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August 18, 2014
Question

how to add a breadcrumb in Framemaker?

  • August 18, 2014
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I was trying to add a complete breadcrumbs path (with links) in Framemaker. The breadcrumb path would be like: <Project Title> > <Chapter Title> > Heading 1.  But, instead of putting it in Master page, I tried putting it in Body page (in a separate text frame).

   

  1. On the Body page, place a text frame on top of the page.
  2. Choose Special > Variable.
  3. Select a user-defined variable in the Variables scroll list. (I edited the Definition as <$paratext[Title]>
  4. The breadcrumb is showing properly (without the link)

Now I imported the .mif to RH. But it's not showing up in RoboHelp output. Do you know how to add a breadcrumb in Framemaker?

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2 replies

Known Participant
September 18, 2014

Hi,

I am not sure about this, but I think it might have something to do with the Flow tag assigned to the text frame.

Tag A frames migrate to RH, but I am not sure that others do. Did you assign a different tag to your variable text frame?

Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 18, 2014

They’re usually done in RH either through a Master page or at the output stage by turning it on in your SSL recipe.