Category in Breadcrumb on Product Detail Page

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6 years ago
Hello NopCommerce Team,

Recently while working with nopCommerce and trying to bind multiple categories to a product in nopCommerce we saw something which we thought was unusual behavior. So, we got in to code and found that it has been coded that way and there was nothing wrong in this but it have a chance for improvement so I am writing suggestions from our team below along with what we found.

Findings: When a product in nopCommerce is mapped with multiple categories, then it can be accessed using those categories from menu. However, when you open any product detail page by clicking on product on catalog page that has been mapped with multiple categories then it shows only same category name every time in Breadcrumb despite from which category it is being accessed.

For example, I have a product named "Apple iPhone X" and it is mapped with categories such as "Electronics", "Smart Phones", "iPhone", "New Phones".
When you click on product to view its detail page from "Electronics" catalog page, the breadcrumb for example is "Electronics" and when you click on product again from "Smart Phones" catalog page, the breadcrumb is again "Electronics" instead of it should be "Smart Phones" this time.

This is due to, it takes only first category with highest order from all categories to which product is mapped.

Suggestion: This can be modified for a non-confusing user behavior because this normally confuses users to go back to category from where they came to product detail page. Instead of taking only highest order category name every time, it should take the identification of category from which it was called.

I hope this small suggestion would make nopCommerce much user friendly in future and if this feature is accepted by nopCommerce Team, I would love to see it in next release.

Thank you,
Atul
6 years ago
This has been mentioned before - e.g.
https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/21352/fixed-breadcrumb-and-left-navigation-for-product-in-multiple-categories.aspx
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