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Function documentationBreadcrumb Trail

 

Each element in the breadcrumb trail represents a previously active central object in the object navigator. You can use the breadcrumb trail to track which objects you have previously loaded as the central object in the object navigator and reactivate these objects in the originally selected view and in the original state (such as with an expanded structure).

Features

  • Navigation history

    You can use the breadcrumb trail to navigate through the linked objects in any order. If you call up an object from the breadcrumb trail or call up a linked object from there, the system extends the breadcrumb trail: the corresponding link is added to the end of the breadcrumb trail. The breadcrumb trail displays the complete navigation history and can contain the same object multiple times in differing states.

  • Reactivating objects

    You can reload each object from the breadcrumb trail by clicking the link for that object.

    When you reload an element from the breadcrumb trail, the system displays the same view and the same state within the view as when activating a new central object.

Example Example

If you load an object for the first time, and have chosen a view for relationships such as the Where-Used view, and then navigate to a further object before re-loading the original object as the central object, the system again displays this view (in this case, Where-Used) when you re-load this object as the central object.

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Example Example

  1. You initially view the material MAT3000 in the object navigator, and in the Structure view you expand the structure to the third level of explosion: item 10. The breadcrumb trail currently contains the material MAT3000.

  2. You click item 10. The system expands the breadcrumb trail to include item 10.

  3. In the breadcrumb trail, you reselect the material MAT3000. The system expands the breadcrumb trail to include the element MAT3000, which is initially in the previous state (that is, the structure in the Structure view is exploded to the third level).

  4. You switch to the Linked Documents view for the material MAT3000 and click the linked document DOC1000. The system generates a new element for the document DOC1000 in the breadcrumb trail.

    The breadcrumb trail contains the following elements:

    MAT3000 —> Item 10 —> MAT3000 —> DOC1000

    MAT3000 is contained in the breadcrumb trail in two different states: with the Structure view and with the Linked Documents view

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