Pathway creation (breadcrumb module) in FLEXIcontent category/item views

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    George Papadakis
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    28 December 2013
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Normally

-- Joomla's pathway (displayed via Breadcrumbs modude) include the menu items along the path that lead to currently ACTIVE Joomla menu item,

(then each component may add 1 or 2 more entries into the pathway, FLEXIcontent will add current category (category view) and current content item (item view))

But the above behaviour can be changed:

  1. There is a parameter in Global Configuration,
    which can be overridden in Category Configuration called:
    "Create pathways automatically"
    -- If you enabled it then pathway will be clear and filled with item's parent categories.

  2. Go to FLEXIcontent Advanced Route (system) Plugin and select to exclude it from appearing in the pathway
    a. Select to prevent one (or more) of these categories from appear in the pathway
    b. Select content types for which their items (item view) will never have any (except current one) categories in the pathway

  3. In every menu item:
    -- you can set maximum depth, e.g. with depth 3, you will get the last 2 categories and the item name in the path.
    -- also you can select not to add item name as last element of the pathway, in which case for item depth 3, the last 3 categories will appear in the pathway