Bluegenegeek

Code is also available on Github here .You can read more about the widget from Steve Miller's post on sitefinity.com here

Venkata

You can change the default route of products in 2 ways

1. 1. Using the urlFormat in the backend of Sitefinity
2. 2. Extending OpenAccessCatalogDataProvider in your application

Using urlFormat in the backend of Sitefinity –

This option will let you extend the detail to not to have the date in the URL. To attain this URL format you would need to navigate to Backend-> Administration-> Settings-> Advanced-> Catalog->Providers-> OpenAccessProvider-> Parameters and then create a new parameter with the name urlFormat and value /[UrlName], this will change product detail URL to not have date. Please also note that new products added to the system will get new URL format by default but already existing products doesn’t change the URL by default. You will have to republish the existing products toget the new URL format. Below is a screenshot on how the new URL would look like -

Extending OpenAccessCatalogDataProvider -

This option will let you extend the route of product detail in any way you want. You have complete control over the route that leads to the detail page. Here is how you would do it –

1.  You will need to change the ProviderType to a custom class in your own application.
2.  Add the code to extend the route. (see example below)

 
  
 
 
using Telerik.Sitefinity.GenericContent.Model; 
 
 
 
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Ecommerce.Catalog.Data; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
namespace SitefinityWebApp 
 
 
 
{ 
 
 
 
public class CustomProductRouteHandler : OpenAccessCatalogDataProvider 
 
 
 
{ 
 
 
 
public override string GetUrlFormat(ILocatable item) 
 
 
 
{ 
 
 
 
return "/[DetailRouteKey]/[UrlName]"; 
 
 
 
} 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
protected override string GetUrlPart<T>(string key, string format, T item) 
 
 
 
{ 
 
 
 
if (key == "DetailRouteKey") 
 
 
 
{ 
 
 
 
return "Detail"; 
 
 
 
} 
 
 
 
return base.GetUrlPart<T>(key, format, item); 
 
 
 
} 
 
 
 
} 
 
 
 
} 
 
 
 
 

Above is an image on how the changed URL format would look like, please note that you can get the "DetailRouteKey" in any way you want and feed any string into the URL at this moment.

Also, as above note that new products added to the system will getnew URL format by default but already existing products doesn’t change the URLby default. You will have to republish the existing products to get the new URLformat.

Hope this helps,

Cheers

Venkata

The Sitefinity’s 4.2 Release, brings a new module to the picture ECommerce.

This post walks you through how to setup a store and all the steps that are required in the process.

First let’s talk about the feature set of the eCommerce module -

Features

The initial release of eCommerce lets you –

Backend Features

10.   Reports

Frontend Features

6.       Invoice page which shows the invoice of the purchased order

Let us talk about each of them in detail –

Pages required by eCommerce

Any basic store will need the following pages to be created in Sitefinity pages section –

Settings required by eCommerce

The following settings are required by the eCommerce module to work correctly –

a.       Default Currency

b.      Shipping From Country

c.       Shipping From Zip

d.      Merchant Email

a.       Shipping Carrier Provider

a.       Settings for sending out email

Payment Method

Every Ecommerce system requires payments methods to be setup to process payments. The Ecommerce module will support two different Payment Processors by default

a.       Authorize .net by default needs URL, Login Id and transaction key.

a.       Thee PayPal PayFlow Pro by default needs URL, Username, Password, Vendor and Partner information. You can signup for a PayPal PayFlowPro account here

Widgets

I will be posting more in detail regarding each widget and how to use the other parts of the Sitefinity Ecommerce system soon.

Stay tuned!

Cheers

Venkata