Miva Merchant Community Forums - Miva 10

Exclude “Specials” Category from Sitewide Sale

birdwaves — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:04:23 GMT

Hi all,

I’m setting up a sitewide discount (Product Discount price group applied to all products), but I need to exclude items in our “Specials” category so they don’t get double-discounted.

I’ve tried:
- Collections → only see “Canonical Category,” not all assigned categories
- Price Groups → no clear way to exclude by category dynamically

Right now the only working option seems to be:
- manually removing Specials from the discounted product list

Is there a way to automatically exclude products by category assignment from a price group in Miva 10?

Thanks!

Fragments and Page Builder Visual Editor UI

delcorsets — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:12:21 GMT

Can the Page Builder visual editor be used to work with Fragments? I'm using the Flex Component Skill for assistance and wanted to confirm it's finding before following it down a rabbit hole:

**Page Fragments and Custom Flex Components:**
- Custom Basic architecture flex components CANNOT be fully used in Miva Page Builder Fragments
- Fragments require components to implement `ComponentModule_Initialize_Fragment` — a module-level API only available to Miva-built (managed) components
- The Page Builder settings UI is not accessible for custom components assigned to fragments
- For global template injection (Navigation Bar, Global Header, etc.), use a regular blank Page Builder page instead of a Fragment
- A regular page can be called inline from any template using ``
- The Fragment `` syntax is only reliable for Miva-native components

Fixing Spaces in URL Caused by Product Codes with Spaces

lesliekirk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:41:01 GMT

Store has almost 500 product codes with spaces in them, and has been stuck using the Legacy SEO Settings after we discovered where the plus marks in the links were coming from.

The Legacy SEO Settings use this:

Code:

### Begin - Inserted by Miva Merchant

DirectoryIndex /mm5/merchant.mvc

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^mm5/admin.mvc - [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^product/([^/.]+)\.html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_code=$1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^category/([^/.]+)\.html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_code=$1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/.]+)\.html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Category_code=$1&Product_ code=$2 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)\.html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=$1 [QSA,L]

### End - Inserted by Miva Merchant

The URI Management will update the .htaccess file to this:

Code:

### Begin - Miva Merchant URI Management: Direct all non-file URIs to Miva Merchant
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/mm5/.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(gif|jpg|jpeg|jpe|xbm|png)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /mm5/uri.mvc? [QSA,L]
### End - Miva Merchant URI Management

When the .htaccess file is updated, the plus sign disappears from the links, and they break.

I had asked about this in the past, and I'm wondering if I can do an import for the old links needing to be redirected using the /some+old+product+code.html Ron had suggested.

https://www.miva.com/forums/forum/ge...-numbers/page2

The thread seemed to die out there, and the store owner wasn't really concerned about it. In hindsight, I should have checked the "use strict validation for codes" checkbox at the time. It would have at least reminded the storeowner of the issue.