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8/10/2010 2:24 PM
 
I just updated to the newest version of the shopping cart. We used to have static links to all of our individual categories but now the url never changes when you click on a category. Is there any way I can link to specific categories?
 
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8/10/2010 2:27 PM
 

I'm assuming that you want to filter products by category on the product listing page by passing the category id in the querystring? please confirm. Also if you can post one of your links so I can see the syntax of your querystring.

-Scott


Scott Kelly
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DotNetNuke Consulting, DotNetNuke Store and DNN Ecommerce
 
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8/10/2010 2:38 PM
 
I'm not 100% sure on what you mean. Here was our scenario. We have the buy now module on a page here https://www.yandasmpa.com/storefront.aspx. If you go to the sites home, you will see there are pages for band, guitar, lighting etc. We also have corresponding categories. It used to be, when you clicked on one of those categories from the menu, it would go to a page that was like https://www.yandasmpa.com/Storefront/tabid/99/categoryid/43/Electric%20Guitars/Default.aspx etc. Each one of those categories you clicked on would generate a unique url. I would then go back to the specific page and paste that url in to link to the specific category page. While these links still work fine, I'm wondering if there is a way I can find them because now when I click on any category, the url stays at yandasmpa.com/storefront.aspx. Does that make sense?
 
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8/10/2010 2:54 PM
 

From the store admin menu click the manage categories button and enter a keyword in the "URL Keyword" field and save. If you have a url keyword for each of your categories then the cart will rewrite the url with the keyword in the url and give you a unique url for each category that you then can link to from another page in your portal. If you dont have a url keyword defined for a category the cart just does an inter module communcation to the buynow module to filter the products so there is no postback.

-Scott


Scott Kelly
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DotNetNuke Consulting, DotNetNuke Store and DNN Ecommerce
 
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8/10/2010 3:07 PM
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Thanks for the info, that's a nice tip to know.
 
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