Dynamically create a Menu

Hello,

I am looking to do the same thing.  I have done this before with the RadMenu in .net forms, but I'm not sure how to do this in MVC....

thanks,

Steve

Same Problem here, How do I conditionally show more menu items to an authorized user.... ?

ditto?

If you bind the menu data to a Model, you'll be able to filter the data anyway you want. I cannot provide you a sample right now, but if you really need it, I may release it later today.
 
Regards,
Virgilio

Hello,

I am new to MVC so some sample code would be extremely helpful and greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve

I have seen the example that Telerik uses Northwind to bind the model. The issue for me is that you are using Entity Framework (it appears) and I would like to use dbml's tied to Stored procedures. I have a table of menu items and a table of submenu items. It appears that the EF create two ienumerables and I would like to be able to bind the model so that I can have Menu items and submenu items. The reason I want to build it dynamically is because each user based on security profiles will be presented with a different menu. So building dynamicaly based on a database tables is pretty important for us. Any code examples would be deeply appreciated.Thank you, Bruce.

If it's any help, here's how I do it in razor:

In my _Layout.cshtm file where the menu is to appear ---->

@RenderSection("menu", false)

then in the view where I need to change the menu (or provide a different one)

@section menu
{
  @(Html.Telerik().Menu()
    .Name("menu")
    .Items(menu =>
    {
      menu.Add().Text("Home").Action("Index", "Home");
      menu.Add().Text("Jobs").........
      //More items here
    }))
}

The good part is, you can if you wish leave the menu out entirely, and it won't be drawn at all, or you can define a menu section on a page by page basis, as well as having a number of standard menus that you could define as razor partial views and include them in any given section you need.