Get Category Url

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Hi,

I’m finding trouble to get URL for specific Category.
I have a block that will display n categories that then will link to the category page. I found two ways to achieve almost what i want.

In my ViewModel i have:

var category = model.Fields.GetValue<Guid>BlockFieldNameConstants.LinkToCategory).MapTo<Category>();

I found that there are these extensions =>

using Litium.Foundation.Modules.ExtensionMethods;
using Litium.Accelerator.Extensions;
...
var href = category.GetUrl(CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture)

Gives me url for respective category eg:
category-1

but no path that i could use.

Another way =>
Inject and use in the builder.

Litium.Web.UrlService _urlService;
...
var href = _urlService.GetUrl(category.Category);

Gives me an long id string when in backoffice, and null otherwise
“/!2726b040-9c16-47de-a701-e30d02727e69!1!00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000!0!0/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/0aee0775-5699-4670-9826-1a53d388c3e1”

Litium version: 7.1

2

You need to pass the second param, which is a CategoryUrlArgs. Its property ChannelSystemId has to have value, otherwise null will be returned. If the Category is not activated in that channel, null will also be returned.

3

Hi, thank you for the response.
Could you please specify a bit?

RequestModelAccessor requestModelAccessor injection in the builder and tried to send i

We tried with:

_urlService.GetUrl(category.Category, new CategoryUrlArgs(_requestModelAccessor.RequestModel.ChannelModel.Channel.SystemId))

_urlService.GetUrl(category.Category, new CategoryUrlArgs(_requestModelAccessor.RequestModel.ChannelModel.SystemId))

Thanks again.

4

That seems to be correct. You still got null as the result? Is the category activated on current channel, and be published? What Url does it have?

5

It works now, seems it’s an db issue.

Had issues that a category was only available through back-office links and same with the link to an category.

We checked following settings

  • it was published on all channels.
  • it had an url
  • assortment was set

As soon as we tested with another db it worked.

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