Jump to grandparent category page.

[deverill]

Hi gang.

We are using AC 7.0.6 here and I have something that's probably not hard but I just don't know the right way to ask the AC libraries for it.

On some of our tours we have a calendar. After the customer picks the quantity, date, time, etc. I have a button in the BuyTourProductDialog ConLib that I want to take them from the current page (product) to the category page for their city (grandparent category).

An example is that Deverill's Awesome Tour is in a category of Land Tours and that is a subcategory to the category of Key West. I want to go back to the Key West page (grandparent) when they are done reserving my Awesome Tour.

Currently I have a button that goes to the Land Tour category (parent) using

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CategoryID = PageHelper.GetCategoryId();
Response.Redirect("~/categorylistsubs-tta.aspx?CategoryID=" + CategoryID);

There are two problems: It only goes to the parent, not grandparent, and it is a hardcoded display page name.

I am confident there is a more robust and flexible way of doing this but as I said, I just don't know the AbleCommerce functions to use to do it.

Thanks

[david-ebt]

Try something like this:

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List<CatalogPathNode> cPaths = CatalogDataSource.GetPath(CategoryId, false);
string grandParentName = cPaths[cPaths.Count - 2].Name;
string grandParentUrl = cPaths[cPaths.Count - 2].NavigateUrl;

You'll probably want to do some checking to make sure the index doesn't return an invalid number, but this should return the grandparent category for the current category.

[deverill]

Perfect! Thanks David. I had to add

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using CommerceBuilder.Catalog;

(for anyone seeing this with the same problem later) but after that it worked exactly like I wanted.

I'll add that checking you mentioned and it's a done task.

Thanks!