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Quick Launch Fly-Out Menus
- Edit the site in question using SharePoint designer or located and download the default.master from the master page gallery.
- Locate the following AspMenu control by searching the code for QuickLaunchMenu
- Change the StaticDisplayLevels to a lower number, I recommend 1 (don’t do zero)
- Change the MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels to a higher number such as 3.
Problem
You want to make the quick-launch fly out like the top navigation. Did you know that the top nav and quick launch are just standard ASPNet menu controls? So it’s easy to customize!
Solution
Caution - Setting the StaticDisplayLevels=”0″ will crash your server!
(The Code)
<SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server"
ControlId="QuickLaunchDataSource">
<Template_Controls>
<asp:SiteMapDataSource
SiteMapProvider="SPNavigationProvider"
ShowStartingNode="False"
id="QuickLaunchSiteMap"
StartingNodeUrl="sid:1025"
runat="server"/>
</Template_Controls>
</SharePoint:DelegateControl>
<SharePoint:AspMenu
id="QuickLaunchMenu"
DataSourceId="QuickLaunchSiteMap"
runat="server"
Orientation="Vertical"
StaticDisplayLevels="1"
ItemWrap="true"
MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="3"
StaticSubMenuIndent="0"
SkipLinkText=""
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About the author
Ulysses Ludwig is a SharePoint architect with over 16 years in the IT and computer industry. Ulysses' primary focus is SharePoint but he dabbles in the latest web technologies and likes to develop software in his spare time.
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12 Comments for Quick Launch Fly-Out Menus
This works great,…but even with the MaxDynamicDispLevel set to 3,…I still cannot get that 3rd level flyout to appear. Driving me MAD!!!! I have created a subsite beneath a sub site and STILL it won’t appear in the flyout.
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Does this work for all versions of SharePoint? Also, once you change the master file, do you just go to the site settings then “Navigation” setting to add a page within the flyout?
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It works for all version of SharePoint (WSS and MOSS) with respenct to the quick launch (left hand menu). For the top navigtion to fly out you have to enable the publishing features (MOSS only).
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Hi all,
I want this quick launch should flyout from top menu.
If any body knows please help me.
Regards
Ashok. M
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The top menu flies out when you enable the publishing menu. Otherwise you will have to implement your own navigation provider.
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I’ve noticed that the fly outs do not work on Datasheet views. infact creating a datasheet view and then opening it in SharePoint designer crashes SPD.
do you know of any reason why this might be happening or how to fix this?
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In MOSS 2010. i made this change on the default.master on the root site, however, the fly out does not appear on anyy of the sites. Any ideas why? I do not have custom pages; I just use the defaults.
Thsi method worked in the past in MOSS 07.
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Make your changes to the v4.master, the default.master is now reserved for upgraded sites.
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Thank you. I was doing this but like another user I was making the change to the default master and not the v4 master so it was not working.
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[...] Current Navigation or Quick Launch, if this is, indeed, your intention then refer to this article: Quick Launch Fly-Out Menus. However, if you are simply attempting to display the quick launch menus across the top of your [...]
Is there a way to enable this feature for modifying the quick launch without using sharepoint designer? I can edit the default.master file using text editor, but I can’t compile it.
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Yes, you can, just download the master page from the master page gallery under site settings, make the changes in text file, then upload and publish the file. So you can do it without SharePoint designer.
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