All posts in the topic Breadcrumb error (Short link)
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- Latest post made by Dan Randow at May 08 23:19 UTC
The link "messages" is page not found:
home > groups > groupserver_team > messages >
In at least this group and team.
The breadcrumbs in groups have been broken for a while now; on the
standard OGN pages I removed them because they are so broken. I will
hide them everywhere, and make a ticket to remind us to and them back
on the pages after rebuilding the breadcrumb system from the ground up.
Thanks for the reminder, Steve!
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.
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