Feature taken out - Breadcrumbs

Often times we encountered this situation, we might have heavily trained our business users on certain Dynamics features and one fine day Microsoft decided to deprecate/retire that feature. The reason maybe due to technical roadmap, incompatibility, or a better universal adoptability, etc

In a nutshell, we have to find an alternate solution in a quicker sprint and test our user pulse before too much noise, surprises, adoption failures or we will be in a position of unable to find an alternative before the feature retires.

Lets take an example, BREADCRUMBS on top banner was removed after 2020 release wave 2 - Improved header/sitemap. 

The reason stated in MS release notes as is: "The header breadcrumb has been removed to align with Office header styling and to make space for the upcoming app search box in the header. To support this navigation change and help users with navigation discovery, page back buttons have been added to the main page types of Form, View, and Dashboard."

Good that we got back buttons to navigate easy, still if a user has to land back to grand parent from within a navigated child or grand child record - it will be tedious and need multiple clicks.

On a contrast side, the real estate needed for the global search experience in that space is crucial though. This was introduced in that same 2020 release wave 2 - Improved global search

Sometimes business will ask for seamless feature, in this case we have to develop the breadcrumb and keep it inside the entity form using web resource or PCF control.

Couple of Stack overflow pushed me to start this series. The origin of this blogpost is here.

Do you have some feature which you or users miss and how did you manage?

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