Imported From: http://groups.google.com/group/in-portal-dev/browse_thread/thread/fa0709286a032a2c#
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
all enabled Themes for *.TPL templates (exceptions below) and auto-
creates System Sections (marked with Red folder in Catalog) based on
META Data (Title, Description, Location) listed at the top of each
template.
2. In result system will create 1 Section in Catalog for each template
(unless excluded from process). For usability purposes these auto-
created sections can be placed inside other System Section created on
the fly based on Location field on the actual template. This is done
to escape cases when we have 50 or more System Sections in the root of
the Catalog.
3. Thus we have Catalog structure of Sections created by System
however if we simply build the Breadcrumb for such section then we
might end up with having a part of it showing the Section which has NO
actual template since it's only purpose was to kind of organize the
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 above.
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I hope explains the situation for you.
Please post your feedback or questions.
DA.