GlobalSettings CalcProductCountForGroup element not renaming itself

Arnór Halldórsson

Posted on 14/09/2020 18:44:47

Hola amigos,

I noticed when upgrading some clients from sub 9.7 versions to 9.8.10 that the GlobalSettings element /Globalsettings/Ecom/Navigation/CalcProductCount doesn't get renamed to it's newer version /Globalsettings/Ecom/Navigation/CalculateProductCountForGroup causing the ProductCount property on Groups to return 0.

I changed it manually in the GlobalSettings file for those solutions so It's not a world breaking issue, I just wanted to let you know.

Best regards,
Arnór Geir

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Nicolai Pedersen

Posted on 15/09/2020 09:00:31

Hi Arnor

It is actually on purpose and you can see the change on the 9.7 list of changes: https://doc.dynamicweb.com/downloads/releases/release-notes/dw-9-7-release-notes

The reason is that it used to be default setting and it causes a huge performance loss when rendering the frontend navigation, so we decided to disable it on all solutions and then you have to enable it again if needed. Most solutions do not need it and the rest should not use it, and only if there are few products on the solution.

BR Nicolai

Arnór Halldórsson

Posted on 15/09/2020 16:47:04

Hi Nicolai,

In that case it makes sense :) Though the element wasn't set to false, it was still set to true, but the name of the element itself hadn't updated, yielding the same result though as if it were set to false.

But there are still various other Product count properties on the Group object like ProductCountForBackendTree and ProductsByLanguageWithOutVariantsCount... Don't they cause the same performance issues? From what I can see, ProductCount simply returns ProductsByLanguageWithOutVariantsCount (see image).

Best regards,
Arnór

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