Breadcrumb trail on duplicate product not correct

[lessharma]

Hi,

Is the breadcrumb trail on a duplicate product (SSP set-up) meant to show you the 'section' name where the mater product is?

If you have a look here http://www.abcbabygifts.co.uk/acatal...fts-girls.html click on the first gift basket and the breadcrumb trail shows 'Baby Gift Baskets & Hampers' in the breadcrumb trail, this is where the master to this product is. Is this correct?

Les

[fergusw]

Lee,
this was covered in a previous post on here. By default V11 only shows the "<back" link instead of a breadcrumb trail for the Product Page, because of this very issue.
The post I'm referring to had some code to implement a Breadcrumb trail (as it appears you have done) but it suffers from the problem you have highlighted.
We did do a kind of work around which can offset the main problem and give your users a slightly better breadcrumb trail, but it's not 100% cast iron fix.

[fergusw]

Found it.

http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=52103

[lessharma]

Hi Fergus,

I did see and read your post a few days ago. Can you let me have the work-around code?

[lessharma]

Hi Fergus,

Do you remember what you did for the work-around here:

http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=52103

[fergusw]

Lee,
If I recall, from the demo site, it required an amendment to the ShowBackLink function in the actinicextras.js file:

/*********************************************************************** * 
* ShowBackLink - Display the back link for SPP pages 
* 
************************************************************************/ 
 
function ShowBackLink() 
    { 
    var sLastSection = getCookie('LAST_SECTION_URL');    // get last section page URL 
    var sLastSectionName = getCookie('LAST_SECTION_NAME'); //get last section page name 
    if (!sLastSection) 
        { 
        return; 
        } 
 
     
    var breadcrumb_link = document.getElementById('breadcrumb_path');                 
    if (breadcrumb_link) { 
             breadcrumb_link.innerHTML = '<a href="' + sLastSection +  '" target="_self" class="link_breadcrumbs">' + sLastSectionName +  '</a>'; 
        } 
         
    var elemBackLink = document.getElementById('idSPPBackLink');            // get the back link 
    if (!elemBackLink) 
        { 
        return; 
        } 
        else { 
        elemBackLink.href = sLastSection;                        // set the url                         
        elemBackLink.style.display = ''; 
        } 
    }

It also required a change to the header javascript functions as well:

    <script type="text/javascript">
            setCookie('LAST_SECTION_URL', document.location.href);
            setCookie('LAST_SECTION_NAME','<actinic:variable encoding="actinic" name="SectionName" selectable="false" />');
        </script>

Then the breadcrumb layout on the SPP was :

<a href="<actinic:variable name="TopSectionPageURL" />" target="_self"><actinic:variable name="StoreName" /></a>
&nbsp;|&nbsp;
<span id="breadcrumb_path">
<actinic:block type="ParentSectionList" >
    <a href="<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20AND%0d%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e" ><actinic:variable name="SectionPageName" /></actinic:block><actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29%20OR%0d%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29" ><actinic:variable name="SectionURL" /></actinic:block>" target="_self" class="link_breadcrumbs"><actinic:variable name="SectionName"/></a>
</actinic:block>
</span>

You can see the source code of the demo site for more of a reference.