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.
Path
component onto the top of the page in the visual designer.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.
folderslist
ItemsGrid
component) and click Finish.This step adds the component to the visual designer, where you can select it and configure attributes in the Properties view.
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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