Breadcrumb and flyout on custom master page

Question

I have a master page that I wrote from scratch and applied through the Design Manager to one of my site collections. I would like to add the 2010-style breadcrumb and/or navigate-up flyout button in to this page, but the ms-breadcrumb term does not exist (nor does anything similar) and when I add the snippet for the breadcrumb it only displays site structure and not library/folder like the 2010 version did. (Both methods are referenced here)

Is there a solution to one or both of these behaviors? Do I need to add more than just the snippet since I am using a 100% custom master page?

Answer 1

It seems the reference term has changed in 2013.

You can add the breadcrumbs in 2013 by adding the following snippet to your master page:

<!--MS:<asp:sitemappath runat="server" sitemapproviders="SPSiteMapProvider,SPXmlContentMapProvider" rendercurrentnodeaslink="false" hideinteriorrootnodes="true">-->
<!--ME:</asp:sitemappath>-->

Source http://blog.amtopm.be/2013/01/04/sp2013-adding-breadcrumbs/

Answer 2

You can accomplish this in a few different ways. First, you can unhide the control in the master page itself, see my blog post about that: http://www.sharepointjohn.com/sharepoint-2013-restore-breadcrumb-navigate-up-navigation/. Basically you find this code in the master page and remove the display:none style from the parent and visible=false attribute on the control:

<div class="ms-breadcrumb-dropdownBox" style="display:none;">
<SharePoint:AjaxDelta id="DeltaBreadcrumbDropdown" runat="server">
    <SharePoint:PopoutMenu
        Visible="false"
        runat="server"

Also mentioned in that blog post is how to restore the breadcrumb control with backend code. I have also packaged up that solution here: http://www.sharepointjohn.com/sharepoint-2013-restore-breadcrumb-navigate-up-navigation-part-2/. You can just deploy the solution to your farm, activate the feature, and voila, your breadcrumb is there.