Is there a way to Hide a Commerce Category on the ...
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WFL2
10/28/2019, 2:51 PMIs there a way to Hide a Commerce Category on the Web Site but Make it Accessible Through its Descriptive URL? I've found a help topic about this, but it is directed at site builder, attempting to follow similar steps with SCA Commerce Categories does not appear to work in the same manner
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Steve Goldberg
10/28/2019, 2:53 PMIn what way will it be hidden? No link to it in the navigation?
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WFL2
10/28/2019, 2:54 PMcorrect
WFL2
10/28/2019, 2:54 PMI've attempted to make a hidden parent category with a sub category that is not hidden, and populated the sub category with items
WFL2
10/28/2019, 2:54 PMstill get a "page not found" when going to /hiddensub/shownsub
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Steve Goldberg
10/28/2019, 2:57 PMOK, I don't think there's a specific mechanism for that. You'll likely either need to manually create your own nav bar, write some JS to hide it, or use something like personalised catalog views
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WFL2
10/28/2019, 2:57 PMThanks for your quick response. I will look into personalized catalog views
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Steve Goldberg
10/28/2019, 2:59 PMOK. FYI, PCV is SCA 19.2+ or SC only
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WFL2
10/28/2019, 3:00 PMRight. I'm on 2018.2 currently for this project. I don't know if you have the ability to submit feature request. But a way to ‘hide’ the category in the website and it still be accessible through a link (sent in an email). would be a great feature if so.
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Steve Goldberg
10/28/2019, 3:01 PMI think you could easy modify
Categories.makeNavigationTab()r
Rehan Ali
10/29/2019, 10:39 AMWe actually did a customisation to achieve this.
Basically added a custom field on the commerce categories then updated the code to check if the value was set and show it in the nav.
So on our site we have a top level cat called Grey Flooring
https://www.ukflooringdirect.co.uk/grey-flooring
But it does not show in the main nav
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