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?
Hi Stephen,
Were you able to figure this out? I would like to actually display not just the breadcrumbs, but also the course menu side by side with the external page. Would be nice if there was some way to do that.
Sorry, I've not yet tried this out.