breadcrumb navigation

[Don Lundell]

And a related navigation question:

Here's an example store page that provides breadcrumb navigation.

http://www.wle.com/products/VTC02D.html

Can anyone tell me if this is likely done with orderanywhere links
(or custom generated pages from a product database download) ?

Thanks,

- dc

[jim]

This is done on a custom template. View the source of the page and near
the top you will see the line

<meta name="generator" content="ShopSite Pro 8.0.1 (data - 2005product)">

indicating that the page was generated by ShopSite using a template in
the data directory called 2005product

The bread crumb is probably built using the custom product fields 1-5
but you can't tell this from the page source.

Jim

Don Lundell wrote:

And a related navigation question:

Here's an example store page that provides breadcrumb navigation.

http://www.wle.com/products/VTC02D.html

Can anyone tell me if this is likely done with orderanywhere links
(or custom generated pages from a product database download) ?

Thanks,

- dc

[Brandon Eley]

We've done this several times using page/product templates. We usually
did it using the extra page and product fields, but you could also just
create different product templates or pull from a database based on
criteria.

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jim wrote:

This is done on a custom template. View the source of the page and near
the top you will see the line

meta name="generator" content="ShopSite Pro 8.0.1 (data - 2005product)"

indicating that the page was generated by ShopSite using a template in
the data directory called 2005product

The bread crumb is probably built using the custom product fields 1-5
but you can't tell this from the page source.

Jim

Don Lundell wrote:


And a related navigation question:

Here's an example store page that provides breadcrumb navigation.

http://www.wle.com/products/VTC02D.html

Can anyone tell me if this is likely done with orderanywhere links
(or custom generated pages from a product database download) ?

Thanks,

- dc

[stilfx]

Can anyone show me an example of how I would work this into a custom product template?

home > product category > product sub-category > product

[mfq]

I'm trying to do this, and I am adding the breadcrumb to ProductField1.

The part that I don't get is how to display ProductField1. The help files only mention the [-- STORE.ProductField1 --] command, but that displays the Field Display Name of ProductField1, not the contents of ProductField1 as specified on the product page.

I tried [-- PRODUCT.ProductField1 --] but that displayed no data.

I am pretty confident that the layout is working properly, as I did this in a bastardized way by placing the breadcrumb into the More Information Meta Keywords field and inserting
[-- PRODUCT.MoreInformationMetaKeywords --] into the template. It works fine that way.

So I think all I need to know is how to call the data in ProductField1 for the specific product from within my product template.

[loren_d_c]

Try [-- PRODUCT.Field1 --] to get the contents of the extra product field 1.

-Loren

[mfq]

Yep, that's just what I needed.

That might be a nice thing to have in the help files

For anyone interested in adding breadcrumbs, this is a pretty easy way. You can generate the data for that field with your database or using the CONCATENATE function in MS Excel quite easily.

I like that it lets me have multiple breadcrumbs this way as well. I used the following to allow up to three different breadcrumbs to each product:

[--IF PRODUCT.Field1 --]
<br>[-- PRODUCT.Field1 --]
[--END_IF--]
[--IF PRODUCT.Field2 --]
<br>[-- PRODUCT.Field2 --]
[--END_IF--]
[--IF PRODUCT.Field3 --]
<br>[-- PRODUCT.Field3 --]
[--END_IF--]