How to disable hiding (ellipsing) of breadcrumbs
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Purpose
To disable the hidden (eclipsing) breadcrumbs trails in Confluence navigation.
Ellipsing enabled
Ellipsing disabled
Solution
This is customization to Confluence and as such is considered a 'use at your risk' operation by Atlassian.
Create a backup of <Confluence install directory>/Confluence/breadcrumbs.vm before enacting the following steps.
Open the velocity template found at <Confluence install directory>/Confluence/breadcrumbs.vm in a text editor
Alter the following line line from
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#foreach( $breadcrumb in $breadcrumbs )
#if ($ellipsisCrumbs.contains($breadcrumb))
#set ($breadcrumbHidden = true)
...to the following
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#foreach( $breadcrumb in $breadcrumbs )
#if (false)
#set ($breadcrumbHidden = true)
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