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Build a link how - as in search friendly, or the link to the product?

In the products loop in the grouplist, you have template tags containing the detail link:
ie: or - the latter containing the product ID and Group ID
http://templates.dynamicweb-cms.com/eCommerce/Dynamicweb-eCommerce-template-tags/Product-Catalog/Product-list/Loops/Products.aspx

If you are talking about SEO urls, see management center, Web and HTTP, searchfriendly URLs. See attached dump.

I want to build a link to a certain product. Not in the form: http://www.producent.de/Default.aspx?id=15904&productID=PROD2007, but more like http://www.producent.de/Power_-_Control_Technology/Diesel_Control_Technology/Products/Plant_management.aspx?ProductID=PROD2007. Fx The product with the ID, PROD2007 is represented in 4 groups, that have different URLs. Is it possible for me to generate the pretty url from the groupID and productID, in some way?

In the product list use the tag @Ecom:Product.LinkGroup.Clean and enable the search friendly url as mentioned in my previous post.

Then you get URLs like /Products/GroupName.aspx, /Products/GroupName/ProductName.aspx and /Products/GroupName/ProductName/VariantName.aspx

If the product is located in several groups, it has several URLs - a problem, I know. A feature is coming up to fix that.

Okay. So there is not a standard way of doing this. Anyway. I am doing all this programmatically, so I can not even use the @Ecom tags. Is there a way for me to construct them by myself?

It is a standard way...

If you generate a link like Default.aspx?ID=123&GroupID=GROUP1&ProductID=PROD123 and output that to the system, Dynamicweb will automatically change that url to the search friendly version before delivering the HTML to the browser - if it is enabled of course.

Strange. I have enabled that, and it still does not work :( But you mentioned that it would not work if the product was in 2 or more groups. Maybe that is why.

A product can be in 2 groups - giving it 2 urls. It works, but there is the possible Duplicate Content issue...

If it does not work, something else is wrong.

Can you post a URL?

Hello

Here is the URL: http://www.deif.com/Default.aspx?id=15904&productID=PROD2070&groupID=GROUP883 but what they really want is this: http://www.deif.com/Power_-_Control_Technology/Diesel_Control_Technology/Products/AMF.aspx?ProductID=PROD2070. This URL clearly shows the structure of the eCom.

Hi Martin...

Yes - then enable it in management center. Attached a screendump of the settings on deif.com - simply set the 2 checkboxes as statet above in the other screendump.

Strange. These two settings is set in our backend.

You have NOT set the settings. Please read the text in the screendumps.

See my new attachments. Now with the settings highlighted that should be set, which they are not.

Oooh. Sorry. I looked at the wrong screenshot: http://developer.dynamicweb-cms.com/Files/Filer/Forum/Upload/Thread27094/Message27115/Capture.JPG and not http://developer.dynamicweb-cms.com/Files/Filer/Forum/Upload/Thread27094/Message27096/Capture.JPG. I will try to turn them on.

I know that you are a Dynamicweb guru. I am not. I can not get hold of our Dynamicweb guy at the company, but I am eager to test this. Do you know if this breaks anything eg. is the this change invertible?

It is not invertible - and it will not break things. Just turn it on and test.

If it does not work as you want, just turn it off again...

I have updated the settings, but when I try to visit this link, it does not show the pretty url: http://www.deif.com/Default.aspx?id=15904&ProductID=PROD1400&GroupID=GROUP907. Could it be that deif.com has a complicated setup (I am a backender at my firm so I do not know what setup our frontenders have picked), but could a certain setup smash this?

See attached. Could it maybe be because of my url type settings?

Call service desk and have them help you...