Breadcrumb trail does not reflect the TOC path

[ScanJourWriter]

In the help project I am currently working in, I have 3 TOC entries pointing to the same topic.

For some reason the breadcrumb trail only reflects 1 out of three TOC entries, regardless of how I navigate to the topic via the TOC.

Any clues?

[i-tietz]

The topic is there only once. How is the browser supposed to know in which context you opened it?

And even if the context will be included one day (https://www.madcapsoftware.com/feedback/bugs.aspx): What if the topic is opened via index or search? What's the context then?

SO:
Use three different topics and a snippet that you insert into each of them.

[NorthEast]

The breadcrumbs trail shows the topic location in the TOC, rather than your navigation history to that topic.

As the breadcrumb trail is generated during the build, it isn't 'dynamic' and can only show one path.
It's sort of logical that it only has one path; for example, if you arrive at a topic from the search, would you expect it to show 3 different breadcrumb trails?

Anyway, if you have duplicate topics, the usual way to handle them is to create an individual topic for each 'copy' in your TOC, and in each topic you insert a snippet that contains the topic content. That means you only need to edit the snippet to update each topic.

[ScanJourWriter]

Thank you both. I see your points.

I will go for the snippet solution to support single sourcing