SimpleCategoryList - category as apramater and display links

[nickc]

Hmm. I'm using an older (Fall 2008) version of Able, and my SimpleCategoryList control already does both of those things.

[jmestep]

If you are talking about the links or webpages not displaying after navigating to the category (in the center content), some of the category grids display them, but others don't.

[jmestep]

Here is the part of the code that changed in the .cs from 10863:

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protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(CssClass)) MainPanel.CssClass = CssClass;
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(HeaderCssClass)) HeaderPanel.CssClass = HeaderCssClass;
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(HeaderText)) HeaderTextLabel.Text = HeaderText;
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ContentCssClass)) ContentPanel.CssClass = ContentCssClass;
        if (_CategoryId < 0) _CategoryId = PageHelper.GetCategoryId();
        CategoryList.DataSource = CategoryDataSource.LoadForParent(_CategoryId, true);
        CategoryList.DataBind();
	}

From 11659

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protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(CssClass)) MainPanel.CssClass = CssClass;
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(HeaderCssClass)) HeaderPanel.CssClass = HeaderCssClass;
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(HeaderText)) HeaderTextLabel.Text = HeaderText;
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ContentCssClass)) ContentPanel.CssClass = ContentCssClass;
        if (_CategoryId < 0) _CategoryId = PageHelper.GetCategoryId();
        CategoryCollection subCategories = CategoryDataSource.LoadForParent(_CategoryId, true);
        CategoryList.DataSource = subCategories;
        CategoryList.DataBind();
        if(subCategories.Count == 0)
{
            Category category = CategoryDataSource.Load(_CategoryId);

            if (category != null)
            {
                NoSubCategoriesText.Text = String.Format(NoSubCategoriesText.Text, category.Name);
                NoSubCategoriesText.Visible = true;
            }
            
        }
	}

Then 11659 has this added right before the </asp:Panel>

<asp:Localize ID="NoSubCategoriesText" runat="server" Visible="false" EnableViewState="false" Text="There are no sub-categories in <strong>{0}</strong>."></asp:Localize>

[jmestep]

Why do you want to do that? In that case search engines would have two links to the same content and might think you have duplicate content. There have been posts on the forum from people wanting to get rid of that situation.
You might find code in the Admin/Catalog/Browse.aspx to do that-- when you click on a link to edit an item there, it takes you to a non-url rewritten url.

[mazhar]

In fact the actual page URL is something like
.../Category.aspx?CategoryId=1
The rewriiten verison of this URL is
.../Sample-Category-C1.aspx

So by using either of above URLs you will get same page. That's why Judy said that if you used these different URLs then search engine may get confused and mark page as duplicate contents.

[jmestep]

If you select CategoryDetailsPage as the display page for the category, it will show subcategories, links, webpages and products for that category.

[jmestep]

That is because the menus are coded for only categories or subcategories. You would have to customize it to show the other objects. You could possibly replace the
CategoryCollection subCategories = CategoryDataSource.LoadForParent(_CategoryId, true);

with code using CatalogDataSource.LoadForCategory(_CategoryId,true);

[jmestep]

You could probably put logic into the code to filter out products
if (catalogObject is Category || catalogObject is Webpage..............
or something similar

[mfreeze]

Dynami,
I am interested in doing something similar.

Could you share your categorylist.aspx and categorylist.aspx.cs code?