Surge Migrate

Foundation Breadcrumb to the Breadcrumb Core Component

Shows the page's position in the site hierarchy. Adobe lists the Breadcrumb Core Component as the replacement for the Foundation Breadcrumb component, which are deprecated in AEM 6.5.

What changes

  • Start level and whether to show hidden or the current page are set in the component's policy or dialog.

How to migrate

  1. Create a proxy of the Breadcrumb Core Component in your project under /apps and point templates and policies at it, so future Core Component versions are a one-line change.
  2. Configure the template policy (allowed options, styles) to match what authors could do before.
  3. Write a conversion rule that maps existing Foundation content to the new component's properties; Adobe's AEM Modernization Tools apply such rules to content in bulk.
  4. Run the conversion on a copy of production content, compare rendered pages side by side, then let authors test editing.

Sources: Adobe: Developing Core Components (component list); Adobe: Foundation Components (AEM 6.5). Checked 20 October 2026.