breadcrumb on extended info page..yes I know

[DarrenSpink]

Its been around on here before, but I haven't got the right answer:

I using the extended info page to load within the main site - copied across the design and it all works fine.

I have a breadcrumb at the top of the design like the rest of the site... but the breadcrumb (falls short) of:

a: making the section the product belongs to a link
b: displaying the product name as the next item along.

So on the ex info page Im after this (blue being links):

Online Catalogue | Section | SubSection | Product name


I tried to use 'ProductName' at the end of the breadcrumb code. but for some reason it displays it twice.

any clues or posts I may have missed discussing this?

ta

[TimBob]

Right firstly I'm no expert so if anyone sees any issue here then please post but I have done this by.. but do take a backup before you start

Part A

ignore that lot!

Anyway, open your design tab and click on the text you want linking.
It should take you to a layout called

"Standard This Section Name"

It probably only contains the SectionName variable.

Replace it with

<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"><strong><actinic:variable name="SectionName" /></strong></a>

You may want to style it a bit using your CSS, but you get the idea.

Part B
(As I don't know much about blocks I have set this up so the final product name will only apear in the trail if there is a add to cart button on the page as I don't have one on the section pages. If your setup is different then it will need modifying.)

Open the design libary and go to Parent Section list entry
copy the "standard this section name" and call it something like "standard extended name"
Edit this new variable and replace contents with this

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsAddToCartButtonShown%22%20%2f%3e">
	<b>&nbsp;>&nbsp;</b>
<strong><Actinic:Variable Name="ProductName"/></strong>
</actinic:block>

click on the "online catalogue" link in design view and it will show

Standard Parent Section Link
Standard This Section Name

Copy "Standard This Section Name" and paste on a new line
then right click and edit appearance and choose the new variable "standard extended name" from the list at the top.

I thinks thats it so I hope this helps a little, at least until someone else shows you how to do it properly.

[DarrenSpink]

TimBob - you da man! Thanks so much for spending time listing these instructions.

[TimBob]

Glad it helped, it was good cause I've been wanting do it for ages and your post gave me a kick up the arse to sort it.