Outside link to category

beveled · Post by **beveled** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:14 pm

This may be more of a .NET question, but how can I link directly to a specific category in the product finder page (http://www.evprodtest.com/cart/Search.aspx) from an external website? With legacy ASP, you might use an encoded URL, but with .NET it looks like there's some sort of Javascript postback, or at least that's what I see when I mouse over the category link.

Thanks.

AbleMods · Post by **AbleMods** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:28 pm

When you say "...in the product finder", you mean you want to initiate a search from the outside?

Or do you want to just link to a specific category within the AC7 site from another site?

beveled · Post by **beveled** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:29 pm

The later. Link to a specific category from the outside.

AbleMods · Post by **AbleMods** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:33 pm

The easiest way is to set any AC7 page sidebar to the Standard Sidebar 1.

Then just hover the button of the category you want and note the URL displayed at the bottom of IE. Or I think you can right-click the button and choose properties to see it's assigned URL....

beveled · Post by **beveled** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:41 pm

That was the trick! Using the standard sidebar was what allowed me to see the true URL.

Thanks a bunch. Next I'm going to post on how to use the AbleRewrite functionality. No documentation = fun fun.

AbleMods · Post by **AbleMods** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:58 pm

Awesome, we could use all the help we can get

There's a "Helpful Topics" forum just for such occasions