Integration guide

Meganav was designed to be as clean and easy for developers as it is for editors to use.

Strongly typed models

Out of the box Meganav can return strongly typed models for a given navigation.

The following properties are available in the MeganavItem class:

Property	Type	Description
Id	Int	The node ID of the selected content item. For external linking nav items this will be "0"
Udi	GuidUdi	The node UDI of the selected content item. For external linking nav items this will be null
Title	String	The link title, often the node name
Target	String	The link target
Url	String	The link url
QueryString	String	The link querystring / anchor
Level	Int	The level in the overall navigation that the current item sits at
Content	IPublishedContent	The IPublishedContent for the selected content item. For external linking nav items this will be null
Children	List	The picked child / sub items for the current item
Culture	String	The link culture

MeganavV8 was designed to closely follow the "Umbraco way" of doing things so we don't impose our own styles or markup on you.

It's easy to implement in your own Razor:

<ul>
    @foreach (var item in Model.Value<IEnumerable<MeganavV8Item>>("megaNavV8"))
    {
        <li>
            ...
        </li>
    }
</ul>

Note: For large navigations with multiple levels it is highly recommended that you cache your navigation for optimal performance.

MeganavV8 can build any size of navigation, from a small single level list to a large multi-level menu.

Based on the flexible implementation described above it would be possible to create a complex navigation varying on a number of factors, such as: