'dynamic' breadcrumb navigation --> possible?

[Kuni <ku...@muschkoten-berlin.de>]

Hello,

i'm looking for a breadcrumb component.. i found the navigationPath 
component provided by trinidad.. that's really nice but that's not what 
i'm looking for! i imagine something like these:

<xy:breadcrumb delimiter=">>" />
which will render:   index >> page1 >> page2 >> page3

the component 'knows' your navigation history based on the navigation 
rules. in the simpliest way you only should define an entry point. the 
component observes your behavior to create a path like shown above. no 
path definition is needed..

a well known strategy to create such path is to organize your sources in 
structured directories and parsing the directory tree.. but that makes 
no sense cause your source-tree depends on the navigation-path terrible ;)

anybody has a working example or knows hot to realize it? ..

regards,
Kuni

Re: 'dynamic' breadcrumb navigation --> possible?

[Adam Winer <aw...@gmail.com>]

With regards to the Trinidad navigationPath, you
can plug it into a model object.  So, the component
does what you need - but the hard work of defining
the model isn't there.

Trinidad is building an XMLMenuModel that will
automate breadcrumbs and more.

-- Adam




On 7/25/06, Kuni <ku...@muschkoten-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i'm looking for a breadcrumb component.. i found the navigationPath
> component provided by trinidad.. that's really nice but that's not what
> i'm looking for! i imagine something like these:
>
> <xy:breadcrumb delimiter=">>" />
> which will render:   index >> page1 >> page2 >> page3
>
> the component 'knows' your navigation history based on the navigation
> rules. in the simpliest way you only should define an entry point. the
> component observes your behavior to create a path like shown above. no
> path definition is needed..
>
> a well known strategy to create such path is to organize your sources in
> structured directories and parsing the directory tree.. but that makes
> no sense cause your source-tree depends on the navigation-path terrible ;)
>
> anybody has a working example or knows hot to realize it? ..
>
> regards,
> Kuni
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: 'dynamic' breadcrumb navigation --> possible?

[Adam Winer <aw...@gmail.com>]

With regards to the Trinidad navigationPath, you
can plug it into a model object.  So, the component
does what you need - but the hard work of defining
the model isn't there.

Trinidad is building an XMLMenuModel that will
automate breadcrumbs and more.

-- Adam




On 7/25/06, Kuni <ku...@muschkoten-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i'm looking for a breadcrumb component.. i found the navigationPath
> component provided by trinidad.. that's really nice but that's not what
> i'm looking for! i imagine something like these:
>
> <xy:breadcrumb delimiter=">>" />
> which will render:   index >> page1 >> page2 >> page3
>
> the component 'knows' your navigation history based on the navigation
> rules. in the simpliest way you only should define an entry point. the
> component observes your behavior to create a path like shown above. no
> path definition is needed..
>
> a well known strategy to create such path is to organize your sources in
> structured directories and parsing the directory tree.. but that makes
> no sense cause your source-tree depends on the navigation-path terrible ;)
>
> anybody has a working example or knows hot to realize it? ..
>
> regards,
> Kuni
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

RE: 'dynamic' breadcrumb navigation --> possible?

[Julian Ray <ju...@yahoo.com>]

Hi Kuni,

We have a solution which does exactly what you want. However, it requires a
bit or organization of your JSF files. In particular:

A session-scoped stack to store previous views 
A view-specific mechanism to push each new view to the stack
A standardized means to associate a view name with jsf page
A component to dynamically render the breadcrumb trail and
A backing bean to manage breadcrumb actions.

We have not yet had time to create a JSF component to encapsulate all this
coding but, if there is enough interest from the MyFaces community at large
I will try to put our methodology on the WIKI for you and others.


Julian

-----Original Message-----
From: Kuni [mailto:kuni@muschkoten-berlin.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:46 PM
To: adffaces-user@incubator.apache.org; MyFaces Discussion
Subject: 'dynamic' breadcrumb navigation --> possible?

Hello,

i'm looking for a breadcrumb component.. i found the navigationPath
component provided by trinidad.. that's really nice but that's not what i'm
looking for! i imagine something like these:

<xy:breadcrumb delimiter=">>" />
which will render:   index >> page1 >> page2 >> page3

the component 'knows' your navigation history based on the navigation rules.
in the simpliest way you only should define an entry point. the component
observes your behavior to create a path like shown above. no path definition
is needed..

a well known strategy to create such path is to organize your sources in
structured directories and parsing the directory tree.. but that makes no
sense cause your source-tree depends on the navigation-path terrible ;)

anybody has a working example or knows hot to realize it? ..

regards,
Kuni