Breadcrumbs Trail on NEW SPP

[JGLIGHTING]

Hi

I am wanting to change from extended info page to Actinic new SPP page.

I can not work out a way to get a Breadcrumbs Trail to work on SPP

All I can do is Current section and the product page but can not get any section before the current section.

Do anyone have any ideas how to get breadcrumbs trails on SPP

[NormanRouxel]

Looks like a bug. I'd expect layout ParentSectionListTop to work but it doesn't.

However code like:

<a href="<actinic:variable name="TopSectionPageURL" />" target="_self"><actinic:variable name="StoreName" /></a>
<actinic:block type="ParentSectionList">
	&nbsp;|&nbsp;<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>

Seems to do the job.

[Jan]

I have feeling this is working as designed, only one single product page is generated for each product and it is then used by the product and it's duplicates, if a breadcrumb trail is added then it will be wrong for duplicates.

Regards,

[leehack]

There is no breadcrumb trail on the product pages, it has been designed without them. Been a few discussions about it on the forum already, i believe they are looking into whether it is possible to add them. What Jan mentions is one of the main issues i believe.

[Duncan Rounding]

Does Norman's suggestion work with duplicates as well I wonder?
This was Bruce's comment some time ago:
http://community.actinic.com/showpos...1&postcount=43

[JGLIGHTING]

I had a quick play with the Norman's code and it works with the main product and duplicates.

[leehack]

Hmm, if that is working OK, what are Actinic complicating about this task. Must be the duplicates and customer accounts I presume.

[fergusw]

My understanding of this issue is that the above fix will not work if the user requires accurate adherence to the breadcrumb trail and path taken by the customer.
i.e.
If there are 2 product duplicates in 2 very different section paths e.g.
"Top Section | Brand | Product "
and
"Top Section | Type | Product "

and the customer needs the user to go back to the Brand or Type page respectively then the problem arises as the breadcrumb trail will only go back to one parent page.

I had looked at a cookie based solution for this to dynamically update the breadcrumb trail, however it was not a good solution for direct-to-page traffic.

[leehack]

That was my understanding too, I guess Elliott is not noticing the issue. I suppose that some sort of BC trail is better than none though. Perhaps a prominent Javascript 'back' button would further close the gap on the problem, making it almost not noticed.

[fergusw]

On further reflection my javascript cookie idea may work, with a built in condition:

If the user has come from a parent section page then the breadcrumb trail will display the link back "up", however if it is from a search result or external link it would default to the original product's parent page. Might this be satisfactory for most?

[JGLIGHTING]

When I was playing with the new code I was doing it on the desktop and it show up right.

If you upload the site, the duplicates breadcrumb don't work.

Please see attached photos

I aint got a glue what is going on

[leehack]

I aint got a glue what is going on

That's how it works, ie it doesn't, as we have been saying.

[JGLIGHTING]

That's how it works, ie it doesn't, as we have been saying.

I am at a total loss how it all work. Need to come back and look at it later.

[fergusw]

Elliott,
It doesn't work. At least not the way you want it to!
I'm playing with a possible solution, but I want to do some testing first....

[fergusw]

OK - a quick test shows something can be achieved:

See
http://www.teclan.net/demos/breadcru...g/Cameras.html
and click on the first camera.
Then go here:
http://www.teclan.net/demos/breadcrumb/acatalog/Recordable-CDs.html
and click on the first camera (duplicate product)

You get into the same Product Page, however the breadcrumb trail remembers the previous page you were on.
Current limitation is that clicking into product page from search result displays breadcrumb to last section page you were on. Also it limits the breadcrumb trail to 2 levels thereby removing any sub-sections in between store home and section page.

It proves the concept however.....