Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Creating breadcrumb using the view and custom model

In the previous recipe, you learned creating a simple menu using a view with the default RenderingModel. In this recipe, we will create breadcrumb using a view and custom model.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will use the same layout and items created in the previous recipes.

How to do it…

We will first create two classes: a simple BreadcrumbItem and BreadcrumbList. Here, BreadcrumbList will contain a list of BreadcrumbItem objects.

1. In the SitecoreCookbook project, create a BreadcrumbItem class in the Models folder. This class will contain properties useful to render breadcrumb items. We inherited this class from Sitecore.Data.Items.CustomItem to implement custom items:

   public class BreadcrumbItem ...