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Better path/breadcrumb info for deep links
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Better path/breadcrumb info for deep links
12:55 PM EDT 8/29/08
I find myself using other people's profile pages and MyWebjunction as my primary access points for WJ content, which I think is part of the intent of the more social functionality of WJ. I find my way to content through the people who interest me.

However, I find that many links from others profile pages and from MyWebjunction will take me to a specific discussion or document that really interests me, but when I try to figure out if the specific discussion or document is part of a larger top area or group area I am at a loss to find out what those might be.

Today's specific example is:

In my updates list, I see this entry for 8/28/08:

Michael Sauers created the discussion thread "Troubleshooting WiFi".

I know that the link for "Troubleshooting WiFi" is bad (see recent post in Help & Support Discussion) so I follow the link to Michael Sauers personal profile and get to the correct link for "Troubleshooting WiFi" in Michael's Activities list.

When I get to that page I assume that there may be something on the "Overview" or "Documents" tabs, but when I click on them, I end up on the WJ global homepage.

Perhaps this has something to do with how and where Michael created the discussion, but similar things seem to happen to me when I follow other links in personal profile activities lists of others as well. The same goes for following this link in Laura Crossets public profie:
Laura Crossett replied to the discussion thread "RE: Welcome to wp4lib!".

Maybe what I am experiencing is a bug rather than a missing feature, but either way, I want to be able to make use of personal profiles as a means of navigating not just to specific items of content, but to areas of content in general.

all the best,
Sheila
RE: Better path/breadcrumb info for deep links
1:25 PM EDT 8/29/08 as a reply to Sheila Kearns.
Sheila,
Thanks for documenting this so thoroughly. I believe you've uncovered a bug. I'm quite sure the intention is to maximize navigation via activity in the social features eg. browse from the discussion thread you find in someone's public profile to the documents and overview of the topic area.

Thanks again,
JP