consistent product URL

Hi,

I have set up categories and have displayed them in modules (associated with their specific menus) so that I have:

/associated-category/productname (which is great)

I have a module on the front page which links to products from various categories and currently when I select those products it will give me the URL:

cat/productname (where cat is the category SEF name set in config)
or
associated-parent-category-module/productname

I have smaller url's set
canonical URL etc
I have a product listing menu associated with the module and its set to the parent category

how do I make this module reference the correct category in the URL i.e. the "cat" or associated-parent-category-module is dynamic?

kind regards
chris

thanks,

I still have the issue whereby if I select a product from the frontpage module it takes on the menu/productname format - where menu is the product listing menu associated with the module. This sounds logical, but what I would like to happen is to have the format category/productname, where "category" is dynamic and relates to the category that the product resides within.

is it possible to do this with a menu? I think I'm close but obviously missing something!

Hi yes I have done everything as recommended.

I have updated Hikashop & I have changed elements of the product view (though I dont think anything regarding canonical should have been removed - is there something that might be missing within that view that I should check for?

in reference to my questions as to how canonical functions, I actually think it is working ok but I have two different results:
1. when I am in category listing and select a product it takes on the URL category/product-name
2. when I select a product from a homepage module it takes on the URL menu-name/product-name (where menu-name is the associated menu)
I would like it to always default to category/product-name - I just wanted to confirm that was the expected behaviour from canonical URL?

also it seems to me it can be achieved if I could have a menu which was dynamic & took on the category of the selected item. I can set the menu to go to one particular category, but not to dynamically select the category associated with the item. Is this how I should expect it to work?

Hi Nicolas,

Which views could cause this problem? I don't have any mods on Product > Show ...

The site is gouri-gouri.com

Thanks!

Hi,

The views managing the canonical urls are "product / listing" for the product listings, "product / show" for the product display page and "category / listing".

Just to clarify, are you saying that with the latest version of Business, I should be re-directed to the canonical every time regardless of the path or that the canonical would show in the page source?

Works after all overrides deleted.

Hi,

I now have consistent canonicals either going through the menus or the module. But when I follow a related item, the phrase "/related_item_XXX" is appended at the end of the url. Can this be avoided?

Hi Nicholas,

Merry Christmas!!! Which view would that be?

It was listing_price.