I'm wondering if anyone has a suggestion as to how to achieve this:
I have a node of type Category. It has one property, a multi-node picker called 'products'. I am doing it this way because a product can be in multiple categories and are stored elsewhere in the Umbraco tree.
The Umbraco admin can make many of these categories:
/gift-store /shits-and-pants etc.
The URL structure I want it to be:
/category-node-url/product-url
Obviously as the products are not children of the category, the default routes do not work. If the category names were fixed, I could easily make a custom route for "category-name/{product-name}", however, the categories can be defined in the Umbraco back-end.
Ideally I want to be able to create a custom route that worked something like this: "{CategoryNodeTypeAlias}/{product-name}" i.e. anything below a Category get's passed to a custom controller for processing.
I know this reply is over a month old from your original question, but take a look at this thread which describes one way to do this using a custom NotFoundHandler. There are also other suggestions there about using an IIS Rewrite Rule, and in v6.1+ how you can implement your own "ContentFinder" which supposedly would allow you to do this.
One thing I am coming to the realization/conclusion on, however, is that you want to avoid custom routes as they escape the entire umbraco pipeline and you won't be able to do anything umbraco-related if you try to go this route. (Pun intended.)
Good luck to you! Sorry no one else was able to help you in a more timely manner but hopefully you got something figured out.
Sorry, I linked the wrong thread there in my previous reply. This is the one I was thinking of and had meant to link. (Although I think both are relevent?)
Custom routes with child pages
Hi There,
I'm wondering if anyone has a suggestion as to how to achieve this:
I have a node of type Category. It has one property, a multi-node picker called 'products'. I am doing it this way because a product can be in multiple categories and are stored elsewhere in the Umbraco tree.
The Umbraco admin can make many of these categories:
/gift-store
/shits-and-pants
etc.
The URL structure I want it to be:
/category-node-url/product-url
Obviously as the products are not children of the category, the default routes do not work. If the category names were fixed, I could easily make a custom route for "category-name/{product-name}", however, the categories can be defined in the Umbraco back-end.
Ideally I want to be able to create a custom route that worked something like this: "{CategoryNodeTypeAlias}/{product-name}" i.e. anything below a Category get's passed to a custom controller for processing.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Simon
Hi Simon,
I know this reply is over a month old from your original question, but take a look at this thread which describes one way to do this using a custom NotFoundHandler. There are also other suggestions there about using an IIS Rewrite Rule, and in v6.1+ how you can implement your own "ContentFinder" which supposedly would allow you to do this.
One thing I am coming to the realization/conclusion on, however, is that you want to avoid custom routes as they escape the entire umbraco pipeline and you won't be able to do anything umbraco-related if you try to go this route. (Pun intended.)
Good luck to you! Sorry no one else was able to help you in a more timely manner but hopefully you got something figured out.
Sorry, I linked the wrong thread there in my previous reply. This is the one I was thinking of and had meant to link. (Although I think both are relevent?)
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