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Breadcrumb Menu
Short Description
The breadcrumb menu is designed to allow users to track their passage through your site. It can be a very helpful additional menu (or link pathway) letting the user know how they have arrived at the particular page and makes it easier to move back through the hierachy of pages.
A famous usage of the breadcrumb menu was yahoo.com. People could see how they got to their particular search page.
See Also:
Below is a breadcrumb menu showing the heirachy path of this webpage within the Aplinx manual. Selecting one of the links within this menu will take you to that page.
How to
Setting the Menu type to Breadcrumb
To create a breadcrumb type menu you will need to select 'Breadcrumb' when setting the initial menu options. See Menu for more information on creating a menu.
The 'Root ID' field may be left blank - doing this will select the first page listed in your Page Manager (unless that page's menu status has been set to 'disabled'). See Menu/Creating a Menu for more information on the Root ID field.
If you have created a menu previously and wish to change it to a breadcrumb type menu at a later stage, in the Menu Manager you will first need to select the radio button next to the ID number for that menu before clicking on 'Edit Type' from the Manager Options Menu. Click Save when this option has been selected.
Breadcrumb Menu Settings
Unlike the Standard or Dropdown menu types, the Breadcrumb menu does not have customizable settings. Selecting the radio button next to a breadcrumb menu's ID number in the Menu Manager and then clicking 'Customise Look' in the Manager Options menu will merely load a message repeating this statement.
Setting Styles for Breadcrumb Menus
If you wish to apply a style to a breadcrumb menu, you will need to create this style via the Style Manager. Once a breadcrumb menu has been inserted onto a page or Masterpage the style may be applied. For more information on applying the style to an object click here.
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