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r_alphonse
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Oct 13, 2006, 9:46 AM

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Breadcrumbs and Top Most Category Can't Post
I have made a top most category (no subs) and saved articles in that category. When I pull up an article from that category breadcrumbs read Home - Biography but when I click the Biography link I don't get taken to the list of articles for the entire category as I would for a category with subs. I just get the current URL with a "#" at the end.

Can I post to a top most category with no subs and still use the breadcrumbs as I do elsewhere on my site? Do I have to post the articles to a subcategory?

Ultimately what I want is a page I am going to code that will have the article on it. I want the user to click the article which will open the article manager generated file. Frome there I would like them to click the breadcrumb and get taken to the usual list of all articles for that category


Silvatti
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Oct 14, 2006, 11:14 PM

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Re: [r_alphonse] Breadcrumbs and Top Most Category [In reply to] Can't Post
I would probably create a spare article template based on your "default.html" file, located in your cgi-bin/artman/templates/article/ directory. Once that spare template is created, open it in your HTML editor. Since this root category will not have any sub-categories of its own, I would just hard-code the URLs as your breadcrumb links, and save it.

Upload that file onto your server: cgi-bin/artman/templates/article/.

Then log into your control panel and go to CATEGORY EDITOR. Click on MODIFY for that root category and scroll down to the "Article Pages" drop-down box. If you uploaded your new template to the correct folder onto your server, you should be able to see it and select it. Do so, and click SAVE.

Every article created under that category will now have that breadcrumb effect you're looking for. If you want the same effect for your Printer-friendly page, just create another template based on the "default_printer.html" file, and follow the same steps, only this time use the "Article Printer Pages" pull-down menu on the CATEGORY EDITOR to select this template after uploading.


(This post was edited by Silvatti on Oct 14, 2006, 11:19 PM)


ross
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Oct 15, 2006, 3:06 PM

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Re: [r_alphonse] Breadcrumbs and Top Most Category [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi there.

Thanks for posting and welcome tot the board!

I am not quite sure I understand what’s happening here, but with the breadcrumbs the links to any category other than the one you are in should be taking you to the index page for that category.

Would you mind posting up a link for us to have a look at? If you didn’t want the link live on our forum you could always send an email with it to support@interactivetools.com. Just link back to this thread as well so we know what’s happening.

How does that sound? I look forward to hearing from you Smile.
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r_alphonse
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Oct 15, 2006, 7:04 PM

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Re: [ross] Breadcrumbs and Top Most Category [In reply to] Can't Post
here is a link to an article in the Biography category. Bio category has no subcategories but we have posted articles to it.

http://www.247advisor.com/artman/publish/first_big_risk.html

clicking on the biography breadcrumb takes you no where. Here is the page clicking the breadcrumb on the article level should go

http://www.247advisor.com/artman/publish/biography.html


Donna
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Oct 16, 2006, 9:32 AM

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Re: [r_alphonse] Breadcrumbs and Top Most Category [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi there,

Thanks for the extra information. :) Can you let me know what you have in your category_breadcrumb.html template? This is what it should have:

Code
<!-- templatecell : breadcrumb_link --> 
<a href="$url_index$">$cat_name$</a> 
<!-- /templatecell : breadcrumb_link --> 
 
<!-- templatecell : breadcrumb_divider --> 
: 
<!-- /templatecell : breadcrumb_divider --> 
 
<!-- templatecell : breadcrumb_link_selected --> 
$cat_name$</b> 
<!-- /templatecell : breadcrumb_link_selected -->

Let me know if that helps at all, or what you have if that's not whats there. :)

Thanks, I look forward to helping you.

Donna

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r_alphonse
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Oct 16, 2006, 11:22 AM

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Re: [Donna] Breadcrumbs and Top Most Category [In reply to] Can't Post
that's what we have got


Code
 
<!-- templatecell : breadcrumb_link --> 
<a href="$url_index$">$cat_name$</a> 
<!-- /templatecell : breadcrumb_link --> 
 
<!-- templatecell : breadcrumb_divider --> 
: 
<!-- /templatecell : breadcrumb_divider --> 
 
<!-- templatecell : breadcrumb_link_selected --> 
$cat_name$</b> 
<!-- /templatecell : breadcrumb_link_selected -->


ross
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Oct 16, 2006, 1:40 PM

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Re: [r_alphonse] Breadcrumbs and Top Most Category [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi there.

I have been checking out your site some more today and I am beginning to suspect that the breadcrumb links on your page might actually be hardcoded and not coming from Article Manager.

There are a few things that tipped me off and the biggest one is the source code for that part of your page isn’t actually matching up with the template you posted.

Now, this isn’t actually a big problem; just a little tricky to troubleshoot without seeing the templates.

Would you mind sending me a support request for this so I can take a closer look at how that page is being created?

Here’s a link to the support request form:

https://www.interactivetools.com/support/email_support.cgi

I look forward to hearing from you Smile.
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Ross Fairbairn - Product Specialist
support@interactivetools.com

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Priority Consulting: http://www.interactivetools.com/consulting/