Obtaining bread crumb path for a product for use in datafeed

[jmestep]

I'm working on re-doing a datafeed I had for an Able 5 store and want to use the bread crumb path to the product as the feed field category. Like Paintball > Paintball Guns > Spyder
I've been working with code I snagged from a bread crumb trail, but I need to have it show only one category path if the product is in more than one. How would I do that in this code, or would there be a better way to construct it?

{ List<CatalogPathNode> path = CatalogDataSource.GetPath(productCategoryId, false);
category = "";
for (int i = path.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
{
category = path.Name + " > ";

}
Thanks

[mazhar]

What about picking the first category and generating bread crumbs using that

[mazhar]

For example

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[code]
Product product = ProductDataSource.Load(167);
        List<CatalogPathNode> pathNodeList = CatalogDataSource.GetPath(product.Categories[0], false);
        StringBuilder breadCrumbs = new StringBuilder();
        foreach (CatalogPathNode cpn in pathNodeList)
            breadCrumbs.Append(cpn.Name+">");
        if(breadCrumbs.Length > 0)
            breadCrumbs.Remove((breadCrumbs.Length - 1), 1);
        Response.Write(breadCrumbs.ToString());

[/code]

[jmestep]

Thank you, that's just what I was trying to do. I just couldn't figure out how to get the first category.

[bobr2k]

I love watching you guys work - even if I don't understand all of it

[draneb]

Hello,

Instead of using the entire breadcrumb path, how could you get it to display just the category or sub category that the item is in?

Thank you for your help!

[jmestep]

Try something like pathNodeList.RemoveRange(0,1);
before the
StringBuilder breadCrumbs = new StringBuilder();

I haven't tested it lately, though.