Category Links working as intended?

[Denver Hopkins - Explorer Digital Inc.]

In Catalog Manager, when I create Category Links for a Category, those
links do not appear in the catalog when a user first navigates to the
category, but instead only appear on the next page that is presented
after the user has clicked another link.  They will appear on the next
page whether it is in the same category or not.  The links basically lag
one request cycle behind where they have been associated in Catalog
Manager.

We would like to use the Category Links to present specific links in a
specific context-- that is, links that are relevant to the category in
which they are created.  To be clear, if we create a link in Category A,
then when user clicks on link to browse Category A the link should
appear when the first page of the category is displayed, and then on all
others as long as the user continues to browse within that category.

Is this not how the Category Links are intended to function?  I'm going
to modify this seemingly anomalous behavior for our purposes, but
wondered whether others consider this behavior to be anomalous as well
or, whether there is another purpose for this behavior that I'm unaware
of.  Comments?

Denver Hopkins

[David E Jones]

Which revision of OFBiz are you using? I believe that bug was fixed a  
while back (not long after the feature was introduced).

-David


On Apr 13, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Denver Hopkins - Explorer Digital Inc.  
wrote:

> In Catalog Manager, when I create Category Links for a Category,  
> those links do not appear in the catalog when a user first  
> navigates to the category, but instead only appear on the next page  
> that is presented after the user has clicked another link.  They  
> will appear on the next page whether it is in the same category or  
> not.  The links basically lag one request cycle behind where they  
> have been associated in Catalog Manager.
>
> We would like to use the Category Links to present specific links  
> in a specific context-- that is, links that are relevant to the  
> category in which they are created.  To be clear, if we create a  
> link in Category A, then when user clicks on link to browse  
> Category A the link should appear when the first page of the  
> category is displayed, and then on all others as long as the user  
> continues to browse within that category.
>
> Is this not how the Category Links are intended to function?  I'm  
> going to modify this seemingly anomalous behavior for our purposes,  
> but wondered whether others consider this behavior to be anomalous  
> as well or, whether there is another purpose for this behavior that  
> I'm unaware of.  Comments?
>
> Denver Hopkins

[Denver Hopkins - Explorer Digital Inc.]

Apparently the apps I'm working on now are based on an older release
than I thought.  I can see now where the issue has been resolved.  
Thanks, David, for pointing that out.

DHH

[David E Jones]

No problem. Yeah, that's pretty new stuff and there were some kinks  
in it early on.

-David


On Apr 13, 2007, at 4:25 PM, Denver Hopkins - Explorer Digital Inc.  
wrote:

>
> Apparently the apps I'm working on now are based on an older  
> release than I thought.  I can see now where the issue has been  
> resolved.  Thanks, David, for pointing that out.
>
> DHH