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I've got a few External Links added to my sitemap via the dashboard...but I need them to be excluded from my main navigation...how can one go about doing this? You can't apply custom attributes to external links....
leinteractive
 
olliephillips replied on at Permalink Reply
olliephillips
You can't do it.

Thinking outside the box, a javascript redirect inserted into a C5 page to your link will give you full conttrol over the page exclude in your navigation.
leinteractive replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
leinteractive
Actually, you CAN do it! I found in another thread that by going to the Page Search tab, you can see all the pages in the site map including External Links.

From there, you can click on an External Link page and get the same options as a normal page.

I was able to add Exclude Nav and an Include Footer (a custom attribute I'm using) to my External Links and it works PERFECT.
olliephillips replied on at Permalink Reply
olliephillips
I've just marked you helpful thread. Didn't know that myself. Good man.
aghouseh replied on at Permalink Reply
aghouseh
Ahh-ha!

I was always using a bit of Firebug trickery to be able to change attributes on an external link, but this seems much easier. Nice work!
litteraria replied on at Permalink Reply
litteraria
Thank you SO much for this! I've been looking for a solution to this problem for a long time.

You, sir, win the internet. :D
Hackopotamus replied on at Permalink Reply 1 Attachment
Hackopotamus
Hello all, here is my solution. YMMV. I've had no probs so far.

So you can search for the page and modify the properties there...or...
copy concrete/js/ccm.sitemap.js to /js/ccm.sitemap.js and make this mod( v5.4.2.2 ) but i'm sure you can do this for any version.

around line 37 in your copied version find
if (obj.cAlias == 'LINK') {
            html += '<li><a class="ccm-icon" dialog-width="350" dialog-height="300" dialog-title="' + ccmi18n_sitemap.editExternalLink + '" dialog-modal="false" id="menuLink' + obj.cID + '" href="' + CCM_TOOLS_PATH + '/edit_collection_popup.php?rel=SITEMAP&cID=' + obj.cID + '&ctask=edit_external"><span style="background-image: url(' + CCM_IMAGE_PATH + '/icons/add.png)">' + ccmi18n_sitemap.editExternalLink + '<\/span><\/a><\/li>';
                     }


change to 

if (obj.cAlias == 'LINK') {
            html += '<li><a class="ccm-icon" dialog-width="350" dialog-height="300" dialog-title="' + ccmi18n_sitemap.editExternalLink + '" dialog-modal="false" id="menuLink' + obj.cID + '" href="' + CCM_TOOLS_PATH + '/edit_collection_popup.php?rel=SITEMAP&cID=' + obj.cID + '&ctask=edit_external"><span style="background-image: url(' + CCM_IMAGE_PATH + '/icons/add.png)">' + ccmi18n_sitemap.editExternalLink + '<\/span><\/a><\/li>';
            html += '<li><a class="ccm-icon" dialog-width="640" dialog-height="310" dialog-modal="false" dialog-title="' + ccmi18n_sitemap.pageProperties + '" id="menuProperties' + obj.cID + '" href="' + CCM_TOOLS_PATH + '/edit_collection_popup.php?rel=SITEMAP&cID=' + obj.cID + '&ctask=edit_metadata"><span style="background-image: url(' + CCM_IMAGE_PATH + '/icons/edit_small.png)">' + ccmi18n_sitemap.pageProperties + '<\/span><\/a><\/li>';
         }


or place the attached modified version in the directory mentioned above.
TheRealSean replied on at Permalink Reply
TheRealSean
in 5.5+ this seems to have moved to
/concrete/js/ccm_app/sitemap.js

and now around line 47, I have not tested it yet, so please be careful but it should work

if (obj.cAlias == 'LINK') {
                html += '<li><a class="ccm-menu-icon ccm-icon-edit-external-link" dialog-width="350" dialog-height="170" dialog-title="' + ccmi18n_sitemap.editExternalLink + '" dialog-modal="false" dialog-append-buttons="true" id="menuLink' + obj.cID + '" href="' + CCM_TOOLS_PATH + '/edit_collection_popup.php?rel=SITEMAP&cID=' + obj.cID + '&ctask=edit_external">' + ccmi18n_sitemap.editExternalLink + '<\/a><\/li>';
                html += '<li><a class="ccm-menu-icon ccm-icon-properties-menu" dialog-width="640" dialog-height="360" dialog-append-buttons="true" dialog-modal="false" dialog-title="' + ccmi18n_sitemap.pagePropertiesTitle + '" id="menuProperties' + obj.cID + '" href="' + CCM_TOOLS_PATH + '/edit_collection_popup.php?rel=SITEMAP&cID=' + obj.cID + '&ctask=edit_metadata">' + ccmi18n_sitemap.pageProperties + '<\/a><\/li>';
            }



** Edit **
I think I had that wrong, I needed to edit the file in the
ccm.app.js

location is /concrete/js/ccm.app.js

Now its hard to find as its one long line I searched for "editExternalLink" then I replaced the following 
b+='<li><a class="ccm-menu-icon ccm-icon-edit-external-link" dialog-width="350" dialog-height="170" dialog-title="'+ccmi18n_sitemap.editExternalLink+'" dialog-modal="false" dialog-append-buttons="true" id="menuLink'+f.cID+'" href="'+CCM_TOOLS_PATH+"/edit_collection_popup.php?rel=SITEMAP&cID="+f.cID+'&ctask=edit_external">'+ccmi18n_sitemap.editExternalLink+"</a></li>"
//with
b+='<li><a class="ccm-menu-icon ccm-icon-edit-external-link" dialog-width="350" dialog-height="170" dialog-title="'+ccmi18n_sitemap.editExternalLink+'" dialog-modal="false" dialog-append-buttons="true" id="menuLink'+f.cID+'" href="'+CCM_TOOLS_PATH+"/edit_collection_popup.php?rel=SITEMAP&cID="+f.cID+'&ctask=edit_external">'+ccmi18n_sitemap.editExternalLink+'</a></li><li><a class="ccm-menu-icon ccm-icon-properties-menu" dialog-width="640" dialog-height="360" dialog-append-buttons="true" dialog-modal="false" dialog-title="'+ccmi18n_sitemap.pagePropertiesTitle + '" id="menuProperties'+f.cID+'" href="'+CCM_TOOLS_PATH+ '/edit_collection_popup.php?rel=SITEMAP&cID='+f.cID+'&ctask=edit_metadata">'+ccmi18n_sitemap.pageProperties+'<\/a><\/li>'


That seems to do it,
a big thanks to Hackoptamus