Seems like the ClickStream stuff from OpenSymphony might be able to be hacked into a breadcrumb manager component:
http://www.opensymphony.com/clickstream/ Of course, I've not seriously investigated it. Might be worth looking at... --Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Howard Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:45 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Backtracking & Breadcrumbs Yes, I'd come up with something similar myself. It just seemed a bit fussy. I hate writing code that involves remembering to do some operation on *every* page or it doesn't work - because I *always* forget. I was kind of hoping for something at a "higher level", that once set up would just work. I guess I could override the Action class, but I'm not sure how to go about doing it that way. Thanks anyway, Howard On 19 Sep 2002 at 14:30, Piper, James D CECOM SEC EPS wrote: > I'm still new at this, but can you have each of your [Page ? Actions] add a > uri to a linked list that gets stored in session. Then your [Page X Action] > could implement the perform() method to return 'new > ActionForward(myLastURI)' where myLastURI is the String of the uri read out > of the current bottom of your linked list (This means perform() will not be > using mapping.findForward() to get the return value)? You could also have > your JSPs use the URIs in the linkedlist to generate a set of links to each > of the past pages visited. > > - Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Howard Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:07 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Backtracking & Breadcrumbs > > > Hi, > > Two slightly different yet related questions. > > Does anybody have an elegant way to "forward" to the page that called the > page that has just been processed arbitrarily. > > A picture being worth a thousand words > > [Page ?] > | > [Page ? Action] > | > [Page X] > | > [Page X Action] > | > [Page ?] > > The point being that [Page ?] can be any page, as almost all my pages will > have a link to [Page X]. Page X's action needs to forward back to [Page ?] > whatever that might be. > > ...And leading on from that. I want to have a trail of "breadcrumbs" at the > top of my page, so when the user is on [Page X], the will see... > > [Home][Main Menu][Page ?][PageX] > > all but [Page X] being links to the appropriate page, so they can (a) > shortcut back there and (b) they have sme sense of where they are (as my > navigation is bit wild). > > Any offers of a nice way to do this in Struts > > Cheers... > > Howard Miller > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
