Category Navigation Button No Link

[TecTao]

I've created custom buttons for categories. Currently there are no sub categories. When you click on the category button, the list of store items comes up in Product Display Window. When you click on an item, the product list page for that product comes up.

But when the product item page comes up, the button link for that category is no longer active.

so to go back and view other items in the category, you must click on store front and then the product category button again.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks.

[ids]

If I understand correctly, that is the way it normally works, even with the a standard Cat Tree. the Catergory you're currently in doesn't need a link to, because you're already there. With only 1 level of cats, you have nothing to go back to, except the storefront. You might look into a breadcrumb module. I don't know what version MM you have: here's couple possibilities...

http://www.mivacentral.com/IDS/?product=NETBLAZON-NBBC

http://www.mivacentral.com/IDS/?product=WCW-MYTREE5

Regards,

Scott

[TecTao]

Hi Scott, thanks for the reply.

It's not the page with the list of cat items, it's once you click on an item and bring up the item information.

Let's say a hat category has 5 items, a red hat, green hat, blue hat and so on. You click on the hat button and hear is a list of 5 hats with thumbnail, price and that sort of stuff. From this category list you click on the red hat. You read it and don't want it, but want to read about the green hat.

The current code forces you to click on the Store button and then click on the hat category rather then just clicking on the hat category from the red hat page to bring up the list of hat items again.

Hope that made sense.

[ids]

I think it did. Sounds like you'll need or want a breadcrumb solution I mentioned. They will paste the links, on the page the customer is viewing. You might need to check that the top level cat is active, but I think they are in most of the modules.

HTH
Scott

[TecTao]

Thanks again Scott.
I've searched around and it seems that's the way the out of the box cart is programmed. I'm going to check into your suggestions of the MYTREE, sounds like it might do the trick.
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[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

As Scot pointed out, this is normal behaviour. This is because the link to the product page does not contain any category information.

If you have an extension...you could try adding adding CTGY=&mvt:category:code; item to the product links from the category page.