Category Search Side Bar

[edesign]

I am having trouble with this control - to preface, yes I have applied the recent patch to the final 7 build which had a fix for an issue with the control.

It seems to work well when used on the search results page, I haven't had any problems there. However when I use the control on the category results(ie clicking a top level category from the standard category list control) I am experiencing strange results. Here is my example. 2 main categories 3 items in each 6 items total

1)Click Category 1 - 3 items are displayed. This works as expected.
2)In results click the (x) next to Category 1 to EXPAND the results - here I would expect all 6 items to be listed since I have deselected the original category. However instead, the results remain unchanged with only the Category 1 items listed as before.
3)Click Category 2 in the NARROW section. Here I would expect the 3 Category 2 items to be listed since this is the only category selected at this point. However the results remain unchanged, the 3 items from Category 1 remain.

As I said the patch has been applied and has not resolved the issue.

Anyone experience this issue - is there a workaround/bugfix? I'd love to use this control but if it doesn't work on category searches I can't confuse customers with it.

Thanks!

[mazhar]

On the category display page which conlib's category content listing control you are using? From the category content listing control i mean CategoryGridPage or CategoryGridPage2 etc.

[Tomgard]

I experience the same sort of reaction/result when I use the "product finder".

[mazhar]

The patch only fixes this problem for Product Finder (Search.aspx) and one Category Display Page the CategoryGridPage. All other category display pages still suffer.

[Psalty]

It looks like there is still a problem with Search.aspx.

If I choose a category on the left and then scroll down to the bottom and click page #2, this is the URL I am taken to:

http://[site name]/Search.aspx?s=Name ASC&c=27&p=1

Notice how the category in the query string is still there (c=27).

If I then click page 3 or any other page, this is the url I am taken to:

http://[site name]/Search.aspx?s=Name ASC&p=2

The category is dropped.

This does not occur for the manufacturer or keyword filters.

Is this a problem in my configuration or should this be reported as a bug?

[AbleMods]

I vote bug.

Maybe Mazhar can track it down, probably an easy tweak to the other categorygrid controls to resolve it.

Might be a Pepsi in it for you

[mazhar]

Hmm there seems to be some problem in the search page. Switching between the pager pages it seems that it loses the track of current category. I have created a new bug for this problem. The bug URL is given below
http://bugs.ablecommerce.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7149

[AbleMods]

Thank you Mazhar.

You're doing a great job keeping up with all the forum posts !

[mazhar]

Thanks for the complement Joe

[mazhar]

Hello All,

Patch for the following case is available.

It looks like there is still a problem with Search.aspx.
If I choose a category on the left and then scroll down to the bottom and click page #2, this is the URL I am taken to:
http://[site name]/Search.aspx?s=Name ASC&c=27&p=1
Notice how the category in the query string is still there (c=27).
If I then click page 3 or any other page, this is the url I am taken to:
http://[site name]/Search.aspx?s=Name ASC&p=2
The category is dropped.
This does not occur for the manufacturer or keyword filters.
Is this a problem in my configuration or should this be reported as a bug?

follow this bug link for the patch. Read the last post for patch details
http://bugs.ablecommerce.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7149

[Psalty]

Thanks for the fix but this page still seems to have problems with expanding and narrowing results.

This problem can be repeated on my site by:

1. Go to product finder (~/Search.aspx).
2. Narrow by a category.
3. Go to page 2 of that category (~/Search.aspx?s=Name%20ASC&c=27&p=1).
4. At this point the expand and narrow category functionality no longer works. I then have to go back to ~/Search.aspx for it to work properly.

I apologize if this has been addressed already. Perhaps there is a patch I'm missing?