Structure Nav - How to create breadcrumbs from same entry in multiple areas of nav tree
How Do I?
I’d like to have the same entry in multiple parts of my Structure navigation tree, specifically so i can easily create Structure breadcrumbs. I know this isn’t possible using structure, but wondering if there’s some type of workaround.
Here’s the scenario: -Join – Find a Location -Hire –Find a Location
I’d like “Find a Location” to appear under both nav items when building out my Structure nav. Not really a huge issue because i can create 1 entry for Find a Location then just hardcode it additionally in my Structure nav, or add it as a “external” link in Structure. The problem is building out breadcrumbs on those pages: Home > Join > Find a Location Home > Hire > Find a Location
Depending how the user got to the page, i want the parent item to still be relevant to the path they took to get there. Two different user journeys, same end result page to land on “Find a Location.”
Hi Torch,
Great question this is actually a place where many people use the structure field type. They just create an entry and then choose entry that they really want to link to from the structure field type. This allows you to avoid duplicate content by redirecting them to the entry that was chosen, but still have the item in the navigation where you want it.
Does that make sense?
Thanks,
-Tom Jaeger
Hi Tom,
I didn’t know that existed, but I see it now as an option when creating a field type for a field. Is there any documentation for this particular approach? I can’t seem to find anything.
Thanks!
Hi Torch,
Hrmm… yeah it seems there’s a gap in documentation around this…. The basic idea is that you create a redirect tempalte, and pass the variable into the standard redirect tag
{redirect='{structure_field}' status_code="301"}The field short name in a template will return the URL for the page chosen)
Not sure if i’m doing this correctly, i have a channel “Page” that has a Structure URL field type in the entry called “structure_redirect.” When i assign the entry to another structure url, and the entry is set to this template, it doesn’t redirect:
{if structure_redirect}
{redirect="{structure_redirect}"}
{if:else}
{page_content}
{/exp:channel:entries}
{/if}