XML Sitemap issues?

[frankenstein897]

I found something interesting. Maybe this is by design but, I don't think so. I have all 3 check boxes checked for the XML Sitemap, Categories, Products and Webpages. Well, with webpages, it includes all of the category page types since they are stored in the same table in the database, I guess. Apparently those category pages aren't directly browsable, make sense. So, Google throws errors, which if you browse directly to those pages you do get an error. So, the only way I can get Google to stop letting me know about errors is to turn off putting the webpages in the XML site map. Kind of a bummer since I would like my other legitimate webpages I created to be in the Sitemap. Anyone see this yet? What are you doing to get around this?

Thanks,
Chris

[jmestep]

I just tested on an R2 site and ran into the same problem. I'll post a bug report.

[frankenstein897]

OK, thanks! For now, I just turned off webpages getting loaded into the site map.

[mazhar]

I just looked into this and seems like it can be fixed with a small change. You need to edit CommonSiteMapProvider.cs file which can be found under Website/Codes/ folder if you are using Web Application build. If you are using Website build then it can be found under Website/App_Code folder. You need to locate following code at line#229

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if (wp.Visibility == CatalogVisibility.Public)

and update it as below

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if (wp.WebpageType == WebpageType.Content && wp.Visibility == CatalogVisibility.Public)

After saving the file if you are using Web Application build you will need to recompile the Web Application and upload AbleCommerce.dll to bin folder. But if you are using Website project all you need is to upload the modified file to Website/App_Code folder. Now if you generate the XML sitemap again it shouldn't include display pages in sitemap.

[frankenstein897]

Ok, I will check it out. Thanks

[frankenstein897]

Anyone know if this was fixed in R4?

[mazhar]

Anyone know if this was fixed in R4?

EDIT Yes its avilable in Gold R4. You can see it here in http://help.ablecommerce.com/upgrades/a ... _to_r4.htm
[AC8-1627] - XML sitemap generates product and category display page entries.

[frankenstein897]

BTW, it appears this issue is still there.

[jmestep]

Did you use the App_Code/CommonSiteMapProvider.cs that came in R4?
I'm not seeing the issue in R4 and there is a change from the R3 file:
foreach (Webpage wp in store.Webpages)
{
if (wp.WebpageType == WebpageType.Content && wp.Visibility == CatalogVisibility.Public)
{
url = UrlGenerator.GetBrowseUrl(wp.Id, CatalogNodeType.Webpage, wp.Name);
siteMapItems.Add(new SiteMapUrl(GetAbsoluteUrl(url), options.DefaultChangeFrequency, options.DefaultUrlPriority));
}
}

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 foreach (Webpage wp in store.Webpages)
            {
                if (wp.WebpageType == WebpageType.Content && wp.Visibility == CatalogVisibility.Public)
                {
                    url = UrlGenerator.GetBrowseUrl(wp.Id, CatalogNodeType.Webpage, wp.Name);
                    siteMapItems.Add(new SiteMapUrl(GetAbsoluteUrl(url), options.DefaultChangeFrequency, options.DefaultUrlPriority));
                }
            }

[frankenstein897]

I am simply using the checkboxes in the sitemap screen in the Admin.

[jmestep]

When I checked it out in R4, I had checked the box in the admin to generate for web pages and the content pages were the only ones that showed up. That is because of the snippet of code that got added to that file in R4.