Breadcrumb navigation

Breadcrumb bar is a control helps with the drill-down navigation of hierarchy charts. This tutorial looks at how we can configure it.

Adding

Breadcrumb control is instantiated via BreadcrumbBar class’s new() method.

Like any other element or control, we can just add to the main chart’s container.

Since we want control to appear on top, we are going to use unshift() method rather than push() which would make it appear on the bottom.

TypeScript

container.children.unshift(
  am5hierarchy.BreadcrumbBar.new(root, {
    series: series
  })
);

JavaScript

container.children.unshift(
  am5hierarchy.BreadcrumbBar.new(root, {
    series: series
  })
);

Relation to series

Breadcrumb control needs an actual hierarchy series to work.

It will use its active node to display current selection, as well as the whole path (breadcrumbs) from the very top.

As per code snipped above, we supply series to control using its series setting.

Links

Configuring links

To configure links in the path, we can use breadcrumb bar’s labels.template.

It accepts any Label setting.

TypeScript

let nav = container.children.unshift(
  am5hierarchy.BreadcrumbBar.new(root, {
    series: series
  })
);

// Normal links
nav.labels.template.setAll({
  fontSize: 20,
  fill: am5.color(0x888888)
});

// Apply color on hover
nav.labels.template.states.create("hover", {
  fill: am5.color(0xff8888)
});

// Apply color on press down
nav.labels.template.states.create("down", {
  fill: am5.color(0x88ff88)
});

JavaScript

var nav = container.children.unshift(
  am5hierarchy.BreadcrumbBar.new(root, {
    series: series
  })
);

// Normal links
nav.labels.template.setAll({
  fontSize: 20,
  fill: am5.color(0x888888)
});

// Apply color on hover
nav.labels.template.states.create("hover", {
  fill: am5.color(0xff8888)
});

// Apply color on press down
nav.labels.template.states.create("down", {
  fill: am5.color(0x88ff88)
});

Handling events

We can also attach event handlers to links via their template:

TypeScript

let nav = container.children.unshift(
  am5hierarchy.BreadcrumbBar.new(root, {
    series: series
  })
);

nav.labels.template.events.on("click", function(ev) {
  console.log(ev.target.dataItem);
});

JavaScript

var nav = container.children.unshift(
  am5hierarchy.BreadcrumbBar.new(root, {
    series: series
  })
);

nav.labels.template.events.on("click", function(ev) {
  console.log(ev.target.dataItem);
});