Neil - just to reiterate what Geoff previously outlined - appending a navid variable to your URL will provide that object with that navids hierachial nav context.
eg - #application.url.conjurer#?objectid=somefarcrybjectid&navid=#application.navid.somealias# Paul >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/31/2004 5:34:15 PM >>> Neil, I don't think you read my last email all that closely -- it might be worth reading it again. -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ Neil Robertson-Ravo wrote: > Thanks Geoff, but I do believe that there must be a way of selecting / > propogating the breadcrumb automatically. > > Sure I could just outpu the information based on navalias etc, but this > may be incorrect based on where a page is called from - as I may have a > news story on varying locations. > > I am intrigued to see what comes in a later build if at all..... I am > sure I can work around this somehow, but for FC to automatically > recognise its parent nodes would be good...;-) > > Maybe passing it parent location to the dmNews object is an option? > > N > > Geoff Bowers wrote: > >> >> Neil Robertson-Ravo wrote: >> >>> now, this is essentially wrong, as it should read >>> Home / Resources / News / News Item One >>> Is this a bug or is there a way around it? >> >> >> >> There's no bug here. Navigation is built from navigation nodes. >> There are several UI bits that rely upon the presence of nav node >> information to be able to build the appropriate menu, breadcrumb, >> whatever. >> >> dmNews has no inherent navigation information as potentially it can >> appear anywhere. So you need to give it some positional information. >> Some ideas for giving positional information include: >> >> 1. have a central news location -- all news regardless of how you got >> there refers to this "news centre" -- like a News section of your site >> or something. Create a Nav Alias for that "news centre" dmHTML object >> and use that NavAlias in the breadcrumb of your dmNews template. >> >> 2. pass the navigational information to the news object on the URL. >> By passing the parent's nav id on the URL you can easily use this to >> construct a breadcrumb that is specific to the user's clickstream >> (their path through the site). If the nav id can't be resolved >> default to home page. >> >> -- geoff >> http://www.daemon.com.au/ >> >> >> > > --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004 --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
