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Owenk
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Mar 3, 2008, 10:40 AM
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Hi All
I'm having some trouble creating a breadcrumb navigation for my site.
Basically I need the breadcrumb navigation to to include the home page, the category and the sub category.
The breadcrumb navigation I have currently can only include the home page and the sub category, I need this to include the main category that the subcategory is in. Is this possible, I'm hoping that this is just a setting in the breadcrumb article page?
Some help with this would be really appreciated, many thanks
Owen.
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Jake
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Mar 4, 2008, 9:24 AM
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Hi Owenk,
You should be able to achieve this by using the "Category Breadcrumbs" menu format option for your breadcrumb publishing rule - have you tried that?
Let us know if you need anything else. 
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Owenk
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Mar 10, 2008, 10:44 AM
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Hi Jake
Yea I tried that but it didn't work it still made the breadcrumb nav with just the article title but not the main category heading and the article title.
In the end I just hard coded the breadcrumb static and used a php include to pull the appropriate file into the template page.
I have a similar problem with the main navigation. At the moment the navigation is static but I would like it to be dynamically created by the cms.
The site I have built has 126 article pages and 6 main category's with a sub category for each of the 126 article pages.
So thats 126 articles, 126 category's, 1 sub category for each article and 6 main category's(This is to set user accesses to different pages for different people).
When the CMS uses categorymenu.html to create the navigation it creates all 126 category's, obviously no good for a main navigation. How do I get categorymenu.html to make the main navigation out of only the 6 main category's and not to include the 126 sub category's of those sections?
I hope I'm making sense here? some help would be brilliant.
Best Regards
Owen
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Jake
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Mar 11, 2008, 10:12 AM
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Hi Owen,
If you go to Admin -> Publishing and click "modify" for your Category Menu publishing rule, you can use the same menu options as I mentioned eariler to control how your categories can be displayed. You can choose to only show parent categories here, which will restrict your navigation to the main six categories while leaving out the subcategories.
Give that a shot and let us know if you need anything else.
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Owenk
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Mar 27, 2008, 6:27 AM
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Hi Jake
Sorry for taking so long to reply to your message
Yea I have tried to set the publishing rule to only publish the parent categories but its still publishing all categories and subcategories :(
I haven't tampered with the template page for this publishing rule.
I have attached an image of the settings I have chosen for this, they must be wrong. please advise.
Thanks Jake
Regards
Owen
(This post was edited by Owenk on Mar 27, 2008, 6:30 AM)
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Jake
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Mar 28, 2008, 9:54 AM
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Hi Owen,
Give this a try:
The first thing you'll want to do is set your custom settings for your Category Menu publishing rule to the following (you'll probably want to set up the Global Menu the same way):
Show 1 level(s) of subcategories from root (always visible)
Show 0 level(s) of subcategories below selected category
Show nothing above selected category
Show selected category
This will set up the menus so that only the parent-level categories will be displayed, even if you're on an individual category page. A problem does come up when you navigate to an article page within a subcategory though - the subcategory is displayed in the menu, so we'll need to set up a new menu publishing rule for the subcategories so that the correct menu format is preserved when users navigate deeper into the site. This rule should be identical to the Category Menu, except you'll want to use the following settings:
Show 1 level(s) of subcategories from root (always visible)
Show 0 level(s) of subcategories below selected category
Show nothing above selected category
Hide selected category
It's also very important that you use the "Category Filter" settings for this rule to only publish subcategories, and exclude everything else. Conversely, you'll want to make sure that all subcategories are excluded from your main Category Menu publishing rule.
Let me know how that works out!
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Owenk
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Mar 28, 2008, 9:59 AM
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Hi Jake
Thanks for I'll give it a shot.
O.
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Owenk
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Mar 28, 2008, 10:49 AM
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Hi Jake
Unfortunately that hasn't worked :(
Its still publishing all the articles and sub pages.
I remember when I was tinkering with the publishing I did get it to publish all the parent category's, it was still publishing the sub category's but only the ones that applied to that category.
Its a bit strange.
O
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Jake
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Mar 28, 2008, 4:34 PM
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Hi Owen,
Could you send in a second-level support request on this?
https://www.interactivetools.com/support/
I tested everything on my end extensively, but apparently I'm missing some vital information in regards to your category structure.
I look forward to hearing from you!
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