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Writing my own Navigation Provider

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Anders Ebdrup
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Posted on 25/10/2015 10:37:30

Hi,

I have to make some changes to the current AssortmentNavigationProvider but I am facing some issues with internal methods - e.g.:

  • UrlProviders.Handler.Initialize()
  • eCommerce.Products.Product.CheckShowProductSettings(product)
  • AssortmentPermission.HasAccessToProduct(product)

can these methods be made public so it will be easier to make a custom implementation?

And/or make some methods virtual in the AssortmentNavigationProvider?

  • GetAssortmentsAllowedGroups
  • GetAssortmentsDeniedGroups
  • IsChildDeniedGroup
  • GetChildDeniedGroups

Best regards, Anders


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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 29/10/2015 14:55:15
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Hi Anders

You can take the code from TFS and build it into your own provider. These are not public since they are an implementation in it self and we do not want to make these publically available because we might need to change it in future versions. As you know, this specific features has undergone some changes and to avoid issues with compatibility it is not good to expose them...

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Nicolai

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Anders Ebdrup
Posted on 08/11/2015 20:40:04
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Hi Nicolai,

 

It's okay, I just wanted to ask to make these custom implementations easier.

What does this function do: UrlProviders.Handler.Initialize()

Should I do anything special to initialize this?

 

Best regards, Anders

 
Anders Ebdrup
Posted on 25/11/2015 00:00:32
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Hi Nicolai,

 

It seems that the standard "AssortmentNavigationProvider" is called even though I have my own implementation of this - is this intended behaviour?

 

Best regards, Anders

 
Anders Ebdrup
Posted on 02/12/2015 16:17:22
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Hi Nicolai,

 

We have some serious performance issues with the current assortment navigation provider - will it be possible to let the default assortment navigation provider listen to this settings from GlobalSettings.aspx: "UseOnlyCustomNavigationProvider" and not be used then this is set to "true"?

 

Best regards, Anders

 
Jonas Krarup Dam
Posted on 03/12/2015 13:36:50
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Hi Anders,

In the hotfix that we have released today, we have included a new, simpler assortment navigation provider, which is significantly faster than the previous implementation. This is mostly because it only look at the location of products, not at prices, stock status, etc. 

You might want to take a look at that.

If you are still having problems, let me know, and we'll look into adding this check to the code.

Regards, Jonas

 
Anders Ebdrup
Posted on 06/12/2015 11:56:45
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Hi Jonas,

 

We will still need the current AssortmentProvider to be controlled from the setting as we have performance issues with just three concurrent users with the current implementation.

 

Best regards, Anders

 
Jonas Krarup Dam
Posted on 07/12/2015 10:15:38
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Hi Anders,

In the latest version, you can select which navigation provider to use, under page settings:

 

It seems like that's what you need, isn't it?

any non-selected providers will be ignored.

 

Regards, Jonas

 

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