Recently, I was going through setting up some sample navigation approaches for SharePoint. The first step was in creating a bunch of Child Sites and some basic hierarchical structure. For that I used a great tool from IDevFactory called SWAT just to create some empty Team Sites.
The one issue with that tool is it doesn’t allow setting a few options globally.
What I wanted was to have under the Navigation options to have the “Show Subsites” enabled. In addition to a few other navigation settings. Just as shown below:
To do that you need to access the AllProperties collection on the SPWeb object and add or update any existing entries. What I came up with is the following:
37 private static void SetNavigation(SPWeb childWeb)
38 {
39 if (childWeb.IsRootWeb == false)
40 {
41 SPNavigation spNav = childWeb.Navigation;
42 childWeb.Navigation.UseShared = true;
43 childWeb.Description = childWeb.Name + " description…";
44
45 SetAllPropr(childWeb, “__IncludeSubSitesInNavigation”, “True”);
46 SetAllPropr(childWeb, “__InheritCurrentNavigation”, “False”);
47 SetAllPropr(childWeb, “__IncludePagesInNavigation”, “False”);
48 SetAllPropr(childWeb, “__NavigationShowSiblings”, “False”);
49 SetAllPropr(childWeb, “__NavigationOrderingMethod”, “2”);
50 }
51 }
52
53 static void SetAllPropr(SPWeb web, string key, object value)
54 {
55
56 if (web.AllProperties.Contains(key))
57 web.AllProperties.Remove(key);
58
59 web.AllProperties.Add(key, value);
60 }
The full standalone console project is located here
