Overview

The qCascadingMenu lets you create complex menus that occupy minimum screen real estate.

qCascadingMenu offers the ability to:

•	display items from multiple SharePoint lists. Each list can contain multiple top-level items.

•	display sub menu items in single or multiple column formats.

•	define a static FilterExpression using a Complex Filter expression. The ability to filter enables you to define the items to be displayed in your menu.

•	show or hide the top-level items that come from a certain list based on the site group membership of the currently logged-in user.

•	hide menu items whose target URLs are not accessible by the current user.

•	define an icon for each menu item, and define the target frame for the target page.

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localize the title and the menu item text. You can define different Title for different cultures using the Resource List and the Title Resource ID properties. Your can define the culture appending the Culture HTTP parameter to the page URL. For example: http://hostname/sites/sitename/default.aspx?Culture=en-US

To configure this web part, we recommend that you use the AgreeYa Menu List custom list template. Use the template to define a source list for the menu items on a SharePoint site. For information on how to create the source list, see Configuring qCascadingMenu. This automatically creates a list which contains the following columns by default:

 

Table 1. List Columns

Column	Description
Text	Provide the text for the menu item.
Menu ID	Provides the ID for the menu item.
Parent Menu ID	Provides the ID of the menu item that is the parent of this menu item.
Target Url	Provides the target URL for the menu item. NOTE: This is not a Hyperlink field because Hyperlink field does not let you use a relative URL.
Target	Indicates where to open the target page. Specify _blank to open the page in a new window. Leave the target column empty to redirect the current window to the target URL.
Icon Url	Provides the URL to the icon for the menu item.
Access Key	Indicates the shortcut key to activate the menu item. You can activate the menu item by pressing ALT+Access Key Character.
Culture	Indicates the culture for this menu item

You must map these columns in the source list to the corresponding field names in the Configuration section in the Web Part. For more information on the Configuration section, see Configuration. For more information on how to configure the qCascadingMenu Web Part, see Configuring qCascadingMenu.