Item8244: BreadCrumbsPlugin should expand ", needs a new pseudo-variable
Priority: Enhancement
Current State: Closed
Released In: 1.0.6
Target Release: patch
The following doesn't work as with other formatted strings:
%BREADCRUMBS{"RootWeb/OtherWeb/SubWeb.SomeTopic" format=""""}%
Expected:
""
in each expanded breadcrumb, but instead shows
""
.
Also, I needed a way to tell if I was expanding a parent web (other than the web where the breadcrumbs were being expanded). So I added a pseudo-variable,
$webpart
.
Also, there is a pseudo-variable available (
$web
) which is not documented.
I've attached a patch and the following lines should be added to the pseudo-variables documentation in the
BreadCrumbsPlugin topic:
-
$web
: the web where the %BREADCRUMBS%
macro is being expanded.
-
$webpart
: when processing a breadcrumb that is a parent web, expands to the name of that parent web.
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PaulHarvey - 16 Aug 2009
Thanks Paul for the patch. I'll look into what you are trying to achieve. Btw.
"
isn't really needed. Try
\"
instead.
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MichaelDaum - 16 Aug 2009
Whoops. I am sorry Michael, somehow I got my
$
and
"
mixed up. The
BreadCrumbsPlugin topic does not actually document a
$
variable. I just fixed up this bug report to reflect that I was mistaken. I suppose I shouldn't be debugging in the car on long trips!
The reason I was looking for
"
was because I was using an
IF{}
in the format string (as I would with other
FormattedSearch strings).
As for the
$webpart
variable, I do an
IF
as follows:
%IF{"'$webpart'!='$web'" then="<parent web formatting>" else="<current web formatting>"}%
. Perhaps this could be avoided with the provision of a new format string (different format strings for parent vs current webs), but even here I feel
$webpart
could still be useful.
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PaulHarvey - 16 Aug 2009
Actually the correct fix is to expand
$web
to the web part of the
$webtopic
variable and
$topic
to the topic part. The former value of
$web
was pretty pointless as it always expanded to BASEWEB. So your IF expression should actually be
%IF{"'$webpart'!=$BASEWEB" then="<parent web formatting>" else="<current web formatting>"}%
I won't add
"
as that is redundant a legacy way of writing
\"
. Use
%BREADCRUMBS{"RootWeb/OtherWeb/SubWeb.SomeTopic" format="\"\""}%
instead.
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MichaelDaum - 20 Aug 2009
We fixed behaviour for
$web
but not for
$topic
. This next commit makes
BreadCrumbsPlugin behave as described with the updated notes about these pseudo-vars.
Michael, hope you don't mind me making this commit for you. Let me know if you'd rather I didn't commit any one-line fixes like this in future.
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PaulHarvey - 17 Sep 2009
That's okay. I trust your instincts to spot'n fix bugs.
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MichaelDaum - 17 Sep 2009