Breadcrumb error
From:
Dan Randow
Date:
May 08 23:19 UTC
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Michael is right that breadcrumbs are broken in too many ways to be useful.
Actually, however, in the case that Steve mentioned,
> The link "messages" is page not found:
> home > groups > groupserver_team > messages >
the breadcrumbs are fine. The problem is that the system can no longer
identify the default page to show in the messages context.
/site/groups/group/messages/
Exactly the same problem occurs if you hack the url to the above.
This is because, for discussion groups, the default view is latest topics,
/site/groups/group/messages/topics.html
and in announcement groups, it is latest posts.
/site/groups/group/messages/posts.html
Because of now deprecated way that groups are defined, anything outside
the group context (for example the context menu, and the system that
defines the default page to show) can not find the required information
about the group (such as whether it's a discussion or announcement group).
It will be possible to fix this, and many many other problems, when we
have the fabled "group product".
https://svn.iopen.net/projects/groupserver/ticket/121
Back to the subject of breadcrumbs, however, you may have noticed how
the (old broken) breadcrumbs don't care where in the messages context
you are. They only ever show you the same broken breadcrumb.
We've switched them off at OnlineGroups.Net, and suggest that you do, too.
Please don't take from this that we have anything against breadcrumbs.
We _want_ to have breadcrumbs. It's just that broken breadcrumbs are
worse than no breadcrumbs.