Hello

I am using version 4.92 of Smith cart and 6.1.1 of DNN

I have a catalogue off nearly 2000 products, I have temporarily given every category in the system a unique category keyword made up of the word text and the id of the category i.e. text3

According to the url restrictions these should be fine as url keywords.

I am using humanfriendly urls configured in the web.config and this is successfully working for pages i.e. products.aspx or home.aspx

I have set the buynow module in the category menu settings as well as collapse all on load. 

Currently the products have NO SEO urls as i am starting with categories

When I add this text to the category keywords section the urls are rewritten as follows http://sitename/Products/tabid/85/categoryid/1/Text1/Default.aspx this initially looks wrong as according to your demo it should be like http://www12.smith-consulting.com/Hom... i.e. the tabid/85/ and default.aspx. are not removed. I would also envisage the url should look like http://sitename/Products/categoryid/1/Text1.aspx if following the same approach as http://www12.smith-consulting.com/PD/...

I then try and use the  http://sitename/Products/tabid/85/categoryid/1/Text1/Default.aspx and these seem to work for the top level menu items but the category menu module will not expand to show child items.

Can you please supply any help on how i can resolve the issue or let me know if there is any other info you require.

Cheers 

Marcus

Hi Kevin

Thanks for your prompt reply as always.

You have provided an explanation for the url rewriting however i am still in the dark on why when i use category keywords it disables the user from using the category menu module properly.
For example take the following menu:

Root 1
- Sub 1
- Sub 2
Root 2
- Sub 3
- Sub 4

If i insert category keywords for Root 2, which i click on Root 2 in the category menu it changes the buy now module correctly but does not expand the category menu so i can't see Sub 3 and Sub 4 on page reload and therefore i cannot get to the sub categories.

Any ideas on what might be causing this?

Cheers Marcus

 

Hi Kevin

That's correct.  but only for those that have category keywords enabled.

I have a products page which has the category menu in a left column and the buynow module on the right so fairly simple setup.

 

On a secondary note i sent some items through to the contact form what is the best way to report these? 

 

Cheers Marcus

Hi Kevin

I have done some digging, basically the error seems to be introduced after upgrading from an earlier version of Smith Cart (not sure which versions cause the issue).

I had a working test site from a while back it was version 4.57. I verified that the menu was working and expanding and then did an upgrade to 4.92 and the error with the categories appeared, i then upgraded again to 4.93 to see if it was fixed in this version and the issue remained.

My best guess at present is a dll not getting overwritten, different database schema ( i notice a products2 table appears) or something else that is left over from an old version causing the issue.

Any thoughts on how to solve besides doing a fresh install on a new dnn and migrating the current site?

Cheers Marcus

Hi Kevin

Still the same issue on new items,

http://centralsd.c9solutions.com.au/P... will be accessible for a bit see the bottom Test in the category menu on the left.

The Test category is setup like this:

Test - No Category Keywords

    SubTest - Category Keyword enabled

         SubSubTest - Category Keyword enabled

DB Category Table which i can't see anything out of the ordinary.