Alternate CTGY pages lose breadcrumb navigation

[Patd265]

Patd265 Thanks to dreamingdigital we have a way to do that.


Let me know if you need some help implementing these updates.

Nick Help would be appreciated. The less code I have to touch the better.

[Nick]

Patd265 Thanks to dreamingdigital we have a way to do that.

Here are some snippets that can help you add flex components to individual categories.

PageBuilder Custom Category Header Page Layout: https://snippets.cacher.io/snippet/6ba2dbeee80ae36c80d0
PageBuilder Custom Category Header CTGY Update: https://snippets.cacher.io/snippet/8bdd28217972b897e33b

Let me know if you need some help implementing these updates.

[Patd265]

Nick But wouldn't we then lose the use of all the other awesome flex components that can make the pages look so much better?
For instance all the Hero banners or the accordion component I used here https://www.cyclebitz.com/Powersport-Batteries

[Nick]

Patd265 If that is the reason you can use the Product List Flex Component on the default CTGY page, which is the default functionality for the Shadows Version 10.11.00 framework: https://github.com/mivaecommerce/sha...s/ctgy.mvt#L76

If you add the sequence item to the CTGY in replacement of the category_listing you will be able to use the Product List Flex Component on the CTGY page and it will pull in the information needed for the page. The one thing that it does not allow by default is the ability to assign flex components to specific categories. So If you went with this route PageBuilder could only be used for the product list on the CTGY page and any other components will be global across all categories.

Later this afternoon I will log into your store, create a new branch and setup an example for you so you can test it out.

[Patd265]

Patd265

I will see if I can come up with a quick snippet to help resolve this issue but in the meantime can you let me know why you are using PageBuilder Pages to show the category pages and not the CTGY template?

Because page builder pages look and work so much better, specially on mobile, than the CTGY template and tweaking code in CTGY or the CSS file is above our abilities - hence the existence of Page Builder :-)
The difference between these 2 subcats of tools https://www.cyclebitz.com/Shop-Tools and https://www.cyclebitz.com/Wheel-and-Tire-Tools (the latter being straight Shadows CTGY)

I tried with CTGY renamed template copies too but that can get messy if we start creating a hundred renamed copies

[Nick]

Patd265 This is actually the intended functionality of PageBuilder and to update you would need to apply some custom code in the breadcrumbs template.

PageBuilder is meant to build standalone pages and not technically meant as a true category structure display. However, as you noted there are many ways to customize the feature for the specific store. Since the PageBuilder pages are standalone pages they don't have the ability to pull in parent categories if you are using the Product List component for a sub category. It is more like, here is a page that has the Tools category and not here is the subcategory of Tools.

I will see if I can come up with a quick snippet to help resolve this issue but in the meantime can you let me know why you are using PageBuilder Pages to show the category pages and not the CTGY template?

[Patd265]

Creating alternate page builder category pages and assigning those to respective categories makes such a difference.
But by doing so, we lose nested category breadcrumbs.
See example. Shop tools cat is child of tools parent cat. But that's lost when shop tools cat is assigned to the alternate page builder page SHOPTOOLS
Did we miss something or is there a way to fix this?
https://www.cyclebitz.com/Tools