9.08 and Featured product

[Protos]

Just updated my test Environment with 9.08. Featured Product on SFNT carouselle says "featured_products category doesn´exist" . The Products are displayed but are not clickable. Does the update makes big Changes to Ready Theme scripts?. I´ve seen update process saying "updating R. Theme". - but I have not read any warnings in the update info...
I have two carouselles on my SFNT.

Has anyone had the same problem?

Best wishes
André (Protos) at Cigarrummet.com
/Sweden

[Protos]

After some testing.
IW theme used "inactive" categories for carouselle. Activating Featured Category does the trick. But I do not want to show it in my navigation structure. How do I fix this in order to update?

[Matt Zimmermann]

Hi André,

In order to hide the category from automatically generated navigation structures, like the category tree, would be to add a conditional within the foreach which checks for the category code and only displays it if it is not equal to the one you want to hide. If you are using a ReadyTheme Navigation Set, you can remove the specific category from that display.

[dreamingdigital]

Matt Zimmermann

Who makes these decisions?

[Matt Zimmermann]

dreamingdigital I don't follow your question. What decisions?

[dreamingdigital]

A lot of people use hidden categories for specific tasks like product sliders for example. A lot of people will have to change a lot of code. Who makes the decision at Miva to do core functionality changes like this? It seems like something the community should have been involved with.

[Matt Zimmermann]

I agree, it is an often used function. To the best of my knowledge, there is nothing in the 9.8 update which changes the active state of a category or would cause there to be a display issue for products from a disabled category. I have updated several sites which had an inactive category for a product display item, and there was no issue with the displayed products nor any errors.

[Protos]

Thanks Matt! That can ve a walk around. So you mean that 9.08 update has nothing to do with my problem. I have just cloned my site in order to update to 9.7 and evertything functioned well untill I updated to 9.8. Anyone else got this problem? Have MIVA done Changes js-featured carousel

Product Listing code in ReadyTheme:
<div class="row bottom-shadow product-carousel">
<div class="column whole h3"><span class="uppercase">Recommended</span><!-- <a href="" class="float-right">view all<span data-icon="&#xe046;"></span></a> --></div>
<div id="js-featured-carousel" class="column whole float-none featured-carousel">
<mvt:foreach iterator="product" array="readytheme:products">
...

[Matt Zimmermann]

There are no inherit updates in 9.7 or 9.8, that I am aware of, that would interfere with an existing ReadyThem's functions. Since this is in a test environment, I would recommend contacting support so they can take a look at it.