breadcrumbs

Dynamic breadcrumb generation - how to do?

I'm in the early phases of developing a brand spanking new site with Spring + Tiles. The site needs dynamically generated breadcrumbs. What I mean by dynamic is that the user may reach a certain site from multiple starting points. If I have views for Customers, Orders and Products, the user could reach a Product directly: Products -> P...

Is there any general purpose breadcrumbs management library/code in .net?

I want to make a msdn style breadcrumbs navigation ...

Show home in breadcrumb navgation in Document Library in My Site in SharePoint

Hi, The breadcrumb in the document library in My Sites shows: user name > Document Library name Is it possible to change it to "Home > User name > Document Library name" or "Home > Document Library Name" What is the easiest way to achieve this? Kind regards, ...

Is adding attributes to nodes in the web.sitmap a bad idea?

I using SiteMapPath with an xml file for data. I would like to use the same file for another menu, but I need to have more information attached to each node. <siteMapNode target="_blank" url="~/Default.aspx" title="Home" description="Home Page" > VS <siteMapNode url="~/Default.aspx" title="Home" description="Home Page" > So far it d...

Is it possible use ASP.NET Sitemap to generate Breadcrumbs?

Hello. I want my ASP.NET site to have simple menu string aka Breadcrumbs. I have created Sitemap with all required elements and registered into Web.config. For example: <siteMap> <siteMapNode url="Default.aspx" title="Home" > <siteMapNode url="hosting/Default.aspx" title="Hosting" /> <siteMapNode url="software/Default.aspx...

Easy breadcrumbs for RESTful rails application

Is there any helper method (Other than default rails breadcrumb) that generates bread crumb navigation dynamically for a particular page without having to pass trivial parameters in RESTful application? That is, something that figures out automatically where the user is based on the REST url she is visiting? For above mentioned implemen...

click paths in logs or analytics?

I'm trying to see the path my users take when clicking thru a web app I have. I've got logs, awstats and webalizer on the server-side, and I'm looking to install some sort of analytical product. I don't see any breadcrumb/click path data in my log files. Am I missing it? Barring that, what analytical products (Yahoo, Google, etc) can do ...

Audit and log, all or selective, user input on ASP.NET web application. How would you?

I'm building UI logging into a long-existing ASP.NET enterprise application. I have my own ideas of how to progress from here and am continuing to research & design. But I'd love to hear some details from the SO community. Here are the details, assumptions and questions as of right now, subject to evolve within the enterprise as well as...

Finding breadcrumbs for nested sets

I'm using nested sets (aka modified preorder tree traversal) to store a list of groups, and I'm trying to find a quick way to generate breadcrumbs (as a string, not a table) for ALL of the groups at once. My data is also stored using the adjacency list model (there are triggers to keep the two in sync). So for example: ID Name Par...

What convention in Concordion allows for automated generation of Breadcrumbs?

I am starting to play with Concordion to create some tests for a small piece of code I am developing. In the example, it states "If you use the right conventions, Concordion will automatically insert breadcrumbs for you.". But, I can not find an explicit description of these conventions. ...

How to use SiteMapPath with Server.Transfer

If you use Server.Transfer to save the extra roundtrips caused by Response.Redirect, the SiteMapPath gets out of synch and displays the previous page information in the breadcrumb. I have spent hours trying to change the CurrentNode from code, but just can't get it to work. That particular property is read-only. The MSDN recommendation ...

Customizing breadcrumb in sharepoint publishing site with variations

I have a Sharepoint publishing site with variations. The breadcrumb by default shows this: Variation Root > English Site > Some Page What I want to display is: "Home" > Some Page, where Home points to the English site root. Is there a way to achieve this withouth creating a custom server control to do that? ...

Extending SharePoint Breadcrumbs across multiple site collections

I’ve been trying to find a way to extend SharePoint breadcrumbs across multiple site collections, and I’ve been unable to find a way. I can set the portal site connection setting on the site collection to link to its parent site collection. But, that will not show only one parent site collection. Here’s an example of the type of setup...

ecommerce dynamic breadcrumb best practice - How Do you do yours ?

Hi everyone, I am looking for a best practice to provide users of my ecommerce website with a breadcrumb trail. Current Site Setup: ASp.net 3.5 SQL express 2005 DB DB Table Setup: [Category] - ID, parentid, name etc [Product] - ID catID name Should i use a sqlsitemap provider and everytime i save a product add it to the Sitemap tabl...

How can dynamic breadcrumbs be achieved with ASP.net MVC?

How can dynamic breadcrumbs be achieved with ASP.net MVC? If you are curious about what breadcrumbs are: What are breadcrumbs? Well, if you have ever browsed an online store or read posts in a forum, you have likely encountered breadcrumbs. They provide an easy way to see where you are on a site. Sites like Craigslist use breadcrumb...

Sharepoint: Custom SiteMapProvider for custom list

Hi All, I need to customise the title property for SiteMapNodes. I am using WSS, and have created a custom document library. While navigating through this library I want to change the names of the nodes in the breadcrumb displayed above the list name. So far I have: created a class inheriting from System.Web.SiteMapProvider, added ...

how to implement breadcrumbs using Zend_Navigation

what are the best practices/suggestions/techniques to implement a breadcrumb for a ZendFramework application using Zend_Navigation? how and where is the best method to define the page hierarchy? ...

Bread crumbs with url rewriting

In database I have a list of hierarchical list of categories so i construct a Custom Sitemap provider (by extending StaticSiteMapProvider ) with this list of categories. Now, the page that display articles /ShowArticle.aspx?id=" + Eval("ID") is rewrited into: /id/article-title.aspx. So it's not physical exists. I want the following:...

JSF/Facelets: set `action` attribute to a dynamically evaluated string

In my JSF/Facelets application, I want to dynamically generate a breadcrumb trail from a list of page IDs using a custom tag: <foo:breadcrumbs trail="foo,bar,baz"/> This should generate something like: <h:commandLink action="foo" ... /> <h:commandLink action="bar" ... /> <!-- (etc.) --> My code looks something like this: <ui:repea...

How to Implement Breadcrumbs for nested Categories

My categories can be nested about 6 levels deep at most. The problem I am having is getting the breadcrumb array or list from the database (sql server 2005). My sql skills are not that great. Once I get the breadcrumb from the database what would be the best way to present it. ...