Add a nav item fieldtype

[dadaxr]

there is already an "nav fieldtype" but it can only select a nav... not a nav item.

Why doing that ?

Because ... it could be useful for building complexe breadcrumbs where there is no correlation between the entry url and the displayed breadcrumb.

A use case : imagine a "tips" collection where for seo reasons, all entry slugs are just behind the /tips/ url
ie :
/tips/cooking-tip
/tips/whatever
/tips/how-to-cook-with-children

But on some entry (ie : how-to-cook-with-children) I want to be able to replicate a hierarchy which does not exist in the url.

breadcrumb like :
tips > cooking-tip > how-to-cook-with-children

If I could map an entry to a nav Item, I could rebuild a dedicated nav for breacrumbs and be totally free of the url structure.

What do you think ?

[jackmcdade]

You should be able to do that already with the Entries fieldtype, assuming those are all entries you're linking to.

[dadaxr]

The problem is not linking an entry to another entry, It's linking it to a nav item... The super power of nav & nav items, is their flexibility in ordering & nesting unrelated things. So it can be perfect for building custom breadcrumbs

Actually, I could create a custom ordered collection "Breadrumbs" and ... indeed use entries field type, but my point here is it's purely a nav "topic" ... not really a collection "one".