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Thomas Schroll
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Posted on 20/10/2015 13:49:02

Hi

I have a setup, where I need to segment products into two primary groups, each with its own 'frontpage':

  • Frontpage
    • Group 1 (layout from page eg. sub front page)
      • Sub group 1
      • Sub group 2
      • ...
      • Sub group N
    • Group 1 (layout from page eg. sub front page)
      • Sub group 1
      • Sub group 2
      • ...
      • Sub group N

The only way I know how to do this is to have 2 subpages (Group 1 and Group 2) each with a subpage with ecom navigation. I have two issuess with this approach, though:

  1. I cannot avoid having both subpage and ecom group in all paths
  2. On some (or all?) products the 'Ecom:VariantCombination.Page.ID' is showing the page id from the other 'branch' of the navigation

Does anybody know of a better setup, where I only use the ecom structure, with only one ecom navigation or does anybody know how to solve the 2 issues?

Regards Thomas


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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 20/10/2015 16:46:35
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Ho Thomas

@1: You cannot avoid to have a URL like /Pagename/Groupname - Dynamicweb needs a page to show the products on, so you would never be able to get rid of /Pagename part. Or maybe I do not understand your full navigation structure...

@2: I think you need to take a look at the "Show on page" setting in the bottom of the paragraph settings on the product catalog.

You can provide a link if you want me to take a closer look at the implementation.

 
Thomas Schroll
Posted on 21/10/2015 09:23:29
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Thanks Nicolai.

The more I think about it, making language areas might be the best approach. You are welcome to take a look at http://alflow.net.dynamicweb-cms.com/. It is based on the solutionset.

@1: I thought so. A solution could be to change the direct path settings to not show folders?

@2: The problem was a wrong link in "Show on page"

Regards Thomas

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 21/10/2015 13:11:55
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Hi Thomas

Moving to seperate websites will not solve it - you will always need a /page/groupname structure in the URL....

BR Nicolai

 
Thomas Schroll
Posted on 21/10/2015 13:22:08
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Hi Nicolai

I understand. I will try to change the custom url setup to exclude group names. Moving to seperate websites will solve some other problems I have with the setup.

Thanks

Regards Thomas

 

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