How to use a custom url in the Products module - Solution

Posted by Community Admin on 03-Aug-2018 03:02

How to use a custom url in the Products module - Solution

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Posted by Community Admin on 14-Jul-2011 00:00

Hi,

If anybody is looking for a way to generate a seo friendly url with the category in it, then please use the following code-snippet for your module. The url will change from /2011/01/28/product-name to /category/product-name. This code needs to be placed in your openaccessdataprovider.cs.

Hope this helps somebody. I would not have been able to figure this out without the help of the amazing telerik support team - kudos to them.

 public override string GetUrlFormat(ILocatable item)
 
     return "/[CategoryName]/[UrlName]";
 
 
 protected override string GetUrlPart<T>(string key, string format, T item)
 
     if (key == "CategoryName")
     
         return this.GetCategoryNameForItem(item);
     
     return base.GetUrlPart<T>(key, format, item);
 
 
 protected string GetCategoryNameForItem(IDataItem item)
 
     if (item == null)
     
         throw new ArgumentNullException("item");
     
     string category = string.Empty;
     IContent content = (IContent)item;
 
     IList<Guid> categoryIds = ((ProductItem)item).GetValue<IList<Guid>>("Category");
     Guid firstCategoryId = categoryIds.FirstOrDefault();
     if (Guid.Empty != firstCategoryId)
     
         var taxonManager = TaxonomyManager.GetManager();
         category = taxonManager.GetTaxon(firstCategoryId).Name;
         category = Regex.Replace(category, "[^a-zA-Z0-9]", "-");
     
 
     return category;
 

Posted by Community Admin on 14-Jul-2011 00:00

Hi Sonu,

Thank you for sharing this with the community. This will truly help a lot of people and save them time. We really appreciate when our clients actively share knowledge and help each other.

Kind regards,
Stanislav Velikov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 14-Jul-2011 00:00

My pleassure Stanislav. It would have not been possible without your help. Thanks again.

Posted by Community Admin on 12-Sep-2012 00:00

Absolutely, a great help.  I suggest Sitefinity team to start a knowledge base where they can publish with their solutions to clients problems.  I am concern with solutions to problems that more than one site are facing.  Knowledge base applications have more powerful search engines.

Thanks,
Zia

Posted by Community Admin on 12-Sep-2012 00:00

Absolutely, a great help.  I suggest Sitefinity team to start a knowledge base where they can publish with their solutions to clients problems.  I am concern with solutions to problems that more than one site are facing.  Knowledge base applications have more powerful search engines.

Thanks,
Zia

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