Imported From: http://groups.google.com/group/in-portal-dev/browse_thread/thread/fa0709286a032a2c#
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I have came across the idea that it might be nice have the ability to
specify CUSTOM "Breadcrumbs" for all Sections (in past Pages) auto-
created by the System. This way instead of showing actual Section
location within Sections Structure will be showing custom Breadcrumb.
For example -- section/tems-conditions. Format will be similar to
"Short URL" (former Friendly URL).
The only problem I see with this now is that we need to have another
field which will allow us to specify actual Names for the Breadcrumbs.
Looks like we are talking about 2 fields minimum at this point.
Do you like the idea?
Can you foresee any complications with this?
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For your reference, Auto-create Sections by System is a quite new
approach and was introduced in In-Portal 5.0 to add more flexibility
to Pages generated from the Templates. I'll take a step back to
explain how this works below:1.
- On themes Scan (in Admin) or during the installation system scans
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- all enabled Themes for *.TPL templates (exceptions below) and auto-
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- creates System Sections (marked with Red folder in Catalog) based on
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- META Data (Title, Description, Location) listed at the top of each
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- template.
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- In result system will create 1 Section in Catalog for each template
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- (unless excluded from process). For usability purposes these auto-
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- created sections can be placed inside other System Section created on
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- the fly based on Location field on the actual template. This is done
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- to escape cases when we have 50 or more System Sections in the root of
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- the Catalog.
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- Thus we have Catalog structure of Sections created by System
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- however if we simply build the Breadcrumb for such section then we
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- might end up with having a part of it showing the Section which has NO
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- actual template since it's only purpose was to kind of organize the
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- actual Sections so they are not all dumped in root of the Catalog.
For that reason I have though about the idea of Custom Breadcrumb
described Breadcrumb described above.
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I hope explains the situation for you.
Please post your feedback or questions.
DA.