About breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs let you summarize any Guided Navigation selections, keyword searches, or range filters specified by the end user.

Breadcrumbs represent the following information that was passed to the navigation state by the Conversation Web Service response:

Any standard or managed attribute value available in the data files of the particular data domain can be selected as a breadcrumb.

Breadcrumbs honor EQL record filters (such as security filters), but do not display them.

Breadcrumbs can reflect spelling correction and DYM (Did You Mean) information returned by the Dgraph process of the Oracle Endeca Server in response to keyword search queries.

In Studio, the Breadcrumbs component lets you display breadcrumbs made with navigation queries (when users select refinement values or range filters for navigation), and keyword search queries.

For example, here is how user selections made in the Guided Navigation component are reflected in the Breadcrumbs component: