Purpose of Module

This module allows you to place "breadcrumb" navigation at the top of your category and product pages. This is a trail of nested categories showing where the user currently is in the hierarchy of categories. Features include the ability to customize the separator, font and style control, location control, a customizable "home" link, and whether to show the product name when on the product page.

How to Install

• Installing the Module
  1. Unzip nbbreadcrumbs.zip to your hard drive
  2. Log into your Miva admin utility
  3. Expand the navigation tree next to Modules
  4. Click the link "Add Module"
  5. Click the "Upload File" graphic
  6. Click the "Browse" button
  7. Browse to the location where you stored the files from nbbreadcrumbs.zip
  8. Select nbbreadcrumbs.mv
  9. Click the "Upload" button
  10. When the graphic has been uploaded, the small "Upload File" window will disappear, leaving you with the main Miva admin screen visible
  11. Click the "Add" button on the main Miva admin screen
  
  
• Associating the Module with a Store
  1. Log into your Miva admin utility
  2. Expand the navigation tree next to Stores
  3. Expand the navigation tree next to the store with which you wish to associate this module
  4. Click the link "System Extension Configuration"
  5. In the assigned module list, you should see an entry for "netBlazon's Category Breadcrumbs"
  6. Check the checkbox next to this module and click Update
  7. When the screen refreshes, you should see a tab near the top of the screen that reads "Category Breadcrumbs"

How to Configure

1. Log into your Miva admin utility
2. Expand the navigation tree next to Stores
3. Expand the navigation tree next to the store with which you wish to associate this module
4. Click the link "System Extension Configuration"
5. Click the "Category Breadcrumbs" tab
6. If you wish to have a "Home" link prior to the list of categories, enter the URL the link will go to, and a label for the URL. By default these values are set to your storefront and as "Home". If you do not wish to have a Home link, simply leave the Home URL field blank.
7. Choose the locations where you'd like the breadcrumbs to appear.
8. If you wish to show the product name (on the product pages only) at the end of the list of categories, check "Show Product Name".
9. Enter HTML to define the separator that appears between each category name.
10. Enter any HTML you want to surround the entire list of categories in the Pre-Breadcrumbs HTML and Post-Breadcrumbs HTML boxes. (Be sure to close any tags you open.)
11. Enter any HTML you want to surround the selected item (current category if on category page, or product name if on product page) in the Pre-Selected Item HTML and Post-Selected Item HTML boxes. (Be sure to close any tags you open.)
12. Click the update button to save your changes.
13. Note: To control the style of your links, use a stylesheet and create a class called "nbbreadcrumbs". The anchor tags created with this module already have this class applied to them. If you do not create this class, the links will have the same style as the rest of your links.

How to Use with Viking Coder's Template Modules

1. Go to Stores->Your Storename->System Extension Configuration
2. Click on the tab for Category Page Templates or Product Page Templates
3. Select the Third Party tokens sub-tab
4. Enter module code NBBREADCRUMB and token NBBREADCRUMBS
5. Click the update button
6. Go to your template and, wherever you want to show the output from our module, enter: %module|NBBREADCRUMBS|01|%

Support

For questions or problems with your Category Breadcrumbs module, please send email to support@netblazon.com.