By karc2008 on

HI,
at the moment i´m at my wits end with creating proper breadcrumbs. One part works just with custom breadcrumbs, another just with menu breadcrumbs.

Here the situation:

I created a Primary Menu, that includes the link: "Articles", wich should be get the path "/articles", which shows some new and featured articles of different topic-genres.

Now I added a secondary Menu (its not the secondary nav from Drupal - it´s a newly added menu!) with some main topics of these articles. Let´s call one "history".
When a user clicks on history, he will see all articles in this section.

The breadcrumb trail for this two is no problem. I added a custom breadcrumb for the content Type articles, called "Articles". So it would be displayed like this: "You are here: Home -> Articles -> History"

But now starts my problem.. If you select an article (let´s call it "Majapahit Kingdom" should be displayed as: "Home -> Articles -> History -> Majapahit Kingdom".

But, using custom breadcrumbs, i just get this "Home -> Articles -> Majapahit Kingdom". So the "history" is gone. I tried different Node Tokens. I hoped strongly "menu-path" would do the job, but it just shows up like this "HistoryMajapahit" as one Link to the current page.

If the Breadcrumb is depending on Menu Breadcrumb, I don´t know how to put the link "Articles" in, because the link Article is just a part of the primary navigation, not the submenu.

Did someone already got a similair problem and solved this? Can I do it with the existing modules or do I have to do extra programming to solve it?

I could solve this in a "not that nice" way, by creating a hidden menu, with the structure I need:

Articles
- History
- Majapahit Kingdom

After this I could set up a displayed Menu by putting the Link Titles and Aliases manually to it.

But of course, it´s not very nice, if I want to add new articles, I always have to change two menus, which could lead to real trouble, if someone else has to sort my chaos-breadcrumb-menu-structure.

Another Workaround would be to create a content type for every section of the articles (History, Politics etc.) and add a proper breadcrumb for all of them. Also not a perfect solution, I guess. (but maybe better than a hidden menu)

So are there better ways, than mine, to solve this?

Thanks for any help...
and sorry for the long text.

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Comments

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MGN commented

Are both modules enabled at the same time? Which version of these modules are you using?

But, using custom breadcrumbs, i just get this "Home -> Articles -> Majapahit Kingdom". So the "history" is gone. I tried different Node Tokens. I hoped strongly "menu-path" would do the job, but it just shows up like this "HistoryMajapahit" as one Link to the current page.

How are you setting up the custom breadcrumb? What are you putting in for the titles and paths? When you say "history" is gone, it sounds like you haven't included it in your custom breadcrumb. Is this the case?

I think you should be able to accomplish what you are trying to do with either of these modules. Which is better probably depends on how you want to structure your site, and how closely you want to develop menu structures that produce the breadcrumb trail that you would like.

For more attention on how to do this with custom breadcrumbs, go ahead and open a support request at Custom Breadcrumbs.