How to Add Context with History and Breadcrumbs

When publishing your Zingtrees, you can show people using your workflow the path they took to get to the current node. This takes two forms:

  • History: Shows an expandable Q&A transcript of the path through your workflow. It looks like this:You can view any data collected at each step as well by clicking the Data Entry view button:
     
  • Breadcrumbs: Shows a trail of all the nodes visited to get to the current place in the workflow. You'll see something like this at the top of every node:


You can add History or Breadcrumbs via the Settings tool. Just go to the Display tab, and tick Show History or Show Breadcrumbs.

Advanced Stuff: Modifying URLs Directly

You can also modify the URL for your published workflows to add history or breadcrumbs.

For hosted workflows:

Add &show_history=1 or &show_breadcrumbs=1 to the URL for the workflow.

For embedded workflows:

Add &embed_history=1 or &embed_breadcrumbs=1 to the iFrame URL.

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