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Hi Grant,

We could only accomplished it by creating Pages for each top level category.

The URL Provider needs a Page in the definition. If you don't have PageID, you cannot navigate.

If you have a lot of top level categories, it's gonna be a lot of work involved.

See if it worths the effort

Adrian

Hi Adrian,

Can you explain how a little more how this would work with pages? We have at present only 4 top levels.

Thanks!

Hi Grant,

I assume you have right now a Page called "produkter" with setting for ecom navigation and a paragraph with a ProductCatalog module.

And in the eCommerce section you have a shop that has 4 top level categories, each of those categories having their own subcategories.

The setup will equire you to have the second level categories in the ecommerce section, moved to top lelev (get rid of the top level categories from ecommerce because they will be replaced with Pages). 

Now, in the content section, duplicate the existing "produkter" page in order to create a page for each Top Level category.

Change the settings in the ecom Navigation to onlyinclude the corresponsing subcategories.

Change the setting on the product catalog to include only the corresponding subcategories.

That's it

It's a bit harder to maintain in case you have a lot of dynamics of the categories and subcategories because you will have to manually update the ecom navigation and product catalog everytime oyou have changes.

But so far this was the only solution I could find to get rid of the page name from the friendly URL.

Please let me know if you need other clarifications.

Adrian

Ok, I think I'm with you now. Thanks for the explanation! :)
I don't see this as a viable solution as we have a custom solution that is synked with our business software. There are also alot of second level groups and we may be moving around from time to time.

Is there no way to use IIS and the URL Rewrite module?

I could not manage to make it work with IIS URL Rewrite. But I am no expert :)

My feeling is that somehow you need to tell the system the page identification.

But if you find a friendlier solution for this, please share it :)

Thanks,

Adrian

Ok Adrian!

Thanks for your input and time!

I may do some testing with your proposed solution although I feel there must be a "simpler" method ...

There are no simple way at this time. Best option is to leave it in - it does not harm anyone, and if anyone says it do, make them PROVE it!

Hi Nicolai,

Thanks for your reply!

Yes, I am of the same opinion that it does no harm. We are however after the shortest URLs possible so wanted to see if there was a way to achieve this :)

So the question here is, how can this be acheived? You say that there is no simple way at this time, so what is the hard way? :)

Thanks for your reply!