Adding navigation information

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While the user is traversing through folders and subfolders to find reports, you may want to provide them with a visual aid that shows a "breadcrumb" trail of the folders they are navigating through. To do this, you can add a Path component to the page.

To add a Path component
  1. In the Palette view, under the Crystal Reports Faces Components tab, click Enterprise Path and drag a Path component onto the top of the page in the visual designer.
  2. In this step, you are prompted to either create a new EnterpriseItems bean or select an existing bean to bind to the ItemsGrid component.

    The EnterpriseItems bean represents the collection of folders to be displayed in the grid. You must bind the Path component to the same EnterpriseItems bean that was bound to the foldersList ItemsGrid component, so that the navigation and listing interfaces are synchronized to the same data.

  3. In the Item Source field, select enterpriseItems (the same item source used for the folderslist ItemsGrid component) and click Finish.
  4. This step adds the component to the visual designer, where you can select it and configure attributes in the Properties view.

  5. In the Properties view, set the id attribute to path.

In this tutorial, the path is visually displayed and updated as the user navigates down the folder path, and each successive folder and subfolder is shown.



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