When I open a page from another website from a content item included on a content page, a breadcrumb bar remains above the main content frame (which also includes an icon to open the course menu in a separate window). However, when I do the same thing from the course tools area it opens without a breadcrumb bar. Is this working as intended or is there are some way of opening a page from another site via a course tool whilst still retaining a breadcrumb bar to allow users to easily navigate back to the course?
By way of further background, the same code is being used in both contexts. A page of type bbNG:learningSystemPage is generated containing a form which is then auto-submitted via JavaScript to redirect users to a separate site. My testing has been with 9.0.505.0.
Are there any Learn 9 specific (i.e. using only the bbNG tab library) example Building Blocks available which illustrate a course tool and a content handler? It would be interesting to see if I get the same behaviour if I were to adapt them to open an external web page.
Thanks in advance.
I believe there is an open enhancement request in to specify a flag to do this directly in the URL. Right now, the breadcrumb bar that you speak of is actually a frame that inserts itself between the top navigation and content area of the page. You'll note that its URL is /webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapperItem.jsp?course_id=XX&content_id=YY... - perhaps it would be possible to set the external URL for the content item and point the link to this URL to mimic the way the core product behaves?