Breadcrumb
The component that simplifies navigation within the knowledge base by showing the path of the current page.
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The component that simplifies navigation within the knowledge base by showing the path of the current page.
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Breadcrumb is one of the web parts designed by intranet.ai to help companies create a corporate knowledge base in SharePoint Online. Creating a corporate knowledge base provides numerous benefits, such as quick access to information, reduced time waste, standardized information, knowledge retention, and more effective collaboration.
The Breadcrumb web part helps users navigate the knowledge base by displaying the hierarchical path of the current page. It works like traditional breadcrumb navigation, showing links to parent pages for easy backtracking.
Breadcrumb is essential for creating a well-organized knowledge base on SharePoint Online. For additional tools to enhance your knowledge base, refer to the manuals for , , and .
If your page is not already in edit mode, click on Edit at the top right of the page.
Hover your mouse above or below an existing web part. You will see a line with a circled +, like this: .
Click on it and, in the web part search box, enter Breadcrumb to quickly find and select the Breadcrumb web part.
Click the Edit properties button on the left of the web part to open the property pane, which consists of one section: General Settings. See below for more information on this section.
The web part property pane includes the following settings:
Enter the breadcrumb cutting path: you can enter a cutting path to display only a part of the path. The first level (“Home”), corresponding to the home page of the site, is always shown.
For example: https://intranetai.sharepoint.com/sites/my-hub/KB/SitePages/SystemPages
Enter the display name for the Home: you can customize the name of the first level of the path. If you leave this field empty, the name will be “Home”.
Do you want to show the name or title of the pages?: you can choose to display the name or the title of pages.
Below is an example of how Breadcrumb is displayed within a SharePoint page:
Please note: to activate the breadcrumb navigation links, a page named "Home" must be created at every level of the path. For example, in the Policies and Guidelines subfolder, a page named "Home" must be created in order to activate the corresponding link.
While the page name must be "Home", the page title can be different.
Each "Home" page can include the Breadcrumb web part to enable backward navigation, along with a descriptive text about the section and relevant links. The following screenshots show an example of a four-tier navigation path moving back from a specific article to the home page of the site:
Tier 4: a specific article within the Policies and Guidelines subsection.
Tier 3: The Policies and Guidelines subsection, containing articles about key policies and corporate guidelines.
Please note that while the name of this page is "Home", its title is "Policies and Guidelines".
Tier 2: The Documents section, a collection of categorized resources.
Tier 1 is the home page of the knowledge base.
