Description
The trail does not show the last pages you visited, but the last pages in the trail file - and the trail file is not kept updated in all cases.
Steps to reproduce
- login as registered user and activate "show trail"
- visit 4 different pages to fill the trail
- deactivate "show trail"
- visit 4 other different pages to fill the trail with new pages
- activate "show trail"
- You get the trail from step 2, instead your last visited pages
Details
Release 1.3.3
Workaround
Discussion
The user trail is not updated if the user "show trail" is not activated. So each time the trail is activated, the displayed trail might be wrong. The current setup works as "keep and show trail".
We can solve this in two ways:
- Delete or empty the trail file when deactivating "show trail", so the displayed trail will be empty on next activation, which is more correct then wrong list of pages.
- Keep the trail updated ignoring the "show trail" setting, then "show trail" is always correct.
This seems to be the best fix, as it will solve also ../RememberLastPageVisited.
This problem usually does not effect users, as users do not activate and deactivate "show trail" many times, but keep the default setting or select favorite setting once.
The only bug in there is that "show trail" should rather have been "use trail", so I don't consider that as a real bug. -- ThomasWaldmann 2005-02-12 20:36:04
If we treat this as "Keep and Show Trail", so when its deactivated we do NOT keep the trail, we must empty the trail when you deactivate that feature. If we don't do that, the trail displayed on the first use is wrong and confusing. It a small bug but also an easy fix. -- NirSoffer 2005-02-12 20:42:50
This is a real bug, if small. This bug is also the source to ../RememberLastPageVisited. If we can't fix it now becuase there are more important bugs, then schedule it to later release. Making this a NoBug does not solve any problem. -- NirSoffer 2005-03-06 22:30:18
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Status: trail handling was revamped, if that bug still remains it is too small to worry about. -- JohannesBerg 2008-03-18 19:23:49