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We have a new site that’s about to be launched and have ran into a snag.

The problem is that the breadcrumb navigation system does not seem to be working right.

The navigation works as follows:

home>products>productcatagory1>widget1

home>products>productcatagory2>widget1

So for example we have a product that can report to more than one product category. If I click through from home>products>productcatagory1>widget1

The breadcrumb displays home>products>widget1

The developer claims that it’s not possible to display breadcrumb properly because the widget (a channel in ee) can report to more that one page. 

I find this hard to believe since EE’s basic structure revolves around the channel concept.

Can anyone clarify this please?

Is this ONLY a breadcrumb issue? You can’t really have a page belong to two URLs, it belongs to the channel.

If it’s only breadcrumbs, you can do this. If the category is triggered in the URL…
( site.com/channel_name)/category/category_name/widget1 ),
you can just display the category name (and link back if you wish). For example, I have speakers on one site that belong to different and overlapping topics, so I can filter by category and have a speaker show in different categories, but the URL to their actual page will always be the same.

To display the category in the breadcrumbs looks like:

Professional  > <a href="http://{path=speakers/index}">Speakers</a> >  {categories limit="1"}{category_name}{/categories}  > {speaker_date format="%F %j%S, %Y"}

The result is:  Professional > Speakers > Whatever Category > Date of the Talk

More info here: http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/categories.html

and maybe useful for your templates: http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/category_heading.html