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Sitefinity 4.3 has been released. Lots of new features and huge number of bug fixes.

I am really excited about a lot of new features in Ecommerce, to read more head to release notes here

 Cheers

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 Service Pack 1 release of Sitefinity 4.2 has been released, go get it while its hot!

The best feature in my opinion is the Migration Module now supports Sitefinity 3.7 Community and Standard edition projects, both .NET35 and .NET40 :) wow.

You can read more about the release notes here

Cheers

Venkata