Product title in breadcrumb

Posted by Community Admin on 04-May-2016 00:00

I am trying to get product titles to show up in the feather breadcrumb widget following the information in the following two links:

http://www.sitefinity.com/blogs/slavo-ingilizovs-blog/2013/01/24/including-item-titles-in-the-sitefinity-breadcrumb
http://docs.sitefinity.com/tutorial-set-virtual-nodes-in-the-breadcrumb-widget

This is for Sitefinity 8.2 / Feather 1.4.450.0

I have a custom mvc widget that displays master/details for Sitefinity e-commerce products. These widgets are being used on hybrid pages and I have verified through debugging and successfully adding the canonical url that the page reference is not null. What else do I need to add into this to register virtual nodes?

The breadcrumb widget has its AllowVirtualNodes property set to true.

Below is the code I have in my custom product controller.

public ActionResult Index()

ViewBag.CurrentPageUrl = this.GetCurrentPageUrl();

return View("Default");

public ActionResult Details(Product productItem)

var viewModel = service.CreateProductDetailsViewModel(productItem);

var page = this.HttpContext.CurrentHandler.GetPageHandler();

this.ProductTitle = productItem.Title;

this.AddCanonicalUrlTagIfEnabled(page, productItem);

page.RegisterBreadcrumbExtender(this);

return View(viewModel);

public IEnumerable<SiteMapNode> GetVirtualNodes(SiteMapProvider provider)

return new List<SiteMapNode>() new SiteMapNode(provider, "customBreadcrumbKey", "~/url", this.ProductTitle) ;

Posted by Community Admin on 05-May-2016 00:00

Through some help on Google+ (thanks Vesselin) It turns out the issue is that my breadbrumb initializes before the custom controller. What I have done is to create a new widget to be dropped above the breadcrumb.

Here is a working example:

[ControllerToolboxItem(Name = "ProductBreadcrumbExtender", Title = "Product Breadcrumb Extender", SectionName = "MvcWidgets")]

public class ProductBreadcrumbController : Controller, IBreadcrumExtender

#region Properties

public string ProductTitle get; set;

#endregion

#region Actions

public void Details(Product productItem)

this.ProductTitle = productItem.Title;

var page = this.HttpContext.CurrentHandler.GetPageHandler();

page.RegisterBreadcrumbExtender(this);

public IEnumerable<SiteMapNode> GetVirtualNodes(SiteMapProvider provider)

return new List<System.Web.SiteMapNode>() new System.Web.SiteMapNode(provider, "customBreadcrumbKey", "~/url", this.ProductTitle) ;

#endregion

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