From: "Jim Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:34 PM
Subject: RE: Bread Crumb Trail with CFMX
> The simple breadcrumb trail is completely determined by the
author-defined
> hierarchy of pages. You define "this page is in this sub-section which
is
> in this section" and create three links to represent that. Something
like:
>
> Home >> Section >> Subsection >> Page
>
> You can drive this solely by directory structure if you're set up that
way,
> by page-level parameters if your pages are distinct, by template level
> parameters if you're content is parametized, etc - it really depends on
your
> site structure and the detail of your definition.
How do you deal with pages that are reached via multiple paths?
> Now the other style of breadcrumbs which is rarely seen (but ironically
> matches the "breadcrumb" metaphor much better) is the clickstream. In
this
> case you display the specific users path the current information,
regardless
> of how you (the author) have organized things. This is as simple as
> creating a session-scoped array. You just place each page visiting into
the
> array and then, on demand, display the links.
How does this work if the user has more than one browser window open to
different pages of the same web site?
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