Sorry...long day at work - can't think global right now

John Mitchell
Posts:3248

06/06/2007 5:05 PM
Sorry, IncludeTabs will not show tabs marked as hidden. The best way to handle that is to put it under a parent that is hidden or otherwise excluded on the main menu. I do have a new property called showHidden in the newer version, but that applies globally so may not be the best.

packrat

Posts:64

06/06/2007 5:15 PM
should have thought of that...thanks for the suggestion. Paul

packrat

Posts:64

06/06/2007 6:33 PM
Ok John...what should be easy, is not - at least in my case. I added a new page and added the javascript function including the url I wanted to open in a new window. Can't get it to work. It navigates to the dnn assigned tab for that page. I tried removing the space between java and script but it didn't help. If I just put the external url in there it works fine but does not open in a new window. Paul

John Mitchell
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06/06/2007 7:35 PM
You may still have a version where I had a bug in that type of Url. Send me an e-mail and I'll send you an upgrade.

packrat

Posts:64

06/11/2007 10:20 AM
Hi John, I have installed the new version you sent me but I still can't get an external url to open in a new window. In my selectlist (quicklinks) menu, I have added a page called Edline and have used the js code snippet java script: void(window.open('http://www. ExternalSite.com')); I have changed www.ExternalSite.com to www.edline.com but still no go. The url gets parsed like this http://www.jupiterchristian.org/Portals/0/java%20script:%20void(window.open('http://www.%20edline.com')); with a 404 error. Is there supposed to be a space between java script? I can't recall if this is proper syntax. Also, the space between script: void? I only ask because I know sometimes you have to modify code snippets that are pasted into the editor for security reasons. Thanks, Paul

John Mitchell
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06/11/2007 3:38 PM
Right, take the space out between java and script that was only in that example so I could paste that word in the forums.

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