Multiple product catalog lists on the same page

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 23/12/2013 20:57:54

Hi there,

I have a page that shows three lists of products, each with their own Product Catalog module on a paragraph: a set coming from a group, and two sets coming from a smart search. However, it seems that the second and third set don't display their own data, but display the products from the first product catalog.

How can I enforce each catalog module to render its own products?

Imar

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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 24/12/2013 00:08:26

Hi Imar

Sounds weird. Do you have the checkbox "Enable display caching" set?

Try disabling it. It could be a bug that caches on the page id and not the paragraph instance...

BR Nicolai

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 24/12/2013 00:16:54

Nope, display caching is turned off. Here's a link to the site in case you want to take a look:

This works fine as groups are rendered on the main ecom catalog: http://scooter.dw-demo.com/products

This one doesn't and shows the same set three times: http://scooter.dw-demo.com/products/mobile-workstations

Imar

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 24/12/2013 00:36:53

Ah.

That is because the /mobile-workstations is actually a product group and translated into ?GroupID=GRPXX so the full URL would be Default.aspx?ID=1&GroupID=XX.

That will trigger all the catalog modules on that page to render a product list based on the querystring, getting the same product lists based on the Group id in the querystring.

To avoid that, you can add the PID=[ParagraphID] to the list being clicked, and that will make sure that only that paragraph reacts on the GroupID from the querystring. Meaning this works: http://scooter.dw-demo.com/products/mobile-workstations?PID=2

Of course that will give you ugly URLs... But it is the only way you can have different catalogs on the same page reacting on different querystring parameters...

BR Nicolai

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 24/12/2013 00:52:11

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 24/12/2013 08:34:08

I was afraid you were going to say that ;-( I saw something similar in another forum thread but didn't realize I was having the exact same situation.

Changing the URLs isn't a great idea as they will be using the URLs in public communication and print as well.

Any way to extend around this? At the very least I can make a custom module that has a Product Group picker and a template picker and then render my own products. Any alternatives that would be easier to implement?

And would a "Ignore URL parameters" or "Render as-is" checkbox on the Product Catalog module make any sense?

Imar

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 24/12/2013 11:18:48

Hi Imar

I have added a "Ignore URL parameters" checkbox for the 8.3.1 branch, TFS#13985.

You can check it out of TFS or it will be released right after new years.

BR Nicolai

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 24/12/2013 11:27:52

Wonderful! Thank you very much; I'll check it out.

Imar

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