Re: Product URI and product catalogs. Get product from different catalogs?

Posted by cjhowe on Aug 11, 2006; 5:52am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Product-URI-and-product-catalogs-Get-product-from-different-catalogs-tp141340p141341.html

roll your own or put all of the products in one
catalog

--- rohit2006 <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> How do we get full product links, to get products
> from different catalogs.
> For eg. a link to a product in a catalog, other than
> the first catalog,
> returns a product not found error.
>  
>

http://www.mysite.com/ecommerce/control/product/~category_id=10090/~product_id=8178085739
>
> I guess the catalogworker.java file is used to call
> products. It only works
> if the catalog ID is included in the URI,
>
>
http://www.mysite.com/ecommerce/control/product/~category_id=10090/~product_id=8178085739/~CURRENT_CATALOG_ID=MARKETPLACE

>
>
> In the catalogworker.java it is mentioned as:
>
>  /**
>      * Retrieves the current prodCatalogId.  First
> it will attempt to find
> it from a special
>      * request parameter or session attribute named
> CURRENT_CATALOG_ID.
> Failing that, it will
>      * get the first catalog from the database as
> specified in
> getCatalogIdsAvailable().  
>      * If this behavior is undesired, give the user
> a selectable list of
> catalogs.
>      */
>
> I am not sure if this logic is correct. Should it
> not get catalod ID for the
> product instead of getting the first catalod ID from
> the database. I am not
> aware if there are any other reasons for doing this.
>
> But this also causes the link in the last products
> viewed box to break, when
> a browser views product from different catalogs.
>
> Any suggestions on can we get this fixed.
>
> Rohit
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