That "menu path" you refer to is called "breadcrumbs" - they can be configured in 2 different ways - through a placeholder on the master page or through the SSL recipe for your output.

Hi there

First, you edit the Master Page.

Then, choose where you want the placeholder to be inserted.

If you insert the placeholder inside the Body placeholder, you will only get a breadcrumb trail if you create a new topic based on the Master Page.

If you insert the placeholder inside the Header or Footer area, ANY TOPIC associated with the Master Page should present the breadcrumbs. This also seems to apply to placeholders inserted into what I call the "no man's land" area between the proper Header or Footer area.

As you say you have breadcrumbs enabled in the Single Source Layout recipe, I'm surprised that you aren't seeing them in each and every topic you view. Are you certain you are viewing the published topics?

Cheers... Rick

Rick means are you looking at the created help output that's in the project's \!SSL!\ folder? Looking at the topics themselves while still in the RH project may not show you what's actually there (same as using the Review option when finished creating the help).

That kind of implies that you haven't been creating the help (at least in that folder). Try generating the help & have a look at it.

Your SSL recipe must have specified a different folder other than the default path of \project_name\!SSL!\output_type\ - if you just generated, then the date stamp on the output files will have the same date as the generated date; when help is generated each time, the output folder is wiped and new files are created in its place. make sure you're actually looking at the currently generated help output.

No, it doesn't really make any difference where the output location is placed (other than it shouldn't be pointed at a network location). Best practices usually dictate that your RH projects are happiest when they are located in c:\projects\project_name\ - then the output gets generated by default to c:\projects\project_name\!SSL!\WebHelp\starting_page.htm. Once generated, the whole WebHelp folder can be packaged up, moved, given to your developers, etc. for publication.

With your issue, we're just trying to see if you're actually looking at the generated output to see if the breadcrumbs are all there or not.

Can you use the camera icon in the web interface to give us a screenshot of your SSL recipe? - as Rick says, I also find it hard that the breadcrumbs aren't appearing if they are flagged to do so in the SSL layout.

Which "it" are you asking about? the camera icon in the forum's web interface or the SSL in your project?

See this link - http://forums.adobe.com/thread/467760?tstart=0

Some of the content is a little out of date, but the idea is that you compose your post and use the camera icon to insert image files into it.

Umm, those shots are just of Explorer - I need you fire up RH and show me the SSL layout recipe screen of the project where you have turned on breadcrumbs.

Which content is out of date?

With the project open, if you don't see the Single Source Layouts pod open, go to View > Pods > Single Source Layouts. Click on the WebHelp layout & right click it to check the Properties; show us the Navigation page - that's where Breadcrumbs are enabled.

Did you check the Format button to see how it appears?

Ok, try generating the help to a temp location like your c:\ drive; then use your browser to have a look at the start page - are breadcrumbs appearing in all topics? If they're still not, then something else if definitely going on. It might be something uniquely funky about the non-crumbed topics or that the SSL recipe has gotten damaged (that's easy to fix - just create - don't duplicate - a new WebHelp SSL and try it out). You might take a look at working vs. non-working topics in the HTML View to see if there's any diffs in them.

If it's something to do with importing the topic, maybe you should try creating a new topic and copying/pasting content out of the non-working topic (via notepad to be really safe) into the new one. Then generate & see if breadcrumbs appear on the new topic.

Hi there

I hate to disrupt all the good breadcrumb discussion here, but I feel I should not remain silent and should offer a clarification.

Jeff said:

..Click on the WebHelp layout & right click it to check the Properties; show us the Navigation page - that's where Breadcrumbs are enabled.

What could stand clarifying is that this option where he pointed it out doesn't determine whether Breadcrumbs are turned on or off for a project. Rather, it determines whether each topic will receive a set of breadcrumbs when the WebHelp is generated.

By saying it's where they are "enabled", one might get confused and think that if they added Breadcrumbs placeholders to either individual topics directly or via a Master Page, they would also need to ensure they enabled them here in order to coax them into showing. But if you do that, you will see two sets of Breadcrumbs.

Cheers... Rick

Thanks Rick - I probably should have said "can be turned on here" because as you mention, you can turn them on in the master pages and you get 2 sets of them then.

I still don't know how the OP could have some crumbs on some topics & none on others with this SSL option turned on. Any ideas?

That's what I was suspecting, so I tossed out the idea of generating to the c:\ drive.