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You probably want to use Notifications.Ecommerce.Product.BeforeRender and check if it is a product list or product detail page that is being rendered (If ?ProductID=XX)

You can then make a field on the product to choose which product should be redirect to.

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai,

This notifier is not hit when a product is deactivated. Do you have any other hints? :-)

Best regards, Anders

Would Dynamicweb.Notifications.Ecommerce.Product.AfterSave be of use? You can see if the product us deactivated there and create a redirect.

@Anders: Because you use 404 on deactivated products? Then you need to go with Imars suggestion.... Or we need to add a BeforeBeforeRender notification - or a product not found notification with a cause...

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai & Imar,

For some products I need to have 404, and for the deactivated product it needs to be controlled runtime as it can vary as it depends on the active assortment...

@Nicolai: yes, we have activated 404 of deactivted products. Should we twist this and do the redirect our self for inactive products?

Best regards, Anders

Any thoughts on how to solve this one? :-)

Hi,

we tried the BeforeRender notification without success.

Finally, we did it following these steps:

1. Disable the DontAllowLinksToProductIfNotActive setting
2. Create a new custom field for products ("InactiveLink"). This way, when a product is inactive, the page will be redirected to this link, or to a 404 if this link is not defined.
3. Modificate the Product.cshtml template. This is the code we inserted:

@{
   if(!@GetBoolean("Ecom:Product.IsActive")  ) {
       string altProduct = "";
       if (Loops.Contains("CustomFields")) {
           foreach (LoopItem item in GetLoop("CustomFields")) {
              altProduct = @item.GetString("InactiveLink.Value");
           }
       }
       if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(altProduct)) {
          HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect("~/default.aspx?id="+GetGlobalValue("Global:Page.ID")+"&productid="+altProduct);
       }
       else{
           HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect("~/product-not-found");
       }       
   }
}

Regards,
Tom