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Hi

Attached 3 xslt's you can use with a layout that displays a correct group structure.

TopNavigationEcom.xslt shows 1 level in i.e. a top navigation

LeftNavigation shows 2. to N levels in i.e. a left navigation

Breadcrumb.xslt shows a breadcrumb.

Use them with these settings in your layout template:

<ul class="dwnavigation" id="topnav" settings="endlevel:1;template:TopNavigationEcom.xslt;"></ul>

<ul class="dwnavigation" id="leftnav" settings="startlevel:1;endlevel:4;template:LeftNavigationEcom.xslt;"></ul>

<ul id="breadcrumbnav" class="dwnavigation" settings="template:breadcrumb.xslt;expandmode:pathonly;"></ul>

Lets say you have a structure that looks something like this:

Home
- Subpage 1
- Subpage 2
Products
- {You want your group structure here}
About
- Subpage 1
- Subpage 2
Contact
- Subpage 1
- Subpage 2

In administration of Dynamicweb, go to the "Products" page, choose properties, go to the options tag, choose navigation and set up the ecommerce there:
http://manual.net.dynamicweb.dk/Default.aspx?ID=6707#29392

Choose "eCom groups", set parent group to "Groups" and set Groups to "All groups".

Hi again!

But I don't want the groups as submenus to the products page, the groups shall be displayed independently from the page structure.

Best regards,

P

try the parentid setting when setting the menu. Should do the trick. You have to have a page just for it.

//nuno

Attached a new version of the EcomLeftNavigation that you can use for what you want.

Use this markup as settings and follow the instructions I've provided for the other template.

Hi!

The result I get displays all groups, I want to display the first level groups, and when I click or hover over the group links I want to display the subgroups of that group.

The settings endlevel and startlevel don't seem to work.

Best regards,

P

Hi P

Remember to apply either LeftNavigationEcom.xslt or LeftNavigationEcomAny.xslt - and not use the default .xslt template. They are attached to some of the threads. They have a check for inpath=true before they go recursive.

Endlevel does not have an effect on ecommerce groups - only pages in the structure.

But the InPath doesn't seem to work, I have read other threads saying that variable isn't available with Ecom groups.

I have added a check @Active, but this always seem to be true for both the parent groups and the subgroups. If I add @Active = 'False' I get all the groups, but formatted so you can see which parent group they belong to.

Best regards,

P

If you have &GroupID=xxx in the querystring InPath will work.

Otherwise not - so linking to a product would be &GroupID=xx&ProdID=yy.

The reason for this is, that a product can be in more than one category giving too many inpath=true - so it is querstring that decides on this and not the settings in the database.

Try having a look at this site - one used for training on ecommerce implementations:
http://site0.training.dynamicweb.dk/Default.aspx?ID=48

Hi again!

But why does this statement always return true?

<xsl:if test="count(Page)and @InPath='True'">

<ul class="M{@AbsoluteLevel}">

  <xsl:apply-templates select="Page">

<xsl:with-param name="depth" select="$depth+1"/>

  </xsl:apply-templates>

</ul>

  </xsl:if>

Best regards,

P

Think I need a URL to help you on that.

You can always add &savexml=true - that will save the current xml document next to your xslt template so you can see the data you are working on.

If GroupID=xxx is specified in the querystring, @InPath='True' will not always return true.

Very strange, I can see that every node except the top page has InPath='False'. Are there any other settings that need to be made in the admin interface?

Best regards,

Per

If only top page node has inpath=true, you are on the top page.

I really would like a url to the site you are working on. You can mail me and I'll have someone take a look

Hi, what's your email?

Are you working on Dynamicweb Software AS?

Best regards,

Per

Yes!

Is there anything special one should do on multilingual sites regarding eCom menu?

I have a problem with an eCom left menu where all the groups are present and the language and links get mixed up.
http://developer.dynamicweb-cms.com/forum/ecommerce---standard-features.aspx

As you can see it's the xml data thats mixed up.

 Hi Nicolai or Somebody

I am trying to make an ecom left navigation without luck, I tried all the templates and the setups in this thread
but no categories from ecom appear, did you get it working, if so, could please share how?

An example XSLT for using parent tag with eCommerce navigation along side with the abillity to pass your own settings on the settings attribute:

 

 

 

Hi,

 

When selecting "Groups" instead of "Shop" in the navigation settings for the menu item then groups for all languages are rendered :-)

 

Best regards, Anders

Can the breadcrumb/legend be placed in f.x. /Ecom/ProductList or must it be placed in /Design/<name>/<name>.htm?

I think the answer is no - otherwise I'm doing something wrong...