Summary

-- SomikRaha - 18 Dec 2003

Question

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to create navigation hierarchies. I looked through the forms, and it sounds like it allows you to structure content for searching. I am interested in displaying the navigation history at the top. Currently my TWiki installation only shows the "Main" web and the topic name. How do I create a better logical hierarchy without creating more webs? Thanks in advance.

Environment

-- SomikRaha - 19 Nov 2003

Answer

Isn't BreadCrumbs what you are looking for?

-- PeterThoeny - 20 Nov 2003

Question

It is - but I couldn't figure out how to use it - there is so much info and a discussion on the issue - how do I create a breadcrumb for my topics? I find this to be a little disconcerting about the TWiki project, whenever I try to figure out how to use some feature - it usually involves reading long discussions that occurred a year or two ago. Of course, it might just be me looking in the wrong place. But if its not, then it might be a good idea to organize information a little differently - like adding an important summary section on a topic - which has a limit on the info (e.g. 200 words). A summary section would force the community to write a succinct conclusion - items like - where can I download the latest version of the plugin - or, how do I use a certain feature in the latest TWiki?

Would appreciate any pointers on breadcrumbs - have been trying to figure this one out for hours...

-- SomikRaha - 20 Nov 2003

The breadcrumb grows organically each time you start a new topic in an existing topic. You can also reparent ant topic, just for the fun of it I have done it with this topic.

By all means, if you think that the top part of BreadCrumbs is not clear, please help fix it!

Good point about the topic summary. This has been discussed in Codev, a brief summary per feature and bug is also needed to automatically compile a list of enhancements in a release.

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Nov 2003

How did you reparent it? If I can figure out how to do that, I'd be more than happy to write a summary for BreadCrumbs. I'm not sure how the breadcrumb grows organically, I only see Main.Topic for all topics, regardless of where I create them. e.g in Main, I've created TopicOne. When I visit TopicOne I'd expect to see Main > WebHome > TopicOne but instead I see Main > TopicOne.

I am using the Hobbes plugin, and I'm thinking the problem might be in twiki.tiger.tmpl.. the relevant contents are:

 <a href="%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%WEB%/" title="Go to <nop>Main.<nop>WebHome" class="topMenuWeb" 
  style="text-decoration:'';COLOR: #333399;">%WEB%</a>
 &nbsp;::&nbsp;
 %META{"parent" nowebhome="on" suffix="::"}%<nop>%TOPIC% %REVTITLE% &nbsp;

Does that look right?

-- SomikRaha - 21 Nov 2003