Hello Christine! Did you solve this?

Hi Martin (and Christine)!

I believe You could do it by physically place the page somewhere else (outside the menu), and then use "placeholder"-pages
using the Shortcut "Fetch data from page in EPiServer CMS" in the menu itself.

/johan

Hi Martin and Johano, I am still having this issue and was not able to find a solution to this yet. I assume I might have to build a custom PageTree if I want to customize which pages display in the menu. The placeholder idea will not work because my issue is that I have a Global English site, and then a United States English site. A certain page is available in the US English site, but not in the Global English site which is my default language. The "display page in menus" is only available in the default language page (Global) and not for all languages, so if I uncheck the box, it will not display for any language. And I need it to display only for US English.

I will keep looking for a way around this. Thanks!

I almost have it. First, I created a new property called "DisplayInMenuOverride", type boolean, in my Standard Page (pagetype) as a test. Then, I created a custom filter suggested by this article Custom Filters.

I modified the Visible in menu filter from the article to fit my needs. This is the original filter:

public class FilterVisibleInMenu : IPageFilter
    {
        public FilterVisibleInMenu()
        {
        } 
 
        public void Filter(PageDataCollection pages)
        {
            for (int i = pages.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                if (!pages[i].VisibleInMenu)
                {
                    pages.RemoveAt(i);
                }
            }
        }
 
        public void Filter(object sender, FilterEventArgs e)
        {
            this.Filter(e.Pages);
        }
 
        public bool ShouldFilter(PageData page)
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
        }
    }

The filter will look for the property "DisplayInMenuOverride", and if it is set to true, then remove the page from the page collection. The problem I am having now is that the GetChildren in MenuList control only goes down 1 level. How do I access ALL children? I would like to go down more than 1 level.

I tested the filter on a top level page, and the filter worked. Now it's just to get the filter to apply to ALL children in the EPiServer:MenuList control. Any suggestions?

I know why it won't get all children from MenuList. I am using a PageList inside of MenuList to display more than one level. I have a dropdown menu, and it goes down 3 levels. The top level is the MenuList, and the other 2 levels are 2 PageLists.

<EPiServer:MenuList ID="Menu" runat="server">
    <HeaderTemplate><ul id="nav"></HeaderTemplate>
    <ItemTemplate>
        <li><EPiServer:Property PropertyName="PageLink" runat="server" />
            <EPiServer:PageList ID="FilterList1" PageLink="<%#Container.CurrentPage.PageLink %>" EnableVisibleInMenu="true" runat="server">
                <HeaderTemplate><ul></HeaderTemplate>
                <ItemTemplate>
                    <li><EPiServer:Property PropertyName="PageLink" runat="server" />
                        <EPiServer:PageList ID="FilterList2" PageLink="<%#Container.CurrentPage.PageLink %>" EnableVisibleInMenu="true" runat="server">
                            <HeaderTemplate><ul></HeaderTemplate>
                            <ItemTemplate><li><EPiServer:Property PropertyName="PageLink" runat="server" /></li></ItemTemplate>
                            <FooterTemplate></ul></FooterTemplate>
                        </EPiServer:PageList>
                    </li>
                </ItemTemplate>
                <FooterTemplate></ul></FooterTemplate>
            </EPiServer:PageList>
        </li>
    </ItemTemplate>
    <SelectedTemplate>
        <li class="selected"><EPiServer:Property PropertyName="PageLink" runat="server" />
            <EPiServer:PageList ID="FilterList3" PageLink="<%#Container.CurrentPage.PageLink %>" EnableVisibleInMenu="true" runat="server">
                <HeaderTemplate><ul></HeaderTemplate>
                <ItemTemplate>
                    <li><EPiServer:Property PropertyName="PageLink" runat="server" />
                        <EPiServer:PageList ID="FilterList4" PageLink="<%#Container.CurrentPage.PageLink %>" EnableVisibleInMenu="true" runat="server">
                            <HeaderTemplate><ul></HeaderTemplate>
                            <ItemTemplate><li><EPiServer:Property PropertyName="PageLink" runat="server" /></li></ItemTemplate>
                            <FooterTemplate></ul></FooterTemplate>
                        </EPiServer:PageList>
                    </li>
                </ItemTemplate>
                <FooterTemplate></ul></FooterTemplate>
            </EPiServer:PageList>
        </li>
    </SelectedTemplate>
    <FooterTemplate></ul></FooterTemplate>
</EPiServer:MenuList>

How would I access the PageList inside of the ItemTemplate in MenuList, so that I can apply the filter using something like:

FilterList1.Filter += new FilterEventHandler((new MainMenuFilter()).Filter);

I solved my problem. I applied an OnFilter event on all my PageList controls which will filter and remove all pages that have my custom property "DisplayInMenuOverride" selected. This way I can display Page1 in Us English and hide Page1 in Global English, even though Global English is my default language.

Set EnableVisibleInMenu="false" in EPiServer:MenuList, and make this filter:

void uxMenu_Filter(object sender, EPiServer.Filters.FilterEventArgs e)
        {
            for (int i = e.Pages.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                if (!(e.Pages[i] is BasePageType))
                {
                    if (!e.Pages[i].VisibleInMenu)
                        e.Pages.RemoveAt(i);

                    continue;
                }

                var page = e.Pages[i] as BasePageType;

                var visibleInMenuOverride = page.VisibleInMenuOverride;
                if (visibleInMenuOverride)
                    continue;

                if (!visibleInMenuOverride && !e.Pages[i].VisibleInMenu)
                {
                    e.Pages.RemoveAt(i);
                }
            }
        }