Breadcrumbs Pattern

RE: Breadcrumbs Pattern

Witold Wozniak — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:53:06 GMT

Thank you for your opinion and expertise, I appreciate it.

RE: Breadcrumbs Pattern

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:50:36 GMT

You are aware that you can only add up to 10 top level tabs?

To be honest, in my mind is no real place for useful breadcrumbs in Appian applications. And no, you cannot really pass along the navigation path a user was following.

RE: Breadcrumbs Pattern

Witold Wozniak — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:49:49 GMT

My pages have the following structure:

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└── Home
├── Subject 1
│ ├── Quiz
│ ├── Documents
│ └── Online Resources
└── Subject n
├── Quiz
├── Documents
└── Online Resources

I want to be able to navigate this hierarchy freely and breadcrumbs seem to be the solution. I'm just wondering how to set identifiers for different screens and pass them around. I was thinking of setting the identifier to 1 in a local variable of the main interface, then increment by 1 on each descendant interface, but the comments in the pattern mention an expression rule, which makes me wonder what am I missing.

RE: Breadcrumbs Pattern

Witold Wozniak — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:49:44 GMT

My pages have the following structure:

.
└── Home
├── Subject 1
│ ├── Quiz
│ ├── Documents
│ └── Online Resources
└── Subject n
├── Quiz
├── Documents
└── Online Resources

RE: Breadcrumbs Pattern

Mathieu Drouin — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:37:03 GMT

Really depends on your context.

I usually provide breadcrumbs in the form of

Home / Record

where Home redirects you to the home page and Record redirects you to the Record Summary view.

I do this for Tasks. In the Record View, I either don't provide the Record Breadcrumb or I grey it out depending on the user's preference.

RE: Breadcrumbs Pattern

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:26:22 GMT

All your questions depend so much on what you want to achieve and what this application is about. And, why is that even necessary?