By snackmaster on

Where/how do I turn on Breadcrumbs? I get "Home" on almost all pages but nothing else.
I read several threads here on the topic but they all apear to imply that breadcrumbs work out of the box and then suggest all kinds of code modifications and or add-on modules. I tried two modules and neither added BC's tomy site. (breadcrumb_categories, taxanomy_breadcrumbs).

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anner’s picture

anner commented

Breadcrumbs for out of the box nodes (like story and page) are supposed to work out of the box. For CCK and flexinode, you have to use additional modules, because they are not included in the base code. At least that was my understanding.

What do you use to create the structure that you wish to display in the breadcrumbs? Taxonomy? Category module?

snackmaster’s picture

snackmaster commented

Expose my weakness right away... (have yet to wrap my head around the whole Taxonomy thing)

I'm making links like this by
- Click "Create Page" from "Create Content"
- I then have a single top level catergory "Velodrome"
- Which has sub categories "a,b,c,d,e" of which I always choose only one
I get links like this: http://www.northbrookvelodrome.org/results/2006/june9

I also have straight up pages like this one
- Click "Create Page" from "Create Content"
- No category
http://www.northbrookvelodrome.org/sponsors

The only time I get a BC's is when I don't want them, in my Gallery module where I had to do modifications so I wouldn't see two sets of breadcrumbs (one from Gallery and one from Drupal). This probably tells me I'm building pages incorrectly since I don't get BC's at all...
http://www.northbrookvelodrome.org/gallery/2005/

dyp’s picture

dyp commented

Look at example.com/admin/settings/content-types/story

snackmaster’s picture

snackmaster commented

I only have...
Blog, forum, page, poll

No "story" because I don't want "users" adding content:
Story - "Allows users to submit stories, articles or similar content."

dyp’s picture

dyp commented

Look at example.com/admin/settings/content-types/blog or example.com/admin/settings/content-types/page etc for each content type.
There must be "Show taxonomy breadcrumb:" settings.

snackmaster’s picture

snackmaster commented

Not there...
and I poked around all other settings and couldn't find anything related to Breadcrumbs

dyp’s picture

dyp commented

Oh sorry. I`m forget. You must install taxonomy_context module before

snackmaster’s picture

snackmaster commented

Not what I was looking for. Works but I'm looking for traditional breadcrumbs - a trail of 'Home' to the current viewed page: Home -> Page1-> Page2

Frustrating as "home" sits there on every page implying Breadcrumbs are ready for action and in the Admin section of the site BC's work pretty much exactly like I'd like them too:
/admin/settings/aggregator = Home » administer » settings

anner’s picture

anner commented

What about what it does is not what you are looking for?

snackmaster’s picture

snackmaster commented

I'm looking for:
Home -> Results -> 2006 -> June -> June 1st

Not looking for
Home -> Results (where results is one massive page listing all Results related pages)

http://www.northbrookvelodrome.com/results/2006/june1

anner’s picture

anner commented

does your taxonomy/do your categories for that page match what you want for your breadcrumbs?

snackmaster’s picture

snackmaster commented

Yes

amnon’s picture

amnon commented

Home -> Results -> 2006 -> June -> June 1st

And why shouldn't it be:
Home -> Races -> Results -> Women -> Spring 2006
?

I'm just trying to say that Drupal needs some information to construct the breadcrumbs.

This information is sometimes gathered from the item placement in the menu, sometimes from the taxonomy heirarchy, sometime from...

snackmaster’s picture

snackmaster commented

I don't understand the difference?

User starts here:
http://www.northbrookvelodrome.com/results

Clicks a link and ends up here:
http://www.northbrookvelodrome.com/results/2006/june1

There are
+results
+the year (2006, 2005, 2004, 2003.... like any sports season)
- the event

It's logical to the visitor and it seemed logical for Drupal.... anything better?

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polishyourimage commented

check out http://drupal.org/project/custom_breadcrumbs

_craig’s picture

_craig commented

If you want breadcrumbs to follow your taxonomy hierarchy, check out the taxonomy_breadcrumb module. For example, let’s say you have a node titled "Race Results" and it's under the category: "June 1st". If your taxonomy hierarchy looks something like this:

+Results
  +2006
    +Jan
    +...
    +June
      +June 1st
      +June 8th
      +June 28th
etc.

Your breadcrumb would look like this: Home -> Results -> 2006 -> June -> June 1st.

If it were me I'd do something slightly different to simplify the taxonomy and make it easier to manage over time. I'd change the taxonomy to only go as deep as "Months" and use the node title to get down to a specific race.

+Results
  +2006
    +Jan
    +...
    +June
etc.

Node title would be "June 1st Race Results". Now the node title wouldn't show up in the breadcrumb trail (unless you do something creative with your theme), but it would show up as the node title below the breadcrumbs.

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snackmaster commented

Using taxonomy_breadcrumb module

I have a category "velodrome" and a "term" results

When I hit the main resuslts page:
I have no category selected so the breadcrumb link is "home" (if I select results the ersult page BC is itself. http://www.northbrookvelodrome.org/results

I then click on a results page and with the term Results active for the page (node?) the breacrumb now lists "results" but does not have "home". So it's working better than before but I'm still not getting a visual trail: Home -> Results
Which is fine but not expected.

Thanks

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preludedan commented

I think I'm getting the same (if not, similar) problem, and also using taxonomy_breadcrumb module...

Have you been back to edit your terms since installing the taxonomy_breadcrumb module? There's an extra field in there now that says you need to add where you want the breadcrumb link to link to. However, I don't think this will stop the breadcrumb being displayed, just change which page gets linked to.

I've got this setup but for some reason my breadcrumbs won't play ball. When linking directly to a node (which is inside a term) I only get a link to 'Home', but not a link to the term in which the node is within. Does this module (taxonomy_breadcrumb) only create breadcrumb links when navigating to taxonomy pages, not nodes?

preludedan’s picture

preludedan commented

I think I might have it sussed...!

I changed the 'Include or exclude the following node types:' to 'disabled' and it seems to be showing parent terms for a given node when accessing the node within the breadcrumb.

I hope this helps if anyone has been having the same problem. Anyway, all this talk of breadcrumbs has made me hungry!