Add breadcrumbs to a page with a user macro

[SanaS]

I'm trying to make a simple user macro where I can display the breadcrumbs of a page anywhere on that page. Can someone help me with this one?

[Matthew J. Horn · Accepted solution]

This should help you get started:

#set($globalHelper = $action.getHelper())

$globalHelper.getBreadcrumbs()

That gets a Java ArrayList of PageBreadcrumb objects. Here's the API for the PageBreadcrumb class:

https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/util/breadcrumbs/PageBreadcrumb.html

hth,

matt

[Chris sammut]

• Sana Safai - did you manage to do this?

[SanaS]

Bake more bread :)

It's for a customer who wants templates with some information about the page (breadcrumbs, no. of attachments etc) in a "header". They will also export these pages to pdf.

[Tom Birch Hansen]

Any chance, you could share your final user macro here?

[SanaS]

## @noparams

## MACRO: bcrumbs

## Updated: 2011-03-15

## Breadcrumbzz

## USAGE: {bcrumbs}

#set($globalHelper = $action.getHelper())

#set($breezys = $globalHelper.getBreadcrumbs())

#set ($counter = 0)

## iterate over each breadcrumb

#foreach( $breadcrumb in $breezys)

#set ($displayTitle = $breadcrumb.getDisplayTitle())

#if ($counter == 0) #else $displayTitle > #end

## increment the counter

#set($counter = $counter + 1)

#end ## end foreach

[Tom Birch Hansen]

Thanks for sharing!

[Matt Hutchinson]

Sorry to draw up an old thread, how would you expand this to make the breadcrumbs clickable / links?

[SanaS]

Thanks a million!

[Matthew J. Horn]

Sure thing. Just out of curiousity, what are you going to do with the breadcrumbs?