Woah.... that sounds like grief... However... filters ?!?!? Have never used them before (and don't know how), but if they do what they appear to do then I can possibly work something out like that.
Hmmm... maybe! Thanks for the tip. Howard On 19 Sep 2002 at 14:50, Kevin A. Smith wrote: > 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]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
