what error are you getting?

hi thanks man i'm getting an error now but the code I copied from your comment doesn't display anything on my page. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm maybe I'm adding it in the wrong place. Can you please walk me through on how you setted it up on your CMS

sorry for the late reply man thank you so much for the code it worked.

Isn't this built into Unbraco or is there a module available ? When I used to use WP we just used the yoast plugin.

Pardon my ignorance, as I am new to Umbraco (coming from Typo3). Love Umbraco, but there are a few things that are stumping me, one of which is breadcrumbs. I'm using the example code provided above by Huw on November 24 and it sorta kinda works.

My page structure looks like this:

Home

-- Privacy Policy

-- Terms Of Use

When the Terms Of Use page is displayed, I get:

Home -> Privacy Policy -> Terms Of Use

It should read:

Home -> Terms Of Use

What am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance for any help.

So I updated my code to add the 1 as shown below, but still get the same results (Home -> Privacy Policy -> Terms of Use)

    @if (CurrentPage.Ancestors().Any())
{
    foreach (var bpage in CurrentPage.Ancestors(1).OrderBy(x => x.Level))
    {
                                        <li><a href="@bpage.Url()">@bpage.Name</a></li>                                                                                <li class="active">Privacy Policy</li>
    }

    @* Display the current page as the last item in the list *@
    <li class="active">@CurrentPage.Name</li>
}

I promise you I'm not usually this dense ...

So you are saying within the foreach loop bpage.name = "Privacy Policy"? If that is the case, how do I only get parent documents?

Let's say my tree looks like this:

Home

-- Legal

-- -- Privacy Policy

-- -- Terms Of Use

How do I write the code so it would output:

Home -> Legal -> Terms Of Use

I just want the parents all the way up the tree

That would be awesome, but more importantly I hope you get feeling better!

Thank you for your time with this. I want you to know it is really appreciated. However, when using the code above, the page just spins and will not load. I'm shocked that with a system as robust as Umbruco it is so difficult to do a simple breadcrumb trail.

Visual Studio Code

My initial code works the best except that it is pulling EVERY page from current up instead of parents. Code below again just to review and see if you spot what I am doing wrong.

@if (CurrentPage.Ancestors().Any())
{
    foreach (var bpage in CurrentPage.Ancestors().OrderBy(x => x.Level))
    {
                                        <li><a href="@bpage.Url()">@bpage.Name</a></li>                                                                                <li class="active">Privacy Policy</li>
    }

    @* Display the current page as the last item in the list *@
    @* <li class="active">@CurrentPage.Name</li> *@
}

Huw, I owe you such a HUGE apology for wasting your time. It turns out way off to the right off of my screen in my text editor was a hard coded li tag from my mockup. Apparently the above code worked. However, I did something and now I get an error which says CurrentPage is not in the current context. I just can't win!

UPDATE: I was able to get CurrentPage functioning again. Now (because the saga must continue) I get the error bpage does not exist in the current context.

Now that you are all sick of me, I have resolved the issue. Was missing a @ before foreach.

Seriously, thank you for all the time you put in assisting me.

For future reference: you can create a breadcrumb very easily using a partial view snippet. Just go to Settings section in the backoffice and right-click the Partial Views folder. Choose Create and pick the breadcrumb partial. Save the partial and include it in your layout.

https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/fundamentals/design/partial-views#creating-a-partial-view-from-snippet

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