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Change the url of the department filter widget

  • Community Admin
    Posted by
    on 5 Aug 2018 22:46
    Change the url of the department filter widget
  • Community Admin
    Posted by
    on 9 Feb 2012 0:00
    Hi all,

    I'd like to change the url, when using the Departments widget.
    Now I can filter on departments and the URL becomes like this:

    mysite/.../

    I want to have it like this:
    http://mysite/products/books/

    How can I achieve this?

    Regards,
    Daniel
  • Community Admin
    Posted by
    on 10 Feb 2012 0:00
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    Hey Daniel,

    For products this is easy to do (Administration>>Catalog>>Providers>>OpenAccessProvider>>Parameters and then add a 'urlFormat' key and a value).

    For departments (which is a hierarchical taxonomy) you'd think adding the same parameter (under Administration>>Taxonomy>>Providers>>OpenAccessDataProvider>>... ) would do the same trick, but unfortunately not. Under Data>>URL Evaluators>>Taxonomy there's also a parameter section, but that's unfortunately undocumented - I did a blond attempt to verify, but no success.

    So it seems only a Custom Provider (as described in Slavo Ingilizov's post) might do the trick. However, this approach seems to clash with the standard pager control which results into PITS Issue #9577. (Update from Lubomir Velkov on Feb 2 2012: probl not make it for v5.0 release)

    I could be wrong because I've not created and tested the custom provider myself but for now it seems a no go all around.

    ---
    TIP FOR DUMMIES LIKE ME:
    If you're going to do some coding, be aware of OpenAccessProvider vs OpenAccessDataProvider - has cost me a few hours in the past already :)
    ---

    Jochem.
  • Community Admin
    Posted by
    on 16 Nov 2012 0:00
    Hi there. I manged to do this by using IIS UrlRewrite 2.0. Added the following rule:
    <rule name="DepartmetnsRewrite" stopProcessing="true">
        <match url="^products/([^$]+)" />
        <action type="Rewrite" url="products/-in-Department/Departments/R:1" />
    </rule>
     And off course you have to do an outbound rule or change the navigation widgets to make the right urls for the client to click.

    See it in action here: www.hobbyeurope.com 

    OC
  • Community Admin
    Posted by
    on 20 Nov 2012 0:00
    Hello,

     The URL rewrite method is the preferred method to accomplish this task provided by Ole Christian Synnes and has been marked as the answer.

    Kind regards,
    Patrick Dunn
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  • Community Admin
    Posted by
    on 25 Mar 2013 0:00
    Hi OC,

    your rewrite rule is working fine, thanks! I was wondering how you changed the URL's behind the departments widget. It's still pointing to the "-in-department/departments" url (off course).

    Regards,
    Peter
  • Community Admin
    Posted by
    on 25 Mar 2013 0:00
    Peter,
    I'm not using the Department widget at all. I have made my own from scratch.
    But I guess it would be just as easy to make an url-rewrite outbound rule that does it the other way around, as the inbound rule I pointed out above.
    OC
  • Community Admin
    Posted by
    on 25 Mar 2013 0:00
    Hi OC,

    thanks, that explains it. I will see what solutions I will use.

    Regards,
    Peter