Display tooltips on work item breadcrumbs to improve wayfinding and educate on group hierarchy
Challenge
It isn't inherently obvious if the user is in a group, subgroup, or project just by viewing the breadcrumbs with a work item like an issue, epic, or MR. The symbol and number indicating the work item number and type could also use better reenforcement as to what the object is.
Proposal
Update Group, Sub-group, Project and Work item number breadcrumbs across GitLab:
- Add a tooltip to the
Groupbreadcrumb: "Group name group" - Add a tooltip to the
Sub-groupbreadcrumb: "Sub-group name sub-group" - Add a tooltip to the
Projectbreadcrumb: "Project name project" - Add a tooltip to the
Work item numberbreadcrumb: "Work item title"
We should also update the tooltip appearing in the left navigation to reenforce whether the user is in a group, sub-group, or project.
- Add a tooltip to the
Groupnavigation item: "Group name group" - Add a tooltip to the
Sub-groupnavigation item:: "Sub-group name sub-group" - Add a tooltip to the
Projectnavigation item:: "Project name project"
For example, an issue could look like this:

Edited by Alexis Ginsberg